eli griggs
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Yesterday my Sawyer's TLR arrived with the evening post and it's such a nice little camera, i thought I'd share a pic or two.
This is the camera I bought from APUG member
'pandino' and it is every bit as nice as he described and then some.
This thing is small and easily fits in the palm of my hand. It is well built and the quality shows inside as well as out. The fit and finish is very nice and there's nothing 'cheesy' about it. The lens has an EV scale and will move time and aperture along the appropriate settings, depending where you are starting out from. The lens runs from 2.8 to f22 and the shutter speed is marked the old way, ie. 10th>25th>50th>100th>250th>500th of seconds.
It still need a lens hood, lens cap(s) and filters or adapters for 40.5mm kit, as well as a case, but these things will come. I'm thinking about using a small, 'soft' digital camera case or a hard lens case for travel/shooting days. Either should serve well.
I think the thing I like best about this little camera is that it feels like a quality camera should, with well laid out controls, very positive feedback and, once again, good build quality.
I did ruin my first roll of Efke R100 film though, through my own ignorance, by overlooking the well placed film tensioner in the feed position, but on the bright side, I now have a 'test roll to run through some other 127 cameras and a 'pattern' for cutting and rolling my own bulk film; starting with the 100ft of fresh 127 Portra 160 NC that came with the camera. I'm still hunting a source of 64mm B&W bulk film and will update if I'm able to find it, otherwise, I'll try cutting down 70mm stuff.
Anyway, I've pretty much finished stocking my portable darkroom and hope to be turning out prints with this and other cameras I've managed to acquire recently and put up some pics in the gallery here or elsewhere.
Cheers
http://www.rangefinderforumhttp://w...ent.php?attachmentid=34503&stc=1&d=1161109686
This is the camera I bought from APUG member
'pandino' and it is every bit as nice as he described and then some.
This thing is small and easily fits in the palm of my hand. It is well built and the quality shows inside as well as out. The fit and finish is very nice and there's nothing 'cheesy' about it. The lens has an EV scale and will move time and aperture along the appropriate settings, depending where you are starting out from. The lens runs from 2.8 to f22 and the shutter speed is marked the old way, ie. 10th>25th>50th>100th>250th>500th of seconds.
It still need a lens hood, lens cap(s) and filters or adapters for 40.5mm kit, as well as a case, but these things will come. I'm thinking about using a small, 'soft' digital camera case or a hard lens case for travel/shooting days. Either should serve well.
I think the thing I like best about this little camera is that it feels like a quality camera should, with well laid out controls, very positive feedback and, once again, good build quality.
I did ruin my first roll of Efke R100 film though, through my own ignorance, by overlooking the well placed film tensioner in the feed position, but on the bright side, I now have a 'test roll to run through some other 127 cameras and a 'pattern' for cutting and rolling my own bulk film; starting with the 100ft of fresh 127 Portra 160 NC that came with the camera. I'm still hunting a source of 64mm B&W bulk film and will update if I'm able to find it, otherwise, I'll try cutting down 70mm stuff.
Anyway, I've pretty much finished stocking my portable darkroom and hope to be turning out prints with this and other cameras I've managed to acquire recently and put up some pics in the gallery here or elsewhere.
Cheers
http://www.rangefinderforumhttp://w...ent.php?attachmentid=34503&stc=1&d=1161109686
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ARCHIVIST
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Love these little TLRs - they look great and with a neg area 1.8x that of 35mm can really deliver quality iamges.
Peter
Peter
dreilly
Chillin' in Geneva
I'm glad I've never seen one compared side by side with a 6x6 TLR...I"m sure I'd fall for the size and cuteness.
Wayne R. Scott
Half fast Leica User
dreilly said:
Here you go:
This isn't a Sawyer but it is a 4x4 tlr.
Wayne
KoNickon
Nick Merritt
I have the Primo Jr., which is the same camera as the Sawyers (made by Topcon). Cute, cute, cute!