Camera Talk

When your parents were refugees, you generally have few items from "the old country". My parents fled from Lithuania during WWII, and came to the US in 1948 (thank you, President Truman!). Aside from some paperwork, my father grabbed a butter knife and his camera when he fled. The camera i...

I was browsing "rangefinders" on eBay, when I found this auction listing: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** FED 35A USSR Soviet rangefinder film camera GOOD CONDITION! *** Tovarisch! Gaze upon the FED 35A, a cr...

Remember to cock the shutter and keeping you finger away from the cocking arm when you shoot is always fun.

I got it - it's a trainer for shooting an Argus C3!

I know Dean Williams retired. Do any current members do repairs on classic cameras? I got a Yashica Lynx 14, with the f 1:1.4 lens and Copal SVE shutter. It does click when you advance the lever and press the shutter button, just like the eBay seller said. Unfortunately, the shutter doesn't operate ...

It's definitely the camera, not the lens. I've tried multiple lenses, different brands, all of which line up correctly on a Pentax Spotmatic, a Mamiya-Sekor DTL 500, and a GAF M42 clone, and all of which (except for the current lens) don't align on this body.

How many screws hold the screw mount onto the camera? If it's six, then someone having removed the mount, and replaced it two holes out of register would account for that much difference. But you would think it would be milled on the back side to keep that from happening. Hmm... there are three scr...

I recently acted to relive the days of my youth by purchasing a Ricoh Singlex TLS on eBay (I went through late grammar school and high school with a Cavalier RTL, Willoughby-Peerless's house rebadge of the Ricoh Singlex). It arrived super clean, with no dings or any visible problems, and the meter w...

I just got off the phone with Dwaynes's. All Fujichrome mailers, whether they have an past-date expiration date or not, will continue to be valid past the end of this month. This is a change from the prior policy. The lady at Dwayne's suggests that we check in in January for any later dates or info ...

I forget where I read this (one of Matanle's books, maybe?) but I always chuckled at the thought that the Kodak 35RF "looks like it was designed by a blacksmith"......

You (and I) are in luck. I just called Dwayne's in Parsons Kansas, which is where the Fujifilm mailers go for slide processing. They tell me that they do not have plans to discontinue slide processing at the end of the year. I went crazy and shot about 4-5 rolls of Velvia faster than I would have l...