I like that ricoh so much that I am very tempted to get a functioning unit, but I understand these p mount lenses can get expensive.
Thats designed for a 16mm camera and is most likely a C mount lens, if you mount it on a 35mm camera then there will be severe vignetting. What you've got there is actually worth quite a bit looking a at prices that they've sold for online.
Our local tip has an Olympus 35 ECR for £10. I had a quick look through; the rangefinder patch is visible but faint...
Our local tip has an Olympus 35 ECR for £10. I had a quick look through; the rangefinder patch is visible but faint...
There is a tip here on how to brighten your rangefinder from Rick Oleson http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-165.html
...fifteen 28mm's?! I was worried that two (a Nikon and a Pentax) would be overdoing it slightly...
My latest Oxfam find: a minty Pentax ME Super, together with a generic Cosina f1.8 50mm lens.
I found it languishing at the bottom of a basket full of plastic toy cameras - and right under it, joy of joys, a lovely little Olympus MJU II! The whole lot was mine for £15; £5 for the Oly, and £10 for the ME. "I think its a fair price, don't you?", asked the old lady behind the counter. Yup, fair price indeed. I was pretty chuffed with my latest find, to say the least!
The Zenits were built like tanks, in true soviet fashion - mind you, the quality on them was sometimes a bit hit and miss... I remember my dad had one of those when I was little and he used it extensively; many years later, I dug out the camera and guess what, it worked like a charm. In fact, I kinda like the way the Helios renders. So much so that I was considering buying a K-mount lens for my Pentax
I've got such fond memories of the ME super as my first upgrade from a Praktica. Lovely little camera
The meter might not be out, as on the far left, all the asa etc settings are confusing I'll have to get the manual to work that one out...also I have no idea what the button is for in between the shutter speed dial and film counter. Anyway if the sun comes out will put the lenses on my Pentax M42 and see what results they give, and if anyone is passing my house they can have the body to borrow for a few years.
Aye Steve, the ME is a little gem. Really compact and unobtrusive (smaller than an OM-2n!), and what's more, the shutter sound is really sweet! It feels like a genuinely well engineered piece of kit, and those Pentax lenses are not to be sniffed at either.
Interestingly, I found out not too long ago that for a while it was the camera of choice of Willy Ronis.
Here's a sample image straight out of the ME - no Photoshop or other kind of digital jiggery-pokery. If I remember right, the film was some cheapo Kodak Gold.
Hi Vladimir, love my ME, bought new in around 1976! I can see you are enjoying yours; lovely "decadent" image... If you see one, grab a MX as well for a bit more manual experience; the shutter sound is not so nice (cloth rather than metal), but it's just as nice to use.
The MX has an awesome viewfinder. It has a large, clear aperture read-out (better than most of the Nikon aperture readouts), indicates shutter speed (and what direction the higher and lower shutter speeds is at), and features 5 LEDs for exposure.
Putting the film in is weird on the Zenit e.....Had to look at the manual and that showed a different spool, anyway it said insert film leader under the spring..WTF what spring? So changed to my close focus spectacles and it's so thin but still couldn't get the leader in...the only way was to lift the spring up with a screwdriver and then do it...so either it's a stupid design or I'm stupid not knowing the quick way without a screw driver.
I've got such fond memories of the ME super as my first upgrade from a Praktica. Lovely little camera
Not entirely sure how much of a bargain this is, but somehow I found this fourcorners site (US but will deliver internationally) still selling 3 varieties of Ektachrome from $9! See http://www.fourcornerstore.com/collections/35mm-films (there is also some 120 stuff).