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Kodak Portra 800

12/30/2014

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I was excited to get to try some professional film and see if it made a difference in the contrast and colors of my pictures. I would say it did indeed help with the outdoor shots as they look pretty good, but contrary to what I thought, the film is still daylight balanced, so indoor shots still came out yellow/orange. I was also disappointed to see light leaks on some shots which means my light seal replacement did not go as well as I planned....
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Canon Z115

12/10/2014

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Well the best I can say about this little point n' shoot is that it takes pictures. The lens is nothing to write home about, but it does have a decent zoom range. To my eye the pictures were generally washed out and not very sharp, and the flash really didn't have much power so the only thing it lit up was whatever was just to the left of the lens. It also rewound my roll 4 frames early so I'm not sure what happened there...
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Contax 139 Quartz

12/9/2014

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When I got it, the light seals were bad, and the leatherette was peeling (which is par for the course for these.) I got replacement kits for both and spent a couple hours refurbishing this beauty to the condition you see here. Soon I'll be running some film through it and posting the results!
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And here's a shot of it before the new leatherette.
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I've been looking forward to making this post for some time now. Contax is a Zeiss brand of lens infamy, but in the 70's they licensed the name to Yashica to make a line of SLR's that are just a cut above the standards. The mechanics are smooth and the design is elegant.

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Here are a few pictures with with another favorite of Japanese manufacturing - the Yamaha DG-80 guitar amplifier.
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Fujica ST605

12/1/2014

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This camera is all about simplicity. It uses the old standard M42 threaded lenses, and you have to push in the depth of field preview button to activate the light meter. The only oddity is that the top shutter speed is 1/700... most cameras are either 1/500 or 1/1000 so I don't know why they settled on 1/700. But in any case, it's easy to use and makes a very satisfying 'clunk' when it fires!
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