|
Post by Shutter Girl on Jan 26, 2007 14:18:11 GMT -5
Let us know about your camera equipment!
Also if you are experimenting with a new lens, camera, etc. or if you have questions or problems.
|
|
|
Post by Shutter Girl on Jan 26, 2007 14:20:48 GMT -5
|
|
Jzero
Elephant Talker
Oh the flower pot that sits so still...
Posts: 149
|
Post by Jzero on Jan 27, 2007 1:35:33 GMT -5
Yes she is a beaut Kelp. That is one fine looking antiquity! If you do take pictures with it, scan them and show us the results. J
|
|
|
Post by epatsellis on Jul 1, 2007 13:36:25 GMT -5
First post and I'll probably sound like a camera equipment nerd/snob. I'm not, I just fall into a lot of really good deals and or people give me their broken stuff. (makes the hobby almost affordable) I have some galleries on my website: www.eriepatsellis.com (though they need massive updating). I try to shoot 3 or 4 days a week, though the last week or two work has occupied 70+ hours of my time, and it just feels good to get home and plop down on the sofa and be a couch potato. I start pursuing my BFA in August, I took a year off from college (in 1981, no less) and I'm pretty sure that it's about over...<G>. 35mm- Nikon FM, FM2N, 2-F3/MD4, F4, tons (and tons and tons) of glass from a Tokina 17mm to a Nikkor 300f4EDIF (as well as the older, scalloped ring 300f4.5) as well as a Tamron 500 f8 mirror. The majority of the lenses are Nikkors, as they were really cheap a year or so ago. Medium format- 2 mamiya RB67's, full set of lenses, dozen or so backs, compendium shades, etc.. Hasselblad 500C/M, 500EL, 50 Distagon, 80 planar, backs, etc. (looking for an affordable 150 Large format- B&J press, toyo 45E & 45F, Calumet/Orbit C1 8x10, modified/self built Toyo 8x10 monorail, building an 11x14/16x20 camera right now to use in the studio. Bunches of lenses, mostly older barrel lenses I use with a packard shutter on the 8x10 C1 Lighting up the wazoo, the usual light meters, polaroid backs, etc.... More tripods than a person has a right to own, most gotten cheap to free, save for a few hours work to get them working properly. erie
|
|
|
Post by Shutter Girl on Jul 1, 2007 15:17:28 GMT -5
Welcome Erie!
That's an impressive collection, indeed! We're always open to someone with expertise here, most of us our newbies. Feel free to participate in all areas of our forum, I hope you do.
Your work is lovely, post some here if you like!
|
|
ImageMaker
Minstrel in the Gallery
A glitter in my I...
Posts: 36
|
Post by ImageMaker on Jul 1, 2007 23:45:03 GMT -5
Aaaah. Just found this thread. Long, long list. Let's see here... 16 mm: Minolta 16 (two), Minolta 16 II, Minolta 16 MG (dead meter), Minolta 16 QT (dead meter), Kiev 303 and Kiev 30. 35 mm half frame: Olympus Pen EES-2. 35 mm full frame: Kodak Pony 135, Signet 35, Motormatic; Minolta AL; Petri 7S (with accessory tele and wide lenses and matching viewfinders); Canonet 28 and Canonet GIII QL-17; Argus Easy-View AF Date; Pentax Spotmatic SP; Sears (Ricoh Singlex) TLS and Ricoh Singlex II; Zenit TTL (with inaccurate meter); M42 lenses Auto-Rikenon 28/2.8, 50/2.0, Super Takumar 50/1.4, Helios 44-M 58/2.0 (Biotar copy), Varexon 135/2.8, Tamron 70-210/3.8-4 Macro, Spiratone Plura-Coat 400/6.3, Helios 2x and Vivitar 3x teleconverters, Royal macro ring set. 828: Bantam RF 127: Kodak Starmeter, Baby Brownie; Zeiss-Ikon 520 Baby Ikonta; Annie 44 (Diana clone in 127); Yashica 44 120/620: Kodak Reflex II, Brownie Hawkeye Flash (two), Brownie Bullseye; Ansco Pioneer 620, Shur-Shot Jr.; Zeiss-Ikon 531/16 Super Ikonta B (converted to 12 frames); Wirgin Auta 4.5 (upgraded from Auta 6.3 with lens and shutter from a badly bent 4.5 model -- with 6x4.5 masks); Voigtlander Rollfilmkamera. 