Show us your SLR ..... WHAT?

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A couple of my latest 'gift' cameras that needed to 'Go To a Good Home'-
1973 Asahi Pentax Spotmatic F with 28mm f3.5 SMC Takumar, 50mm f1.4 SMC Takumar, 150mm f4 SMC Takumar and the bellows.

Spotmatic-F by pentaxpete, on Flickr
a Cosina CT-1 + 50mm f2 Cosinon and it also had a 135mm f2.8 Vivitar.

Cosina-CT-1 by pentaxpete, on Flickr
PS -- I have CLEANED the dust off the Cosinon lens since ! --- Sorry !
 
Well I was wrong. I wound up with another SLR. This one didn't cost me anything though.

It's so clean, I think I need to wear it down a bit.
 

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For quite awhile I have been seeking a second back for my Bronica S2 so I could shoot color and B&W concurrently, or two speeds of B&W, &c. So many on eBay are overpriced (north of USD 100) and/or are untested or lack the dark slide (thus defeating the purpose). I recently found an opportunity to get a film-tested one in good shape for a very reasonable cost, but in black, so decided to stop caring whether it matched my grey camera. Doesn't matter when I'm out shooting, and if I cared about display I could always leave the original back on. Now when I have the second back on it will be pandafied, like this: (original back beside it)


PandaBronica 1 by Argenticien, on Flickr

Nice execution by Bronica on the black back, with everything down to the dark slide grip ring done in black. As you see, same chap was also selling a prism finder and extension tube set. When I put on all the extension tubes, the MFD of the 50/3.5 Nikkor becomes ridiculous -- a few mm, with a DOF of about an ångström and risk of the subject scratching the front element if I should hiccup whilst composing.


Pandabronica 2 by Argenticien, on Flickr

The extension tubes are more of a curiosity rather than something I have a concrete plan to use, but they were thrown in for cheap so I thought "why not?" The prism finder would work better if I wore contact lenses; with my big eyeglasses, it's hard to see all the way out to the edges of the ground glass. Still, a nice option to have.

--Dave
 
OlliL said:
There's an "N" above the meter window on the top plate.
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Right. Also, you have to manually set the lens's maximum aperture with the FT; with the FTn, you just do the "twist-twist" thing with the aperture ring and the camera body is properly set for the maximum aperture of the lens.
 
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