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This thumbnail is actually brilliant! Love it.

Film Photography Project is my top pick--great prices and a great selection. Reformed Film Lab is my next choice. RFL is a little more expensive, generally, but what FPP doesn't carry, they do. And of course my local when I'm I'm in the area

Your system of organizing parts looks very similar to my system of organizing parts. I keep telling myself that getting a 3D printer will fix the issue and not just add to the things I do to waste time.

Selling my film cameras but I'm not telling you where. Duh... !!

PaintStik = Secret revealed. : )

Curious if you know a good source for Nikon FM2/FA shutter blades. There doesn't seem to be any reasonable cost options out there.

I just was given one of these cameras, It had a lot of corrosion where the batteries go. It isn't turning on, I have been trying to research and see what to do but most of the videos I find are fro the AF35MII. Any tips on doing something to the battery compartment to make it work? Or troubleshooting ideas?

Is your eBay ID posted anywhere on your channel?

You called it a film camera, now it kinda behaves like a film camera 🤷‍♂

Glazers here in the Seattle area has film. And they typically are about BH prices. They also just opened up a Lab for film developing with scans and or prints.

My local place only stocks colour plus and gold which is fine enough only when I was talking to the people working there they said they get theirs in bulk from amazon… Which I was a little taken back. I shoot B&W but was looking for some colour

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Amazon charges $10+ for a 24 exp roll of Ilford HP5 and i'm almost certain it has nothing to do with the seller, Amazon seller/listing fee's are BULLSHIT.

The one time I bought film from Amazon was when Fuji Superia 400 was being discontinued and I was trying to get my hands on some before it was gone. Everything in the listing showed the old made in Japan stock, but I got sent the new Fuji 400 anyways. Not only did I overpay, when I went to shoot a roll a month later I found that the 3 pack only had 2 rolls. Never again.

If you're not in a rush, Reflx labs is the best, $5 flat shipping worldwide and a decent selection (including 120, 220, 4X5 and 8X10 Aerocolor), own brand 800T, and the full selection of Vision 3 stocks with and without remjet

Hey Romping Bronco! Thanks a lot for your videos. I did this myself and I was able to fix the sticky lever. However, I still have the infinite rewind problem. If I remove the mirror box, push the lever to load it mirror, then push the release lever, it works nicely. Putting it back on the body and adding the rewind mechanism and lever back, it seems that the "cocking lever" at the bottom of the mirror box doesnt seem to catch the lock if I cock with the rewind lever. Any ideas or tips? Have a nice day!

FPP is my go to, consistently the cheapest (especially for 8x10 and 4x5) I can find and they have some cool sheet film stock. Plus, their podcast is fantastic!

Bluemoon in Portland has good prices and have film Fridays with discounts every week

I've mostly bought my film from B&H and my local store but I remembered that I had bought film from Roberts Camera when I was in Indianapolis while watching this video and I think that I am going to switch to them because they've got good selection and they are where I am from.

Live 5 minutes away from Unique photo, always been a great place to get film. Awesome to hear them get listed 👍

I agree on pretty much all of that. Freestyle has a good selection at a good price. They are also one of the few places where you can get 100 foot bulk rolls. Their Arista EDU is Foma, but a little cheaper. Fotoimpex Berlin often has some films that we don't get here in the States. However, if you are outside of Europe then the tax/shipping/customs should be factored in. Unless you are buying a lot of film, say a dozen rolls or so, it's probably not worth it. And good job FPP for keeping some films available that have fallen by the wayside for the big guys.

I have a problem that I can explain like this: 1) I tried cocking the shutter with the advance lever and sometimes it just fires the shutter automatically without even pressing the button (or should I say it “twitches the shutter” as I don’t think it even properly opened). 2) After a while, the lever jammed and it was impossible to cock the shutter. Is this a typical problem?

In Europe, really good shops that sell also online are: Fotoimpex in Berlin, they have a lot of stuff. Another one really good is macodirect also from Germany. From Italy (my country) two really good shops are ars-imago (Rome) and fotomatica.

Walgreens had 8$ rolls of Kodak UltraMax 34exp and it was great, especially in a pinch. I read they recently raised the price to $13 so wah wah to that. Great while it lasted! My local shop where I get dev done sells Gold 34exp for $10 so that's my go-to going forward. I am a slow shooter and 1 roll can take me over a month to finish.

