Posted on 07/29/2010 8:46:17 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
I was in my favorite thrift store last week, found this sitting in a plastic bin with a 5 dollar sticker. It had a 28mm lens on it, I found a 35-70 f2.8-4 Sigma for another 18 bucks.
I've been cleaning and testing, got it ready to roll again.
The Minolta XG-M came out in the early 80s, it has auto exposure and manual focus. It all cleaned up to about 99%. I'll shoot it some and the rest of the time it will look great on my shelf.
I can get negatives digitized to discs, it isn't very expensive.
I always liked the Nikon F-3 better than the 8—8S and I think the Nikon F 100 would be a cool 2nd film camera.
Digital can never match the dynamic range of film since it is silver based-(analog), but digital exceeds film in the amount of different colors it can process.
I like them both.
Yah... I’ve still got my old Nikon FE2 and a selection of Nikkor lenses, including a schweet Nikkor 100-300 f4 lens. [sigh] Not sure what to do with any of it.
LOL!
I was ready for a stray bird or dog lol. Glad you found it & may you take many beautiful pics!
Just about all those older film SLRs will need new mirror foam and light seals. The good news is a reputable repairman should not charge more than a few dollars for both. My repairman who just retired, only charged two bucks for replacing the light seals. I think the mirror foam should be about the same.
If you can find the materials you can do it yourself, It is not a difficult or technical job. Just remove the old seals and foam which probably will have turned into black goo, then place new material in the slots. The foam for the mirror to bounce on is also fairly easy. You can probably find the materials at an arts and craft section of a large discount store.
A nice set of planes and some good chisels are essential.
An FE2 was the first Nikon I ever bought, it fell off the back of my motorcycle, a Kawasaki Turbo 750, gloat!
Dektol and a DK-50 back.
Click’in don’t hurt nobody.
Unless things develop!
Damn!
Amazing.
Have fun with it, then when you want to get serious, get a Canon digital camera.
A TV set is, to me, just a tool for the times I want to see something specific. I don't want to spend my life in front of one, watching what someone else thinks I should see.
We have a bunch of 2100s.
They are mildly IR capable [with fairly long exposure time, though] and solid workhorses that never die.
The “Holy Grail” of the old “accidental” IR capables is the Oly C-2020.
[got 4 or 5 of them]
You can slap on a R72 and easily see what you’re doing.
Even with a 620nm filter, you can still hand hold it if you’re steady.
It kicks ass even though I still use my Fujifilm IS-1 IR dedicated forensics camera a lot.
For “regular” digital, my love is a Sony DSC-R1.
It has the coolest swivel/rotating LCD *ever* and you can use it as a waist-level “viewfinder” camera like the old Rolleis and Hasselblads.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/SonyDSCR1/
[no more laying flat on my stomach in cemeteries....yay!]
The Sony F-828 and F-717s had a similar “rotating” lens thing going but you could only use them waist-level in the landscape mode.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonydscf828/
I don’t use mine that often any more but I’d never part with it.
I did sell my “spare” a few years ago, though.
Amen, V.
You feel my pain....LOL
[not to mention the horror of paying photo store developing prices after I graduated and didn’t have “free use” of the school dark room anymore].....8^O
I don't think the camera was ever used much. There is a clear protective layer on the bottom that is unmarked, no scratches around the tripod thread. The batteries were just starting to leak, no damage yet, I caught it in time.
I suspect this one has been sitting in a drawer in a temperature controlled house for a long time.
Just what size are these scanned negatives?
When I last checked, in the late 90s, the price was outrageous. I used to shoot 30-50 rolls a year.
With my Nikon F2SB, I had many 16x20 posters made the old fashioned way.
The worst was Cibachrome processing.
My high schools’ darkroom had the most useless ventilation system *ever* and I’d go to lunch squinting like a mole and half “stoned” from the fumes.
[my last year and half of HS were all “elective” courses and I split my time between fine art and the darkroom...I’m probably brain damaged from chemical exposure]...:))
Gosh, thanks...:)
Talk about ancient history, LOL that was about 51 or 52.
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