Show us your SLR ..... WHAT?

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The most modern camera in my collection, but with a personal conection, even being broken. This Pentax SFX was my last film camera before I entered the digital word in 2006 (precisely because it broke)... not returning to shoot film till 2017. And it was my late father's camera before he gave it to me.


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Topcon which is surprisingly huge and heavy. Small amount of fungus in the lens, but should clean up easily. Camera mostly works, shutter caps at speeds over 1/125 so I need to clean it.


The Exa... I told my self no more Exas! But this one is special...
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That's the 211th Exa off the production line! Unfortunately it is missing the 1/250 top speed engraving for the shutter. I suppose it may have been sent back to the factory for service and the original top plate swapped out - which lowers its collector value by something like 75-90% (they only made the first few hundred cameras with the 1/250th top shutter speed, then lowered it to 1/150th - there's no mechanical difference that I'm aware of, just how the shutter was calibrated and how the top plate was engraved).
 
From a test roll through my Nikon EM, which underexposed every photo by at least a stop. But the Nikon FE shot had more atmosphere as a result. Ilford Delta Pro 400 at 1600, semi-stand with Rodinal 1:33 for one hour.

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