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dorkasaurus_rex posted:
Whats a normal price for one of these?
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:I paid $200, but factor in a little bit extra for batteries and what not, which are weird and hard to find. The camera itself is also quite rare. I just tried to snag one on ebay, fucker increased from $200-$300 in the last 10 mins.
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Feb 16, 2011 22:37
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This thread just inspired me to grab an XA2 off of ebay for $35.
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My XA2 arrived today (hello, bandwagon!), complete with a mostly already shot roll of film.  Hopefully it's not kiddie porn Awkward Davies fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Feb 22, 2011 |
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8th-samurai posted:Film is very humbling. I love taking a pile of film to the lab riiiight up until the point I'm in the parking lot squinting at negs that I was sure were perfect. I learn something from every bad frame. I bought 400 speed and I've been shooting in doors. I'm guessing my first role on the XA2 is going to be a total waste.
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Feb 28, 2011 23:34
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lolscans All from the XA2 I bought. I was an idiot an got prints instead of negatives+cd and this is my 5 minute scan effort with an epson scanner.  Untitled by spikespikespike, on Flickr  Untitled by spikespikespike, on Flickr  Untitled by spikespikespike, on Flickr  Untitled by spikespikespike, on Flickr Awkward Davies fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Mar 8, 2011 |
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Mar 8, 2011 19:31
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Hunh. Something is up with Flickr today, or my computer, it's not uploading. Or maybe it's just Chrome. Weird. Awkward Davies fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Mar 8, 2011 |
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Mar 8, 2011 19:47
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grumblybear posted:cool rat. what city? maybe it's just the scans but a little more contrast might make him pop out from the skyline more. NYC. All of those pictures were taken in the same square block. There just happened to be some people protesting Marshalls across the street from school. quote:Inflatable rats, or union rats, are commonly used in the United States of America by protesting or striking trade unions against their employers or against nonunion contractors, serving as a sign of opposition and to call public attention to companies employing nonunion labor. Unions have been using them for years against companies that employ nonunion labor[1], and employers have filed lawsuits charging that the use of the giant inflatable rats constituted unlawful picketing, and some courts have agreed. The practice of using inflatable rats in union protests may have something to do with the usage of the word "rat" to refer to nonunion contractors. The more you know!!!
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Mar 9, 2011 16:02
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I noticed the focusing also. Messed up some pictures on my last roll because I got too close. Oops : /
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Mar 21, 2011 04:20
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Found another place I won't be going back to in Manhattan: Manhattan Color Labs. 2 rolls, color, 36 exposures. Scans and negatives: $29.
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Mar 28, 2011 22:00
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General Gingersnap posted:Not going to lie, thats pretty criminal. How much does it cost for just the development? You could just buy a scanner and do them yourself, which you undoubtedly already know, but then you have to deal with dust all the time. (my cross) Yeah a friend offered me his old one for cheap, I'd just have to fix a busted AC adaptor.
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Mar 28, 2011 22:25
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To compound the expense, I shot a lovely rear end roll. The ones that were actually in focus and adequately exposed were boring or poorly composed. Sigh. Film is tough. For reference:  _23_1595.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr  _15_1587.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr  __5_1577.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr  __2_1574.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr  __1_1573.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr
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Mar 29, 2011 01:14
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A roll full of near misses. In particular, this one: 28A_0386.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr And this one:  30A_0388.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr  25A_0383.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr  12A_0370.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr   _3A_0361.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr
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Apr 6, 2011 18:02
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Wait so you're wondering what 100 speed film pushed to 400 looks like with the side flash?
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Dreadite posted:Clearly I don't know a drat thing about "film" except for that I don't particularly like how my photos look. Perhaps it was the generic kodak 400 speed I loaded into it, and the conditions in which I shot it. I seemed to get too much brightness in outdoor light settings, and too much grain in underlit scenarios (using the flash or not), and indoor lighting yielded pretty boring accurate colors. Why don't you post the photos you aren't satisfied with, and the conditions? That way we can look at them and maybe see what happened. This is 100 speed with side flash [indoor, fairly low light]  Untitled by spikespikespike, on Flickr This is 100 speed without [cloudy day, no direct light]  south williamsburg badass. by spikespikespike, on Flickr This is 400 speed pushed to about 500 (I dont quite remember, but I remember it was pushed)  FH000021.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr
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I HATE CARS posted:
If you're lusting after it, why don't you tell us what it's actually called.
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Apr 29, 2011 15:12
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I HATE CARS posted:No, because there's only 8000 of them in the world (ie. Japan) ... Not all of us are experts in this sort of thing  This thing looks pretty nifty though (albeit it expensive).
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Apr 29, 2011 18:54
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Picked up a Ricoh 500 ME for $20 from a flea market today. I could only find one ME on ebay and it was going for ~$116 (and wasnt the black model) so I'm pretty pleased. It's a compact range finder with a light meter and a 40mm 2.8 lens. ME stands for "multiple exposure". There's actually a multiple exposure button on the camera. I'm running a couple rolls through it today and tonight (bought some 800 speed film to play with) I'm excited to see what comes out. 
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Jun 18, 2011 23:55
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A couple from the new camera. "How many hipsters have taken a picture there before?" by spikespikespike, on Flickr  _31_0767.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr
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Jun 21, 2011 01:49
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A friend of mine is sending me a T4 soon, I'm psyched to try it out. Another one from my new Ricoh (whose lens is sort of falling off :/):  Untitled by spikespikespike, on Flickr
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Jun 29, 2011 15:25
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I just got my first roll back from my T4, and I have to say I'm amazed at how clear the pictures are. 200 speed color film, shooting with flash results in some amazing color.
