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WTB Pentax K1000 or Canon AE1 - have EP Booster for possible trade deal
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Anyone got an unused Pentax K1000 of Canon AE1? Fancy getting back into old school analogue film photography but my old Eos 1000f is buggered. So looking for a decent one of these with a standard 50mm lens and working light meter.
Edit - to make it more guitar related I have an EP Booster I could make part of some sort of trade deal :-)
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youThanks for the reply!
Not trading for the EP is not a problem - just put it out there in case people keen :-)
Cheers all - and if any of you helpful fellows locates your K1000s and they seem to be working, feel free to PM with prices.
A cla would fix it but cost more than the camera is worth. Nice camera otherwise.
If you want a great, old school film experience I'd look more at medium format slrs. Much better image quality, insane lenses, some have leaf shutters so you can sync up at 1/500th and they're generally better built.
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To be honest, with cost of film being what it is (ie very expensive to develop - even if you go for pound land colour film, which isn't bad at all) I feel that medium format and larger format films are the way to go - a twin lens reflex is portable, great looking and again will give a wonderful leaf shutter with minor natural vignette and the potential for much higher flash sync speeds if it has a socket.
The mamiya rz67 is the best camera I've owned - sadly sold now, but you can get the wonderful 250mm f/4 lens for portraits for less than £200 these days - a lens that, back in the day, would have been a couple of grand. It's a big camera though - and the mirror slap is a sound to behold! Twin lens reflex is more suited for street.
That's fine though - lots of wonderful, more affordable b+w out there, and home development is easy. You could then either scan the negs or get a darkroom set up for printing.
Anyway - the old Eos still seems to work fine (nothing developed yet kind you) so might give that a go. Do you have any idea whether the image quality with the 1000f using the standard 50mm EF mark 2 f1.7 lens will be better/similar/worse to something like and AE1 or a Pentax MX with their standard 50mm lenses?
Basically the same - 50mm 1.8 lenses are all much of a muchness in design. Some very modern ones, like the sigma art 1.4 or Sony Zeiss 55mm are designed for ultra high resolution, but a 50mm 1.8 is a sharp, cheap lens that makes great photos
If you're shooting silver halide film, like Ilford hp5, get your own developing tank. It's cheap and easy to develop film, once you've got the knack of a dark bag and the film reel.
Then it's just about printing or scanning - there are some good scanners available now.
I love film photography, especially for black and white - development in rodinal with a high speed film just makes a wonderful, contrasty, grainy look. But it's time consuming compared to digital, and I don't have access to a scanner here