Keating
Member
Yep I agree with u, Pentax is easy to use, very good for beginner, becoz easy use, so I think my photos wont all black again! Hahaha…I plan this Saturday go to practice! 📸😃
I searched David Douglas Duncan, he was very cool photographer during the war! God blessed him had the very long life! Admired his contribute of photography and wars!
Yr set of Leica iiia is very very good condition,look very new, so beautiful ! How to keep it so well? Have any special methods?? 😃
Keating
Member
I want my photos same as him, full of passionate and very good feeling! I think photos is a very good media, good photo can make people have the deep feeling and impressed! That’s why I like photography!! 🤓
Keating
Member
yep u are right, I think Leica iii is the amazing camera, the size is perfect not big and it’s not heavy!! when I was teenager, I very want to have one! Thanks god I have chance to own one now! I feel very happy!
Can use different brand of lens is perfect for me, more affordable!! 🤓
I need to buy the viewfinder to make my camera more perfect! 😬then I no need to buy other camera again!haha..
When I was teen every few years needed to buy the new digital camera, some of them battery die, some of them didn’t work, some of them pixl not high enough or very very slow! Very waste money! But Leica iii series camera no battery, all mechanic!!
I also picked up one of those for $15 at the same antique shop, with an uncoated Elmar. Prices are up.
The camera preferred by two out of three die-hard users of Barnack Leicas.
Erik van Straten
Veteran
Whole frame printed: the SBOOI finder is very precise! And the sharpness of the Color Skopar 50mm f2.5 is stunning!
gelatin silver print (color skopar 50mm f2.5) leica lll black/nickel
Amsterdam, 2020
Erik.
gelatin silver print (color skopar 50mm f2.5) leica lll black/nickel
Amsterdam, 2020
Erik.
wlewisiii
Just another hotel clerk
Cosina made a version of the Skopar 50/2.5 for the Nikon S-mount and occasionally I get curious about it but honestly, I'd probably track down the S-mount version of the 50/1.5 Nokton instead since I dearly love it on my Leica M 240. But that's a lovely image, Erik.
Keating
Member
15 us dollars????are u serious??😱😱😱why so cheap???? In hk all the products writing leica… very expensive!! The old leather leica camera strip, need $750hkd!! Crazy city with crazy price!!
I want one Elmer, but need to find the cheap price and good condition!!
Keating
Member
Sbooi finder is it easy to find? Except this brand have any brand also is good? I worry I can’t find in hk! 😀
Your photo is cool, I love the texture( I don’t know how to call it) all the digital cameras can’t do it! This is the reason film camera never replaced by digital!! 🤓
Luck, cruising old shops, and the Camera Gods smiling on me. I also picked up a Nikon M with 1950 5cm F1.4 Nikkor for $30.
This was while ago. BUT- I still fall into stuff.
Keating
Member
What!!!! Nikon M with lens 30us dollars!! Unbelievable!!! U are super lucky!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I want the camera gods smile on me too! Camera gods plz~ come to hk find me poor little girl!! 😭😭😭
In hk I tried to shop around the old shops, flea markets, but I never find any cameras stuff! Just bought some toys animals and vinyls!
Duofold RF
Well-known
While the old Barnack is fun to use, the Canon copy is cheap and well made, I would say is better than Leica.
If you were a member of my Daughter's Youth group all you would have to do is smile at the Camera Geek. Last meeting the girl that I gave the N8008s to came up with her friend. They smiled. I'm thinking Konica C35 and Polaroid 600 one-step for them. I'm always thrilled when the Younger Generation shows interest in film photography. Would I give them a Leica IIIa or Canon IV to get started- no. I started with a Minolta HiMatic 9, glad I did. Concentrate on just getting some usable pictures from a roll of film, concentrate on framing. Not so much fussing with tricky loading and squinty viewfinders, or focus in one window and moving your eye to the separate viewfinder. That's for when you have everything else down and want to do photography the way it was done (in your case) when your Grand-Parents were young.
My Dad with my Nephew. I was 14 when I took this with the Minolta HiMatic 9. Set to Auto-exposure, frame, focus, shoot. Over 50 years ago.
My Nephew is looking at a Jetliner, and my Dad talking about the planes he used to fly.
My Dad with my Nephew. I was 14 when I took this with the Minolta HiMatic 9. Set to Auto-exposure, frame, focus, shoot. Over 50 years ago.
My Nephew is looking at a Jetliner, and my Dad talking about the planes he used to fly.
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Erik van Straten
Veteran
I have both!
But the Color Skopar 50mm f2.5 for Leica is the most desirable: true black paint on brass and LTM, so it can be used on any Leica.
Erik.
Keating
Member
I like you to share your experiences and shares the cameras to the young! This is amazing, can make more young people love film photography!! It’s the contribute!! Camera easy to use is the good way to attract people to take photos, if too fussy, people will give up easily! When people have one good photo, they will more easy to fall in love with cameras and photography!! 😍📸
Your daddy photo is a lively picture, so sweet and full of love !! 👍🏻♥️😊It still very good quality, no turn to yellow or fade out, so cool!! Which kind of film u use??🤓 My childhood pictures all turned yellow and fade out! 🥲
Keating
Member
I heard one antique collector(HK) said, Leica is not the best camera, just they produced a lot, so many people use Leica in the market! He told me some Soviet copy cameras quality may better than Leica and price cheaper!
But in my views, Leica is not a camera only, it’s the history, stories, legend and super breakthrough of camera! If the camera still very big and heavy, I think photography not easy to popular in that era! 😀😀 leica iii perfect size, can put in handbag or pocket! 😛
The Soviet cameras can be real problems- I have some good ones, but also had a few that were good for one roll of film. They are for people that like to work on cameras, and then use them. The Leica is much more consistent for quality control. The Soviet cameras have some quirks- such as the Fed and Zorki requiring you advance the film before changing the shutter-speed, else risk jamming the camera.
I used Kodachrome and Ektachrome slide film- it cost less, and I could afford. Most of the colors are preserved 50 years later.
I used Kodachrome and Ektachrome slide film- it cost less, and I could afford. Most of the colors are preserved 50 years later.
Coldkennels
Barnack-toting Brit.
Hah. That made me laugh out loud.
I have had far more issues with loading and getting correct film transport on Contaxes (pre-war and post-war) and Kievs than I ever have any bottom loader.
The Barnack design is unusual by modern standards, but it's bulletproof (if you pay attention to what you're doing). The Contax design, in comparison... an utter nightmare.
Personally, I suspect most Contaxes look worn out because their users end up throwing them against a wall in frustration!
Keating
Member
Oh Soviet camera maybe film jamming that’s no good, not good a quality!! I got one, don’t know what brand is, just know copy Leica! Hahaha
Seems Kodak film can keep many years!! Next time I will buy more of it! 😀😀
Seems Kodak film can keep many years!! Next time I will buy more of it! 😀😀
Keating
Member
I want to ask.. use Leica iii series camera, the film need to buy ISO 100/400?? Or no need to care the film what ISO is?
raydm6
Yay! Cameras! 🙈🙉🙊┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘ [◉"]
You can shoot any DIN/ISO/ASA that will accommodate your camera/lens combination and lighting conditions & personal preferences. When these camera were first manufactured, the film speeds were a lot slower like 10/25/50/64/100 with some intermediate speeds.
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