Using vintage and antique gear.

[turtle]

Here is my Nikon F2. Just picked up some film for it.

The F2 was the last hand made all mechanical camera Nikon made. NO batteries needed (except for the light meter)

[Edcculus]

The F2 was the last hand made all mechanical camera Nikon made. NO batteries needed (except for the light meter)

Yea, I love this camera. My dad bought it when he was in the Coast Guard stationed in Hawaii in the mid 70's. I started using it in college because the photography class for my major was still all film, and we needed a SLR. Its still going strong too. I've only had to occasionally replace the batteries for the light meter.

Since I graduated and no longer have access to a darkroom, I've been shooting C41 film on it. Now that I own a house though, I'm planning on setting up a pretty simple darkroom to do a limited amount of B&W processing.

[softcloze]

Niiiccceee, well put together darkroom, my brother and I set one up in the laundry section of the basement when I was in high school. I still have the same equip. and will break it out shortly. Film and darkroom work, it's like building something, it's very rewarding. I just had my Yashica electro 35 ( 1969 ) overhauled, will run lots of bw through that bad boy.

[bluepunk18]

Great thread! I use my dad's Canon AT-1 and FT-b when I'm in the mood for film. I also tend to prefer black and white...

[peterrdean]

This is from my 'Darkroom' thread, 'Film still favoured'.

I still use film and I have a mini darkroom set up. In a cupboard in the hallway next to the bathroom I have a Durst enlarger on a shelf about waist height. In the cupboard is a safelight, a papersafe, timer etc. This is the dry part of my darkroom. In another cupboard is a small 500mm high cupboard unit on castors, which stores my chemicals. Mounted on top of this is a Nova Quad 12 x15 tank and wash unit. The quad tank can be capped so the chemicals will last for about 6 weeks. This is the wet part.
When I want to use the dark room, I wheel out the wet part connect a water supply hose and drain, and I'm ready to go. The finished prints and films dry over the bath.

I also have a Nikon negative scanner built in to my homebuilt black Hyper Osiris computer. I had to download a program called VueScan to make it work with Windows 7.

I have 2 x Nikon F2ASs, and 1 each of FM2n, FE2, and FM3A, all in black.
For the F2s I have the full range of non metering heads all in black, except for the waist level finder, which was never made in black. I have one but it is siver.
To use with these I have: 15mm f3.5 rectilinear lens, 20mm f3.5, 24mm f2.8, 35mm f2.8 shift lens, 45mm f2.8 Guide Number lens, 50mm f1.2, 80mm f1.4, 105mm f2.5, 135mm f2.8, 300mm f4.5 plus a selection of zooms and 2 teleconverters (all genuine Nikon)
In 1976 I bought a Nikon FB8 case which was made from an artificial leather. After about 20 years it split, so I disassembled it and made patterns of the leather. I rebuilt it using black Conolly hide. Picture from my gallery.

I have 3 x black Rollei 35S's and 1 in gold. (Do you detect a trend?)

A black Leica M6TTL with a Noctolux 50mm f1.

I also have a couple of digitals. A Nikon D40x with 12 to 24mm VR and 18 to 200mm VR lenses, and a compact Panasonic.

Peter.

[Legion]

You can tell a good black camera, when they have worn away to brass.

[djh]

Shot this one yesterday (Kodak TMAX 100) in my F5.

And after processing and scanning the film, I couldn't help myself. I ordered another camera last night. Really looking forward to this one arriving!

[Legion]

I remember when the f5 came out. I was working in a camera shop. Man, we drooled over that thing.

[djh]

I remember when the f5 came out. I was working in a camera shop. Man, we drooled over that thing.

Ha! Still a great camera now for less than a tenth of the initial cost. I'm pretty excited about my new camera coming in- looking forward to shooting some roll film...

[Legion]

What's the new one? Another F5?

[djh]

What's the new one? Another F5?

Nah! Starts with "H"..... practice your Swedish.

[Legion]

Ah, shooting square.

We've got a 500C/M here somewhere. It's SWMBO's. I used Mamiya.

[djh]

Unpacked this last night and it was very exciting. I'm off to a wedding this afternoon but will certainly be looking to try it out properly tomorrow.......

[djh]

Square is good......

My first roll of 120 film came out of the tank this afternoon and I was quite pleased with the results.

[Toddy]

Ha. Eventually chucked my darkroom kit in the dumpster a couple of years back.

Photoshop rules!!!!!

[Edcculus]

I just added a few freebies to my collection.

A Kodak Duaflex II that has seen better days. It takes 620 film. I did find a dealer who sells new 120 film spooled onto 620 size reels. I also have the option of respooling myself.

I also picked up a Pentax Auto 110, which as you might guess takes 110 film. Its no longer in production either, so I'll see what I can come across.

The cameras were free, so at the very least, they will become neat looking vintage decor.