Pete Askew
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Now that isn't immediately obvious, but when when its clicks...
Subtly brilliant I think.
Subtly brilliant I think.
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Chris Bennett
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Thanks Pete - this is my favourite, I think.
Ralph Turner
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This is great.. there’s something slightly unsettling, even spooky about it (brings to mind the Vashta Nerada) 
Chris Bennett
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Thanks Ralph.
I had to look Vashta Nerada up - I'm now fully up to speed!
I had to look Vashta Nerada up - I'm now fully up to speed!
Ralph Turner
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Sorry Chris, that was a rather obscure reference, although it was a particularly good episode of the good Dr and, as you can tell, it left quite an impression
Brian Moore
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Now that is interesting. Where did they go? Lol.
Chris Bennett
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Last ones out of the traps
Business as usual!
Business as usual!
Pete Askew
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She's certainly away to a good start. As long as they don't cheat and start flying she is in with a good chance! What a great juxtaposition in the second. I also like that the way that the one bush has picked up the heart theme.
Chris Bennett
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Goal-ies
Pete Askew
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Another wonderfully example of Miss Sarah's handiwork. If I didn't know otherwise I'd assume this was some sort of clear barrier.
Chris Bennett
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Thanks Pete.
Art Meripol
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I saw your photo and realized I have a similar one. Not much difference but it's the Optima 500.
Chris Bennett
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This thread has been quiet for a while, so I think it's time for a little effort to bring things up to date.
Back in July 2022, I got myself a Yashica Electro 35 in order to see whether it would have been a better choice than the Minolta Hi-Matic 7s that I bought (and love to use). I played with the Electro for a while and decided that I had made the right choice with the Hi-Matic and would be sticking with it, so I resolved to sell it. (More on the Electro here) I also decided to move some more cameras out to lower my wife's blood pressure a little.
By August that year, I proudly reported that I had donated one camera to a friend. However, in that one month, to Mischa's despair, I had acquired three more - a Sony NEX 5 converted to full sprectrum, a Canon EOS 30 to provide a film body for my EOS lenses and, the dream of my late teenage years, a Pentax LX.
Things went quiet for a bit and I gave another camera away to a work colleague's daughter but added four, due to my status as one of the only film shooters in the local photo society and someone who is willing to test their ability to function properly. From time to time, cameras are donated to the club and it always seems to turn out that after that, they stay with me in the hope that, one day, a member will decide to 'have a go at film'. That hasn't happened yet!
So, two out and six in - things really aren't going to plan!
A friend gave me a Pentax Super A, which is something that interested me since I owned it's little brother, the P30. The original owner also had a P30 to get rid of and, since I had one, it went to another friend. That P30 died soon after Peter tried it, so I gave him mine.
This was more like it: One in, one out!
Then, back in November last year I decided that it was time I got myself a rangefinder with interchangeable lens capability and bought something about which I will tell in a later post.
A couple of months ago, a Pentax K3 Mk III Monochrome somehow landed at the front door and I have loved using it almost exclusively for digital photography since then. What a wonderful camera it is!
Last month, I sold the Yashica FX-3 that I restored to working condition, as mentioned much earlier in this thread. I originally bought it for £8.50(!) and sold it to a friend for a price set to cover what I had spent on the camera. She fell in love with it at first sight.
The upshot is that over two years, my 'big camera clear-out' has amounted to a net gain of five cameras.
...the Electro 35 is still here.
Back in July 2022, I got myself a Yashica Electro 35 in order to see whether it would have been a better choice than the Minolta Hi-Matic 7s that I bought (and love to use). I played with the Electro for a while and decided that I had made the right choice with the Hi-Matic and would be sticking with it, so I resolved to sell it. (More on the Electro here) I also decided to move some more cameras out to lower my wife's blood pressure a little.
By August that year, I proudly reported that I had donated one camera to a friend. However, in that one month, to Mischa's despair, I had acquired three more - a Sony NEX 5 converted to full sprectrum, a Canon EOS 30 to provide a film body for my EOS lenses and, the dream of my late teenage years, a Pentax LX.
