New Haul Of Film Camera's

[AcadieLibre]

Well my daughter had an uncle that had given her a bag with some camera gear. I took her out for dinner last night just so we could just hang and yak and then she says she has a present for me. Seems like a dark room now is a must. When I opened the bag, there were two bodies and 5 lenses and an external flash. I have not gone through the lenses yet but the bodies are:

Praktica B100 (http://www.praktica-collector.de/225a_Praktica_B100.htm)

Canon T7 (http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources/SLRs/t70/index.htm)

Well it is nice to have such a fabulous daughter.
Crappy Photo of the stuff but to lazy to go to much work for this shots.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2749/4424812382_ff25c72289.jpg

[Mad Aussie]

Looks like some fun :)

[kurtdriver]

The T70 is not a bad little camera, from what people say. The go for next to nothing if you start thinking of spare parts. I'm curious about what lenses you have for it. You;ll update us when you've had a look?
Were Praktikas made behind the iron curtain?
You'll have to run a few rolls through them and share the results:)

[AcadieLibre]

The T70 is not a bad little camera, from what people say. The go for next to nothing if you start thinking of spare parts. I'm curious about what lenses you have for it. You;ll update us when you've had a look?
Were Praktikas made behind the iron curtain?
You'll have to run a few rolls through them and share the results:)

Well the Praktica was made in the GDR. Only around 18,500 of them were ever made of this model. I found the manual for it in english but have not had time to go through it. It is an automatic camera, no manual mode, so I need to see the manual and read a couple of things, for what it is it could be something interesting and I have some ideas for it. I have a 50 mm f/1.8 lens for it, a 70 - 210, f/4.5-5.6. Is the 50 mm is the one I will use pretty much stuck to it most of the time for what I want to shoot with it and the result I am expecting to get. Getting film and batteries next time I an near a camera Store.

The Canon T70 is an odd duck of DLSR design. From what I read it was like the tech camera of its day. I have the original manual for it and I am going snag a roll of film for it get the negatives done, then I an not sure. For both cameras I am too curious and I want to see if they will both do what I hope they will do for me. Lenses for the Canon, Canon 50 mm f/1.8, Kinron 28-70 mm, 3.5-4.5, Kinron 70-210 mm. F/4.5

And a Blacks Flash that works on both. THe Praktica, I plan on only using the 50mm on it and the for film 400 ISO. I am more interested in the Praktica then the Canon just because I photo set I want to shoot with it. So in the next week or two I will be using the Praktica annd just take it and get the negatives developed and then rent a dark room to print one or two if it shoots as I expect it to.

I am starting to get really hyped about shooting film again, I love my DSLR but I always had and have a fondness for film, so this is just cool and give me variety of ways I can choose to shoot. I have realized I am now on the look for out unique Cameras just because they are usually free of inexpensive and if I am going to do a dark room anyway I might as well keep me eyes and ears open for the odd interesting camera. The Canon I don't see getting much use, it is just a decent 35 not unique enough for me to use it much. I went from no film cameras in October to 3 35mm and the two medium format 6x6 now. And so far my entire cost was $10.00 worth of Candy for the Zeiss, it was too funny, I went a candy store and got around $10 of assorted retro candy for a store that carries lots of it cheap. She thought I would just give her you know $10 worth of variety store candy, she was too cute some 30 year old woman was like ecstatic and it was like I did her a favor, she was giving me this gorgeous retro camera.