Show us your SLR ..... WHAT?

Dug this creature out of my crate full of dead bodies (which I need to re-organize, can't find a spare part in there to save my life atm) and finally scrapped a Praktica SuperTL with a dead meter to replace the curtains:


Kamera Werkstatten Praktica FX, 1954ish by bimmer1502, on Flickr

Replacing the curtains on these is fairly easy but when the winding and speed mechanisms start to become erratic they can be a headache to straighten out. As simple as these cameras are, that means that some of the mechanical components have simply worn well out of spec. After a long night of tweaking, it all seems to work though.

This FX had been in the crate of write-offs for about four years. lately I've started fishing out everything that could make for a working camera and started to work my way through. Th Konica C35 I fixed up a while ago had been in the same Crate of Doom for two years. So don't toss a stranded project: you never know when parts and/or skills become available to finish the job :cool:

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Nikos72 said:
Just because a manual focus SLR that accepts only auto focus lenses does not feel right:
Problem solved!
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I got one of those for my 21st in 92. My biggest regret was trading it for a Pentax compact when I went travelling. I was having a look on the bay for another when I found an EOS 630 in an op shop.
 
Kiwijohn said:
I got one of those for my 21st in 92. My biggest regret was trading it for a Pentax compact when I went travelling. I was having a look on the bay for another when I found an EOS 630 in an op shop.
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I had it in a drawer in like new condition. I did not like the idea of having to use AF lenses on it while it does not AF. This was until recently that I had accidentally came across an M42 to EOS EF adapter.
And now here she is. Put on the adapter, screw in the M42 lens, set the aperture dial to 1 and you have a perfect aperture priority almost all manual camera :)
 
I bough some black cameras this week.

Yashica FX-103 Program


Black Camera Day by Greyscale3, on Flickr

Yashica TL Electro X ITS


Black Camera Day by Greyscale3, on Flickr

Canon F1


Black Camera Day by Greyscale3, on Flickr

Canon A1


Black Camera Day by Greyscale3, on Flickr

The two Canons are in absolutely perfect condition. In a funny coincidence, my niece mentioned that she would like to try her hand at film photography. So this morning, I had shipped her a very nice Canon AE-1 with an FD 50/1.8 lens, a 2X macro focusing teleconverter, and a Makinon zoom lens. Then this afternoon, at a tag sale, I stumble a bag containing the F1, the A1, an FD 50mm 1:3.5 Macro, anf FD 28/2.8, a Tamron 28~200mm Aspherical 3.8-5.6, and a Vivitar 500mm macro-focusing mirror lens, plus filters and film and some other stuff at the bottom that I just haven't got around to, all for the princely sum of $80.

Sometimes, karma is not such a b____ after all. :)

PS Also in the bag:

Also in the bag: 67mm Vivitar orange and red filters, Hoya +1, +2, and +3 closeup filters, also in 67mm (new), Canon FD 50/3.5 Macro, Canon FD 28/2.8, Tamron aspherical 28~200mm 1:3.8-5.6 zoom (with a 72mm close-up filter), a Vivitar 500mm f8 mirror lens, 1 roll of FujicolorSuper HGII 200 and one of 100 (36 exp), 1 roll of Ilford HP5, and one roll of Plus X in a re-loadable cassette, various end caps and body caps, spare batteries for both cameras, and the tan canvas bag itself is quite nice.
 
Being (among others) a Konica fan, I hadn't really paid too much attention to the Minolta range.

I've just seen those two Minolta AF bodies with the Zeiss lenses on, and the penny dropped about the lens mount.

Bugger, that could be an expensive realization haha.
 
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