Today I acquired...........

[DAPPH]

Yep, found this before - but we bought other new stuff, and didn;t throw any old stuff.

My High end kitchen fitter mate always wrote his older routers & saws etc off to scrap in the late march , used the so called tax perk to get brand spanking new gear as to him a dead router or saw bench was several thousand pounds to rectify and make up the lost time . I purchased quite a bit of well used by a decent tradesman kit off him . His son who was 16 at the time pushed the rest out onto eBay at good prices .

 

[Maker]

I just realised I never showed off this when I got it!



Canon A1, as far as I know the most advanced film camera made before they went to ugly plastic bodies, this is all brass.
It's far more feature-rich than my OM10, but it's had a rougher life, it's bigger and heavier, and the shutter sound isn't nearly as nice.

I've finally put a roll of film through both this and the OM10 now, developed at home in the shower darkroom (Not actually a dark room, but it's dark inside the patterson tank).

Just need to scan them now, haven't figured that part out yet, this is the best I've managed:



That's a crappy LED light panel, under a bed sheet and a piece of plastic bag to try to diffuse the light, I took pictures of the frames with my phone camera on 3x mode, then converted to greyscale and inverted in GIMP.
GP3 was shot on the Olympus, the HP5 was in the Canon. Both developed in Hydrofen diluted 39:1





As well as figureing out a decent method of scanning, I need to store the film somehow, I've just got them loosely curled up on a shelf at the moment. I think I've seen plastic wallets to put it in?

 

[Robotstar5]

<snip> I need to store the film somehow, I've just got them loosely curled up on a shelf at the moment. I think I've seen plastic wallets to put it in?

Google "negative sleeves" plenty of choice.

 

[MattF]

If that is the standard arbors not the quick release stuff

It's the latter. Decided to go with that type, as I've spent too much time in the past, for my liking, fannying around with the standard arbor stuff.

 

[jonclancy]

A second son! Oh happy (birth)day!

 

[MattF]

Congratulations.

 

[Windy Miller]

I just realised I never showed off this when I got it!

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Canon A1, as far as I know the most advanced film camera made before they went to ugly plastic bodies, this is all brass.
It's far more feature-rich than my OM10, but it's had a rougher life, it's bigger and heavier, and the shutter sound isn't nearly as nice.

I've finally put a roll of film through both this and the OM10 now, developed at home in the shower darkroom (Not actually a dark room, but it's dark inside the patterson tank).

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Just need to scan them now, haven't figured that part out yet, this is the best I've managed:

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That's a crappy LED light panel, under a bed sheet and a piece of plastic bag to try to diffuse the light, I took pictures of the frames with my phone camera on 3x mode, then converted to greyscale and inverted in GIMP.
GP3 was shot on the Olympus, the HP5 was in the Canon. Both developed in Hydrofen diluted 39:1

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As well as figureing out a decent method of scanning, I need to store the film somehow, I've just got them loosely curled up on a shelf at the moment. I think I've seen plastic wallets to put it in?

@Maker

I have a load of negative sleeves you can have if you like. They're donkey's years old - some of the negatives in that folder are dated from the 80's!

They do sort of fit in an A4 ring binder - the hole spacing is the same but the pages are slightly wider. Yours if you want them, FOC

Edit:
I also have a Canon A1 - lovely camera!

 

[daleyd]

Got 3 of these 12” carver clamps the other day for a decent price (and fairly local!)

All in pretty much “as new” condition.

 

[Maker]

@Maker

I have a load of negative sleeves you can have if you like. They're donkey's years old - some of the negatives in that folder are dated from the 80's!

They do sort of fit in an A4 ring binder - the hole spacing is the same but the pages are slightly wider. Yours if you want them, FOC

Edit:
I also have a Canon A1 - lovely camera!

That would be great if you wouldn't mind. I won't need many, I'll buy myself some next time I order more film and stuff but it would be good to protect what I've done until then.

 

[brewdexta]

New phone. I had to wait a couple of hours while the Ford Stealership fitted two speed sensors to the Ranger. So went for a walk into Burnley town centre while they were doing it.

I only went in to sort out my daughter's phones but my Note 8 has been playing up and I get a phone subsidy from work to make sure they can always contact me. So no excuses for having a dodgy phone.

So ended up with the Samsung S23 Ultra. I wanted a decent camera and this certainly delivers but I was sucking my teeth a bit as they are spendy. The sales guy then said, "are you self employed as we offer bigger discounts for business users". "Well", I said, "we do sell eggs at the end of the farm drive". "That's close enough" said the salesman and it came down a bit more

Then I thought, sod it, no pockets in a shroud and I'm 61 next week.

I haven't swapped over to the shiny one yet, I'll do that on the morrow, too busy this evening tiling and collecting the youngest from her school trip to Ypres, Passchendaele and similar. She and most of the rest of her coach had some dodgy food in Belgium and puked all the way back, second load of washing just going in now....

 

[Windy Miller]

That would be great if you wouldn't mind. I won't need many, I'll buy myself some next time I order more film and stuff but it would be good to protect what I've done until then.

Ok PM me your postal address and I’ll get them sent off for you.
Mrs Miller tells me she has some big envelopes at work that she can relocate on Monday!

 

[Shox Dr]

I just realised I never showed off this when I got it!

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Canon A1, as far as I know the most advanced film camera made before they went to ugly plastic bodies, this is all brass.
It's far more feature-rich than my OM10, but it's had a rougher life, it's bigger and heavier, and the shutter sound isn't nearly as nice.

I've finally put a roll of film through both this and the OM10 now, developed at home in the shower darkroom (Not actually a dark room, but it's dark inside the patterson tank).

View attachment 392237

Just need to scan them now, haven't figured that part out yet, this is the best I've managed:

View attachment 392249

That's a crappy LED light panel, under a bed sheet and a piece of plastic bag to try to diffuse the light, I took pictures of the frames with my phone camera on 3x mode, then converted to greyscale and inverted in GIMP.
GP3 was shot on the Olympus, the HP5 was in the Canon. Both developed in Hydrofen diluted 39:1

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As well as figureing out a decent method of scanning, I need to store the film somehow, I've just got them loosely curled up on a shelf at the moment. I think I've seen plastic wallets to put it in?

In the 80s in Professional Photographer friend of the family would lead me gear on long term loan. All Cannon. I remember the A1 were expensive bodies.

How much did you get it for?

 

[Maker]

How much did you get it for?

I got a really good deal, I paid £100 for the body with that 50mm F1.8, a flash (199A speedlite), a Sigma 70-210mm and quite a nice Canon bag.

I've since seen one, just the camera with the same lens in a used camera shop for £250.

 

[Windy Miller]

I got a really good deal, I paid £100 for the body with that 50mm F1.8, a flash (199A speedlite), a Sigma 70-210mm and quite a nice Canon bag.

I've since seen one, just the camera with the same lens in a used camera shop for £250.

I bout mine second hand about 30 years ago for over £600!

 

[Shox Dr]

I bout mine second hand about 30 years ago for over £600!

That was cheap then

 

[Windy Miller]

That was cheap then

You’re probably right, but it didn’t feel that way at the time!

 

[Blobber]

Got a bit of timbery stuff to do so a cheap and cheerful pocket jig to see if it improves the situation!

 

[JOEPRO]

Size doesn't matter K?

New Rohr Inverter Arc Welder arrived a few mins ago

 

[Maker]

How big is that cup of tea!?!

 

[Arc Tourist]

Size doesn't matter K?

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New Rohr Inverter Arc Welder arrived a few mins ago

Let us know your opinion on about it ?