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and this branch of the TP forum 
After spending a while lurking in the Film and Conventional area, I started to get a gentle hankering for the old-school ways. Now, I've still got a old manual focus Yashica 108 which I dragged out of the loft and i'm half way through my first 35mm film for 15 years or so.
Now, heres where eBay came in. I was browsing around, looking at prices of old AE-1's etc, when I discovered that EOS-5's were selling for less than the price of a night in the pub. To cut a long story short, I bought one - complete with faulty onboard flash, and a speedlite 300EZ to cover that shortcoming. It arrived this morning, and within 5 minutes i'd fixed the onboard flash - the old stuck microswitch problem.
Flash now pops-up and works! Nifty-Fifty didn't come with the EOS. Amazingly solid camera, surprisingly few signs of use - didn't even look as if it'd seen a Tripod!
After half an hour of faffing, to get the hang of it, I've loaded a roll of XP2 (yes I know... i wanted to shoot BnW but didn't want to have to send films away - digital makes you impatient, doesn't it!) and taken a dozen or so shots before it began to rain and I came home to trawl for BnW developing kit (haven't space for printing, but may well do my own dev. - i'm sure it'll all come back to me).
What's the betting within a couple of month's i'm borrowing my mates Bronica SQ (it's a crying shame - he's got it boxed up and hasn't used it since he gave up the wedding 'togger game - though I suppose doing as many weddings as he did could well kill the drive for taking pictures
)
So - I suppose this is advance warning of a string of dumb questions in the following months!
After spending a while lurking in the Film and Conventional area, I started to get a gentle hankering for the old-school ways. Now, I've still got a old manual focus Yashica 108 which I dragged out of the loft and i'm half way through my first 35mm film for 15 years or so.
Now, heres where eBay came in. I was browsing around, looking at prices of old AE-1's etc, when I discovered that EOS-5's were selling for less than the price of a night in the pub. To cut a long story short, I bought one - complete with faulty onboard flash, and a speedlite 300EZ to cover that shortcoming. It arrived this morning, and within 5 minutes i'd fixed the onboard flash - the old stuck microswitch problem.
Flash now pops-up and works! Nifty-Fifty didn't come with the EOS. Amazingly solid camera, surprisingly few signs of use - didn't even look as if it'd seen a Tripod!
After half an hour of faffing, to get the hang of it, I've loaded a roll of XP2 (yes I know... i wanted to shoot BnW but didn't want to have to send films away - digital makes you impatient, doesn't it!) and taken a dozen or so shots before it began to rain and I came home to trawl for BnW developing kit (haven't space for printing, but may well do my own dev. - i'm sure it'll all come back to me).
What's the betting within a couple of month's i'm borrowing my mates Bronica SQ (it's a crying shame - he's got it boxed up and hasn't used it since he gave up the wedding 'togger game - though I suppose doing as many weddings as he did could well kill the drive for taking pictures
) So - I suppose this is advance warning of a string of dumb questions in the following months!
I reckon it's a definite improvement...
