I forgot to mention that today, 14th July, you can get a free gift worth 50 fr. when you place your order with Photo-Plait. It's a light meter, Lios-Scop, an extinction type (http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_E58.html). It is, of course, the cheapest of the Lios-Scop range. Vive La France!
If you do this, bear in mind that the film inside the camera is wound out of the cassette so that when it is finished the camera can be broken open in daylight to extract the film for processing, or so I believe.
I think they're meant to be left on the table.
The cameras are usually placed there for the guests to take photos of stuff that happens during the event. After it finishes, all the cameras will be collected and the films processed and the couple get to see loads of photos of things that happened during their big day that they probably missed. It will be loads of random stuff that the professional photographer will either miss or not have time to shoot, but will add to the memories of the day.
You'd have been in the bad books if you'd taken them all!
I didn't know any of that...but I'm probably the only invite to take a 35mm camera to a funeral
Aargh! That brings back memories.
My only interest is shots of people I know e.g. relatives who I haven't seen for 5,10,15, 20 etc years and just a distant shot of funeral cars.
| Kodak No 3 folding brownie camera Model D |
| No 3 folding pocket Kodak Model E-8 |
| No 2 folding pocket Brownie Model B |
| Kershaw Eight-20 Penguin |
| Robin Hood film camera |
| Houghton-Butcher No 5 Ensign Carbine |
| Ross Ensign Snapper |
| Kodak Brownie Flash III |
| Kodak Brownie Flash B |
| Houghton-Butcher Ensign 2 1/4 B |
| Coronet Captain |
| Ensign All-distance |
| Manex Box |
| Ensign E29 portrait camera |
| Ensign E29 blue |
| Bilura Boy |
| Baby Brownie |
| Ensign Selfix 320 |
| Coronet Every Distance |
| Kodak Baby Hawkeye |
| Halina AF |
| Olympus Shoot & Go |
| Olympus Trip |
Looks very tidy - congratulations!
No squeaks on it at all. My first FD mount Canon, and indeed my first camera with "Pure-Integrated Injection Logic"
Well done..I bought the same one at the bootie about 5 or 6 years ago and mine didn't have a squeek but didn't spot the slower return of the mirror. The squeek or slow mirror return is caused by the oil drying out on the mirror damping system. I fixed two Canon cameras with this problem and how to do it is on the net and for me have forgotten how I did it
(well it was years ago but do remember using a long needle with a drop of oil on the eye end).
There's youtube video of a guy doing an AE-1 and it took a minute. I'm guessing the A-1 is the same under the base plate.Well done..I bought the same one at the bootie about 5 or 6 years ago and mine didn't have a squeek but didn't spot the slower return of the mirror. The squeek or slow mirror return is caused by the oil drying out on the mirror damping system. I fixed two Canon cameras with this problem and how to do it is on the net and for me have forgotten how I did it
Perhaps one of the best looking cameras ever made.
I had one back in the day but couldn't get on with it so I went for a F1n which I love and still have it .
The boot sale I was at opened at noon, and we got there after 1pm. The guy had this and a mint AE-1, plus a number of AF SLRs, but I didn't have enough cash to get more than this.Not even seen a camera at a boot sale this year
Next level.
Next level from the A1 was the T90.....superb camera with a working shutter for the problem you probably could blame the digi guys for many or quite a few as they bought their digi cameras and put their T90 in a cuboard unused for years, then decided to sell and found the shutter wasn't working because of seized magnets or in a warm cupboard the rubber around shutter got gooey .
I don't know about overpay as it largely depends on what you want it for.
It could have cost you more to put that together with individual items but then again you do occasionally see people giving darkroom kit away so if you over paid is entirely in your mind.
Do have fun in the dark, I know I really miss having a darkroom.
I too miss having a darkroom but who prints pictures these days?It could have cost you more to put that together with individual items but then again you do occasionally see people giving darkroom kit away so if you over paid is entirely in your mind.
If you do need a lens for the enlarger then even good ones can be had for not a lot of money on the auction sites or perhaps ask in the items wanted part of the forum.
What ever you do there will always be a bigger better enlarger to lust after, they are like tripods or motorbikes
A good wet process print made by a skilled printer can be a thing of beauty, I was proficient but not an expert printer. From a scanned negative I can do so much more in Photo shop than I was ever capable of in the darkroom but like using a film camera it was the process that I enjoyed not necessarily the end result.
Well if everything works ok i suppose the price is ok then
Same, i have a feeling it was more of an impulse buy but at the same time i miss a darkroom a lot.
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