Old 35mm scans

[Gromit]

More Caterham:

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More Coys:

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Oradour:

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[Gromit]

DT
Dunno about cheap F3's - got £500 for mine in the summer when I sold it with a 50mm lens.
Got the same for 3 other lenses as well, so someone is paying good money for them.

I have to say that £500 is extraordinary. It must have been extremely mint or an F3T. £150 is average these days for a body and £150-200 for an F1.4 50mm AI lens.

still a lovely camera and film is on it's way back.

To add to what Steve's said, there's most definitely a resurgence of interest in film cameras happening. Looking at the values of good 35mm cameras on eBay there's been a hardening of the value of good quality SLR's (Nikon especially). All this scanning of old slides and negatives has got me very interested in getting hold of an old SLR again - whilst it doesn't give the 'snap' of a really good digital camera (I've been bowled-over by the quality of the sensor in the Fuji X-cameras) there is a certain something about the colour and rendering on film.

I've been offered a serviced (by Fixation in London) Nikon F3HP for £200 which is more than I'd really like to spend, but it is tempting. Nikon glass is pricey though. Others on my radar include...

Olympus OM2n (serviced, new light seals) with its std Zuiko 50 (1.
Pentax MX (ditto) plus 50-1.7

[f90x]

DT
Dunno about cheap F3's - got £500 for mine in the summer when I sold it with a 50mm lens.
Got the same for 3 other lenses as well, so someone is paying good money for them.

I have to say that £500 is extraordinary. It must have been extremely mint or an F3T. £150 is average these days for a body and £150-200 for an F1.4 50mm AI lens.

still a lovely camera and film is on it's way back.

To add to what Steve's said, there's most definitely a resurgence of interest in film cameras happening. Looking at the values of good 35mm cameras on eBay there's been a hardening of the value of good quality SLR's (Nikon especially). All this scanning of old slides and negatives has got me very interested in getting hold of an old SLR again - whilst it doesn't give the 'snap' of a really good digital camera (I've been bowled-over by the quality of the sensor in the Fuji X-cameras) there is a certain something about the colour and rendering on film.

I've been offered a serviced (by Fixation in London) Nikon F3HP for £200 which is more than I'd really like to spend, but it is tempting. Nikon glass is pricey though. Others on my radar include...

Olympus OM2n (serviced, new light seals) with its std Zuiko 50 (1.
Pentax MX (ditto) plus 50-1.7

As you know Richard, I never gave up on film and now shoot mostly Medium Format but I still Have a Canon A1 that I had serviced last year. It's a lovely thing but I still hanker after an F3 or an FE2. I'd love an FM3a but for the amount i'd use it, it's not worth the investment. Irritatingly, the later auto-focus Nikon's (of which I have an F90X) are worth peanuts compared to the 'classic' styled models of yore but are still superb film camera's.

Old glass shall never lose value and has gone up considerably in the last few years due to adapters that enable fitment to modern digitals. I should have bought a load when I was looking 8 or 9 years ago. 20/20 hindsight is a beautiful thing.

[Gromit]

FM3a - now there's a very nice camera, they certainly fetch quite serious money.

I've looked at a couple of A1's and they're a superb camera, and a friend of mine still has one sat in a cupboard at his home (along with a T90). I'd always be slightly wary of the electronics going u/s with the A1 but then again, if they're serviceable it's probably not a problem.

How much you want for it?

[f90x]

FM3a - now there's a very nice camera, they certainly fetch quite serious money.

I've looked at a couple of A1's and they're a superb camera, and a friend of mine still has one sat in a cupboard at his home (along with a T90). I'd always be slightly wary of the electronics going u/s with the A1 but then again, if they're serviceable it's probably not a problem.

How much you want for it?

Ha! Fortunately mine has always been reliable save for a minor fault that was fixable, so I had that done and a service. I think it cost around £120 but that fixed the 'squeak' as well. The T90 is one to avoid. Unless one already owns it they are now a risky buy and a throw away item if they go wrong. Same goes for the Nikon FA unfortunately. A shame, as both are terrific cameras.

[Gromit]

Agreed re the FA, eBay prices seem well out of whack compared to the camera's position in the original Nikon line-up. That's to say they're dirt-cheap.

I'm still tempted by this F3HP which is for sale. It's being sold by a pro-photographer friend of mine and part of his personal classic Nikon collection - that's to say it wasn't used on the front-line. He's also got a couple of Contax RTS2's and an assortment of Zeiss glass.

[Gromit]

Sat by the pool at Osborne Barracks in Hong Kong, watching the planes go into Kai Tak:

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Striding Edge (with the usual view of cloud!):

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Angle Tarn, at the top of Rossett Ghyll, on the way to Scafell Pike:

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[f90x]

Agreed re the FA, eBay prices seem well out of whack compared to the camera's position in the original Nikon line-up. That's to say they're dirt-cheap.

I'm still tempted by this F3HP which is for sale. It's being sold by a pro-photographer friend of mine and part of his personal classic Nikon collection - that's to say it wasn't used on the front-line. He's also got a couple of Contax RTS2's and an assortment of Zeiss glass.

If that F3 has a lens I'd have his hand off. Given that I need specs these days an HP is the F3 for me too. Of course using film ain't cheap but it's great to use and I find I think about what I'm doing more.

[Gromit]

Body only, sadly.

He's got a large collection of Nikkor glass which will no doubt include a 50 of some description (an AI 1.8 would be perfect). Ditto re wearing specs, this could be a clincher in some ways. Not a problem with auto-focus obviously (and I can use the manual focus-peaking on both my Fuji cameras) but it could cause mis-focusing if I can't wear specs with a SLR.

[Gromit]

Of course using film ain't cheap but it's great to use and I find I think about what I'm doing more.

Which is part of the plan.

Still got a fabulous Leitz projector here at home which sees little or no use these days so would be good to shoot some slides - Fujichrome is still in plentiful supply.

[Gromit]

Photo taken 30 years ago this month when my first Linn LP12 arrived:

Linn Sondek LP12

[Blackal]

30 yrs?

I thought that model (on/off switch) and Assak arm didn't appear until after 1990?

Thing of beauty, though

[Gromit]

30 yrs?

I thought that model (on/off switch) and Assak arm didn't appear until after 1990?

Thing of beauty, though

Aye, not a bad way to spin records although I'm sold on direct drive now.

The on/off switch changed with the introduction of the Valhalla power supply in 1982, the arm on my LP12 was a Basik Plus.

The Lingo power supply introduced in 1990 had a slight change in on/off switch in that it had 2 LEDs as opposed to the 1 of the Valhalla.

<I'll take my anorak off now>

[f90x]

Photo taken 30 years ago this month when my first Linn LP12 arrived:

Linn Sondek LP12

Photo taken 30 years ago this month when my first Linn LP12 arrived:

Linn Sondek LP12

Jebus!! where did you get the moolah for that at 20?! I'm the same age as you and at 20 I was running Warren Clarke's old Sony seperates system that I bought off him for £100 in 1982!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165049/

[Mitch1100]

The detail in these old scanned photos of my Grandmother as a young lady and wedding day have amazed me...I'm guessing old medium format camera. My mothers first job was hand colouring photos for photographer.
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