What's your latest new old camera ? (Part 2)

[Yashica]

Yes it works. I had a '75 anniversary model also with a working meter (checked against handhelds)...when it failed, DAG repaired it. I had this one adjusted for modern batteries. photo exposed last week using built-in meter....

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Excellent, Greg ! I am looking for a Minolta Leitz CL or Leica CL whereas the meter does work, too.

 

[ic-racer]

What's your latest new old camera ?

OM-1!

 

[choiliefan]

On the way to me from KEH a Nikon Z7 II body to use with my Nikon lenses. I will have to buy extra lens adaptation plates and software.

Welcome to DPUG...

 

[Sirius Glass]

Welcome to DPUG...

Well I resisted with all my might but there are somethings in which digital has clear advantages: underwater photography [do not have to come out of the water to reload] and for this trip to Antarctica [not reloading in blustery weather], airport CT scans, … This is not an opportunity to start a film versus digital debate. I will be using the same lens for both so this is a new adventure. Oh yes, digital is much better for remote sensing from spacecraft.

Then there is the question about when and if I take the Hasselblad plunge with the 907 back. Stay tuned.

 

[abruzzi]

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My new to me 5x7 norma

Got me one of those too. (I have one of each size) Great cameras!

 

[Bob Selders]

Happy New Year!
My latest 35mm is a chrome Nikon FM2 I picked up when visiting relatives over the holidays. Ran it through the shutter speeds by ear and checked for meter function. Even checked the battery compartment- clean. Price was reasonable for excellent condition so I bought it. But...

Once I was home (several hundred miles away), I finally opened the back and found a wrinkled shutter blade. (image)

I knew better so it is on me. Yes, I could ship it back to the store but I should have caught it.

My error cost is to repair. So, it is already off to a camera service in Wyandotte, MI. It will get the necessary attention and CLA. Could I live with it as is? Can't be sure with a 1/4000 shutter. I can image the titanium honeycomb disintegrating at the must inopportune time.

The end will be a FM2 that is in good condition, inside and out.

I think I was excited about getting a body to attach the AF 300mm f2.8. Nice condition price as well.

Lesson for 2024,

Bob

 

[Bob Selders]

Nikon F3... First new old camera in two years

Yugtha,

Enjoy your F3! The finder and film advance are a joy only F3 owners can know.

Don't sell it. I had an champagne finish F3/T that was one of the 300 made with matching serial number 50mm f1.4. The original owner misplaced the lens but still had the wooden box with the brass serial number plate. Sold it to KEH years ago to finance a D800. It is the sad old tale...

Keep your F3s and enjoy them all,

Bob

 

[Donald Qualls]

digital is much better for remote sensing from spacecraft.

Again, this is mostly about reloading. Having to travel several hundred kilometers to reload a camera takes on a whole new meaning when that distance is straight up and includes accelerating to about 7.5 km/s in the process...

 

[Sirius Glass]

Again, this is mostly about reloading. Having to travel several hundred kilometers to reload a camera takes on a whole new meaning when that distance is straight up and includes accelerating to about 7.5 km/s in the process...

In the past film was developed in the spacecraft and the developed film was jettisoned to Earth. That is the earlier meaning of post processing.

 

[Sean Mac]

Got me one of those too. (I have one of each size) Great cameras!

Someday I hope to find an 8x10.

The 5x7 was a very good price but needed a little bit of attention.

The grease in the tilt pivot of the back standard was the consistency of tar.

A pipe wrench was needed to turn it out but it's all good now.

 

[abruzzi]

A pipe wrench was needed to turn it out but it's all good now.

ouch. Mine was in iffy condition too. The front standard was mounted to a rear standard carrier--which works fine, but places to control on the wrong side. I replaced that, and had Custom Bellows build me a slightly longer than standard bellows (standard maxes at around 470mm, I had mine built to 600mm.) But I love the Normas. I assume you've seen the video CLA instructions out on the net?

 

[Sean Mac]

ouch. Mine was in iffy condition too. The front standard was mounted to a rear standard carrier--which works fine, but places to control on the wrong side. I replaced that, and had Custom Bellows build me a slightly longer than standard bellows (standard maxes at around 470mm, I had mine built to 600mm.) But I love the Normas. I assume you've seen the video CLA instructions out on the net?

I found a thread on the LFPF where @Nokton48 as we know him here, or Daniel Unkefer as he posts over there, provided a link to the Philip Morgan PDF and the original Sinar instructions.

This unlocked the mysteries for me.

Thanks Daniel !!!

