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Post by daveh on Apr 7, 2012 11:38:54 GMT -5
Randy, often I can't see them, then they'll break through and be okay. Pictures too sometimes don't show up, but quite often with them I can copy and paste the URL to view them in a new window. With You Tube I can't seem to bring up the URL to do this.
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Post by daveh on Apr 7, 2012 8:35:51 GMT -5
Ditto to what I said in parts 1 & 2.
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Post by daveh on Apr 7, 2012 8:34:20 GMT -5
As with number 1, excellent.
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Post by daveh on Apr 7, 2012 8:32:28 GMT -5
Yes, the long slow 'iii' is North Yorkshire: it seems to get longer and slower as you head further north. The suddenly it changes to what I will call Geordie (but actually till you reach Newcastle itself.)
We had a caravan for a while in a wonderful village called Bishop Monkton, between Harrogate and Ripon. Mr Rhodes, the farmer, who had the site, was wonderfully laid back. He used to use "riiiight" not infrequently.
I love accents of all sorts. Some are easier on the ear. Many, most even, Canadians I know have that nice soft accent. I imagine Wayne, Doug and Randy (and one or two others) have similar soft accents.
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Post by daveh on Apr 7, 2012 8:23:33 GMT -5
Mickey, I always see you as a man gone off his rocker! ;D
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Post by daveh on Apr 7, 2012 8:22:04 GMT -5
The thing with the cameras is that, as you say Mickey, with advances it's almost pointless making one that will last too well. For the price of twenty 35mm films or ten cine films you can get a camera that does both - with sound too.
Back in 1970-something my Topcon SuperD with f1.4 lens cost just over £100. One sold the other day on ebay for £250: a good camera for that price if you want to collect or shoot film. I bet in terms of spending power my 1970s £100 would be about £1,000 now. the Topcon is a good camera, but it is infinitely easier to do all of what it did now, using a modern DSLR (digital SLR).
'Old' cameras were capable of excellent results, but it took time and money to get there. There days the average photo taken is better than what was being turned out say forty or fifty years ago. They are certainly better focussed in the main. I believe autofocus does focus quicker and more accurately than doing it manually, especially so if one's eyesight is not 20/20.
The digital revolution will move on apace. 35mm and 120 film will hopefully always be made, but most of the others are gone or will do soon. Okay, there might be the occasional specialist manufacturer which produces one of the other sizes, but, in the end, who wants to produce a film that has limited sales
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Post by daveh on Apr 7, 2012 7:52:37 GMT -5
I was having a look at a Bigma a few weeks ago in Chester. It certainly seemed quite impressive and now I've seen your results I can see that it is. Thanks for posting them. I shall now look and enjoy numbers 2 & 3.
I looked for the original thread a few weeks back but couldn't seem to find it.
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Post by daveh on Apr 7, 2012 7:43:50 GMT -5
Yorkshire has several accents, though I don't know if the change is as rapid as it is t'other side of the Pennines. Leeds, as with many cities, has the hard and soft versions of the same accent. Yorkshire has the three main regional accents best illustrated by whether they say riiiight, reyt, or reet for right.
It's discussions like this that we need Peter to chip in with some of his common sense.
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Post by daveh on Apr 7, 2012 3:32:08 GMT -5
Update:
Surprisingly the Retinette is now working. The wind on Lever is totally broken and the whole area looked so messy I wasn't expecting it to 'go'. All I need now is a non-worker to donate that lever.
The Vito too has now freed and is working. The camera arrived with about half a film on the wind-on spool. I removed that in the dark first. (I might just try developing it later, though I doubt that it'll be anything other than fully fogged.)
I have taken the top, front and bottom off the Minolta. They are all quite simple to remove and replace. I see that some of the internal screws have been got at previously, so it's been repaired at least once before. I really need to seek out some photos and/or diagrams of the shutter itself before proceeding to take it apart.
I'll put some photos up later.
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Post by daveh on Apr 7, 2012 3:21:33 GMT -5
Hye, yes it is a potential problem, but I don't think it will be with an actual problem for the Canon for several years yet. Canon are still producing new printers in the Selphy range. I don't know what Sony are up to: I've just had a look at their UK website. It's one of those that looks pretty but fails to tell you what you want to know.
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Post by daveh on Apr 7, 2012 2:41:13 GMT -5
Randy, again our Internet isn't coming up with the goods. I've phoned them in the past when there have been problems. They always say the fault is at the consumer end and not with them. They then charge the phone bill to the customer - doubly annoying when you know the problem is their end. It'll break through later.
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Post by daveh on Apr 7, 2012 2:36:01 GMT -5
Mickey, Brilliant. I'm one of those people who doesn't have an accent. Everyone else does though. Here, oop North, we have the short 'a' sound, definitely path and bath rather than the Southern paaarth and baaarth, though Cockneys would finish it with an 'f' rather than a 'th'. John Parry came from quite near to me (I think he was Wigan, about thirty miles away). Other than the underlying Northern short 'a' and other such his accent would have been completely different to mine. I think it's all the meat pies they eat there. The Wirral accent for those not too far from the Mersey is now more like the Liverpool accent of forty years ago, and even in the more distant parts most of the old Cheshire accent has gone. (Not that Wirral is that big in the first place.) Dave.
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Post by daveh on Apr 7, 2012 2:18:18 GMT -5
We do have a Canon (forget the model) dye sublimation printer. The quality from that is better than ink jet. The image is stable: it doesn't appear to be affected by either light or water. The only problem is that it only does 6"x4". Cost-wise it's just a little more than the commercial prints from the shop (as above).
I do have a cheap colour laser printer (it was £110 a year or so ago). It's great for coloured flyers and such like, but hasn't got the quality for photos.
Wayne, your 8.5 x 14 is the "legal" size. It's strange how paper sizes have developed with letter, legal and foolscap of the older sizes and A, B, and C (? just envelopes). I wouldn't mind a 4AO printer - imagine what that would cost!
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Post by daveh on Apr 6, 2012 16:11:30 GMT -5
Mickey, I know it's not focal plane - I was just meaning that focal plane shutters are easier to tell what speed they are operating at because of the sound they have when firing. I also know that Berndt wouldn't have a camera with a focal plane shutter.
Presumably it was that 'light box' which was the problem.
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Post by daveh on Apr 6, 2012 12:24:03 GMT -5
Well, the box arrived yesterday. Working: Kodak Bantam Colorsnap Ilford Sportsman Aires Penta 35
Not working: Minolta Auto Wide Kodak Retinette 1A Voigtlander Vito B
The Colorsnap has obviously smoked heavily all its life: it reeks of cigarettes. The Sportsman seems reasonably clean and what shutter speeds there are appear about right. The Penta seems right at all shutter speeds. The lens is bright and clear, except for a few light scratches on the front element. Everything is reasonably smooth. The viewfinder/pentaprism/screen/mirror all need a good clean though.
The Auto Wide feels as though it will work - its shutter speed dial is stuck. I think the Retinette probably qualifies as being knackered. Someone appears to have had a go at the Vito - screw heads burred and suchlike. I'm not quite sure what I shall find 'under the bonnet'. The shutter blades are rusted, so I suppose it's just possible that once they have thawed out it will be a worker.
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