Photographica Camera Fair 2022! In Which I Buy Some Stuff!
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2022
- The Photographica Camera Fair was a great place to visit - so much film photography gear in one place gave me a very funny feeling, and whoever said film is dead was certainly misinformed!
Anything and everything you can imagine is here - Nikon, Leica, Olympus, Canon, Fujifilm, Minolta, Konica - plus loads more! I was tempted to buy some stuff too that I'll soon review on the channel - find out what it is in the video!
The mailbag episode will be in two weeks - sorry for the change of programme!
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Great fun video, watched it twice already. For me, a big part of this hobby, is the research
I do with the vintage lenses. I like the history as well as how they perform on digital.
I agree, the history can be very interesting - and they're great to shoot too! Thanks for looking in.
That Leningrad was beautiful and I loved the mechanism. Congrats on your purchase.
Love the stroll along the stands, I saw a Rolley 35S, woow
Good Morning Nigel,
Many thanks for another excellent episode. Whilst watching it, my credit card was quivering in fear, even though I was not there!.
Imagine how it was for me - I'm glad I made it out when I did!
You looked such a proud and happy bunny when you got your Leningrad. Looking forward to the review.
It's a bit of a legendary camera for me - I've seen them in pictures but never handled one before, so I was kind of excited to have one in my hands! Stay tuned for the review.
Nigel, you've come up with the perfect video, one which merits watching time and time again, just in case we spot something you missed (or something we would covet ourselves - that Hexanon 50mm f1.4, in fact).
Right, off to watch it all over again (and again etc.)
George
Thanks George, glad you enjoyed it! In fact, the Hexanon I eneded up with is the 57mm 1.4, the predecessor to the 50mm I thought I bought. It shoots really nicely though and is apparently descended from the Biotar. An interesting lens!
Well done on your purchase of the Konica. My copy is super sharp with great colour saturation. You paid more than I did for my minty lens but you won’t regret it. Worth it!
I loved watching this! I also recently purchased a Konica 57/1.4 and 135/3.2 and can’t wait to see your upcoming review on the 57! I enjoy your channel! Keep at it please. 🙂
Love this channel. Always gives me a sense of nostalgia but with crucial information. Thanks
Many thanks Stephen, glad you're enjoying it!
Loved this video! Totally loved seeing all the vintage cameras and lenses! Looks like you got two great buys!
They're both really nice things - the Konica is fantastic so far, and the Leningrad is waiting to be shot, looking all grand and magnificent and hi tech (well kind of) - stay tuned for episodes featuring them soon!
Very enjoyable video! Looks like a lovely show. And thank you for including the random snippets of background conversation. I love the bustle and chatter at these sorts of markets.
Thanks for taking us along Nigel. Looking forward to you putting your new "toys" through their paces.
Stay tuned for an appearance soon!
reall interesting...got to watch more than once..great..love this
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Great video Nigel. I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks
Many thanks Jan, glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for a wonderful CZcams channel. I bought my first SLR when I was 18 in Dixon's, Holborn.
Thanks Robert, appreciated! Glad you're enjoying the channel.
Great video! I'd be in big trouble if I went to a show like that. Can't wait to see the video on the Leningrad camera.
There's always potential for a tense political situation after a show like this! Stay tuned for the review.
The prices on show in there make me glad I got the bulk of the stuff I wanted when the market was at its lowest.
Prices are always a little high at these fairs - I guess people have overheads and so on. Still, I know what you mean!
Thanks for us showing us around Nigel, a great video, throughly enjoyed it, it felt like I was there!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was drooling throughout the video. Fantastic content again. Keep up the good work! Looking forward to Leningrad review, I just got two FSU oddities Start with Helios 44 and Iskra rangefinder 6x6 camera.
Those sound nice - I've often thought of looking for a good Start camera - does yours have the 13 blade Helios? That's quite a special lens.
@@zenography7923 Yes it has 13 blades quite early one. Got two Start's and the lens for 100€, both not working but I managed to build one working one from the two.