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RoflcopterPilot posted:I can't find a T4 anywhere Well the color is good, the pictures are not that interesting :/. I do have some gripes about the T4, its very literally a point and shoot camera. I find the viewfinder extremely hard to use and not practical, so I just sort of ended up thrusting it out in front of me in the general direction of the picture I wanted to take. Repost from SAD:  98860021.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr Not a repost:  98860008.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr
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Jul 24, 2011 20:20
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RoflcopterPilot posted:Very cool stuff. I've actually heard of that complaint before but I'm not surprised and I guess to a degree I expect that. Who needs to know what you're pointing at when you have a film p/s?! Well, on my XA I can see clearly through the view finder so I can actually put together a shot. Not so much on the T4. I'm paying enough per roll that I dont like to just blindly fire away. I guess I should start developing my own, if I only had a darkroom...
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Trambopaline posted:Where do you guys find old 60's and 70's rangefinders? I keep trying our equivalent of ebay, but I either get people better off than me paying 200 dollars for old XA's, and just now I had a woman try to push a Canonet 19 for 300 dollars... Holy poo poo XAs have gotten expensive. I bought mine for like $35 from ebay back in February, and now all the ones I see are like 70_: http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=Olympus+XA&_sacat=See-All-Categories
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Jul 29, 2011 03:31
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The lens on my Ricoh is falling apart. I don't really care, because it was $20, but was hoping to sell it for a bit more than that on ebay.
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Has anyone had any issues with film winding on their XA2? I decided to go balls to the wall on my vacation this past week and just shoot everything with my XA2 instead of my DSLR. I ended up shooting about 5 rolls (getting them developed tomorrow). Towards the end of the last two rolls (frame 28 or so to be precise) the XA2 stopped winding correctly. It would only wind half way and then there would be resistance. I tried to force it the first time it happened and ended up breaking the film, and thus just winding the whole thing in and leaving about 6 frames blank. The second time I tried winding it back a bit and then advancing the roll, or hitting the little button at the bottom, but nothing really seemed to work. The mechanism looks fine when theres no film in it, I don't get whats going on.
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Aug 31, 2011 06:39
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Hunh, that's too bad. It's my favorite little point and shoot. Time to try and find another one I guess.
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Aug 31, 2011 14:56
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brad industry posted:Your shutter button is going to die ?
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Aug 31, 2011 22:01
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AceClown posted:Got my Olympus Trip 35 in the post today! How much did you get it for? There's one with 0 bids about to expire on ebay which I was eyeing to replace my apparently borked XA2.
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What do y'all think of this? $150 for the lot:quote:Camera- yashica Gsn electro 35/ model #h1619902
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Also, got a couple old rolls back recently: 72770006.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr  72770020.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr  72770019.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr  72780002.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr  72780015.jpg by spikespikespike, on Flickr
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Paul MaudDib posted:Nope. lovely deal. The aux lenses will have pretty poor quality, the flash is probably nothing special. Value of the lenses is probably $5, the flash is probably another $5, the bag another $5 (assuming you want them). The camera itself is worth maybe $35 if it's working properly, but there are parts that tend to fail (google "yashica gsn pad of death") so it's always a bit of a crapshoot. Hunh, I read a good review and saw they were going for $150ish on ebay so assumed it wasnt too bad.
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Dr. Cogwerks posted:It's always funny to see how wildly wrong people often price cameras. Either far too low because "nobody shoots film anymore" or way too high because "that's what I originally paid!" or worse, "it's an antique!" PhotoMart on Congress? I'm still mad that I missed them going out of business.
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Dec 25, 2011 18:11
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What is it? Can't quite see.
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Bioshuffle posted:I am dangerously close to picking up a Yashica T4 Super D from craigslist. Has anyone here had any experience with getting cameras off of craigslist? Anything to watch out for? I hope this is not the camera you are referring to....http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/pho/2803044489.html
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Jan 16, 2012 22:39
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Hah, also just found a goon who posts in this thread selling his Leica Mini 3 on craiglist. Hello goon!
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Jan 16, 2012 22:45
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Bought a Canon AE-1 the other day and pretty sure I bought a bum one. Shutter won't fire, blinking red M and blinking red dot in the viewfinder. Occasionally it'll fire after a bit of being left alone. I've looked online and people seem to think it's the contacts or something. I checked battery strength and it seems to be fine. Anyone else run into this? Going to crosspost into the...well, some other thread.
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Jan 28, 2012 23:07
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whereismyshoe posted:I'm pretty positive the M means you've got a lens attached which doesn't do aperture-priority shooting (M is for manual) - or the aperture dial isn't on the A setting. The dot I believe is an indicator that you're over / underexposed, i'm pretty sure neither has anything to do with the shutter. I don't know if it has a weird auto-lockout if you're too under/over or something, that's the only thing i could think of that would keep it from firing. Turned out to have something to do with the battery. Needed a battery with more omph.
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I just bought yet another XA. Also just pulled a roll out of my current XA, realized it was 24 exposures but that I had shot 36...I don't even know how I managed to do that.
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Where are you all buying your film? The Kodak Gold 5 packs on Amazon are the best deal I've found (I just bought a 5 pack of 400 and a 5 pack of 200 for about $26 total).
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