Gear P0rn - post it if you got it.

unixrevolution · 08-02-2016, 09:44 AM

Originally posted by vrolok

Just got, today, these two beauties...

Cheers

Is that your first LX? You're going to be blown away with what it can do, if so. I have mine out and about for the first time in a long while. I forgot how good it was.

stevebrot · 08-02-2016, 11:04 AM

Originally posted by vrolok

Just got, today, these two beauties...

Cheers

At some point, please post pictures from and your impression of the Petri as well. I pondered buying one back in the day, but settled on a Ricoh Singlex TLS instead.

Steve

vrolok · 08-02-2016, 03:33 PM

Originally posted by unixrevolution

Is that your first LX? You're going to be blown away with what it can do, if so. I have mine out and about for the first time in a long while. I forgot how good it was.

Actually yes it is! Just a great slr

---------- Post added 08-03-16 at 12:53 AM ----------

Originally posted by stevebrot

At some point, please post pictures from and your impression of the Petri as well. I pondered buying one back in the day, but settled on a Ricoh Singlex TLS instead.

Steve

Sure, I will but it will take some time, though. Great feeling holding it.

The one I have is in excellent condition, with its 55/1.8 and original ever ready case. Mechanically, it looks and sounds fine. The metering works well too, though I think it overexposes by about 1 EV (I have to check it better). I have used a zinc air battery that fits in just perfectly. Light seals need to be replaced (I will do it tomorrow). I don't know how to change the mirror bumper since there apparently is no easy access to, oh well, will see. The one and only thing that I dislike is a very pale haze inside the viewfinder.

Anyhow, it is a simple camera. Full manual... but also has shutter priority programme! From 1/500 to 1/2 s, + B. Up to 800 iso and self timer.

Jonathan Mac · 08-03-2016, 01:03 AM - **3 Likes**

I love taking viewfinder pics of my Yashica Mat 124Gs

IMGP2764a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr

unixrevolution · 08-03-2016, 05:45 AM

Originally posted by Jonathan Mac

I love taking viewfinder pics of my Yashica Mat 124Gs

IMGP2764a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr

The Yashica TLRs are suprisingly capable cameras. Especially the Yashinon lens models. I love both of mine, I have a Yashicamat 124 and a Yashica 635. The latter, I think I am keeping for good. The other is getting traded to someone for some other gear. I have the Mamiya TLR now and I simply don't need 3.

Argenticien · 08-03-2016, 06:43 PM

Originally posted by EJMzagsfan

I'll have the first roll finished today. I cant get the 135mm to stop down and the cameras flacking some foam from some where, but at the price I got everything for I have no complaints.

EJM, what model is that Bronica? S2? S2A? Your kit looks a lot like mine. I just got back from lugging the body, the 50/3.5, and 75 around Spain for 10 days, and am about ready to find some lighter medium-format kit! Although I love this thing, it gets heavy (especially with that outrageous 50) after a full day about town with it. I didn't even bring my eye-level finder (due to its additional weight) and regretted it as there were a few cases where I was standing at chest- or neck-level fences and rails, and wished I could have shot from eye level.

The camera did result in a funny situation when it caught the attention of Madrid's Policia Municipal whilst I walked around a city park. This was pretty quickly straightened out with the help of my Spanish-speaking fiancée; the police were more curious than suspicious. When we told them we were headed onward to Barcelona soon, they warned of us the pickpockets and other petty crime there. I demonstrated swinging the Bronica (on neck strap) as a weapon, much to their entertainment.

--Dave

lukulele · 08-03-2016, 06:59 PM

Originally posted by Argenticien

EJM, what model is that Bronica? S2? S2A? Your kit looks a lot like mine. I just got back from lugging the body, the 50/3.5, and 75 around Spain for 10 days, and am about ready to find some lighter medium-format kit! Although I love this thing, it gets heavy (especially with that outrageous 50) after a full day about town with it. I didn't even bring my eye-level finder (due to its additional weight) and regretted it as there were a few cases where I was standing at chest- or neck-level fences and rails, and wished I could have shot from eye level.

