The OCAU "film is not dead" club

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Got this a few weeks back but only just took some photos of it. Needs a battery before i can use it though. My first AF film camera



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[onrelas]

Originally Posted by -spam-

Got this a few weeks back but only just took some photos of it. Needs a battery before i can use it though. My first AF film camera

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Nice work there. I've been looking at some AF Canon SLR's to use my lenses with. Was looking at an EOS5 as they seem to be pretty good value, but it might be overkill for the limited use i'll give it. Where did you get yours from? eBay?
Speaking of evilbay, i got another camera in the mail today, a Canonet 19 . I've been trying to cut back, but this little beast was going very cheap so i put a bid on it. Ended up costing less than $20, so you cant really go wrong i guess? Everything seems to be working so far too which is a plus! Came with case, filter and original box too
Heres a quick pic i took of it. Didnt use a lightbox or anything, just put it infront of a window on white cardboard with white paper in the background. Little bit overexposed, but ok considering.

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Originally Posted by onrelas

Nice work there. I've been looking at some AF Canon SLR's to use my lenses with. Was looking at an EOS5 as they seem to be pretty good value, but it might be overkill for the limited use i'll give it. Where did you get yours from? eBay?

Still wouldnt mind an EOS 5 just for something bigger and with the scroll wheel on the back like my 20D. I know someone who has one, just waiting till i have the money to buy it.

I got the 500 for free. A friend of my dads gave it to us (thats how we have scored nearly all of our film gear).

Nice looking Canonet too. Still want a Trip 35 to take to uni and then develop the stuff when i get home in the afternoon

[Azrael]

Originally Posted by doigal

My ebay "cheapy" (Plustek OpticFilm 7200) produces 7200 dpi tiffs or jpgs. Works out to be about ~63Mp on paper, although theres probably only 20~30Mp of actual data there.

Ok, youve had the OpticFilm for a bit, how do you find it now?

Im debating between the Opticfilm 7200 and the Coolscan V ED, after my Coolscan 2000 died.

[doigal]

Still goes well. Sometimes I find velvia a bit of a pain to get right though with colours.

No expirence on the coolscan, so i couldnt say either way.

[esjay]

This finally arrived in my letterbox today - an original Canonet QL17 with a 40mm f1.7 lens. I put a battery in it, and all seems to be working fine so Im very happy with it.

[two40]

so that's a gen 1 you have, excellent. they were made in japan as opposed to the much saught after GIII made outside of japan. features do not justify the GIII prices over the GI. looks like a clean example too. glad it all works. have fun with it

on a personal note i experienced a blank roll today. my first film roll to come out with nothing. long story in link, cut short it was a badly loaded film in an SLR. i free spun 36 frames but thank god it was a test roll shot in about 30 min earlier today.

[wakko]

Originally Posted by two40

so that's a gen 1 you have, excellent. they were made in japan as opposed to the much saught after GIII made outside of japan. features do not justify the GIII prices over the GI. looks like a clean example too. glad it all works. have fun with it

on a personal note i experienced a blank roll today. my first film roll to come out with nothing. long story in link, cut short it was a badly loaded film in an SLR. i free spun 36 frames but thank god it was a test roll shot in about 30 min earlier today.

funny... bl about the film hehe

when I was looking for my Gen2 QL17 (meter check the only diff?) there were heaps of GIIIs around, but I purposely avoided them in quest for the 'classic' kinda feel

Also just picked up a Canonet 19 but didn't get a funky box *sniff*... got the manual and ORIGINAL warranty card though! that was awesome... (thanks Ben )

[two40]

mm the gen 2's are the best of the QL17's. not sure if esjays is actually a 1 or a 2.

copied this off another post i made a couple of weeks ago:

of the 40/1.7 QL17's (they did release some with different lens) ---
gen 1 made in japan no test light - marked as QL17
gen 2 made in japan battery test light inside viewfinder - marked as QL17 <--- best one
gen 3 made in taiwan LED battery test light under viewfinder - marked QL17 GIII


love the canonet 19. i've got a bell and howel one. i think it's one of the oldest of the 19's made. so much fun with the winder on the bottom. i wouldn't use it a lot as it's fairly heavy but still, lots of fun and a worthy one for the collection.

[djfiesta]

I know the cheap nice ones are great, but im starting to look for some medium format stuff, some of the old cheap TLR's, like a yashica mat 124 or something.

Either that or a Bessa R2, a nice M mount rangefinder, which i can hopefully save to get that noctilux, or 35/1.2 nokton on.

Man im a greedy guts.

[onrelas]

Originally Posted by djfiesta

I know the cheap nice ones are great, but im starting to look for some medium format stuff, some of the old cheap TLR's, like a yashica mat 124 or something.

Either that or a Bessa R2, a nice M mount rangefinder, which i can hopefully save to get that noctilux, or 35/1.2 nokton on.

Man im a greedy guts.

I know what you mean.
Over the last couple of months i've been thinking the same thing.
I've bidded on a couple 124G's but missed out a couple of times. I'm also saving up to buy a Bessa or Leica (if i can find a nice deal) when i go overseas later this year.
Just wish i had more money though =/

[Takumi]

hey daniel

if u want tlr, look for a mamiya one they are like a brick

i used to use one

[peewee82]

Was browsing films on B&H and noticed some outdated and discontinued Agfa Scala B&W slide film. I looked it up wondering if anyone could actually develop the stuff and came across: www.dr5.com

I then discovered that this place in the US seems to be pretty much the only place that does it. However, they also do it from B&W Negative film! With films like Ilford HP5+ giving better results than the actual slide Agfa film.

Below is their examples of HP5+ in their two difference developers:



Looks pretty sexy. Have to mail it away and it's not very cheap, but it's still interesting. Has anyone worked with B&W slides before?

[onrelas]

yes.
sexy indeed.....

[edx23]

Originally Posted by peewee82

I looked it up wondering if anyone could actually develop the stuff and came across: www.dr5.com

I then discovered that this place in the US seems to be pretty much the only place that does it. However, they also do it from B&W Negative film! With films like Ilford HP5+ giving better results than the actual slide Agfa film.

Hmm, I know cross processing E6 films in C41 chemistry makes a pretty easy job of turning a slide film into an ugly hard to print negative (art students love it for some reason).

But true BW films are designed to simply develop the silver layer, whereas this guy has found a way to develop a positive image using a dye that sublimates the film base (probably only through unexposed areas) and then the silver would be bleached off leaving a positive image. So its kinda similar to E6 in a way. But BW films don't actually have dye layers like colour films do. So how did he do it?

And don't all BW film bases have a grey tint to them anyway? Wouldn't this make the highlights rather smoky?

Anyone know what happens when you throw a normal B+W film through an E6 developer? I'm guessing you'd get some sort of positive image. Wouldn't the second bleach clear everything? I worked in a camera store/lab for 4 years i probably should know this...