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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
11-07-2016, 04:57 PM
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The bellows and slide copier is new. The rest I've had a couple of years. Plan is to mount the K-1 on the bellows and use pixel-shift to scan my 6x7, 6x6 and 4.5x6 slides and negatives to digital.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-28-2016, 06:01 PM
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How to get started on a Pentax 6x7 set up:
1) Buy a pair of dumbbells. Say 5kg each at least.
2) Alterate training arm strength with looking for a Pentax 67 with random lens (or body only). Have patience and you will be able to get a working copy for <150 Euro. Your arms not strong enough anyway.
3) Meanwhile also buy any 120mm film you get hold of...especially all the expired inexpensive film sold by people that appears to be wise enough to have kept it cold and dark. Fill your own freezer.
4) Now you got that Pentax 6x7 you dreamt about.
5) If it didn't come with a lens you need to complement it with one of course. If you have no specific preferences, the 55mm, 105mm and 200mm is a good start, and among the least expensive.
6) As soon you get the first lens, get started shooting! Now you realise you need to use the dumbbells more...
7) If it didn't come with a meetering prism, its time to get one now. Patience again. Can go cheaply.
8) The wood grip! You must get one. It looks cool, and maybe you can cut down on the dumbbells...?
9) And the waist level finder. And more lenses.
10) Now you discovered how expensive it is to develop 120mm in a lab. You better buy your own development tank etc.
11) Saving on development you can now buy more film....but it becomes a feed back circle. Soon you shoot film all days, and develope it all night. It's now you realise how hard it is for your arms to agitate the development tank... Back to the dumbbells!
12) And then more lenses, macro tubes, a sturdier tripod... By the way...a dedicated film freezer maybe. The familly complains the one in the kitchen have no room for food...
13) By the time you get hold of the 500mm and the gigantic 6x7 auto bellows you realise you need another room for your gear...
14) ...and a big fight with your wife ends with a peace settlement. It includes building a new house with a photo studio/darkroom for you and a room for the wifes 2m wide loom and massive amounts of textile material (or I'm sure she has some other hobby...if not, offer a spa room with bubble pool etc.).
15) Building a new house you realise how great it now is that you have such strong arms. Everyone is happy!
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-13-2016, 03:03 AM
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I did some good "investments" back then. Got my 1st salary as Ph.D. candidate in -93 and saved what I could and sold some photos, but it wasn't a professor salary...and film etc also costed money. But nowadays I regret I didn't buy more...if I had only realised that the good manual glass would go up that much in price! The generall concensus by the pro's and most amateurs was to get rid of your manual glass to finance auto focus glass...so prices dropped low from about 1990 and stayed there for many years. I know what I would do if I had a time machine! Like that red phone boot Dr. Who has. Get hold of enough old crown-bills (or whatever I could pay with)...set the control instruments and "fly"back to Stockholm anno 1992 and raid all the camera shops that had a good 2nd hand sortiment (and there were many of them back then) for any good glass I could find. I just have to avoid meeting myself...since I often window-shopped there: Sergel-foto, Kameradoktorn, Schrönners foto...
The A*200mm macro is one I still haven't got, but would very much like to have. But as you say, now they want from 2000 euro and upwards. For this year I have emptied the budget on some other manual glass that's been on my shopping list for a long time, so the 200mm macro will have to wait some more. :( With the rare glass it doesn't even always help if you have the money...so few copies were made that a lot of patience is needed.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-11-2016, 11:31 PM
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In 1993 I paid 3500 swedish crowns for this copy 2nd hand. That's about 400 US$. Autofocus had come and a lot of people were selling of all their manual focus lenses....
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-09-2016, 06:04 PM
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Been waiting for a long time to be able to put this specific lens on a Pentax FF DSLR...
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