Lens and Tripod 2

golly79
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edited February 2016 in Your Hobbies #1

Hi everyone sorry i have been very busy at work and catching up with family ,and have just seen the post requesting an up date on the matter see title .

i got my tripod that cost just £8. ish it is about tall enough to set up and sit behind ,sadly when i put it together i dropped a nut so i went to dissassemble the camera mount section and broke it Frown so
out came the super glue . got it repaird , if it lasts me the year thats fine , i will upgrade to a better one then ,this is just a trial tripod to see how i get on with it.

The Lens came too it is built in Japan and sold from China classed as a super Lens 240mm to 800mm Telephoto lens .

manual opperation NOT AUTO  it is on a slide body then twist to focus , i have to date tried it twice due to a lot of work commitment ,i have not had the time to play more with it . BUT the pics i took seem excellent . 

i am not working next Monday through to Wednesday so i hope to have another go .

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  • ABM
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    edited February 2016 #2

    Manual  not  Auto  ??  If  its  functioning  to  your  satisfaction,  Golly,  then  thats  perfectly  ok  in  my  book  Laughing.

    I  rarely  take  a  tripod  with  me  now,  I'm  inclined  to  use  one  of  several  natural  wooden  "Thumb  Sticks"  that  I've  Begged,  Borrowed  and/or  won  in  any  other  manner,

    If  the  V  at  the  top  is  level  with  my  eyeline  then  it  will  be  a  close  fit  for  the  lenses  on  my  E O S  and  in  busy  places like  Cathedrals  etc  its  single  foot  will  be  close  to  my  ( Large ) feet  &  so  no  danger  to  the  passing  public.

  • Oneputt
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    edited February 2016 #3

    Glad you got sorted Golly, it would be good if you post a couple of results on hear.

    i just replaced my old Sigma 70-300mm lens with a Tamron 18-270mm.  Only got it today so hopefully get to use it by the weekend

  • golly79
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    edited February 2016 #4

    sadly i no longer have the ability to pic post here , i may try some time to have a pic posted here via another fine poster who has the ability 

    hope you have fun with your new kit Oneputt 

  • Cornersteady
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    edited February 2016 #5

    SmileGlad to hear it worked out.

    The manuel/auto bit tales me back to my first camera that had stop down metering. For the younger ones that means you focused at the widest f stop then to meter you had to close your aperture to your desired f stop (stop down) . Full aperture metering was only for the high end cameras.

    Also you only had a max of 36 photos and had to wait up to a week before you saw the results, as opposed to over 7000 on my current card and the results in seconds!

  • ABM
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    edited February 2016 #6

    You  were  lucky  if  you  got  yours  back  in  a  week,  Corners  !!

    One  of  my  Kodachromes,  towards  the  end  of  their  hold  on  me,  went  over  to  their  plant  in  Switzerland  but  only  came  back  in  the  strangest  way  !!

    A  chappie  from  one  of  the  T.V.  companies  in  Jacksonville,  U.S. of  blooming  A,  saw  an  orange  package  in  a  "Returned  Goods"  shop,  Bought  it,  viewed  it,  then  wrote  and  asked  if  I  wanted  it  back ,  and  if  so  what  would  I  trade  for  it  !!

     Admiring  his  cheek  I  got  a  brand  new  baseball  cap  from  Japan,  sent  it  and  asked  him  if  he  had  ever  seen  such  a  daft  hat.  Needless  to  say  the  errant  item  turned  up  wrapped  up  within  a  REAL  Baseball  cap. !!  After  that  I  swapped  companies  &  went  to  Fuji  --  processed  in  Yorkshire  or  somewhere  weird  I  think .

  • Cornersteady
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    edited February 2016 #7

    thanks for your post, it made me laugh. I couldn't afford Kodachrome, luxury luxurySmile

    I found a shop in Derby that sold Orwochrome, it included processing (goodness knows where) and cost about £2, and outdated at £1 a roll and that included processing and mounting. The results had a 'slight' orange colour cast but it was cheaper than any other option, unless of course like me you bought B&W Ilford FP4 in bulk (200 feet was it?) and had one of those machines for loading it into re-useable cassetts and then did your own developing in a Patterson tank. Ahh happy days.

    Image result for orwochrom

     The 18 referred to the ISO, or ASA as it was called then but it was the alternative German scale? I can't remember what it was called.

  • ABM
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    edited February 2016 #8

    DIN  I  think  it  was, CS,  but  thats  only  the  initials  of  the  German  Industrial  Standards  organisation  I  think..  And  it  was  that  new  fangled  HP3  in  my  early  days  !!  T'owd  Mon  used  it  in  2 1/4  Square  for  Wedding  Photography  &  a  list  of  the colours  of  eyes,  hair,  Bouquets  &  any  decorations  on  dresses  etc  for  the  artist  to  colour  in  with  the  very finest  of  paint  brushes  &  bottles  of  coloured  inks,  specially  made  for  the  purpose.  !!

    Huh,  Modern  kids  don't  know  they  are  born  !!  Grouch,  grouch  !!

    P.S.  sitting  here  in  the  study  cum  office ( Spare  bedroom  )I'm  surrounded  by  Files  upon  files  of  35mm  slides,  64000  of  them  before  I  went  Digital !!

  • Cornersteady
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    edited February 2016 #9

    DIN , yes that was it! One of my projects is to transfer all my slides onto digital. They are all in Hanimex round projector magazines, so it would be a long job, unless there is a way of putting those magazines into a scanner?

    Thanks for the replies

  • golly79
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    edited February 2016 #10

    had to get myself a new bag for my kit ,i ended up on the ebay and ended up with a purpose built eos rucksac .it will also take my laptop .

  • CheshireCBR
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    edited March 2016 #11

    all this talk of actual film takes me back to my young college days :) hours and hours in the dark room and the smell of the chemicals :) somewhere in the loft I still have a full darkroom kit including a convector enlarger :D and as for Kodachrome I still
    have one that I found the other day while sorting out that I forgot to post off for developing, I wonder if the free developing is still being done?
    Tongue Out

  • Cornersteady
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    edited March 2016 #12

    all this talk of actual film takes me back to my young college days :) hours and hours in the dark room and the smell of the chemicals :) somewhere in the loft I still have a full darkroom kit including a convector enlarger :D and as for Kodachrome I still have one that I found the other day while sorting out that I forgot to post off for developing, I wonder if the free developing is still being done? Tongue Out

    Interesting post, yes you never forget the smell of developer, stop bath, and fixer.

    Appartenly the last roll of Kadachrome to be processed was in 2013 and the chemicals needed were stopped being made by Kodak the year before. There is some talk on the internet that it can be processed in B&W chemicals but gives a B&W result

     

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