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What are your plans for the New Year, camera wise ? What will you be using ?

John Bragg

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Hi folks. as the New Year approaches and we all resolve to do things differently, or at least try, what will you be using camera wise ? I have some lovely Olympus OM 1n cameras and a collection of lenses that I have under used and perhaps this is the year for some pure mechanical precision and manual focus lenses. My Nikon F5 and F100 have been my go to cameras for 2016 so perhaps this year will be the turn of the OM 1n.
 
Selling all my film cameras.
 
Must use my Bronica ETRS more in 2017 at the expense of my 35mm gear. Only managed one film through it in 2016.
 
Minolta 9 and 800SI, Petri FX and EE, Miranda EE and RE, and Konica T3, T4 and a few Pentax Point and Shoots IQ Zooms.
 
I find myself having similarities with your situation. This 2016 has been spurious camerawise. Began the year thinking I'd leave 35mm altogether as I have a nice Fuji 6x9. Had a Canon AS1 to shoot at the beach but it gave the ghose at the beginning of the season, so in July got myself a Nikon F80 that is a wonder as an everywhere camera through the summer.
I have an OM-1 too but it jammed, instead of spending for a CLA now I got into the F80 as a quicker option and preferring to spend on film. Ramped up shooting quite a bit! Don't know how an F5+F100 VF compares, but the Olympus is just so glorious.

Fuji GW690, Nikon F80. OM-1 if I get spare cash to CLA. Maybe another Underwater P&S for next summer.

Need to land a decent job, no kids but I have film cameras that can be kind of the same!
 
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Well as this is a film based forum, I guess we will not be seeing you after that. Have a nice life !
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yeah I won't be helping guys with technical/repair info etc like I have for the past few years if there is a requirement to own film cameras to help people.
 
I will be using Canon F1's as usual, they are all the cameras I need.
 
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yeah I won't be helping guys with technical/repair info etc like I have for the past few years if there is a requirement to own film cameras to help people.
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As long as you are talking about film cameras, it's cool. Besides, we would also miss your quick wit!
 
Thinking of getting a Nikon F4s. I had the F2AS before and I love it but it was stolen from me and buying another one is quite expensive. I currently have the F3HP and the F5. I never liked the F4 but since I never had it what can I say. So I want to get one to see if I might like it.
 
I'll be holding a beer bottle in one hand and hopefully a blonde in the other, my camera will be home.
 
I've been in kind of a creative slump for the year. Sometimes using a different camera inspires me - I don't know why. I pulled out my Rollieflex bag and went through everything. I'm going to do some shooting with that - first time in five or six years.
 
I guess I'll be buying far more film cameras,e but I'm talking Wood & Brass which I restore. This year has been an eye opener with the number of restorations I'm being asked to do.

Film companies post that 120 and large format film sales are rising the fastest, we are going back to the roots of photography, we could ditch 35mm

If I can do as well next year as I've done this I'll be very happy. A 12"x10" field camera for £50, an early Gandolfi half plate field camera with a tripod and lens for £30ns is useless, no blades in the shutter), a mint 120mm f6,8 Dagor (Goerx, Berlin) i a Compound, and that's the best and the rest were pretty good.

I'd like to rebuild my Exacta kit. I lost my 35mm Flektagon and 135 Sonnardue to poor storage and fungus, but a lodger still stole them

Ian
 
It's hard to predict because if something strikes my fancy, I'll go with it. Maybe I'll suddenly dive into fujiroid transfers or something.....
But probably: 6x9 folder for film, 7x11 for calotypes, and various pinhole cameras for paper negatives.
 
I'm going to switch between my K1000 and my bessa r3m. I have 25 rolls of b&w film sitting on my shelf that I plan to shoot before buying any more film. My biggest decision is going to be do I continue to develop on my own using new55's monobath or do I join and support the fledgling public darkroom that opened recently (kind of expensive to join and I don't print much of my work due to storage constraints).
 
I'll be in the mountains of central Idaho, hopefully capturing the beauty of three feet of snow in the dead of winter.
I'll be using a Polaroid Land 100 with some of the last Fuji packfilm stock before it expires.
I may also bring my Kodak Retina IIa for 35mm stuff, and maybe one of my medium format cameras as well; still thinking about it.
 
The Canonet I just purchased as a Christmas present to myself.

And whatever quasi-working 35mm cameras I can get my hands on... I have a thing for the imperfect.
 
My new Dorff V8 user. Just have to go out and use it!
 
my Kodak Medalist II. Great camera, love the negatives, but it's just a little harder to shoot quickly than the rolleis. I have gotten quicker at respooling onto 620 spools but it's still an extra step. I also want to get better at cutting down 120 to 127 so I can use films other than rera pan in the baby rolleiflex
 
I will be taking delivery next week a camera I plan to be using a lot in 2017: an MPP Microflex tlr. I've always wanted to use one, and I finally bit the bullet.
I've done all the reading in regards to loading, etc. It's just one of those things I've always wanted. If the images are as good as the ones from the Microcord I purchased a few years back, I'll be happy.
 
A few weeks ago I was gifted a Toyo-View D45 that I have started figuring out - I suspect I'll be spending a lot of the next year trying to get good with it. When I need a break, I'll probably take out the AE-1 or the K1000.
 
Hopefully my lens will come in for my OM-1 MD. Really looking forward to putting it through the pace.
 
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