Hi. I found apug in a British b&w photo magazine. This site just blows me away! I have found my kind! I had my first darkroom when I was 14 years old. I turn 52 this thursday. I have stayed the course with b&w. I shoot some colour, and I do have a digital camera, but I just love the old mechanical cameras the best.
My equipment is pretty eclectic. LF is two speed graphics, a pre-anny and a speed with a bunch of old lenses, from turn of the century tessars to a eurynar and a few ektars thrown in for good measure, some barrel lenses and some in shutters.
MF includes a few folders, a pentacon 6tl with 4 lenses, a Century Graphic with 80/2.8 Xenotar, 105/3.5 Colour Heliar, 105/4.5 Kodak Special Anastigmat (from a Monitor) and a 135/4.5 tominon, some tlrs, Yashica D with Yashinons, a Mint Rolleiflex T and I just got a Yashica A off ebay for $15. It's probably been dropped, since the nameplate is gone, but the lenses are clear, the shutter is snappy and the focus and the taking lens are in sync. I can't wait to try it.
35 is all over the map. I have been acquiring old screw mount slrs and lenses from ebay for pittance. First slr I had when I was a kid was a Mamiya Sekor 500tl. I now have two 1000 dtl's and I am having a blast shooting with them. Couple of ME supers, a K1000 and a bunch of k mount lenses are my "modern" 35mms. I have several retinas 1b to a 3c with aux lenses for the 3c. A lone Fed 5c too.
Darkroom includes a Beseler 23c and an ancient Testrite 4x5.
I've rambled on enough. I'm really enjoying this site. Lots of interesting people here with lots of experience.
My equipment is pretty eclectic. LF is two speed graphics, a pre-anny and a speed with a bunch of old lenses, from turn of the century tessars to a eurynar and a few ektars thrown in for good measure, some barrel lenses and some in shutters.
MF includes a few folders, a pentacon 6tl with 4 lenses, a Century Graphic with 80/2.8 Xenotar, 105/3.5 Colour Heliar, 105/4.5 Kodak Special Anastigmat (from a Monitor) and a 135/4.5 tominon, some tlrs, Yashica D with Yashinons, a Mint Rolleiflex T and I just got a Yashica A off ebay for $15. It's probably been dropped, since the nameplate is gone, but the lenses are clear, the shutter is snappy and the focus and the taking lens are in sync. I can't wait to try it.
35 is all over the map. I have been acquiring old screw mount slrs and lenses from ebay for pittance. First slr I had when I was a kid was a Mamiya Sekor 500tl. I now have two 1000 dtl's and I am having a blast shooting with them. Couple of ME supers, a K1000 and a bunch of k mount lenses are my "modern" 35mms. I have several retinas 1b to a 3c with aux lenses for the 3c. A lone Fed 5c too.
Darkroom includes a Beseler 23c and an ancient Testrite 4x5.
I've rambled on enough. I'm really enjoying this site. Lots of interesting people here with lots of experience.
