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Sonnar-7 wrote:
Un bel ami.
A few bucks for a camera that looks quite beautiful in person. Quite handy too like a Rollei 35 and such.
I had two of those (because I did that sort of thing). Very fun to use w excellent VF. One of them however really underexposed, the other was fine. Cool how the lens covers open up when you move out the wind lever.
Got some fun pics w them, but they cost me more than a few bucks! It think the cheapest was maybe $50.
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Desmolicious wrote:
I had two of those (because I did that sort of thing). Very fun to use w excellent VF. One of them however really underexposed, the other was fine. Cool how the lens covers open up when you move out the wind lever.
Got some fun pics w them, but they cost me more than a few bucks! It think the cheapest was maybe $50.
I got it in a garage sale, they go for cheap when you’re not sure everything works, besides I didn’t get the flash that comes with it.
There is a more luxurious version with red leatherette I believe or something like that.
They do feel excellent in hand, very substantial and heavy, quite sturdy and not so plasticy.
I need to go back to the habit of having a small film camera in the pocket at all time.
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Best camera gear scoring I had was 6 years ago at an in-person and online auction in Pennsylvania. I originally went there because I saw that they auctioned high quality microscope and microscope parts which is another hobby of mine working with optical microscopes. My visit at the auction house turned out very differently than I imagined. The microscopes came from a estate sale of a deceased medical doctor who obviously shared the same hobby. Unfortunately they were totally disassembled, and the auction house sold each part separately - meaning for a good Zeiss or Leica microscope you had to win about 10 bids to re-assemble it. Ebay resellers quickly bought up the parts during the auction - I raised one bid to get some nice Zeiss microscope objectives, but I was overbid by a reseller. My fortune made a turn when I saw two boxes of microscope books for sale - I decided to bid for the one with more professional looking books and won it for $30. At home I found that it included a rare nearly mint 2-volume microscope technique encyclopedia with goes online for several hundred dollars since it is no longer printed (of course I am keeping the books).
I walked around in the auction house and suddenly saw something familiar looking - in an old box was a dusty Leica IIIc camera with original Leitz 50/2.0 Summitar LTM lens plus two M-lenses - the 135/4.5 Hector and the 90/4.0 Elmar collapsible lenses. The latter two belonged to a M3 camera which was no longer part of this auction - likely someone grabbed it before. I checked the functions of the IIIc, and it seems to work well. I was bidding for the IIIc camera - bid started at $50, and three other visitors - one of which was online - were also bidding for it. Price went up to $250, and I was the last bidder - and won the IIIc auction including the three lenses. I sent the IIIc for CLA and had the Summitar lens cleaned - both work perfectly fine since. The two M lenses I rarely use, but it was a nice package deal with them.
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Just found that beauty today, a Nikon L35 AD, the 400 iso version. I can’t find the info so maybe someone knows. I read it can read DX codes, if there is a DX code film, does the camera still consider the iso setting on the front lens? Being a 400 iso version, can I put a 800 DX iso film and have the camera treat it as such?
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Sonnar-7 wrote:
Just found that beauty today, a Nikon L35 AD, the 400 iso version. I can’t find the info so maybe someone knows. I read it can read DX codes, if there is a DX code film, does the camera still consider the iso setting on the front lens? Being a 400 iso version, can I put a 800 DX iso film and have the camera treat it as such?
The 80s were confusing.
Are you sure it has a DX reader? I thought the AD was manual ISO setting only, and the AD2 was auto DX setting only.
Opening the back and taking a look will tell you if it has a DX reader.
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Desmolicious wrote:
Are you sure it has a DX reader? I thought the AD was manual ISO setting only, and the AD2 was auto DX setting only.
Opening the back and taking a look will tell you if it has a DX reader.
Problem solved, no DX reader.
Adios Cinestill 800.
