Polski Mackem
Midfield
Well? Wouldn't mind getting into a chat about kit that you use, 35mm Vs 120, film stocks, availability, .... I do use some really nice digital cameras but find myself being drawn more and more back to film .....
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I have loads of film cameras, 35mm and 120.
Unfortunately it's two years since I got out with them. We have a good lab here in Houston so I can get my photos processed.
I have a few old Russian cameras, a Yeshica and a Rolleiflex. Loads of Canon 35mm
One set of lenses I bought came with the Minolta camera the lenses were used with. Absolute bargain, and the camera came for the ride.
My other 35mm film camera is a more shameful purchase. When I got my Sony mirrorless about five years back, I had some mad idea of converting a Zenit Photosniper so the Tair lens would work with my Sony. My six year old self which comes out under the influence of Chilean Red bought this thing on EBay, and it is a lovely bit of kit. The case looks like something James Bond would steal, and the Photosniper itself looks like something James Bond would use. When it arrived, my adult self realised I would be eating paving stone surrounded by armed police if I ever took it out of the house, as it looks like something you would use to shoot down a helicopter.
Google Zenit Photosniper to see what an idiot I was. It comes with a Zenit 35mm film camera, a Tair 3 300mm f4.5 lens (metal and glass, none of your plastic here) and a Helios 44-2 55mm F2 (which is fun on my Sony with an M42 adaptor).
Well? Wouldn't mind getting into a chat about kit that you use, 35mm Vs 120, film stocks, availability, .... I do use some really nice digital cameras but find myself being drawn more and more back to film .....
Portra is lovely and suits old cameras particularly well due to its forgiving exposure latitude. Wish it wasn't so damn expensive nowadays though.I guess it really depends on what you want to shoot?
For nature / architecture / days out I've got way too many Canon EOS 35mm SLRs - partly because they work great and because they're ridiculously cheap and the lenses are interchangable with EOS DSLR bodies.
If you have a DSLR consider looking at film bodies that you can use your existing lenses and accessories with?
I also have rangefinders from the 60s and 70s and some autofocus point and shoots from the 90s that I carry around or shoot family snaps indoors?
I generally shoot Kodak Portra 400 but will be branching out this month to other brands and ISOs.
Had any thoughts?
XA2 not AX2Going through some old boxes left over from moving home six years ago I came accross my old Olympus AX2. It's 41 years old so and hasn't been used for at least 25 years. I stuck some batteries in it seems to be functioning as well as it always did. I got a roll of monochrome 35mm and have decided to have some fun with it.
I am by no means a photoghraphy enthusiast and know nowt about exposures and lenses but the AX2 was always highly rated as a fun pocket camera that could produce some fairly decent images. I have had digital cameras in the past but I could never see the display in bright daylight. I don't even use the camera on my mobile phone I can't remember ever sending anyone a snap from it and I don't do selfies but I can shove the AX2 in my pocket and see what I can get.
I might even enter one of your competitions if I get a scanner .
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