I have the bag bellows, two normal bellows, more than a meter of rail, the auxilllary standard and a DB Sinar shutter for my 4x5 norma.

I have a lovely old Linhof Technika that has a fresh set of Custom Bellows finest work and I would be torn to decide between them. Thankfully we can enjoy having choices

The 5x7 gives me a interesting super wide perspective with my 90mm f6.8 Grandagon and makes a few shots I have been planning possible.

They really are wonderful devices

 

[Nokton48]

Sean,

You're Welcome. Glad you were able to get it back to where it should have been.

 

[pbromaghin]

Almost exactly 2 years after I decided finally to give up on large format forever and ever, amen. A Pacemaker Speed Graphic with a Graphic 127mm lens, unmolested light saber, and restored original trunk. It's in a lot better shape than I expected. The Kalart rangefinder and the curtain shutters appear to work, but the seller had never used them. I doubt I'll have occasion to either. After downloading the manual and fiddling with it for a week, it feels nice and comfortable to use. It should be plenty handy for setting up away from the car.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Almost exactly 2 years after I decided finally to give up on large format forever and ever, amen. A Pacemaker Speed Graphic with a Graphic 127mm lens, unmolested light saber, and restored original trunk. It's in a lot better shape than I expected. The Kalart rangefinder and the curtain shutters appear to work, but the seller had never used them. I doubt I'll have occasion to either. After downloading the manual and fiddling with it for a week, it feels nice and comfortable to use. It should be plenty handy for setting up away from the car.

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I really need to take my Pacemaker Speed Graphic with a 135mm lens out for more exercise. And then there are all the flash bulbs I bought for it and never used.

 

[eli griggs]

Almost exactly 2 years after I decided finally to give up on large format forever and ever, amen. A Pacemaker Speed Graphic with a Graphic 127mm lens, unmolested light saber, and restored original trunk. It's in a lot better shape than I expected. The Kalart rangefinder and the curtain shutters appear to work, but the seller had never used them. I doubt I'll have occasion to either. After downloading the manual and fiddling with it for a week, it feels nice and comfortable to use. It should be plenty handy for setting up away from the car.

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Don't avoid using the curtain shutter and associated settings, they are a lot of fun to use and you can, with the aid of an inexpensive self made shutter tester and "Audacity" software, easily establish a chart of actual shutter speeds and match it up with your b&w developers.

That camera needs badly exercise, like any workhorse, and is a lot of fun to shoot hand held, as designed.

I used my speed graphic ani with the built in shutter and a barrel lens fully open at F4 (5.6?) to photograph some models long ago, and if I still did that sort of modeling photography, I'd still use the 4"x5" S.Graphic for some shots.

Have fun and enjoy your beautiful camera.

 

[pbromaghin]

Don't avoid using the curtain shutter and associated settings, they are a lot of fun to use and you can, with the aid of an inexpensive self made shutter tester and "Audacity" software, easily establish a chart of actual shutter speeds and match it up with your b&w developers.

That camera needs badly exercise, like any workhorse, and is a lot of fun to shoot hand held, as designed.

I used my speed graphic ani with the built in shutter and a barrel lens fully open at F4 (5.6?) to photograph some models long ago, and if I still did that sort of modeling photography, I'd still use the 4"x5" S.Graphic for some shots.

Have fun and enjoy your beautiful camera.

Thank you for the tips. I made a point of exercising the shutter after reading this.

As I said in the first post, I gave up on LF simply 2 years ago because my life has too few years left in it to fill them with the endless frustration and aggravation of the errors that can be discovered only one at a time. And for $5 a try! But our darkroom instructor talked me down off the ledge and helped decide how to go about it rationally.

Last week, a bit disgusted with myself in the midst of a terrible attack of GAS, I told my wife that I was really tempted to buy stuff I didn't even want. Later that same day, this popped up, and it was almost exactly what I was looking for.

 

[Kino]

^^^ Sounds familiar! I swore off large format about 10 years ago, but now I find myself buying several cameras to try again. I concluded that I never really gave it a chance, so now that I have more time, I give it one more shot.

You are not alone.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Thank you for the tips. I made a point of exercising the shutter after reading this.

As I said in the first post, I gave up on LF simply 2 years ago because my life has too few years left in it to fill them with the endless frustration and aggravation of the errors that can be discovered only one at a time. And for $5 a try! But our darkroom instructor talked me down off the ledge and helped decide how to go about it rationally.

Last week, a bit disgusted with myself in the midst of a terrible attack of GAS, I told my wife that I was really tempted to buy stuff I didn't even want. Later that same day, this popped up, and it was almost exactly what I was looking for.

