Thread: 35mm SLR Camera's

Very happy this thread has popped up again as I have just dug out some of my film cameras and hope to get back into the B&W process once I set up a darkroom in the basement. It is sadly about #57 on the project list at the moment, but I can at least get going on the film processing part quickly. I do miss mucking about in the darkroom. It really has been too long!

As for gear, I have a couple of Nikons (F3hp and F90) some soviet copies of Contax (Kiev) and Leicas (Fed), as well as a couple of oddballs I'd like to play around with again.

Good to have some extra inspiration to get that ball rolling.

Cangooner, you have some *STONKING* great shooters in Ontario - and BC. 'Don't know if you've ever seen apug.org, but Andrew O'Neill is just a master. Viewing larger than a thumbnail requires registration (free), but it seems to be the SRP of the film world. Your gear seems super. Bulk loading 35 isn't as cheap as it used to be, but still saves about 30%. Should you need a loader, pm me.

Wow, old thread that I did not even realize was there. As much as I enjoyed using my old film cameras I am now shooting only digital. Somehow though I still have all my old film bodies and can't seem to let go of them.

Bob

Bob, 'good to see your name again. You've given lots of gold here.

On different tools, dig is amazing - particularly when action is fast and the moment soon gone. I got back to film - for the 3rd time now & wanted to dive deeper into quality. This is a move not for the fast action shot, but for the more contemplative, careful shot. Both kinds are wonderful & I try not to leave the house w/out *something* to grab a shot with. Every time I leave w/out camera, I regret it. Sometimes the scene is pretty, sometimes profound, sometimes just light-hearted mirth. Its good to exercise those old mechanisms, so even w/out film, fire them at slow & fast speeds & apertures. The FE2 I shoot, I bought new in '83. 'Had to replace the mirror cushion foam, but no other service has been required. If I can be helpful, pls. let me know.

From a 1936 Zeiss folding rangefinder camera

Originally Posted by pinklather

Cangooner, you have some *STONKING* great shooters in Ontario - and BC. 'Don't know if you've ever seen apug.org, but Andrew O'Neill is just a master. Viewing larger than a thumbnail requires registration (free), but it seems to be the SRP of the film world. Your gear seems super. Bulk loading 35 isn't as cheap as it used to be, but still saves about 30%. Should you need a loader, pm me.

Thanks for the kind offer! I do have a bulk loader here... somewhere... I used to bulk load Technical Pan and developed with technodol. It was absolutely incredible film, but a real bugger to focus on the enlarger with a grain magnifier. On smaller enlargements it was tricky to even find the bloody grain, let alone focus on it.

Thanks too for the apug.org tip. Will check it out for sure!

Robert, I was just wondering where you've gone off to. Even asked Roy. Glad to see you posting some of your excellent photos. The more the pleasure to look at. B/W so often has the edge over color since it reveals so much more of the structure of the composition. Waiting to see more.

Richard, good to hear from you.

Photos, like honing - is not something I have any natural talent at, so I have to work my tail off at it. I used to keep 1-3% of the images. Its a little higher now, but not much.

'Hope you & yours have been very well.

I’ve got a Canon A-1. This is my 2nd A-1. The first was stolen from my apartment in the late 80s or early 90s. I then purchased a AE-1 program that I kept until losing my left eye. (Wouldn’t you know that was the eye I used to shoot photos with? I thought I’d never adjust to the right eye. After several attempts and always going to the left eye, with a camera,I became frustrated and sold my photography equipment lock, stock & barrel. Here I am 20 some years later buying back all of the equipment I had. The only piece I’m missing is a tripod and I’m golden.

Best camera I ever had was a 35mm Nikon FE2, with attacheable motordrive ...I took some superb photos with it. Unfortunately, now quite difficult to get film, and to find good film processors here, and so, I sucumbed to the dark side and went digital...I now have a Nikon D7000. I also have a manual for it, because the thing is so complicated with a myriad of settings and variations, I needed the manual. It is about the size of your average novel...I've not manadged to read even halfway through it yet, so just dive in and out when I need to. Sadly I don't take as many pictures as I used to and often, leave it on the Auto function setting, simply for ease. I know, I know...should be taken out and horsewhipped!