Thumbnail is absolutely peak 💯

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So one thing I wonder if younger people are aware of... do you folks know that the two species of 100ISO Velvia were quite heavily criticised by Velvia fans when they came out for not matching up to the massive saturation of Velvia50? They did have the advantage that you can shoot pale skinned people without their skin turning into ground beef. But they aren't the Velvias that the photography world fell in love with. Don't get me wrong, your pics look really great (although I'm surprised at the green cast which may be a feature of them being expired?) and you're not wrong to praise this film. But if you can get your hands on some, folks, shoot a roll of Velvia50 and see what the fuss was about. Just probably don't use it for portraits of people with really fair skin. I am impressed by your run and gun with an auto camera full of Velvia. I'm planning on shooting out the few rolls of Velvia I have left and I'm definitely thinking that chess board stuff. I'm testing my Nikon F100 to see if it's still leaving tramlines on film because I really want to use my most versatile camera with Nikon lenses rather than my Pentax MX which I'm happier to use for less critical stuff - with Velvia I really want to emphasise that sharpness. But yeah. Fuji Velvia and Provia were definitely the tastier choices back in the day. And they still are. When you learn their strengths and how to shoot to preserve highlights blowing out and all that stuff they are so great. And Provia is even a damn good film for people and portraits. Just look at some National Geographics from the '90s.

I need to do this. Just bought an OM-2 for £20, an absolute steal, this is its only issue it has.

Very cool. Thinking of purchasing a vintage Elmo, found your nice video👍🏽

This happened to my ae1 program and I didn’t know what was wrong nor how to fix it so I went on eBay and bought a clean tested renewed ae1 program black and shot one roll of film and it happened again, to this camera! I don’t know if I’m the problem or what but I would love to send my cameras in to you.

2:07 the aperture doesn't change with frame size. If you used a light meter for exposure and say you were shooting 400 speed film at 250th of a second... you could shoot both this camera and a 35mm camera both at F/1.7 and they would both have the same exposure. The depth of field would also be the same as long as you didn't back off the half frame camera to try and achieve the same framing

I have a second SR505 coming in the mail! Still, not a fan of the double needle metering system, but got used to it after putting a couple rolls through the camera. It is an absolute tank! Lovely lenses, mine came with the 50/1.7 and I immediately got 28/2.8 (my favorite for street shooting), and also 58/1.4 and 135/2.8 for portraits, so my whole spectrum is covered. And I agree about the shutter sound! I thought the K1000 sounded lovely, until I heard the SR505. It makes the K1000 sound robotic. If the SR505 had the exposure meter needle design from the K1000, that would be a perfect camera for my needs. I yet have to figure out how to turn the ON/OFF switch with sweaty fingers! Whomever designed that thing was probably trying to prevent inadvertent turning ON of the camera. Well, they absolutely succeeded. This switch thing is a @#$% to try to move without digging my finger into it. Still, if you can find a pristine copy of the 202/303/505, you will love it. I know I do.

Have you done a tear down of this camera yet? I have a similar model with corroded battery terminals and rear door catch spring detached. I need to take it apart for some repairs.

I've got one of these I picked up in a charity shop for £12 great pickup

I think the goat cold-shoe improves your photography much more than any m42 adapter ever would...

LOL that's horid.

Does Spotmatic and K1000 have the same type of galvanometer with two coils?

'Is there anything decent and working ever that I'm supposed to have?' I just know the feeling. I have old radios. And some cameras too...

Hi, thanks for nice video. Is there any benefit in using the SR44 battery in the K1000 as it has better discharging voltage curve? What is the smallest voltage the light meter works reliable when the battery drains?

60 years later Pentax releases a plastic copy of the Canon demi EE17 for 4x the used street price. What a world!

Can you do an episode on your screwdrivers - like what kind, cost, are they JIS or not. They look cool but wondering if you find them good and finding JIS seems problematic as apparently often not truly JIS (from what I've read). I have super cheap crappy ones but want to upgrade so a video going into ins and outs would be useful.

Sometimes one can dismiss a camera or lens and when you get your photos back the results change the way you feel about that. Wonder if you used it with fresh film and were photographing what you love something might make more sense when you see the results

Excellent thumbnail... (Not just a hat rack)

@Romping Bronco I suggest that you mute the hands -- at least a bit. The hands moving parapatetically within the frame seems like an affectation, and a detracting and distracting one at that. A net negative, IOW.

Everything is in focus yeeeeey :-D

Excellent...!

Ahh, zen and the art of camera repair. My happy place.

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God I feel like the only person on earth who used the Pentax Super Program lol