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Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2024 09:38:26 No.4284673 View View Reply Original Report

Anyone here have experience shooting film on boxes of tin and bakelite that were "Made in USA"?
Most go for peanuts these days as collectors tend to not to give a rats ass about them compared to West German or Japanese makes.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2024 14:09:10 No.4284736 Report

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I took some pictures once on a brick. Still have it, somewhere.
It's shit

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Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2024 16:04:11 No.4284758 Report

Quoted By: >>4284761

>>4284673
I got a free kodak retina reflex when i was a kid and traded it for a TV because i thought micro four thirds was higher quality. It was clunky shit in operation and japanese SLRs took over for a reason even though they were inferior to high end euroburger cameras. American products are either very expensive because we dont work unpaid overtime and dont have the mafia running our country, or kind of shit for the same reasons.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2024 16:06:58 No.4284760 Report

Quoted By: >>4284779

The only good burger cameras were the speed graphics.

Kodak Retinas are techbically german anyway

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Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2024 16:07:19 No.4284761 Report

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>>4284758
Oh wait it was made in germany lol
>american consumer camera industry: why bother, this country is just defense contractors, aerospace, farming, and medical supplies

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Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2024 17:29:32 No.4284779 Report

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>>4284760
I don't mind the signet 35 personally. It's very small, feels nice, and has decent glass. It's nice in the winter because it was designed to be used while wearing gloves. Obviously the shutter speeds suck though.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2024 18:04:51 No.4284782 Report

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>>4284673
I had a c3 in high school. Tore down and CLAd it myself and re-leathered it during a summer break. Surprisingly not bad for something so old. Once you got the rangefinder aligned it was ok. Lens was nothing special but serviceable. I always wanted to get the wide and tele lenses for it but never had the chance. Wonder where that little camera ended up, must be near 20 years ago now. Also had one of picrel that worked surprisingly well. It had full helical focus but no rangefinder or other focusing aid, so fuck you guess and pray kinda thing lol. Fun little things.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2024 18:38:41 No.4284788 Report

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>>4284761
>tfw the best camera we ever made in that era was not sold to the public

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Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2024 18:52:27 No.4284793 Report

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All the relics that take 127 film are essentially garbage and you might want to avoid thinking about them, because they show what will happen to other film cameras when 120 or 35mm film dries up (inb4 we can cut film, we can shoot "pano" cope).

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Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2024 19:04:08 No.4284795 Report

Quoted By: >>4285015

>>4284793
>120 dries up
Believable scenario, but it's large enough that homemade plates as a substitute, fitted with new production special backs for MF cameras, are possible. Same for sheet film - it can die and the cameras will be ok. You can make your own photosensitive material with commonly available chemicals.
>35mm dries up
Nearly impossible. The unique highlight response, limited color palette, and natural dithering of random grains is beloved by hollywood and they're the ones keeping it alive at all way after it was surpassed by 16mp micro four thirds. Kodak had to bring back their chemicals because of hollywood, not us.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 08:08:44 No.4285015 Report

Quoted By: >>4285082

>>4284795
The longer this goes on the more I need to nut up and buy a roll of vision 3.
Maybe I can do a dry fire of attempting to bulk roll and process that with a cheap roll of the 16mm stuff and one of those Minolta spy cameras.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 15:28:55 No.4285082 Report

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>>4285015
Subminis are loads of fun if you can work through the pain of getting film sized for them. For me, it’s Minox

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