I get a pleasurable feeling every time a package gets delivered. If I go long enough between receiving packages, I start chasing USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL trucks that do not stop at my building up the street. I do not know what I will ever do if and when I actually catch a truck.

 

[eli griggs]

"I do not know what I will ever do if and when I actually catch a truck. "

Ask the Poodle next door; he knows!

 

[88E30M50]

I have two more Canon A-1s and an early F-1 inbound. The F-1 was something I've wanted to add to the collection to go with my F-1N. The two A-1s are a bit of a different story. These are #6 & 7 in the collection. I ordered #6 because it looked like a fun project for under $50. It looks really good but is described as 'jammed'. It looks nice enough that even if I cannot fix it, it will look nice in the display case. It is missing the detachable grip and MD plug though, so when I went to order those, I found that I could just pick up another parts camera with those included for about a dollar less.

I've restored 2 A-1s back to a functional state out of 3 parts cameras bought, so I'm hopeful that at least one of these two will be restorable. Heck, if they both are, I might need to source A-1 #8 for the grip and plug that I'm robbing from #7.

I am really looking forward to the early F-1 though. My youngest son has an early F-1 and I really liked the feel of it. It has a buttery smooth feel to it which is a bit different that my F-1N. That one just feels like solid mechanical perfection. Both are fantastic, but a bitt different.

 

[loccdor]

The most recent 35mm camera I bought was a Canon EOS Elan 7E. Now it's what I use 9 out of 10 times. I like using it with the weather sealed and near-macro capable Tamron 45mm f/1.8 image stabilized lens, taking it out in medium amounts of rain and snow without an umbrella no problem, shooting slow high-resolution film handheld with the help of the stabilizer. And I also took it out with Portra 800 and was able to get some lovely 1/6 second handheld portraits under streetlights. This lens/camera combination has really expanded the number of situations that I can do tripod-free photography in, it's been an absolute game changer for my style of shooting. The motorized film advance/rewind is the quietest I've heard. It cost less than $100 in perfect working order.

For medium format, I also got a Mamiya M645J to replace two Pentacon Sixes that would not stop giving issues even after CLA. But their lenses are worth their weight in gold for me. It needed light seals replaced which wasn't too difficult, but it's working well now.

 

[88E30M50]

The most recent 35mm camera I bought was a Canon EOS Elan 7E. Now it's what I use 9 out of 10 times. I like using it with the weather sealed and near-macro capable Tamron 45mm f/1.8 image stabilized lens, taking it out in medium amounts of rain and snow without an umbrella no problem, shooting slow high-resolution film handheld with the help of the stabilizer. And I also took it out with Portra 800 and was able to get some lovely 1/6 second handheld portraits under streetlights. This lens/camera combination has really expanded the number of situations that I can do tripod-free photography in, it's been an absolute game changer for my style of shooting. The motorized film advance/rewind is the quietest I've heard. It cost less than $100 in perfect working order.

For medium format, I also got a Mamiya M645J to replace two Pentacon Sixes that would not stop giving issues even after CLA. But their lenses are worth their weight in gold for me. It needed light seals replaced which wasn't too difficult, but it's working well now.

I had never considered the benefits of stabilization when shooting film cameras. I guess, in my brain, film equates to manual, digital equates to more automated features. I don't know why I've held that mindset since I have both digital and film (EOS 100) EF based bodies. I think that I need to mix things up a bit and see what I can do with the EOS 100 using some of the later EF lenses I have for the digital cameras. Isn't it odd how a mindset can create blindspots like that?

 

[benjiboy]

The last Camera I bought was about four years ago, it's a Canon F 1 body, it was absolutely mint in the original box with the papers, packing and instructions. The body looked like it had never been used it even still had the piece of plastic on the film gate that protects the shutter from the film guide rails.
I was very happy to add this to my stable of F 1s, and I was very lucky to see it first on the website of my local analogue film camera and dealer dash down there, and buy it first at very reasonable price with a six months warranty.

 

[eli griggs]

The last Camera I bought was about four years ago, it's a Canon F 1 body, it was absolutely mint in the original box with the papers, packing and instructions. The body looked like it had never been used it even still had the piece of plastic on the film gate that protects the shutter from the film guide rails.
I was very happy to add this to my stable of F 1s, and I was very lucky to see it first on the website of my local analogue film camera and dealer dash down there, and buy it first at very reasonable price with a six months warranty.

Have fun with this F-1, they are all great cameras