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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-18-2024, 08:33 AM
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The TLS Singlex was my first slr. It came with an f/2.8 55mm, and the first lens I bought for it was a Takumar f/1.8 55mm.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-07-2020, 05:49 PM
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Thanks for info on the book. I'd buy one if it included the N-suffix models, too. I've seen very reasonably priced copies on ebay, but they might have been softbound. I forget.
Since I only add equipment to my "collection" with the intention to use it, a bit of brassing wouldn't trouble me a bit. My K1000 formerly belonged to a high school photography club and is beat all to heck, but after a minor repair I did, it works just fine. That's all that matters to me. I got my ESII from the $5 broken camera bin at a camera store that was going out of business. Only the meter is broken; it takes great pictures when I bring my hand-held light meter along with me!
This just gave me knew ideas for pictures to take for this thread. Pictures of my cameras with glorious blemishes on them.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-07-2020, 02:58 PM
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I've discovered why there is nothing on my ST605N's body to engage with the tab on the Fujinon lens's aperture tab. That camera does NOT do "open aperture metering." I just reread the parts in the manual that talk about metering and they clearly say that when you press the button that turns on the meter, the viewfinder will darken consistent with the selected aperture. There isn't any other way for the camera to meter that I wasn't using due to my inexperience with the camera. When I take off the lens off and press the metering button, the pressure plate inside the mount moves forward to press the aperture pin on the lens. This essentially the same as what happened with my first SLR, a Ricoh TLS Singlex, which came out about about 10 years earlier than this Fujica. It doesn't bother me. I do especially like that the meter button springs out and off, so the meter can't be accidentally left on.
I have visited the page you posted the link for. Part of the reason I had been looking for an ST801. But I do like this little ST605N.
Does that yellow Fujica book include any info about the ST models with the N and W or other letter suffixes? I can't find any detailed descriptions of its contents.
Your 701s look great!
Oooh, OOOH -- new discovery: The ST605N takes slide-on viewfinder eye cups made for the AX-1, 2,3s. It doesn't take a screw-on eye cup like some other Fujica ST bodies.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-07-2020, 05:34 AM
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I don't see exactly what the tab on the lens is engaging with on the mount of my ST605N either, but the tab is definitely on the lens, which undoubtedly came with the camera originally.
Mamiya-Sekor SX lenses are also screw mount with an extra little pin, and also a rim on the back end of the lens mount. If I put the 200mm one of them I have on my Pentaz ESII, the rim is well outside of the circumference of the camera's slightly protruding mount ring, and so is the pin. Neither interferes with mounting the lens properly. Yet the rim and the pin both interfere with mounting the lens fully on a Pentax DSLR with it's m42-to-K adapter. The pin wouldn't be hard to remove, but it would take a couple of hours (or more) of filing to get that rim off, so it will remain a film camera lens. :)
Anyway, next roll of film I put through the ST605N, I'll also try a couple of old Takumar and other m42 lenses and see whether the camera does anything different with tabless lenses.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-06-2020, 06:40 AM
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The ST605N is the entry level body of the ST series of Fujicas, but is also the updated version of the ST6 _ _ group. It takes 1.5v batteries, not 1.3v, if you find one with a working meter like mine seems to have. I'm pretty sure that the Fujinon 2.2/55 was the kit lens that came with all of the ST 6 _ _ cameras. I suspect that the ST801 either came with the Fujinon 1.9/55 or that lens was the option those buyers chose. The ST801 had a much wider range of shutter speeds than the ST6 _ _ group, going up to 1/2000 sec, and it also took 1.5v batteries. (You have to read the manuals or other detailed camera spec providers to know about the battery issue; there's no way to tell from the body name.)
The ST series Fujicas all use their modified m42 screw mount. It has a little tab their stop-down metering employs somehow. The tab has to be removed to mate the lens properly on a screw mount Pentax body. I tried a couple of shots with my 2.2/55 on my K110D using an m42 adapter, but the tab gave me around 1mm of extension (no infinity focus). Otherwise it worked. The ST605N will take non-Fujica m42 lenses, but I haven't checked to see exactly what changes with Fujica-tabless lenses. The last ST-series cameras came out in 1978, and in '79 they started selling their new bayonet mount cameras and lenses.
If you search our Third-Party lens reviews for Fujica or Fujinon, you'll find that several lenses come up. The 2.2/55 does have lower numbers than some others, but if you look at all of its reviews, you will find that people posting beautiful pictures they've taken with that lens give it a 9 for sharpness. And the people who give it a 7 for sharpness post no pictures to show what they mean. You could PM some of those reviewers with more experience with the lens than I have. It'll be a week or so before I know how my first film shots with it come out.
I agree that on ebay there are a lot of Fujica ST bodies and compatible Fujinon lenses listed as "untested," "as-is," "for-parts," "used," or other conditions not the same as "tested and fully working." Last week usedphotopro (at there website, not sure about their ebay listings) had a guaranteed Fujica ST body for sale for about $45, but I forget whether it was an ST701, ST705, or ST801. No help though if one is looking for a lens or body with lens, and they don't still list it now. I wasn't actually following the ST6 _ _ models on ebay, and really only looked at this one because it had a lens, and might be a good way to get a lens inexpensively if it didn't get bid up high. Then looking more closely I saw it said the camera was working and the lens was clear. There were few pictures, but I thought I'd take a chance. Nobody else bid on it.
Good luck in your Fujica quest!
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-04-2020, 05:33 PM
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This just arrived a very few days ago:
(Tamron Adaptall2 01A f2.8-3.8 35-80mm + Pentax K110D)
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-24-2020, 04:01 PM
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The page I photographed is handy when one wants to get a hyperfocal distance setting estimate for a lens that has no depth-of-field lines for various apertures on the lens barrel.
