I started this forum for any collecting hobby and it turned into my camera collecting and using forum. I use it mostly to keep a record of my photo adventures. Nobody but me seems to have photo adventures that visit here....but however. I have so many cameras now that I forget which is which and which ones work and which ones don't. If you have cameras and adventures you would be welcome to post here.
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by DuncaninFrance » Sun Feb 19, 2017 5:28 am
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by Niner » Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:41 am
NIce collection you have going there. Any film in those boxes?
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by DuncaninFrance » Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:49 am
Yes. As soon as I get the A-1 I will run the B&W through it and see what we get......
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by ArchFluffy » Sun Feb 19, 2017 2:41 pm
Wow!
That's a lot of cameras!
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by DuncaninFrance » Tue Feb 21, 2017 4:42 pm
MF READY TO GO................still waiting delivery of the A-1

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by DuncaninFrance » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:07 pm
This arrived today
Now need a changing bag and some chemicals...........
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by PeterN2 » Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:18 pm
Do any of the old cameras and lenses you have get any fungus growing in them? I have dug out my old Pentax Spotmatic and the standard lens has a growth in the lens. This is inside the lens, not the external surfaces. The local photo shop will not service a lens with fungus as the place they send it to will not touch a fungal infected lens due to contamination issues.
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by Niner » Fri Feb 24, 2017 5:04 pm
"Contamination issues" hunh? What do they expect is growing in there... Bubonic Plague?
Here is one way to try to clean it yourself that came up with a google search. A little bit of mold may not affect the images produced by the lens in any noticable way if you don't do anything.
https://petapixel.com/2016/09/29/remove-fungus-lens/
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by PeterN2 » Fri Feb 24, 2017 5:57 pm
I got the impression they don't want fungus around their workbenches and tools. That link was a good demonstration on cleaning fungal infected lenses. Not sure I would be confident of doing a good job myself. I will try another shop to see if they can sort out the fungus.
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by DuncaninFrance » Wed Mar 01, 2017 4:50 am
Arrived yesterday, now waiting for a battery...............

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