I'm thinking about a compact (with non interchangeable lens) RF camera with manual mode (sorry, Yashica) until my Canon 7 got fixed or I found a reliable source of a new one. Is there anything to consider beyond Canonet QL17?
The Olympus RD as well but the XA only has automatic shutter speed. No manual.Konica S2/S3?
Olympus 35RC?
Olympus XA?
The Olympus RD as well but the XA only has automatic shutter speed. No manual.
I wish that they can turn the film speed setting into the shutter speed setting. No meter needed. That way I can do flash at different speed and at different aperture. Perhaps a PC sync socket? That way I can use the XA with my Metz 60CT4 and shooting at f/8.Can't have everything. You can fool the shutter though by playing with the film speed setting or using the +1.5 lever.
I have a Weltini -- it's a 35mm RF folder (the example I have that works has the f/2 Xenon; the other, that needs some repair, has a Tessar type f/2.8). There was also a Super Jubilette, Super Baldinette, and of course the Retina. Every one completely manual, very compact when folded. You could go even smaller if you don't insist on cine-perfed 35mm film; the Bantam Special was an 828 folder with a very good lens and RF, and (AFAIK) a little smaller than even the previously listed 135 folders.
I wish that they can turn the film speed setting into the shutter speed setting. No meter needed. That way I can do flash at different speed and at different aperture. Perhaps a PC sync socket? That way I can use the XA with my Metz 60CT4 and shooting at f/8.
I have this picture in my mind of an XA attached to the top of the 60CT4 flash head with velcro.That way I can use the XA with my Metz 60CT4 and shooting at f/8.
I have a Retina III C big, I got in 1966 as gift my aunts for a comb Xmas and high school graduation present. I still have it. Well by modern standards it is a finicky cameras, not only the interlock, setting the frame count, seeing the EI number, and setting the interlock, when I was 16 not a problem, not it is, As the light meter is not connected to the shutter, aperture interlock it takes time to set the camera up. Sort of sad as at one time it was good daily user. In collage I used it as a second body to my Pentax Spot and later Konica T.
I'm curious - do you use a meter that reads out in EV?As a young'n these are all features not bugs. Aside from the interlock. And the interlock.
All of my meters read in EV and I use that feature regularly... on Retinas and Hasselblad. I love EV. EV is a very convenient, often misunderstood, and the interlock is often "needlessly" maligned.I'm curious - do you use a meter that reads out in EV?
The interlock, and a meter like that, work really well together.
The Metz has a bracket which I can mount on the tripod socket. The problem is to fire the flash. I was thinking of disassemble an A11 and attach wire from the inside of it to get a sync signal. You can use optical trigger via the A11 too. Now the bigger problem is that only in flash position which fixes the shutter to 1/30 and aperture to f/3.5. Otherwise the camera shutter is still changing depending on the ambient light condition.I have this picture in my mind of an XA attached to the top of the 60CT4 flash head with velcro.
You could probably work up something with an A11 flash and an optical slave and fiddling with the ASA setting.
All of my meters read in EV and I use that feature regularly... on Retinas and Hasselblad. I love EV. EV is a very convenient, often misunderstood, and the interlock is often "needlessly" maligned.
The Metz has a bracket which I can mount on the tripod socket. The problem is to fire the flash. I was thinking of disassemble an A11 and attach wire from the inside of it to get a sync signal. You can use optical trigger via the A11 too. Now the bigger problem is that only in flash position which fixes the shutter to 1/30 and aperture to f/3.5. Otherwise the camera shutter is still changing depending on the ambient light condition.
I'm curious - do you use a meter that reads out in EV?
The interlock, and a meter like that, work really well together.
Get the flash and use a slave.
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