9x12 cm: Zeiss-Ikon 250/7 Ideal (two, one with 135/4.5 Tessar, other with 150/4.5 Tessar). 4x5: pre-War Anniversary Speed Graphic w/ 105/4.5 Agnar, 135/4.5 Skopar, and 150/5.6 Componon (convertible to 265/12 by removing front glass), including Adapt-a-Roll 620 for 6x9 or 6x6 roll film. Polaroid: Automatic 350, SX-70 Model 2, SX-70 Model 3 (first non-SLR version), Auto-Focus 660, Spectra System (two). Digital: Gateway DC-T50, 5 mpix zoom P&S; Creative Webcam Go. These are only the ones that are ready to use at a moment's notice, requiring, at most, loading film and/or a battery. It does not include pinhole cameras, of which I have at least half a dozen, nor those requiring significant work before they're ready to load and shoot. Further, I'm pretty certain I've missed one or two, though I've also traded away a couple cameras recently. And this has been done, mostly over the past four years, on a pretty tight budget that was also supplying film and chemicals. The rumors about the demise of film have been very good to those like me who've wanted good equipment and couldn't afford it previously... Not a Leica or Rollei in the bunch, but I've got equipment I'd put against either of them... Edit: Yep, I was sure I'd missed something -- at a minimum, I missed the Agfa Clack and Ansco Speedex Jr., and I keep thinking there's one more 35 mm in there somewhere...
|
|
|
Post by epatsellis on Jul 2, 2007 17:43:46 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure there's a 4x5 missing too, shouldn't be too far off from ready (then again, knowing how rare spare time is...)
The important thing to remember, for anybody reading this post down the road, is that both Donald and I are far from wealthy.(about as far as you can get) Just mostly industrious, I'm far from too proud to tell somebody "before you throw that out, mind if I take it home to see if I can fix it?" The 135 F2 Nikkor I have was cheap, less than $125.00 cheap, just took a few taps with the hammer to straighten out the filter ring, as well as using the shade to ensure that the few scuffs on the front element don't cause flare. Same kind of story with my $140 300mm EDIF, looks like hell, the aperture ring lock (for using in program mode) is long lost and overall, there's probably many nicer ones out there. But it does work well.
erie
|
|
|
Post by Shutter Girl on Jul 3, 2007 6:40:42 GMT -5
I wish I had the know how and talent to repair cameras, what a thrill it would be to see a camera work after it's been harmed in some way. I just sent my Rolleiflex to be repaired by a nice person I met on a photo forum, I'm sure he'll do a great job with her. Photography can be an incredibly expensive hobby, not only can good cameras be expensive but film and processing really adds up, too. Then if you want your piece framed that's another layout of cash, yikes! But the pleasure of looking at something you've created makes it all worthwhile, doesn't it?
|
|
ImageMaker
Minstrel in the Gallery
A glitter in my I...
