"Hello my name is ..."

[Rich Silfver]

I'm leaving as well....well...for a few hours.. going to a Japanese festival here in San Francisco - hey it's free, got some great street food there and potentials for some good snaps.

Bringing the M3 and Summicron 50 - film will be Fuji Acros 100 and one roll of Portra VC 160 in the pocket.

 

[back alley]

so much info!

let's see-
i have a shade for the canonet, got it off ebay, australia-it's an original canon shade

i put the oly shade on my 'watch list' and will see where that goes
i have an oly uv filter, original purchase with the camera. would like another but would really prefer 2, 43.5 yellow filters. anyone?

 

[nwcanonman]

Russ, Russ, Russ,

I'm old and senile, but I've never turned an entire forum thread from "Hello, my name is ..." into "Hello, Get you red-hot Lens Hoods Here ....."
ROFLMAO 😛

 

[Russ]

so much info!

let's see-
i have a shade for the canonet, got it off ebay, australia-it's an original canon shade

i put the oly shade on my 'watch list' and will see where that goes
i have an oly uv filter, original purchase with the camera. would like another but would really prefer 2, 43.5 yellow filters. anyone?

I recently stumbled upon a deep yellow (#15) filter 43.5mm for my Oly RC. Which was great, because I don't care for the standard yellow. And it's such an oddball size. If I find another one, I'll grab it for you.

Russ

 

[taffer]

Don't forget the Kenko/Walz/Hoya vented hoods, made in those both lovely 40.5 and 43 mm.
But I'm also out there for deep yellow filters in both sizes, one for my FSU lenses, the other for the CV pancake.

 

[back alley]

thanks russ!

maybe we need a thread for things we are on the lookout for.

joe

 

[Russ]

thanks russ!

maybe we need a thread for things we are on the lookout for.

joe

Yes, a member's "watch" thread would be great. We do something like that in the Kiron Klub. Also, if a Kiron Klubber, is bidding on an E-bay item, he posts it to the klub, so that no other member's will bid against them. It's worked out very well. We take care of each other in there. We've been known to give away, and lend lenses to other KK members.

Russ

 

[back alley]

russ, how does it work, what does it 'look like'?
would a 'sticky' thread work. we could call it the 'watch' thread and those interested could list what they are looking for and find out what others are looking for and keep an eye open for each other.

joe

 

[Brian Legge]

This thread fits my mood right now.

Hello, my name is Brian and cheap old rangefinders will be the end of me. I discovered them at the beginning of the year after shooting exclusively SLRs. I now functioning: two Canonet GIII 17s, an Olympus 35DC/35RC/XA, a Yashica Lynx 14 and a Leica IIIc with a bad Summarit.

On the table, I have a disassembled FED 2 (turned out that the shutter curtain spring was broken, haven't been able to justify putting it back together), a Minolta 7sII I just picked up and a Moskva 5 with a slight bent strut/loose screw I can't reach as I need to take off the shutter assembly which I haven't figured out how to reach.

On the floor, I have a bunch of cameras I bought in bulk with the intent of fixing and selling. It includes a half dozen Canonet GIII 17s (most of oily blades I can't reach due to front elements that are hard to remove), a Walz Envoy with infinity focus problems I haven't tracked down. And bunch of almost working cameras needing testing including a Ricoh 500 and 500g, a Taron Robin 19, an Auto S2, etc.

And while I do feel totally insane, I go back and forth between absolutely frustrated by dead ends and great fun sorting out issues.

Maybe if I can repair and sell enough of these cameras I'll step up into a serious rangefinder in the future. Evidently I have no problem buying an infinite number of broken cameras for $3 each but can't bring myself to put down enough money at once for Leica glass or a modern rangefinder body. It would be easy to chalk this up to liking cameras more than photography, but I'm out shooting these cameras weekly.

 

[mike-s]

My name is Mike and I am definitely getting over it!

All I have bought in the last 2 months is a Bessa T, a Nikon FM2n for repair, a Zeiss Tele-Tesser 200mm, (well it's the German made version so this doesn't count) and a Jupiter 50mm - very cheap. Also I got a new Tokina 11-16mm but that doesn't count either since it's for digital SLRs. The only other things are a couple of lens hoods, I am sure I will be able to get lenses to fit them sometime. Oh, and I did get 28 and 35mm M42 lenses and Contax and EOS converters but we all know M42 lenses don't count either.

Really when you add it all up I've bought next to nothing. I'm definitely, definitely over it.

 

[Pompiere]

My name is Ron and it has been over two weeks since my last camera related purchase, an 85-205 Montgomery Ward M42 Zoom like this one: http://www.mattdentonphoto.com/cameras/m_ward_85-205_m42.html
It's hard to resist when something like that shows up for $35.

 

[barnwulf]

Hello, my name is Jim and yes, that's me to the left side there. I photographed myself reflected in a fairly dirty window. I thought it may look a little more artsy, but it's just not so good. Well, I have been thinking that I have really been good as I haven't bought anything in a pretty long time. In fact I was rather proud of that fact. And then, I realized that it had only been a couple of months since I got my 21mm Color Skopar and a week or two before that I got the 15mm Super Wide Heliar and this was because a few weeks earlier I bought a M8.2. So the question is, 2 months is really a pretty long time isn't it??

 

[erikhaugsby]

Hello, my name is Erik Haugsby.

I was, for a number of years, enamored with film cameras. I posted here at length, and have only fond memories of friends and others that are no longer with this forum.

However, after beginning my schooling - for a journalism degree, photojournalism emphasis - I moved almost irrevocably to digital photography. I had so much spare time, but lost most means and motivation to shoot film. I left my darkroom three states away, stopped buying film in bulk, and instead set my resources aside to build my digital arsenal.

I now lurk on occasion, and am still eagerly awaiting the conclusion of the 'Let's do a traveling camera project.'