Things went quiet for a bit and I gave another camera away to a work colleague's daughter but added four, due to my status as one of the only film shooters in the local photo society and someone who is willing to test their ability to function properly. From time to time, cameras are donated to the club and it always seems to turn out that after that, they stay with me in the hope that, one day, a member will decide to 'have a go at film'. That hasn't happened yet!
So, two out and six in - things really aren't going to plan!
A friend gave me a Pentax Super A, which is something that interested me since I owned it's little brother, the P30. The original owner also had a P30 to get rid of and, since I had one, it went to another friend. That P30 died soon after Peter tried it, so I gave him mine.
This was more like it: One in, one out!
Then, back in November last year I decided that it was time I got myself a rangefinder with interchangeable lens capability and bought something about which I will tell in a later post.
A couple of months ago, a Pentax K3 Mk III Monochrome somehow landed at the front door and I have loved using it almost exclusively for digital photography since then. What a wonderful camera it is!
Last month, I sold the Yashica FX-3 that I restored to working condition, as mentioned much earlier in this thread. I originally bought it for £8.50(!) and sold it to a friend for a price set to cover what I had spent on the camera. She fell in love with it at first sight.
The upshot is that over two years, my 'big camera clear-out' has amounted to a net gain of five cameras.
...the Electro 35 is still here.
Ralph Turner
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Lol. Well, your intentions were good!
Chris Bennett
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I'm doing the best I can Ralph, I really am!Lol. Well, your intentions were good!
Ralph Turner
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Well, I can't speak too loudly on the subject. Even while away on holiday the lure of the 'Bay got the better of me, to the tune of three new-to-me cameras....
Chris Bennett
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Great job Ralph!
Chris Bennett
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I have revisited my Baristanol project in the last few weeks, where, against the advice of the internet, I used good quality coffee beans to make caffenol. The experiment was a success and I got some great negatives.
So lately, a friend and I visited the coffee roasting company where the beans came from, and spent a couple of hours, free to wander around the premises with our cameras. Between us, we came away with four rolls of 120, two rolls of 135 and half a kilo of beans. When I got home, I looked up the old recipe in my developing notebook.
I wasted some coffee and compromised a couple of rolls of film because of what turned out to be a transcription error in my notebook - back when I had copied the final quantities down from a scrap of paper into the book, I apparently got the figure for washing soda badly wrong. However, when I realised what I had done and made the appropriate correction, the results were really rather nice.
The first three were shot on 35mm film.
Pentax Super A / SMC A 50mm f/1.7 / Ilford XP2 developed in Barristanol
Pentax Super A / SMC A 50mm f/1.7 / Ilford XP2 developed in Barristanol
Pentax Super A / SMC A 50mm f/1.7 / Ilford XP2 developed in Barristanol
So lately, a friend and I visited the coffee roasting company where the beans came from, and spent a couple of hours, free to wander around the premises with our cameras. Between us, we came away with four rolls of 120, two rolls of 135 and half a kilo of beans. When I got home, I looked up the old recipe in my developing notebook.
I wasted some coffee and compromised a couple of rolls of film because of what turned out to be a transcription error in my notebook - back when I had copied the final quantities down from a scrap of paper into the book, I apparently got the figure for washing soda badly wrong. However, when I realised what I had done and made the appropriate correction, the results were really rather nice.
The first three were shot on 35mm film.
Pentax Super A / SMC A 50mm f/1.7 / Ilford XP2 developed in Barristanol
Pentax Super A / SMC A 50mm f/1.7 / Ilford XP2 developed in Barristanol
Pentax Super A / SMC A 50mm f/1.7 / Ilford XP2 developed in Barristanol
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Chris Bennett
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The next few were shot on 120.
All of the above: Bronica ETRS / Zenzanon 40mm f/4 / Ilford XP2 developed in Barristanol
All of the above: Bronica ETRS / Zenzanon 40mm f/4 / Ilford XP2 developed in Barristanol
Ralph Turner
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Excellent stuff, Chris!
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