Congratulations on you acquisitions. When you think about it, digital cameras have not been around for very long. There is something very special about film cameras.
Film has a magic that digital doesn't, for me at least. It's a very special process and I don't think it's going anywhere for a while yet! Thanks for looking in.
Great video! Enjoyed it very much… it made me restless and greedy!! 😁
Camera fairs can be a lot of fun, but if you suffer from GAS they can severely aggravate the condition!
Really great tagging along with you on this trip to the camera show.
Glad you could make it!
Many thanks for the video - so many great vintage camera bodies and lenses on offer. The Leningrad looks to be in great shape! I have picked up a very good condition Nikon 50mm f1.4 ai here in South Africa last week (a lens that you recommended some time ago) - and I absolutely love it. Regards philip jooste
That Nikon 50 1.4 is a gem - enjoy!
As soon as you laid eyes on that Leningrad I had a feeling it would be going home with you. I look forward to the review.
I just couldn't resist I'm afraid!
I’m enjoying this video way more than I thought I would!! Quite the mix of hipsters and old-timers in attendance! Very nice to see such a vibrant event.
PS so glad you got the Leningrad!
It's fun to go shopping with you lads!
You're welcome to tag along!
I've really enjoyed this video. You are so right about the Minolta 50 1.4 one of the best 50mm lenses next to the Jupiter 3, but it is so sharp wide open.
One of the nicest - possibly the nicest - vintage 50 1.4 I've shot!
Thanks for sharing the trip. I haven't been to a camera show in decades. I've really been pleased at the way film has been making a comeback these last few years. I haven't been delving into film very much because of low budget (plus I'm in the expensive process of moving,) but I'm hoping as it increases in popularity, more companies will be encouraged to release film again, bringing down the price a bit. I actually still have a fair bit of film left over from the 90's, but am still hunting for the best way to develop it once I shoot it.
There was an incredible amount of interest at this show - I don't think film's going anywhere just yet!
Really interesting, I'de love to visit a fair like that. Thanks for sharing. 👍🏼
There are plenty of camera fairs around - worth a quick google if you're interested!
@@zenography7923 Hi I'm not in the UK but across the channel in France where so far I haven't found such a dedicated type of photography fair, Maybe in Paris but i wont be rushing to go there!
great video. thanks for that.
Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Very good. I enjoyed that.
I'm very glad, thanks for looking in!
I enjoyed the trip out with you. Thank you for sharing once again from a house bound photographer. Just had a double eye operation on my viewfinder eye so hopefully I will be getting back into photography after a 3 year break.
I used to have a Lomo clockwork camera back in the 80’s which took surprisingly good photographs for a guesstimate range camera. You could get about 5 frames a second if you had a quick shutter button finger!
I also had the Contax RTS that your friend was talking about and I wish that I had kept it but I still have my Yashica FR1 with a few lenses that I had as a 21st birthday present.
Hey Tony, I hope the operation is successful, and your viewfinder eye can be used once more for its natural purpose! All the best my friend, glad you enjoyed the video!
Fantistic! You bought the best!!! Happiness 😀😀😀Grettings!
Hey Gustavo, the Konica lens is lovely, and the Leningrad is out there in a class of its own - stand by for episodes soon!
I enjoyed this video very much, Thank you. I should probably set up a stall at one of these places as I've turned into quite a hoarder. In no small part because of this channel 😂
I guess they're pretty good places to sell - certainly no shortage of customers!
As usual David you captured some fantastic images there!. Love the Nantlle ridge, Snowdon and the Moelwyns shots in particular. Last Friday I did Moel Hebog, Moel yr Ogof, Moel Lefn loop. It was my first time so I only shot with iphone, as a kind of reccie to go back with my XT-1 on a day with great light. Also, liked yr Glencoe shot very much. Kind regards, Phil
Many thanks Phil, glad you enjoyed it!
@@zenography7923 Apologies - I commented on the wrong video - Doh!!
