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Sewin

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Hello All from West Wales.

Well, I last used and processed film way back in the late 80's and early 90's. Since then it has been digital, mostly point and shoot requiring not much brain use.

I started yearning for more control and the simpicity of chunky old SLRs and rangefinders, so here I am.

I've always liked the Marmite camera range.......Prakticas and actually found them reliable and not really deserving the reputation they obtained.

So with the help of that big auction site I now have half a dozen Praktica bodies ranging from L2 up to BC1 plus lenses. Current favourites L2 and MTL50.

I also picked up a couple of Russian rangefinders and two medium format cameras, a light meter and other bits and pieces.

My better half thinks I'm mad having so many camera bodies, but she does like my folder, Zeiss Ikon Nettar.
The problem I'm having now returning after so many years is focusing and reading the numbers on the cameras, showing my age now :confused:

Well I think that's enough rambling for my first post.

Looking forward to keeping the re discovered old interest going.

All the best for now.

Sewin
 

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I very warm welcome Sewin, my first S.L.R. was a Praktika Super T L about forty years ago, one of my son's lives in Cardiff, a city I really enjoy visiting. I shot some stuff I really like in Bute Park last Spring and look forward to going again this year when the weather gets better.
 

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Welcome back. If your Better Half thinks you have a lot of cameras now -- hah! You will find people will give you very fine old film cameras and other film cameras will come to your door begging for a good home. I used a Praktica with a spring-wound motor drive in the late 1950s to photograph sports. It was not a bad camera at all.
 

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The problem I'm having now returning after so many years is focusing and reading the numbers on the cameras

I had an MTL many years ago. Cheap and reliable little camera. I've since moved to 5x4 (and bigger), and have recently become aware that I too struggle sometimes to "read the numbers". But at least I don't have to squint through a tiny viewfinder or go chimping at a small LCD screen :smile:
 

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Welcome to APUG
 

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That's an interesting collection of gear. I miss my old Zeiss Nettar. The lens was ever so slow, and the shutter ever so limited, but darn, those things were a ton of fun to shoot, and I actually got some nice photos from mine. Welcome guy.
 
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Sewin

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Hi All,

Thanks for the nice welcomes :smile:

momus, I tend to look out for German and Russian cameras, although a Nikon F is always at the back of my mind,when I can afford / justify one.

The Nettar as you say has a limited shutter, max speed 1/200, but so quiet compared to the Prakticas.

Sewin
 
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