I also have a darkroom data guide, but it's been some decades since it got use.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-22-2020, 07:19 PM
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I consider this gear, a page from the Kodak Master Photoguide AR-21 --
Spiratone f3.5 Flat-Field 75mm T-mount bellows lens on K10D. Handheld at slight angle to the page to limit glare from artificial light source, and therefore not a test of the lens's flat-fieldness.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-20-2020, 06:36 AM
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That green glass gave natural skin tones on black-and-white film, no doubt. And if you could roll those left-over droplets of Coke into the correct position, you could temper overly bright highlights!
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-25-2019, 12:27 PM
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At least they said it wasn't tested with film!
A thorough testing *without* film would have to included checking that film advance and shutter cocking mechanisms appeared to work properly, all shutter speeds fired and seemed accurate, internal light meter (if there is one) worked and seemed accurate compared to another camera, film door seals and mirror foam looked to be in good condition...other features of the model also appeared working.
Certainly some "appearances" might prove to be inaccurate when film is actually used. There could be light leaks, especially if it is an old 35mm model with a bellows. Shooting at least part of the first test roll using a handheld light meter as a back up could be helpful. Whether the body properly engages with aperture stop-down levers or pins on lenses might not be apparent until a film test. Etc., etc.
But if the price is cheap enough, what has not been tested might not be scary.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-27-2019, 07:38 AM
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Pre-broken parts is one of those unheralded "advances" in the photography industry.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-14-2019, 08:58 AM
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It should be easy to snatch the camera right out of your pocket to snag those shots!
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-14-2019, 08:51 AM
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I'm looking forward to the handheld shots!
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-25-2019, 08:22 AM
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My Nikkormat FTn (my only Nikon film camera) is heavy, but not top-heavy as it has a normal-looking prism finder.
That big, tall finder housing pictured earlier is distinctive, though. Cool as the fins on an early '60s Cadillac.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-22-2019, 06:20 AM
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Those markings must show the way to school.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-23-2019, 09:14 AM
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MY ENLARGER LENS STABLE:
Polish-made AMAR S f/4.5 105mm, mounted on bellows, and (West) German-made SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH COMPONON F/5.6 80mm, mounted on cheap focusing helicoid. Both have infinity focus, plus as much magnification as these focusing assemblies allow (sorry, I haven't measured either's max reproduction ratios).
(Picture taken with Tamron Adaptall2 09A f/3.5-4.5 35-70mm + Pentax K-R)
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-23-2019, 09:07 AM
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I've scrunched a Nikkor lens onto a Pentax DSLR to take a few pictures. I kept my hand on the lens, since it barely twisted into the mount and wasn't secure, but it worked (manually) with no focus issues.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-23-2019, 08:32 AM
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MY SOVIET LENS STABLE:
MIR-1B f/2.8 37mm, HELIOS 44-2 f/2 58mm, VEGA 12B f/2.8 90mm, and, not to be forgotten, the LOMO T-22 (coated triplet) f/4.5 75mm taking lens on my Lubitel 2 twin-lens reflex.
(Picture taken with Tamron Adaptall2 09A f3.5-4.5 35-70mm + Pentax K-R)
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-07-2019, 11:24 AM
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I've got both kinds. I tend to forget which ones are what color.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-19-2019, 06:42 AM
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Was the Tri-X iso 400, or the earlier slightly slower stuff? Did you push it? Back when newspapers were mostly in black-and-white Tri-X was a film used for published photos, and an early fast film.
I have hand-held my Spiratone Ultratel f8 500mm mirror lens on one of my Pentax cropped-sensor DSLRs, at iso 100 to 400. It is long and heavy for a mirror lens, but the main issue is it having the angle of view of a 750mm on those cameras, terribly magnifying any photographer shaking. Still, I got a few good shots, shooting subjects that were not moving.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-19-2019, 05:28 AM
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My post, which you quoted, was a response to two posts just prior to it which brought up trying to hand-hold that lens. Obviously, few people would have tried to do that, certainly not pros.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-17-2019, 05:59 AM
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I was thinking of iso 800 or higher, especially if you wanted to hand hold that focal length and also needed to stop down a couple of stops and also if you were getting a bit shaky trying to use a lens that heavy.
But, heck, I'd try to hand hold it with 100 iso film at least once!
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-16-2019, 09:00 AM
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It just screams, "FAST film"!
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-08-2019, 05:33 AM
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Could some gasket or spacer between the focusing screen and its mountings have deteriorated, meaning that the focusing screen is sitting at the wrong distance from (probably too close to) the back of the lens?
That, or a mirror rest angle problem, would be throwing the focus off at other distances, too, no? What about at the closest focusing distance? I would think that would cause more problems, especially if one was wanting to nail focus and get good bokeh when shooting something small and near with the aperture wide open. A slight problem at infinity would disappear if stopped down much, would it not?
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-06-2019, 06:17 AM
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I got mine in a lot of photo items that included only one item I really wanted, not at the time the Miranda, but it is a pretty and well-made camera. Mine is sluggish on the slowest speeds, so I shot a test roll using the faster speeds and it turned out fine. It came with two versions of the normal lens and a Miranda T-mount adapter, so I have somewhat limited options for using lenses with it.
I was thinking that I had seen a pricey Miranda adapter for m42 lenses appears on 'bay from time to time, but, after thinking about it, I realize that adapter was for Petri cameras--I picked up a problematic Petri body in that same lot!
Do you think your focusing problem is with the camera body or the lens?
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