[45 Mike]

I got a Petri 7S recently. Paid $10 for it and discovered it had been dropped... from a high place apparently...and not onto a forgiving surface. Focus adjustment was hard because the track had been jarred out of joint. The film advance was problematic and required a little pocketknife blade prying to advance at first. The shutter worked and the various apertures seemed ok and connected to the controls. Then I got the camera going satisfactorily. The selenium meter seemed to be the only thing still working on it's own from the get go. Then I put in a a roll of Kentmere 100 ...all 36 exposures and went outside to try it out. I got ten exposures into the roll and then everything locked up ...except the light meter. I got the focus ring to work but the film advance was stuck and stuck good. I did develop the film. And... too bad it's now a paper weight. The lens seemed to be pretty decent for a relic of the past.

That is sad, but fairly common for the old inexpensive cameras. Used hard, abused, set aside, then sold on ebay, or whatever.

[Niner Alpha]

I just bought another one.... just to see if it works or not. It can't be in worse shape than the last. ....I don't think.

[g026r]

First roll back from the Flexaret II. (And only one frame where I forgot to advance before firing the shutter!)

A few sample shots, all on Acros, with the first cropped a little:

[Jonathan Mac]

First roll back from the Flexaret II. (And only one frame where I forgot to advance before firing the shutter!)

A few sample shots, all on Acros, with the first cropped a little:

Very nice indeed.

[AldaCZ]

Yes! Wow. It's a Czechoslovakian camera

[bobbotron]

I just bought another one.... just to see if it works or not. It can't be in worse shape than the last. ....I don't think.

I hope it works! I love how quiet the shutter is on mine, I almost thought mine wasn't working at first it's so quiet and quick.

The film take up spool is nearly impossibly slippery, it's a real pain to load.

[Niner Alpha]

I hope it works! I love how quiet the shutter is on mine, I almost thought mine wasn't working at first it's so quiet and quick.

The film take up spool is nearly impossibly slippery, it's a real pain to load.

It came in the mail today. Light meter isn't working right. Strange noise when advancing the cocking-advance lever. But.... shutter speeds and apertures seem more or less right. I'll be trying it out soon.

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[bobbotron]

It came in the mail today. Light meter isn't working right. Strange noise when advancing the cocking-advance lever. But.... shutter speeds and apertures seem more or less right. I'll be trying it out soon.

They are nice looking cameras. I like mine, definitely something different from my army of mechanical Pentax SLRs.

[_Ben]

My favorite shot from a local car show last week. I meant to over develop in D-76 by 20% but forgot that I had Ilford HP5 400ISO instead of Ilford Delta 400ISO. I think I ended up developing around 40% extra time by mistake. This scan was run through a Photoshop and NIK plugins, to make it look more like the print I made on fiber paper. In the printing class we were using two developers. Two minutes in Dektol at 1:20(dektol:water) for the highlights and 30 seconds in a 1:2(dektol:water) for the shadow detail. Scanning prints seems like a waste, at least with my scanner.

Canon A-1 75-200mm, Ilford HP5 400, D-76 1:1 @ ~17minutes. Epson V550.

[vinceloc]

Games children play...



Rustic life...



Stil waters...


Pentax KX + ACROS100

[Niner Alpha]

Bought a box full of point and shoot camera's for cheap to take on singular photo shoot adventures just to see what they would do. One is a Pentax IQzoom EZY-80. Lots of name for a simple camera. This is from last week.

If you are wondering... a Sago Palm. I forgot to turn off the date thing. Notice the year.

[Nesster]

June 2008, BW400CN, Fed-3, Jupiter-8M

[drmoss_ca]

XP2 @200, Rodinal 1+100 for one hour:

[bobbotron]

XP2 @200, Rodinal 1+100 for one hour:

Very cool. Until recently I didn't realize you could process XP2 in normal BW chemicals!

[Eyewanders]

some b&w from a magic morning last week... P645Nii | SMC-67 75/4.0 | HP5 Plus | V750 scan





---------- Post added 12-08-15 at 12:54 PM ----------

First roll back from the Flexaret II. (And only one frame where I forgot to advance before firing the shutter!)

A few sample shots, all on Acros, with the first cropped a little:

Lovely ones there. I've been eyeing a Flexaret for close to a year now.