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It's no secret that many love a fully mechanical camera, but why? The way I see it:>No need for a battery to operate the shutter, but unless you can eyeball or sunny 16 your exposure you will probably still need some sort of light meter >Sprockets that control speeds require lubrication and maintenance and will eventually wear out, causing either inaccurate timing, delay, or failure. They can also be subject to seizing due to dried lubrication or dirt. >If a crucial wears out, a replacement is usually difficult to source, may require home fabrication or purchase of a whole nother parts camera >Less subject to water damage, light meters still susceptible, however many full mechanical cameras can replace the viewfinder and thus the light meter >Speeds are always accurate, so long as a battery is in the camera >Batteries are often annoying to find, non-rechargeables >Camera is entirely inoperable with no battery >If a failure occurs, it can usually be fixed with only cleaning, or re-soldering a faulty connecting, meaning replacement parts aren't required
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>>4364358 Good luck remanufacturing corroded flex cables and pcbs
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SLRs are for cattle, real people use rangefinders
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>>4364358 electronic slr batteries are often easy to find, it's the range finders that are near impossible without buying adapters.
Anonymous
>>4364363 This is true, a camera with a corroded board is as good as dead, though it is very easy to prevent this from happening.
>>4364364 Maybe, I'd rather look through the lens. I think they're for different kinds of photographers, and most people stick with one or the other, as far as film cameras are concerned.
>>4364367 Really, which ones?
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>>4364358 If batteries ever run out, so will film, dev chemicals, and anyone capable of CLAing the intricate clockwork of a shutter more advanced than a 4 speed leaf shutter.
Real doomsday preppers have solar chargers for digital cameras
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>>4364371 Yep, and the film that is left has a finite shelf life, especially without power for fridges.
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>>4364371 >dev chemicals If you know how to read and make coffee you can make them from household chemicals.
Now emulsion, that is a complete different matter unless of course you want to go full autismos and make glass plates.
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>>4364370 >which ones for example the canon a-1 in the picrel. It's just 4LR44 batteries. nikon f301 uses AAA.
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>>4364358 from what I've found there are already battery types and electronic components that are completely out of production and probably near-impossible to source for repair, and it's probably much easier to find third-party production of mechanical parts for mechanical cameras (?)
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>>4364383 Paid for my weekly film selling your feet pic. Thank you so much kind sir.
Anonymous
Let me guess, you "need" more?
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>>4364377 No, I meant which rangefinders have hard to find batteries
>>4364382 Yes the components themselves will be a nightmare to find. The hope will be that you can repair what you have. As another anon mentioned if you have a damaged board the camera is most likely kaput. I have looked for certain parts for a nikon FM2 before, and couldn't find anything at all.
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>>4364391 most of them. Like olympus 35 series, canon, minoltas, etc. Of course, I mean the old ones which I presume is the topic at hand. Mercury batteries are mostly gone.
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>>4364385 Whoever bought that got scammed big time, glad i could help.
>>4364388 Yes.
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>>4364388 I probably don't need more, I just find this item to be hideously ugly. If I was going to shoot something ugly for *results* I would go medium format.
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>>4364391 Pretty much any pre70s RF used those mushroom shaped mercury batteries, which are illegal in most places now. There is a sketchy Russian website that claims to still sell them that I found just this year, but I don’t know how legit it is. But this problem is easily fixed, adapters and alternatives are readily available.
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>>4364400 That's unusual. Do they corrode if left in camera?
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>>4364614 from experience yes. bought a camera which had one of these with the battery basically welded in by corrosion.
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>>4364400 Thats one thing russia’s actually good for, is sourcing weird old obsolete crap from a century ago. Need some vacuum tubes fir your guitar amplifier? They’re still making them in Russia yet bc most of their industries still hasn’t even entered the digital age.
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Why not just a bit of everything for flavor?
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>>4364691 >muh japscrap that kills itself Anonymous
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>>4364364 Based and left-lenscap-on-pilled
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>>4364388 Based dubs
I've got 1b, it has very good looking bright focusing screen and it's fun to shoot. If only it would have 1/250 and 1/500 it would be golden
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>>4364400 Most of those adapters are only adapting for size difference, just wrap it in aluminium foil and save some bucks for the film
Real problem is those mercury batteries were 1.35V whereas 'replacements' are li-ion 1.5V which makes the light meter work inaccurate
There are adapters with owner diode built in or you can solder to the wire in camera itself. Problem with this is that it will drain power all the time
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>>4365365 ZENER diode fucking autocorrect
Oh and one more thing mercury batteries were giving the same voltage until they didn't li-ion just slowly drop so you never know how bad things really are
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>>4365308 >lying on 4chan how revolutionary
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well the yashica tl elctro of course
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>>4365788 I fucking hate that thing the mirror is FUCKING GLUED
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>>4364358 man, FD mount cameras are such shit compared to the alternatives
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>>4366129 T90 has entered the chat
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>>4366129 What alternatives?
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>>4366142 T90's are beautiful machines. It's funny that Canon released the T90, and then the very next year, threw the entire lens mount in the garbage. I'd have felt like a chump if I bought a T90 back then.
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>>4366129 Nonsense. I love my A-1. That beauty is more fun to shoot with than probably any other camera I have.
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>>4366190 Yeah the A-1 is fantastic. With all the attachments it's just a T90 with an advance lever for backup.
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>>4366188 Many people who bought them shot them well into the EF era. I have one and they are built like a brick shit house, they were a revolutionary design. Motor drive, auto rewind, 5fps and all in a package marginally larger than an AE-1 or similar camera.
Had they been released 10 or even 5 years earlier, every camera manufacturer would have made a derivative of it.
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>>4366519 >every camera manufacturer would have made a derivative of it Depending on how you look at it, they did. The T90 is essential a proto-EOS 1, and the EOS 1 was copied by everyone, not just for film but digital too. No T90, no EOS 1, no 1D, no D1, no D4, no E5 etc...
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>>4366230 no it's not
once you try a camera with multi-spot metering you simply can't go back to anything else, not even modern DSLR matrix metering can stand up to it
it boggle my mind that only a few cameras ever made had this extremely simple feature