Posts: 36
|
Post by ImageMaker on Jul 5, 2007 15:33:45 GMT -5
Well, I've been doing my part to combat the high cost of photography for several years. Not just in acquiring cameras cheaply (often in need of attention, or the infamous eBay "I don't know if this works" deal -- the most I have invested in any of the cameras on that list is $150 for my Speed Graphic; I paid $180 for one of the lenses that fits it, a 150/5.6 Componon in Compur shutter with correctly calibrated aperture scale), but in finding the best deals on film and the cheapest ways to give that film quality processing. Most recently, I've been shooting a lot of Fuji Superia Xtra 400, because I get it at Costco, $8 for 6 rolls of 24 (and recently got two boxes, the limit on the coupon, for $2 off per box, making it just $1 per roll for brand new, top quality film). I'm processing it myself with a 2-bath developer that doesn't require 100F, plus or minus half a degree that, because the expensive part with the CD-4 (which costs about $125/lb) is reusable more or less indefinitely, costs me around a nickel a roll for the developer. I'll soon be testing homemade bleach and fixer too -- the bleach is usually the expensive part at $26 per gallon at working strength, good for 32 rolls (a little more if you watch your film carefully to ensure against silver retention). I've been mixing my own B&W developers for a while, but only in the past year have I saved anything on it -- Parodinal is so cheap I'll never stop making it; again, costs around a nickel a roll to use. I make my own fixer, but Kodak Indicator Stop Bath is cheaper than white vinegar to use (because I can reuse it until it's actually used up, and the bottle of concentrate makes a *huge* amount of working solution). So, now, instead of processing being the bulk of the cost of photography, film is the big villain -- and $1 for a roll of 24 exposures isn't too bad. I pay a little less than that for 35 mm B&W, bulk loaded in cassettes that are mostly on their third or fourth use (a sticky note, folded sticky side out, does a fine job of removing junk from the cassette velvet that could otherwise scratch film). Bulk loading isn't an option for 120, but I buy .EDU Ultra, 20 rolls at a time, and thus get a discount to $1.29/roll -- and I recut that to feed my 127 and 828 cameras, because it's *MUCH* cheaper than a roll of Efke 100 in 127. Recently, I've also been recutting 120 to make 16 mm strips for my "spy" cameras.
|
|
ImageMaker
Minstrel in the Gallery
A glitter in my I...
Posts: 36
|
Post by ImageMaker on Jul 5, 2007 15:44:46 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure there's a 4x5 missing too, shouldn't be too far off from ready (then again, knowing how rare spare time is...) I haven't done a thing with the Graphic View yet, Erie -- I put getting my newly acquired Adapt-a-Roll 620 in shape, and fixing the loose tensioner on my Speed Graphic ahead of assembling the GV, and this past week I've also shot, home processed, and scanned (part of, in process of scanning the rest) seven rolls of 35 mm for a local paper, in two shoots. Should have time to make the last adjustment on the AAR tomorrow, I think, and may get to the Speed over the weekend, then it'll be time to start pulling pieces out of bags and putting them together. I've also got a project I need to finish up, making a take-up spool for an Edixa 16 to replace the long-lost original; just need time to cut and shape some brass sheet and tube to finish that up. This one isn't mine; I took it on for someone who got the camera and needed a spool, but it's useful to know how to do it in case I get a great deal on one of those someday (they're a pretty high quality camera, apparently).
|
|
|
Post by epatsellis on Jul 5, 2007 22:44:52 GMT -5
I know how it is, and you know why the camera got as far as it did, too many different directions at once. On a positive note(?), I am no longer digital illiterate, camera-wise. The same guy that gave me the two D&S/Majestic tripods and camera stands gave me his "old" Fuji S2/tamron 28-85 F2.8 for helping him with some trimwork and other odds and ends.(which I would have done anyway.) Not state of the art, nor does it meter with my oodles of MF lenses, but it does work quite well, and is very cost effective.
erie
|
|
|
Post by RepairmanJack on Oct 16, 2008 10:26:35 GMT -5
I have been playing around with my latest camera a Yashica Mat EM. It is a lot of fun shooting medium format. Now I just have to get the rolls I have shot developed. Someday I hope to learn how to do it myself...
|
|
|
Post by stubedoo on Oct 17, 2008 23:21:19 GMT -5
I've been farting with the idea of getting a Nikon D60. Any ideas?
|
|
|
Post by Shutter Girl on Oct 19, 2008 8:30:02 GMT -5
I've been farting with the idea of getting a Nikon D60. Any ideas? Do you have Nikon lenses already, Stubedoo? Are you looking to expand your lens collection or use a number of different kinds of lenses? We have a Canon Digital Rebel XT, it's one of Canon's first big digital SLRs and it takes Canon lenses. I've been really unsatisfied with it of late, it's having trouble marrying with its lenses. To be honest, I'd rather have a Canon G9 or G10 with a built in telephoto lens. They have a built in lens and do more than the digital SLR at a higher quality and they're only around $499! Here's a review of the Nikon D60 if you like: www.dpreview.com/news/0801/08012910nikond60.aspGood luck in your decision!!
|
|