Great video, thanks for sharing! Great to see so many young people at this event. Just came back to film photography after being presented with a quite old FED 1g. Bought a Jupiter 8 lens for it - following your recommendations in fact - and shot my first 20-odd pictures on a B/W slide reversal film only yesterday. I learned the basics of photography on my granddad's Voigtländer Bessamatic which has a quite rare and interestng Zoomar lens and which I've owned since he passed away in the early 1980s.
Film is a very special process, with more than a touch of magic about it - glad you're helping to keep it alive!
@@zenography7923 Agreed. In a time of fabricated narratives and partisan news reporting it's good to be in touch with physical matter itself rather than with some digital representation of it.
Very nice video again, Nigel! Very interesting Konica lens, but that Leningrad sure looks like something special! It reminds me of a Contax and a Robot at the same time! Funny that you and your friend were talking about Zenit, I bought one today, with the nice, but standard Helios 44, and le piece de resistans, a Jupiter 11. Otherwise it's an achievement to only buy one camera and one lens at such a goody fair, I'm afraid that I would have developed a neck and shoulder problem if I were there!
I had to restrain myself Kalle - ideally I would have liked that Leica iiig and an sx70 - but they'll have to wait for another day! The J11 is a very fine lens, if a little slow at f4 - enjoy!
Great video Nigel - really interesting! Thanks for showing us around! It's a pity you didn't have a circular polariser handy to cut out some of the reflections from the glass cases 😃
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I hadn't been to a camera fair in years before this one - it was nice to see one again, and heartening to see the unabated interest in film!
@@zenography7923 Absolutely! My local lab can't keep up with the orders there are so many film shooters these days - more than at the 'height' of film! Thanks again Nigel! Dave.
I've got that Konica 57mm myself, it's really nice! Not quite as creamy smooth as the Minolta 58mm, but sharper wide open. Those two lenses are both classics!
Blur seems a little harsher than on the Minolta 58, though it definitely feels sharper wide open as you say. More to come soon - stay tuned!
I love the way you went straight to a pentax
:) I love those little Pentaxes - even smaller than the OM cameras!
@2:10... "You got any Hasselblads?" lol.
lols indeed!
Darn I want to go one of these shows someday! Though I'm sure I'd end up spending way way way too much haha
That Leningrad rangefinder looks so neat! I'm glad you went and picked it up. I hope you enjoy it!
Funny you talked about that Canon FTb. I just recently finished my first roll with it. It is indeed very heavy and could really do with a grip (it's very hard to hold something that square) but I was genuinely impressed while using it because of how bright and big that viewfinder is. Very solid camera and one of the cheapest ways to get into shooting fd lenses on film.
It looks really nice - I'll probably pick one up soon and give it a go!
Enjoy that Leningrad, I'll be anxious to see your review. I have a similar camera, the Robot Royal 36 III, and it's a gem.
The Leningrad is quite something - stand by for an episode soon!
@@zenography7923 the only issue I've heard about with the Leningrad, is the frame spacing. Apparently as the roll winds through the camera, the mechanism doesn't always account for the increasing thickness of the wound film. Hope yours doesn't have that problem.
Would love to visit a fair like that! Got a mint condition Nikon EM, complete with 50mm 1.8, for a tenner at a flea market the other day though, so I can't complain too much.
You did pretty well there - well done!
Here in SE Europe we too have fairs like that. However, offerings are not so juicy down here...
Thanks to you I bought for my XT4 a Minolta 35mm f2.8 in a mint condition on ebay :) I will be going this weekend at the "foire de Bièvres", hoping to find some other vintage lenses. Cheers
Good luck, hope you find some nice ones!
The Hexanon 57 1.4 is one of my favourite vintage 50's, close focus distance, sharp and lovely rendering.
It's proved to be really nice so far although I haven't really put it through its paces - stay tuned for the episode!
did u pay 55 for the 57/1.4 ? the offering price at 75 quid is not exactly cheap
That Leningrad was really tasty.