The camera did result in a funny situation when it caught the attention of Madrid's Policia Municipal whilst I walked around a city park. This was pretty quickly straightened out with the help of my Spanish-speaking fiancée; the police were more curious than suspicious. When we told them we were headed onward to Barcelona soon, they warned of us the pickpockets and other petty crime there. I demonstrated swinging the Bronica (on neck strap) as a weapon, much to their entertainment.

--Dave

Dave,
I'm sure you've been down to Biggs and perused the used MF stuff. When I came down off the Mtn. last week the showcase was practically clean of MF. Check the used stuff in the back hallway for Bronica lens/body caps and other accessories that don't make it to the showroom cases. Those folks appreciate MF and seem to get lots of pieces in.

Lou

Jonathan Mac · 08-04-2016, 04:55 AM

One good thing about the Yashica Mat 124G is that it's smaller and lighterthan the majority of capable TLRs, which allows me to travel with it. I think it weighs around half of what my Pentax 645 & 75/2.8 lens would, and is a much easier to pack shape.

nickthetasmaniac · 08-05-2016, 05:38 AM

New toy for the MX. I've heard very mixed reviews on the M28/f2.8, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Hard to argue with the size and price though

stevebrot · 08-05-2016, 08:53 AM

Originally posted by nickthetasmaniac

New toy for the MX. I've heard very mixed reviews on the M28/f2.8, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Hard to argue with the size and price though

The M 28/2.8 is decent lens, but is also sort of an enigma. It was originally priced below the equivalent Vivitar (both less than $50 USD, new) and about half that of the Adaptall-2 28/2.5 from Tamron. (I was in the market at the time and bought the Tamron

)

Steve

womble · 08-06-2016, 12:38 AM

Originally posted by nickthetasmaniac

New toy for the MX. I've heard very mixed reviews on the M28/f2.8, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Hard to argue with the size and price though

The M28/2.8 was my second lens and I used it for about 20 years shooting slides and some BW. It is only with the advent of easy access to cheaper second-hand gear and pixel-peeping on digital, or even on scans of negs, that I have moved away from it, but not really for any logical reason. I tend to grab my K30/2.8 most often, but mainly because I can...

Argenticien · 08-06-2016, 05:16 AM

Originally posted by lukulele

Dave,
I'm sure you've been down to Biggs and perused the used MF stuff. When I came down off the Mtn. last week the showcase was practically clean of MF. Check the used stuff in the back hallway for Bronica lens/body caps and other accessories that don't make it to the showroom cases. Those folks appreciate MF and seem to get lots of pieces in.

Lou

Lou, I work 10 minutes from Biggs so it's a little too easy to go there. That's where I get color processing done, and I peek into the used case every time I'm there. I do know about the graveyard in the back hallway, and bought a couple of secondhand filters there this week since I absent-mindedly left a filter wallet on a cathedral pew in Barcelona the week before. (I realized this 10 minutes later and went back for it, but I'm sure a passing opportunist non-photographer probably found it, thought it was a wallet wallet, and made off with it, so it was gone by then. They were surely disappointed to find 67mm and 82mm yellow filters, not 50 and 100 euro notes!)

--Dave

**From1980** · 08-06-2016, 01:44 PM - **1 Like**

Originally posted by nickthetasmaniac

New toy for the MX. I've heard very mixed reviews on the M28/f2.8, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Hard to argue with the size and price though

Originally posted by womble

I tend to grab my K30/2.8 most often, but mainly because I can

The M28/2.8, like most M lenses, does mate well with M bodies. MX plus the 28 or M50 can slip into a jacket pocket easily. I find a good walk around M lens kit for general purpose and travel ease is 28/2.8, 50/1.7, 40-80/2.8-4, and 75-150/4 or 150/3.5. There isn't much particularly wrong with the M28 and a few other M lenses but they just don't have the feel, balance,apparent build quality, and image rendering of the short lived K line up. My preference is usually the notably heavier and larger K bodies and lenses for landscape and nature with K30/2.8 always part of the kit. I usually like a slower, deliberate approach to these subjects and will accept the added weight of a bag of K's including some combination of lenses from 15mm to 300mm with ext tubes or bellows...maybe because I can.

