Dan K @ZDP189@mastodon.cloud

Cigar https://mastodon.cloud/media/j7RORS4xTCc2kEGNcrE

I have often wondered how people can get e. coli from something as benign and simple as a salad. https://mastodon.cloud/media/PATmb9hWerwOpean0hI

35mm Camera Scanning https://shotonfilm.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/35mm-camera-scanning/

Grow lights at Happy Valley Racecourse, Hong Kong https://mastodon.cloud/media/3BQjQ_cim4DUEkKp81I

Lugging around a hefty and bulky Leica makes me miss the days of a lightweight DSLR https://mastodon.cloud/media/DbnE5uIyoaOI20fthdk

I'm getting an M42-M adaptor converted to M39-M at Heng Fung Photo Supplies Co. While-you-wait service! https://mastodon.cloud/media/xwxR_SeMRbJkhzS1D5g

It took all evening. https://mastodon.cloud/media/O-BBVLow2zRvktssMPs

This will take a while. https://mastodon.cloud/media/dUgWjAkbA1BJdRe_AKg

Camera Ventures has a new Chinese Portal.

https://cameraventures.com/help_chn

DIY Camera Lens https://youtu.be/_GCwlGZNd3I

Public Toilet https://mastodon.cloud/media/KLV5ndBN_d1S6MdBadc

Anyone have need of a Kodak Film Drive(APS scanner)? No power supply or driver. Free to a good home. https://mastodon.cloud/media/GR8WJ6IRmAGQCNKk7y4

17 years ago, who'd have thought that in 2107, would have no terrestrial TV and no landline, but shoot mostly film.

Shelley Sometimes shows how to shoot Instax Mini (relatively easily) in a Fujifilm GW690 http://www.shellysometimes.com/blog/2017/4/22/instax-mini-and-the-medium-format-cameras

Strictly speaking, a camera is just a means for forming an image on a surface in relative darkness. Anything else you add is a refinement.

Mechanical cameras are like mechanical watches; they have soul. More importantly, they can be serviced and repaired.

There is one camera that is the best of both worlds: the Nikon FM3A and it's probably the zenith of the camera maker's craft.

It has both a mechanical and an electronic shutter. If the electronics or battery fails, you retain 1s-1/4000s and Bulb, losing only metering, AE and long auto-exposure speeds.

And yet, the devaluation will lose you much sleep.

This is not investment advice but... learn from my experience.

The longer I collect, the more I enjoy mechanical cameras.

Electronic cameras make practical sense because they offer consistent exposure and offer other automations.

But all film cameras are aged or aging. Electronics are mostly as reliable as mechanics, but once a custom electronic part is done, its probably game over. Examples:

Lens servo on a Contax T3
LCD on a Ricoh GR1
PCB on a Nikon F3
Analog dial on a Nikon 35ti

... cont

This is not investment advice but...

It's lazy and dumb to sell camera lots. Only do it if you need to sell junk and it's not a profitable use of your time to sell individually.

Indeed, it pains me to say it, but most cameras are worth more in parts than as a whole, especially broken and scruffy cameras.

You may think you're adding value by assembling a complete collection but you aren't.

"Buy individual cameras or systems and use them!" - says me, the hypocrite.