I haven't shot it yet, but it's quite something, with the best rangefinder I've yet seen. Stay tuned for the episode!
yea that was quite a find.
went to a local camera show a few months ago, looks just like this! was mezmerized by all the old gear as well as the interest in shooting all these old film cameras. when i walked in they said 'oh look, he's a digital shooter'
Well, I would guess that people who shoot only film are pretty rare these days, so I don't think you're on your own! In any case they're different media with different strengths and weaknesses - it's a bit silly to be superior about either one!
I hope Alan makes some more appearances with you in the future.
A good photographic double act.
Glad you think it worked well, thanks!
Oh man I would go into bankruptcy with at so a day at a vintage lens fair 😅🤣
Well, it's funny you should say that...!
That Konica 57mm 1.4 is the first version that was released alongside the first Auto-reflex
It is, I'm looking forward to encountering the later version though!
The Konica 57mm 1.4 is a real nice lens. Worth every penny.
It's proved pretty nice up to now, though I haven't shot it much - I'll put it through its paces soon - stay tuned!
Wow, the lenses without front and back caps, especially the MD 50/1.4...i have two of these badboys.
Possibly the nicest vintage 50 1.4 ever made - enjoy!
@@zenography7923 Well, don't count out Zeiss. :-) It's a good lens, i do own both MD III iterations. Thanks Nigel - have a great week!
Thanks for the video Nigel i was going to this camera fair but i forgot all about it . i don't know if any one in the comments will know when the next one will be .
I think this is an annual one, but there are plenty of others going on all the time!
@@zenography7923 ok thanks Nigel i'll have a look around on the web sites .
Ha, i've had owned the Grado SR-60...but replaced it with a Sennheiser. I have also a broken TL Electro Yashica here, Nigel.
It sounds like that Yashica needs a service, any hope of getting it resurrected?
@@zenography7923 Nope, it's damaged via Shutter beyound repair, according to a repair shop. But i have another (much better) SLR from the M42 Electro series, so i am using that body along my M42 lenses.
I enjoy your channel and finding out about old lenses. I use Sony a7 and Fuji and wondered what 28mm lens you would recommend. I have a Zuiko 28mm f2 but after another with character and quality. Are there any decent 20mm'ish optics as well?
Well, the CZJ Flektogon 20mm in either f4 or f2.8 variety is a rather special lens, although a good one is quite expensive as vintage lenses go.
It was funny to see this event as it had the 'same' stock, same characters with the same expressions and same sort of venue as here 12,000 miles away. Unfortunately, I'm about 250 miles (sticking with the imperial units)) from the events here at home so there's about the same chance of being in London. Last best buy was a Voigtlander Perkeo III with original case, instruction booklet and matching lens (Color Skopar 3.5) hood, equivalent price in gbp about 45 pounds (and in excellent condition).
Thank you for the wander.
It's funny that these camera fairs do attract people who often tend to look similar - just a certain demographic I suppose, unless they're all extras from a casting agency!
@@zenography7923 I like the cameras in glass cabinets which seem to say, "out of your range"..
That Leica IIIg with the f2.8 elmar isn't badly priced IMHO. I bought a Leica III of Peter Loy a month or so back. BTW I'm not a wealthy person. Very enjoyable upload too.
Not badly priced at all - a bit expensive for me though, I'll stick with my Leicas 2 and 3! Glad you enjoyed the video.
So much cool stuff and also such a diversity. It would be a lie to say that I'm surprised that you got that Leningrad, knowing your camera choices from previous films. And honestly I might have made the same choice if I was there. I'm actually kinda surprised that I haven't ended up with one yet, probably only because of difficult repairs and photo lab unfriendliness. So far those concerns have prevailed when I saw them for sale online but I have a feeling it would be much harder to resist in person.
PS: I was kinda disappointed when you looked closely at an Exakta and then went pass two Praktinas without looking, but I'll get over it
I've had my eye on Leningrads for years and you're right, seeing one in the flesh so to speak made it hard to resist. I certainly left with one of the more left field cameras in the hall!
OMG! I wish I was there, but the down side is that I would break my credit card! Cheers!
Well now, it's funny you should say that!
OMG, i would love to visit that camera fair. but i would leave it very poor but happy
It's funny you should say that...!
