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Post by Peltigera on Feb 2, 2012 14:24:23 GMT -5
Now, isn't that a whole lot better than using digital?
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Post by Peltigera on Jan 29, 2012 14:37:45 GMT -5
Agfa films are still available. Agfa Gevaert make aerial photography film which is available as Rollei Retro 100 (see www.rolleifilm.de/ ) and Agfaphoto market APX black and white film and several colour films made for Agfa by Lupus (see www.macodirect.de )
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Post by Peltigera on Jan 27, 2012 4:37:58 GMT -5
Excellent pictures. I used to lust after a Pentax Spotmatic in my youth - they cost about six weeks wages so were completely out of my league.
On the dark band, is the dark band on the film or on the scanned positives? Dark on the film means too much development or light leakage, dark on the positives could be the scanner.
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Post by Peltigera on Jan 19, 2012 10:52:19 GMT -5
My Bessamatic shutter is working perfectly - so the lighter fuel trick is a good one. Unfortunately, I now know (having had a film developed) that the camera is leaking light from three different places. Only the centre of each picture has any image present. And the camera is only 53 years old. Virtually new.
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Post by Peltigera on Jan 16, 2012 17:33:31 GMT -5
Rollei films in Europe - see www.rolleifilm.de . Readily available in UK but it is a German company.
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Post by Peltigera on Jan 16, 2012 12:07:29 GMT -5
The Rollei films are actually made by Agfa Geavert in Belgium. It is very good - I have been using the 35mm Retro 100 film for about a year now.
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Post by Peltigera on Jan 11, 2012 10:43:07 GMT -5
I must be mad. I got tempted by this strange camera and actually parted with money for it - £8.00, not a lot of dosh, but not a lot of camera either. I seem to have the upmarket Digna - Vario shutter and a Subita f4.5 75mm lens. Very cheaply made - seems to be nickel plated directly onto mild steel pressings and aluminium with no sort of finish. It actually cleaned up quite quickly and quite well. And it all works (now I have added some oil in various places) but I don't think I shall waste a film on it.
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Post by Peltigera on Jan 9, 2012 17:18:24 GMT -5
My first 35mm camera was a Zenit E, bought in 1973 for the princely sum of £45.00. The week after I bought it, I dropped it while taking pictures out of the upstairs rear window of a moving bus. It bounced down the stairs onto the platform and out onto the road. Did no harm at all. It was a faithful friend until I got married in 1978 and the wife said hobbies were too expensive.
Why did I buy it? Because I had already bought an old Agfa folding camera (I don't know the model or age but had two wire frames for a viewfinder). That was getting difficult to use (I was guessing exposures) and expensive (12 pictures per roll). I wanted an exposure meter, proper viewfinder and cheap to use.
£45.00 was two weeks take-home pay so it was not cheap to buy but I never regretted buying it (more than I can say about marrying the wife!).
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Post by Peltigera on Jan 8, 2012 13:04:05 GMT -5
The start of the process has to be "Oh, that's nice." otherwise there is no point in buying it. I have had a lot of pleasure buying cameras that I drooled over in the early 1970s - what I could not afford then is cheap now.
Mostly, I want cameras that are designed well, made well and fit in with what I already have. (that last is just to stop me buying thousands of the d**ned things). That means Zeiss Ikon, Voigtlander and Agfa in the main but not exclusively. They also need to work - I use my cameras (or at least most of them) so that means 120 or 35 mm (perhaps 127 if I see one I like). They also need to be cheap - I am a factory labourer and do not earn much, so any camera is a luxury My limit is about £25.00 including postage.
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Post by Peltigera on Jan 4, 2012 9:19:12 GMT -5
Welcome Stan. As I wrote in another post yesterday, I am a big Voigtlander fan even if most of my cameras are not Voigtlanders. I use film as much as digital - mostly because the cameras are so much nicer.
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Post by Peltigera on Jan 3, 2012 15:26:53 GMT -5
Voigtlanders so far (I really like them all - still several I want if I can find them at sensible prices): Vito II Vito B Vitomatic II Bessamatic
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Post by Peltigera on Jan 3, 2012 15:21:37 GMT -5
in a recent post I said my favourite camera is a Voigtlander Vito B. I may have to change that. I have just bought a Voigtlander Vitomatic II - very close to a Vito B but better. Still on my test film so if it does not perform it might only get to the number two slot . . .
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Post by Peltigera on Jan 3, 2012 5:24:33 GMT -5
(I don't know if any of you have heard of Marty Feldman. I presume they were not (closely) related. If you know of Marty you will know what I mean. He was a quite brilliant comedy scriptwriter. " [/color] Marty Feldman was "The Man With the Eyes" to my crowd. The only other comedians I can think of who could get a laugh with only their eyes were Eddie Rochester Anderson and Eddy Cantor . Mickey[/quote]Marty Feldman claimed to be the only actor who could play Igor in Frankenstein without any makeup.
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Post by Peltigera on Dec 25, 2011 8:02:14 GMT -5
3) Peltigera - did you make that meal? Eventually - and enjoyed it very much - new Italian in Lincoln with more waiters than customers.
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Post by Peltigera on Dec 24, 2011 12:06:50 GMT -5
So am I, waiting patiently for Bestbeloved to get ready for our Christmas meal out.
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