**TwoUptons** · 08-07-2016, 09:20 AM

Originally posted by nickthetasmaniac

New toy for the MX. I've heard very mixed reviews on the M28/f2.8, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Hard to argue with the size and price though

I've had mine for years. I replaced it a few weeks ago with an A that is optically identical because I use it a lot with flash, and non-A lenses are a pain...

It isn't brilliant wide open, but it is at f5.6 and decent at f4. I have no complaints but the automation...

Maybe I've just always liked the M lenses....

- Eric

EJMzagsfan · 08-07-2016, 02:50 PM

Originally posted by Argenticien

EJM, what model is that Bronica? S2? S2A? Your kit looks a lot like mine. I just got back from lugging the body, the 50/3.5, and 75 around Spain for 10 days, and am about ready to find some lighter medium-format kit! Although I love this thing, it gets heavy (especially with that outrageous 50) after a full day about town with it. I didn't even bring my eye-level finder (due to its additional weight) and regretted it as there were a few cases where I was standing at chest- or neck-level fences and rails, and wished I could have shot from eye level.

The camera did result in a funny situation when it caught the attention of Madrid's Policia Municipal whilst I walked around a city park. This was pretty quickly straightened out with the help of my Spanish-speaking fiancée; the police were more curious than suspicious. When we told them we were headed onward to Barcelona soon, they warned of us the pickpockets and other petty crime there. I demonstrated swinging the Bronica (on neck strap) as a weapon, much to their entertainment.

--Dave

I already own an s2a, this recent acquisition doesn't have the model after the serial number, but based on the film advance nob I believe that it is also a s2a. If you do use the eye level viewfinder It is quite the arm workout to hold the camera that high.

08-02-2016, 03:33 PM	#4338
vrolok Senior Member Join Date: May 2014 Location: Caesaraugusta Posts: 104	Originally posted by unixrevolution Is that your first LX? You're going to be blown away with what it can do, if so. I have mine out and about for the first time in a long while. I forgot how good it was. Actually yes it is! Just a great slr ---------- Post added 08-03-16 at 12:53 AM ---------- Originally posted by stevebrot At some point, please post pictures from and your impression of the Petri as well. I pondered buying one back in the day, but settled on a Ricoh Singlex TLS instead. Steve Sure, I will but it will take some time, though. Great feeling holding it. The one I have is in excellent condition, with its 55/1.8 and original ever ready case. Mechanically, it looks and sounds fine. The metering works well too, though I think it overexposes by about 1 EV (I have to check it better). I have used a zinc air battery that fits in just perfectly. Light seals need to be replaced (I will do it tomorrow). I don't know how to change the mirror bumper since there apparently is no easy access to, oh well, will see. The one and only thing that I dislike is a very pale haze inside the viewfinder. Anyhow, it is a simple camera. Full manual... but also has shutter priority programme! From 1/500 to 1/2 s, + B. Up to 800 iso and self timer. Last edited by vrolok; 08-02-2016 at 08:09 PM.

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08-02-2016, 09:44 AM	#4336
unixrevolution Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Waldorf, MD Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,861	Originally posted by vrolok Just got, today, these two beauties... Cheers Is that your first LX? You're going to be blown away with what it can do, if so. I have mine out and about for the first time in a long while. I forgot how good it was.

