Lens and Tripod 2

Manual  not  Auto  ??  If  its  functioning  to  your  satisfaction,  Golly,  then  thats  perfectly  ok  in  my  book  .

I  rarely  take  a  tripod  with  me  now,  I'm  inclined  to  use  one  of  several  natural  wooden  "Thumb  Sticks"  that  I've  Begged,  Borrowed  and/or  won  in  any  other  manner,

If  the  V  at  the  top  is  level  with  my  eyeline  then  it  will  be  a  close  fit  for  the  lenses  on  my  E O S  and  in  busy  places like  Cathedrals  etc  its  single  foot  will  be  close  to  my  ( Large ) feet  &  so  no  danger  to  the  passing  public.

Glad you got sorted Golly, it would be good if you post a couple of results on hear.

i just replaced my old Sigma 70-300mm lens with a Tamron 18-270mm.  Only got it today so hopefully get to use it by the weekend

sadly i no longer have the ability to pic post here , i may try some time to have a pic posted here via another fine poster who has the ability 

hope you have fun with your new kit Oneputt 

Glad to hear it worked out.

The manuel/auto bit tales me back to my first camera that had stop down metering. For the younger ones that means you focused at the widest f stop then to meter you had to close your aperture to your desired f stop (stop down) . Full aperture metering was only for the high end cameras.

Also you only had a max of 36 photos and had to wait up to a week before you saw the results, as opposed to over 7000 on my current card and the results in seconds!

You  were  lucky  if  you  got  yours  back  in  a  week,  Corners  !!

One  of  my  Kodachromes,  towards  the  end  of  their  hold  on  me,  went  over  to  their  plant  in  Switzerland  but  only  came  back  in  the  strangest  way  !!

A  chappie  from  one  of  the  T.V.  companies  in  Jacksonville,  U.S. of  blooming  A,  saw  an  orange  package  in  a  "Returned  Goods"  shop,  Bought  it,  viewed  it,  then  wrote  and  asked  if  I  wanted  it  back ,  and  if  so  what  would  I  trade  for  it  !!

 Admiring  his  cheek  I  got  a  brand  new  baseball  cap  from  Japan,  sent  it  and  asked  him  if  he  had  ever  seen  such  a  daft  hat.  Needless  to  say  the  errant  item  turned  up  wrapped  up  within  a  REAL  Baseball  cap. !!  After  that  I  swapped  companies  &  went  to  Fuji  --  processed  in  Yorkshire  or  somewhere  weird  I  think .

thanks for your post, it made me laugh. I couldn't afford Kodachrome, luxury luxury

I found a shop in Derby that sold Orwochrome, it included processing (goodness knows where) and cost about £2, and outdated at £1 a roll and that included processing and mounting. The results had a 'slight' orange colour cast but it was cheaper than any other option, unless of course like me you bought B&W Ilford FP4 in bulk (200 feet was it?) and had one of those machines for loading it into re-useable cassetts and then did your own developing in a Patterson tank. Ahh happy days.

 The 18 referred to the ISO, or ASA as it was called then but it was the alternative German scale? I can't remember what it was called.

DIN  I  think  it  was, CS,  but  thats  only  the  initials  of  the  German  Industrial  Standards  organisation  I  think..  And  it  was  that  new  fangled  HP3  in  my  early  days  !!  T'owd  Mon  used  it  in  2 1/4  Square  for  Wedding  Photography  &  a  list  of  the colours  of  eyes,  hair,  Bouquets  &  any  decorations  on  dresses  etc  for  the  artist  to  colour  in  with  the  very finest  of  paint  brushes  &  bottles  of  coloured  inks,  specially  made  for  the  purpose.  !!

Huh,  Modern  kids  don't  know  they  are  born  !!  Grouch,  grouch  !!

P.S.  sitting  here  in  the  study  cum  office ( Spare  bedroom  )I'm  surrounded  by  Files  upon  files  of  35mm  slides,  64000  of  them  before  I  went  Digital !!

DIN , yes that was it! One of my projects is to transfer all my slides onto digital. They are all in Hanimex round projector magazines, so it would be a long job, unless there is a way of putting those magazines into a scanner?

Thanks for the replies

had to get myself a new bag for my kit ,i ended up on the ebay and ended up with a purpose built eos rucksac .it will also take my laptop .

all this talk of actual film takes me back to my young college days :) hours and hours in the dark room and the smell of the chemicals :) somewhere in the loft I still have a full darkroom kit including a convector enlarger :D and as for Kodachrome I still have one that I found the other day while sorting out that I forgot to post off for developing, I wonder if the free developing is still being done?