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What do you get when you cross a ‘iffy’ Pentax SV and a box of Lucky 400 Film?… mostly photos, albeit semi dirty ones. I recently purchased a Pentax SV in ‘kind of’ working condition. The film counter is faulty, the self timer is faulty, the curtains were faulty, the lens front ring was half…
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I got a new old camera. The Minolta SR-1. First released in 1959, it was Minolta’s second ever SLR produced. It needed a lens, so I got an equally antique Rocker 55mm F1.8 As prior posts have stated, I have always had a spot for Minolta. They are probably my favourite 35mm SLR producer. Though…
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Today’s post is a family relic – my late Uncle Bills Kodak Six-20 Brownie Junior (Portrait Model). As the only one left shooting film(once in a blue moon now) in the family, I inherited one of his cameras he had from new. Brownies had a long production run – in its various variants which were…
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I’ve been slowly whittling down my film camera collection, keeping almost only units which have personal family history to them now. Whilst my fridge stocks of film are not exhausted, they are starting to run slim and at last count, my 120 film outnumbers my almost exhausted 35mm. Today’s shots were from the last run…
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Heading into town with an expired roll of Kodak Gold 100 and the micro size Minox 35GL, I grabbed a few shots. The 35GL is a pure zone focused camera, meaning you select the estimated distance via a dial on the unit – no rangefinder to tell you if you are actually in focus. Particularly…
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