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stevebrot Otis Memorial Pentaxian Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Vancouver (USA) Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 42,007	Originally posted by vrolok Just got, today, these two beauties... Cheers At some point, please post pictures from and your impression of the Petri as well. I pondered buying one back in the day, but settled on a Ricoh Singlex TLS instead. Steve

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Jonathan Mac Pentaxian Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Posts: 10,879	I love taking viewfinder pics of my Yashica Mat 124Gs IMGP2764a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr

08-03-2016, 05:45 AM	#4340
unixrevolution Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Waldorf, MD Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,861	Originally posted by Jonathan Mac I love taking viewfinder pics of my Yashica Mat 124Gs IMGP2764a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr The Yashica TLRs are suprisingly capable cameras. Especially the Yashinon lens models. I love both of mine, I have a Yashicamat 124 and a Yashica 635. The latter, I think I am keeping for good. The other is getting traded to someone for some other gear. I have the Mamiya TLR now and I simply don't need 3.

08-03-2016, 06:43 PM	#4341
Argenticien Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 208	Originally posted by EJMzagsfan I'll have the first roll finished today. I cant get the 135mm to stop down and the cameras flacking some foam from some where, but at the price I got everything for I have no complaints. EJM, what model is that Bronica? S2? S2A? Your kit looks a lot like mine. I just got back from lugging the body, the 50/3.5, and 75 around Spain for 10 days, and am about ready to find some lighter medium-format kit! Although I love this thing, it gets heavy (especially with that outrageous 50) after a full day about town with it. I didn't even bring my eye-level finder (due to its additional weight) and regretted it as there were a few cases where I was standing at chest- or neck-level fences and rails, and wished I could have shot from eye level. The camera did result in a funny situation when it caught the attention of Madrid's Policia Municipal whilst I walked around a city park. This was pretty quickly straightened out with the help of my Spanish-speaking fiancée; the police were more curious than suspicious. When we told them we were headed onward to Barcelona soon, they warned of us the pickpockets and other petty crime there. I demonstrated swinging the Bronica (on neck strap) as a weapon, much to their entertainment. --Dave

08-03-2016, 06:59 PM	#4342
lukulele Pentaxian Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Blue Ridge Escarpment, North Carolina, US Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,850	Originally posted by Argenticien EJM, what model is that Bronica? S2? S2A? Your kit looks a lot like mine. I just got back from lugging the body, the 50/3.5, and 75 around Spain for 10 days, and am about ready to find some lighter medium-format kit! Although I love this thing, it gets heavy (especially with that outrageous 50) after a full day about town with it. I didn't even bring my eye-level finder (due to its additional weight) and regretted it as there were a few cases where I was standing at chest- or neck-level fences and rails, and wished I could have shot from eye level. The camera did result in a funny situation when it caught the attention of Madrid's Policia Municipal whilst I walked around a city park. This was pretty quickly straightened out with the help of my Spanish-speaking fiancée; the police were more curious than suspicious. When we told them we were headed onward to Barcelona soon, they warned of us the pickpockets and other petty crime there. I demonstrated swinging the Bronica (on neck strap) as a weapon, much to their entertainment. --Dave Dave, I'm sure you've been down to Biggs and perused the used MF stuff. When I came down off the Mtn. last week the showcase was practically clean of MF. Check the used stuff in the back hallway for Bronica lens/body caps and other accessories that don't make it to the showroom cases. Those folks appreciate MF and seem to get lots of pieces in. Lou

08-04-2016, 04:55 AM	#4343
Jonathan Mac Pentaxian Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Posts: 10,879	One good thing about the Yashica Mat 124G is that it's smaller and lighterthan the majority of capable TLRs, which allows me to travel with it. I think it weighs around half of what my Pentax 645 & 75/2.8 lens would, and is a much easier to pack shape.

08-05-2016, 05:38 AM	#4344
nickthetasmaniac Pentaxian Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 2,361	New toy for the MX. I've heard very mixed reviews on the M28/f2.8, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Hard to argue with the size and price though

08-05-2016, 08:53 AM	#4345
stevebrot Otis Memorial Pentaxian Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Vancouver (USA) Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 42,007	Originally posted by nickthetasmaniac New toy for the MX. I've heard very mixed reviews on the M28/f2.8, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Hard to argue with the size and price though The M 28/2.8 is decent lens, but is also sort of an enigma. It was originally priced below the equivalent Vivitar (both less than $50 USD, new) and about half that of the Adaptall-2 28/2.5 from Tamron. (I was in the market at the time and bought the Tamron ) Steve