@@zenography7923 i already have more old goldies than space on my wall bookcase
One more thing, after exactly 2 minutes, you're looking at a Pentax ME, below that one is an Agfa Colorflex. That's a cool camera, an SLR with a fixed lens.
Oh, I missed that one! Better luck next time I guess!
Good work! Not sure why subs went down. Maybe many newbies get over excited in the beginning and then burn out.
I guess so!
@@zenography7923 Also many people went back to work and now have less time for CZcams. Anyway, your style is very genuine, care free, and feels story like. I think your subs will go up.
Not many videos require me watching with a magnifying glass held to the phone. That was the lens with things in I recently imported, I have early type also. It seemed to be locked to the faulty camera,some noises took it off.didnt know it was helios44 related ,wonder if it swirls with Konica colour. didn't think the sx70 prices were to bad, mine was a fair bit more but when there seemed to be a shortage, got from America I wanted a perfect one.
The moon camera is most impressive is it a 39mount?
Yes, L39 mount - and of course it didn't go to the moon as I said as the Soviets never got there after their massive rocket exploded on the launchpad. The camera did get into space though! A real mix of tech there - rocket engines and digital guidance systems, exotic metals, cutting edge electronics - and a clockwork camera! Very cool!
Great posting, could you consider doing an article about tamron lense
Thanks for the suggestion, appreciated!
Yes especially the sp series
So jealous... Not sure if we have anything like this where I live..
I would think there would be something similar, it's probably worth checking online.
I can relate to lusting after a Zenith. Back in the early 80's I wanted an SLR but couldn't afford one. Then I did a favour for a friend and he gave me his OM10. That was the start of my love affair with this hobby. I am still lusting after cameras I can't afford. Maybe my mate will gift me a Leica one day?
Maybe he will - good luck!
180 for a pentacon six. thats NICE !
* so. even if you find a pentacon, you should know if you broke it, it will remain that way
For the Kiev ones, you will find repair shops. ( total cost about 1k repairs upgrade transport in the e.u. )
For "big bugets" forget about them go Hasselblad or Mamya, you will never look back, even if you will wait 1 year to fill the piggy.
24:45 is that a Rollei 35? I've always wanted to try one out, along with one of the 35mm Minoxes.
They're tiny little things - the rollei that is - but sadly I don't think there's a rangefinder built in.
Wish I knew when this was on
I'm sure there'll be plenty more!
11:10 someone actually selling a box of Cibachrome 😀. Assuming it's late production it probably still works fine if you can find a chemical kit.
I didn't notice the cibachrome, but it could be tricky to develop, as you say.
The Minolta 110 Zoom SLR Mk. II is said to have possibly the best lens of all 100 cameras. It is really sharp!
I've heard the lenses for this camera are pretty nice - it's a lovely little camera and I was very tempted by it! I bet those lenses would work great on micro four thirds too!
@@zenography7923 The zoom lens is not interchangeable but has a macro setting as well.
Yes but worked only with inferior 110 Film. I had a Haninex DFT 110 Tele back into the heyday, years ahead of my 1st 35mm SLR....a Pentax MX. The 110 Mk. II looked like a real SLR, and handled like one, the Zoom lens was fixed.
@@marcp.1752 110 film is not inferior IMO. My mother had pics from an Agfa 110 camera enlarged to poster size (A3 or larger, don't recall right now)
@@Martin_Siegel Well, it can't compete with 36x24mm Film, especially not at higher ISO/ASA. I shoot since the mid 80s. But i remember quite well, onto a sunny day, i've had 2-3 really good exposures with 110 Film, and Kodak Gold onto a 24 exposure roll. But that was a small print, 9x13cm.
Cool you bought the rangefinder Leinigrad a new video coming up???
Yep, stay tuned to see it soon!
Pentina Mount lydith
Ah, so that's what it is, thanks!
Nigel, congrats: You treated yourself to THE showpiece of the Russian camera industry. Any western company would have risked bankrupcy by producing such a camera. A marvel of opto-mechanics, phantastically over-engineered. I have passed two films through my Leningrad and thereafter relegated it to the fondling section of my collection. I trust you know that the camera is practically unserviceable. Once broken it will stay that way. Still, even it isn't really a user, it is a vvvery nice camera to have.
