Last week I wrote about the Pentax P30T, a last attempt by Pentax at a manual focus SLR from 1990, before moving over to AF and the MZ range. This week I’ve been playing with a Praktica MTL5. Made between 1983 and 1985, in East Germany. It had quite a short run, but was replacedContinue reading “Praktica MTL5”
Category Archives: Cameras
Kodak 2D – Lens Board
With the bellows done I was left with a four inch square hole in the front of the camera! A lens board was needed. For the sake of clarity, for those who have not meddled in large format photography, lenses are mounted onto boards one needs just the correct outer size to fit the camera,Continue reading “Kodak 2D – Lens Board”
Pentax P30T -1990
There were a series of P30 cameras starting with the original P30 (P3N in the US) in 1988. By 1990 the P30T had been released, pretty much the same camera but had a plastic back door in stead of the metal original and had a diagonal split line focus screen, compared to the horizontal ofContinue reading “Pentax P30T -1990”
Pentax ME Super Goes Poole
A few more images from my first roll of film this year. Still suspicious of the shutter in my Pentax ME Super, I took it for a walk around Poole. It was a lovely sunny day with literally not a cloud in the sky. All seems well with it, again all the images came outContinue reading “Pentax ME Super Goes Poole”
Kodak 2D – Bellows
Having tackled the base and the front standard, next in line is the back standard and that means attacking the bellows first! Having already detached them from the front standard, and made the decision that, although they seemed light tight, they were going, I proceeded to cut them off with scissors as close to theContinue reading “Kodak 2D – Bellows”
First roll of the year!
Photographically I’ve had a slow start to the year, in fact my first roll of film, although started in January, I’ve only just used up and developed in early February. Almost un-heard of for me. I had to go to the local town of Wimborne for an appointment, so decided as it had been aContinue reading “First roll of the year!”
Kodak 2d Archaeology
I’ve moved on to the “rail” bit of my restoration of the Kodak 2D. I removed the hinge, applied my homemade paint stripped, scraped off the gunk, then sanded. Sanded again, and then some more. I have no idea what stain Kodak used back in the day, but I’m beginning to hate that red wineContinue reading “Kodak 2d Archaeology”
2D Baseplate Complete!
In my last post on my proposed Kodak 2D restoration, I had stripped down the baseplate, as a “test case” to see if my skills were anything like good enough to warrant proceeding any further. I’ve done nothing like this before! Having rubbed the baseplate down as much as I was going to, I testedContinue reading “2D Baseplate Complete!”
Exercising the Spotmatic
A couple of weeks ago, just before Christmas, I needed to pop into the local town of Ringwood. It’s the opposite direction to my usual route, so although it’s close by I don’t go there that often. I thought I’d take the good old Pentax Spotmatic for a day out and make a few exposuresContinue reading “Exercising the Spotmatic”
From the 5D to the 5D
20 Years ago (October 2005) Canon released the “original” 5D into the world. Back then it was a big deal – but let me re-wind a little. When I worked in the camera store, I changed cameras often. When a second-hand camera came in, if I hadn’t tried one of its type before, I’d oftenContinue reading “From the 5D to the 5D”
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