Recent content by Rodinal

Has there been any hint of the price yet? If it is as well built as a Contax G2 it will not be cheap

No problem glad to assist. Many camera users appear to loose the concept what it was like when they first started out. I am fortunate to be able to pick and choose what I like to use, but for all the bells and whistles the camera system that gave me the most satisfaction to use was the old...

As you will in fact only loose about 5mm at either end of the frame longest side is it worth worrying about (unless some of the main subject is right on the edge (you don't mention it) I have never used 6c7 but from what I recall 6x7negas fit in very nicely of a 10x8 piece of paper with little...

Of all the MD/MC lenses I owned was a F2.5/28mm MC with a low radioactive Thorium element. It had turned yellow and it was a wonderful lens for B&W because you didn't need a filter. (Rubbish though for colour!) It was outstandingly sharp from full aperture down to about F11/16. For a 28mm it was...

There absolutely nothing wrong with the old MC/MD Minolta lenses. The 20mm F2.8MD was at least as good as the same specification Nikon lens but a lot cheaper. Try to get hold of one nowadays apart from off Fleabay and sent from Japan and you will be really struggling to get a good one. Both the...

My all time favourite 'old' zoom', well a varifocal lens is a very old Vivitar 28/90 F2.8/4. As sharp as you will ever need (and a ton weight!) and the glass could have been made yesterday. It fits my one and only Minolta body, but by golly it is good. Far far better that the later 28/105...

Apart from the improved coatings

I too have one of these lenses and in their day when the 1st version was introduced it was claimed it was as good as a prime optic. However, my version is an old, pre 'D' version and has a degree of internal haze on the glass and when the few times I use it on digital the contrast is as flat as...

I have just googled the name and the idea of steam propulsion appears to have been largely debunked. He did propose thar human powered paddle wheels would be more efficient than oars but there was no mention of an engine. Apparently there was boiling water involved but more probably for...

Very similar to the story of James Watt being the originator of the steam engine. Yes he got the idea, but it was down to other engineers such as Richard Trevithick, Timothy Hackworth and George Stevenson and others to develop the idea and bring it to a state where steam power became a practical...

I assume you are a fit, health fully grown male. Well the advice for a camera is a young teenage female with little knowledge is what was asked for, So a Pro camera will in all probability be too heavy and too complicated for a person of that description. Do you want to kill off any enthusiasm...

I assume that these scanners have a focussing capability to allow for differing mount sizes or film curvature. Replacing the missing lens with another from a different device, although similar, will probably not work

My son, now 48, started out with a nondescript 120 folder about 35 years ago and caught the bug, especially when he watched me developing and printing until he was able to do the basics himself. He went on to use an Olympus OM10 then by stages went over to digital, but was so disillusioned by...

A pro level camera that will have been thrashed to the end of it life. The extra weight of a 'pro level' camera above and beyond that of a D700 will go towards going for something lighter. The weight disadvantage of a D700 has already been mentioned!

I found it easier than I thought :- Ed Trzoska of Euro Photographic Services, 150 Harrowgate Drive, Leicester, LE4 3GP, England. 0116 267 4247 Website just google Euro Photographic services