It's quite an incredible machine - I've often thought of getting one but they seemed such an exotic thing I didn't really dare! Seeing one in the flesh was different though - stay tuned for an episode on it soon!
Where was the camera show? What city? Country?
Canon slr you had could knock someone out of commission 😂
Indeed it could, and you could still take a picture with it afterwards!
Should have walked in there with a giger counter... the magazines can be fun to read. I picked up one this year with articles by Will Connell and William Mortensen..two guys I love. Will's In Pictures 1930's spiral bound satirical photo book about Hollywood is a treasure, and Mortensen, a world of his own, who I believe has influenced David Lynch, and who Ansel called "the anti Christ" has no peers. Both in one issue was a real find. I'm surprised to see only one guy in this wearing a "photo" vest...
I should have looked at some magazines while I was there - missed a trick! Oh well, nest time I guess.
I was thinking about a counter during the video. Saw a number of lenses I rekon are a bit warm.
I spotted a Rollei 35 (Tessar 3.5) but could not see its price. Did you happen to see it, Nigel?
As I recall, it was around £100 - I think!
@@zenography7923 Many thanks, Nigel. That seems a good price if it was in reasonable order.
135mm chinon for 5? That's. A bargain..
I should have bought it, but I'd spent too much already!
@@zenography7923. I absolutely know what you mean ;) i have over 50 vintage lenses now
I would've went if I knew about it!… Where was it?
It was in lindley hall in victoria - I'm sure there are plenty of other camera fairs to come though!
@@zenography7923 Ah!... That's just a stones throw from me, in Brixton. Such a shame! I would've copped that Chinon 135 for £5!… 🤨
Wow! not even a free bag...
I know, innit?
I can't watch! :-( It's making me envious to the max. The SX-70 is the best Polaroid I've ever had my hands on. That and the Mamiya Press with a Polaroid back, but that's cheating :-)
I had flat Minolta 110 SLR type and with a 2x zoom, tho I can't remember the zoom range. I thin it was around 25~50mm
I'll get an sx70 someday - had one a couple of years ago and loved it - drooled over them in the 70s too! The cost of film hasn't got any less expensive since then though!
Maybe to get more subscribers in this age of TikTok, you will need to make shorter videos. Maybe divide a video in two parts? I myself sometimes don’t have time to watch the whole thing, I watch it in parts.
Great shopping selection, if I was you, I would had broken the piggy bank and would had bought that Leica for 500£! 🐖
I definitely want to get a Leningrad 📷
Thanks for the suggestion - shorter videos might indeed be a way forward. Thanks for looking in!
# 400 Like here ….Hello boy’s enjoy the GAS …..😄😄😄😄
There's no known cure for gas I'm afraid!
3:24 Polaroids have suffered the most from the hipster-inflation. That plastic model SX-70 isn't worth anything near that realistically.
Film gear has increased in price a lot in recent years, having said that it seems to have started to come down a bit lately!
RTS... sigh
It was in your hands Al...!
Not good to have a friend like that! A friend that facilitates your photography addiction buy "lending" you cash-money while you acted conservative and deliberately brought a small amount of money. That friend just says "I can loan you the money" and then your dreams and fantasies can come true. I had a friend like that that would lend me money for stupid purchases. Its how people egg you on to do stupid stuff. In your younger days alcohol might have been the primer, and your friends hyper masculinity egging you on to do "high risk behaviours". Now your friend can't egg you on to pull your pants down at a party, but they egg you on with your other weaknesses.
Well, there might be something in that! I did get some nice stuff though.
The PCCGB stands for the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain. Check out their web site! A super video!
So nice to see my name on the Patreon list for the first time! (Scott B is my name of Patreon) Looking forward to seeing videos on both those buys in future.
Hey Scott, and welcome aboard! The support of patrons enables this channel to do what it does, so many thanks, and enjoy the ride!