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Post by John Farrell on Apr 8, 2020 22:12:41 GMT -5
I began back in the late 1990s when I found a Yashica YK in a local second hand shop - I cleaned it up, and put a film through it. Not long after that, I answered an ad in a newspaper, and bought a heap of partly dismantled cameras, each in an icecream container, for $1 each. I managed to reassemble 3 or 4 Canonets from the pile, but failed in getting a Kowa SE and a Topcon Wink E Mirror going. I just kept on from there - buying cameras that needed repairs, and trying to get them going.
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Post by John Farrell on Mar 6, 2020 19:16:40 GMT -5
To add to this - I have a IIc which had 35mm and 80mm lenses - and they were a pig to use. The distance measured with the rangefinder had to be transferred to a separate distance scale on the lens.
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Post by John Farrell on Mar 2, 2020 0:29:26 GMT -5
You might find this interesting - part of an Amateur Photographer article by Ivor Matanle, from 2003
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Post by John Farrell on Nov 14, 2019 1:57:42 GMT -5
Have you ever used the early model canonets?
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Post by John Farrell on Nov 7, 2019 0:32:08 GMT -5
With Yashica rangefinders, I collected the earlier models - YK, YL, M1. None were expensive.
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Post by John Farrell on Nov 1, 2019 0:21:35 GMT -5
I have replaced the the dead links in this post with pictures uploaded to the forum. Interestingly, someone has just listed a Pentamatic on Trademe, my local auction site. They are asking $NZ290.
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Post by John Farrell on Oct 13, 2019 22:12:53 GMT -5
There are 2 Ilford Witnesses in a shop near me. If I had a spare £22,500 I'd snap em up, or I could buy half his stock of everything else. Decisions decisions... That must be a good proportion of the surviving cameras.
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Post by John Farrell on Oct 8, 2019 21:04:19 GMT -5
How about that. My latest purchase.
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Post by John Farrell on Oct 6, 2019 0:51:42 GMT -5
Photobucket dropping free hosting (and Wordpress stopping hotlinking on the website I set up to get around Photobucket) have stopped me from posting much - that and the dearth of interesting cameras around now. I did pick up a Pentina a few weeks ago, though, although I paid too much for it.
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Post by John Farrell on Jun 16, 2019 22:07:26 GMT -5
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Post by John Farrell on Feb 25, 2019 19:45:49 GMT -5
Hi there, Phil - I'm not much on here, either, now. Interesting cameras are harder to come by, too.
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Post by John Farrell on Dec 16, 2018 2:26:53 GMT -5
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Post by John Farrell on Dec 16, 2018 1:09:13 GMT -5
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Post by John Farrell on Aug 14, 2018 1:16:58 GMT -5
I have the older cousin of that - the YK. The body is different, but the lens/shutter is the same. It's capable of taking reasonable photographs.
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Post by John Farrell on Aug 6, 2018 15:28:55 GMT -5
Chilla - monochrome is relatively inexpensive, especially if you load it yourself. I recently bought a 30M roll of Kentmere 100 from B&H in New York. Even with postage included, each 36 exposure load will cost me around $NZ5.50.
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