All, regarding the prohibition on using tubes with this lens, I recall reading a note from Canon long ago that it was due to the inability of the aperture ...
I'm going to be in the greater Detroit area for a couple of days this week. Anyone know of any camera shops that may have used FD equipment? I'm not really...
My favourite is Photo Outfitters in Windsor. They have a good selection of used FD, and others, a neat private collection of the owners that changes every...
http://www.maam.org/maamwwii.html War Birds starting to fly in for the weekend. Great to hear those prop motors again as they buzz over my home 5 miles away. ...
I was looking at Mr. Oikawa's contact information, and came across contradictory data. Some archived messages say: Mr. Ken Oikawa 28288 West Worcester Rd. Sun...
Hi Andy, what you describe confirms my experience with the EF. I recently compared stop-down metering with the aperture reading in "normal" mode, using an FD...
Hi all, I suppose for a camera technician it is an easy excercise to swap the screen in an FTb (whic definitely did not come with a split prism) against the...
Hi Dieter, Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but your method doesn't sound right to me. You should simply set the lense to the f-stop indicated by the...
Miguel, Mr Oikawa moved from Glendora, Ca to Sun City, Ca in 2000 or 2001. The Sun City address and phone you quote is current and correct. Don B in Hampton...
Austin, David, I got the message, but what I tried to do was stopped-down metering and to compare the reading to metering with the lens wide open. When doing ...
Hi Dieter, I'm not sure how that camera can do stopped down metering without knowing what the minimum f-stop of the lense is (and the lenses you're referring...
Yes, as I noted in my first question : In the documentation it is stated that exposure is ok when the needle goes to the stopped down metering mark. ...
While in New Mexico I had a minor problem with my Canon T-90. The rubber protection strip on the bottom of the camera began to separate from the camera body....
A 2 page piece in the June issue of Digital Video Magazine (dv.com) profiles the Brevis flip 35mm lens adapter, which allows the use of classic glass/mounts...
John, your local hobby shop should be able to hook you up with 3M (#77 ?) spray adhesive or something similar. Contact me offline if you need a a NOS rubber...
Hi, I'm not too optimistic about the photo output from my recent trip. We spent most of our time in and around Albuquerque. Many of the churches that I...
I'm in the same boat. Every time I go public with my A-1 people stop and stare. What a feeling to be a second class citizen for using film! Sorry, I can't...
... and stare. ... I dont think shooting a DSLR will make someone "first class" anyway. There are millions of digital photographers out there and most of them ...
... You look at it the wrong way - I've adopted a "Those digital kids don't know what they're doing nyah nyah nyah...". That said, I use my wife's digital...
In the good old days, regardless of the brand of camera or film, there were many bad shots made. This has carried into the Digital Age, and cannot be logically...
... not for using film, for shooting 35 mm film. Just a vinyl is now being produced and marketed as the high-priced audio media for the cognoscenti, so goes...
I added two pentax k-mount dslrs 3 years ago to my FD kit. The wife and I have rattled off 15,000 images in 36 months and in the meantime I've used about 140...
Eric, Ummm, how about high-res/low-light photos? H* .................................................. .... snip The problem is your 35 mm camera is no better...
... ways, ... Equal? I can get an AE-1 and a dozen rolls of film for less than a hundred dollars. Show me any DSLR I can get for a hundred bucks. I seldom make...
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