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08-06-2016, 05:16 AM	#4347
Argenticien Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 208	Originally posted by lukulele Dave, I'm sure you've been down to Biggs and perused the used MF stuff. When I came down off the Mtn. last week the showcase was practically clean of MF. Check the used stuff in the back hallway for Bronica lens/body caps and other accessories that don't make it to the showroom cases. Those folks appreciate MF and seem to get lots of pieces in. Lou Lou, I work 10 minutes from Biggs so it's a little too easy to go there. That's where I get color processing done, and I peek into the used case every time I'm there. I do know about the graveyard in the back hallway, and bought a couple of secondhand filters there this week since I absent-mindedly left a filter wallet on a cathedral pew in Barcelona the week before. (I realized this 10 minutes later and went back for it, but I'm sure a passing opportunist non-photographer probably found it, thought it was a wallet wallet, and made off with it, so it was gone by then. They were surely disappointed to find 67mm and 82mm yellow filters, not 50 and 100 euro notes!) --Dave

08-06-2016, 01:44 PM - 1 Like	#4348
From1980 Site Supporter Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Essex, Ontario Posts: 682	Originally posted by nickthetasmaniac New toy for the MX. I've heard very mixed reviews on the M28/f2.8, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Hard to argue with the size and price though Originally posted by womble I tend to grab my K30/2.8 most often, but mainly because I can The M28/2.8, like most M lenses, does mate well with M bodies. MX plus the 28 or M50 can slip into a jacket pocket easily. I find a good walk around M lens kit for general purpose and travel ease is 28/2.8, 50/1.7, 40-80/2.8-4, and 75-150/4 or 150/3.5. There isn't much particularly wrong with the M28 and a few other M lenses but they just don't have the feel, balance,apparent build quality, and image rendering of the short lived K line up. My preference is usually the notably heavier and larger K bodies and lenses for landscape and nature with K30/2.8 always part of the kit. I usually like a slower, deliberate approach to these subjects and will accept the added weight of a bag of K's including some combination of lenses from 15mm to 300mm with ext tubes or bellows...maybe because I can.

08-07-2016, 09:20 AM	#4349
TwoUptons Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Nov 2015 Photos: Albums Posts: 4,207	Originally posted by nickthetasmaniac New toy for the MX. I've heard very mixed reviews on the M28/f2.8, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Hard to argue with the size and price though I've had mine for years. I replaced it a few weeks ago with an A that is optically identical because I use it a lot with flash, and non-A lenses are a pain... It isn't brilliant wide open, but it is at f5.6 and decent at f4. I have no complaints but the automation... Maybe I've just always liked the M lenses.... - Eric

08-07-2016, 02:50 PM	#4350
EJMzagsfan Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Idaho Photos: Albums Posts: 241	Originally posted by Argenticien EJM, what model is that Bronica? S2? S2A? Your kit looks a lot like mine. I just got back from lugging the body, the 50/3.5, and 75 around Spain for 10 days, and am about ready to find some lighter medium-format kit! Although I love this thing, it gets heavy (especially with that outrageous 50) after a full day about town with it. I didn't even bring my eye-level finder (due to its additional weight) and regretted it as there were a few cases where I was standing at chest- or neck-level fences and rails, and wished I could have shot from eye level. The camera did result in a funny situation when it caught the attention of Madrid's Policia Municipal whilst I walked around a city park. This was pretty quickly straightened out with the help of my Spanish-speaking fiancée; the police were more curious than suspicious. When we told them we were headed onward to Barcelona soon, they warned of us the pickpockets and other petty crime there. I demonstrated swinging the Bronica (on neck strap) as a weapon, much to their entertainment. --Dave I already own an s2a, this recent acquisition doesn't have the model after the serial number, but based on the film advance nob I believe that it is also a s2a. If you do use the eye level viewfinder It is quite the arm workout to hold the camera that high.