Hi, thanks for responding. I appreciate your personal response. As I mentioned, I didn't know if it was true or not about the static! I just wanted to share a note I heard about with a fellow Leica owner. Thanks again. Paul Conway P.S. I really enjoy your videos!

Hi, I have watched your videos off and on, and your knowledge is excellent on cameras! Your explanations of camera gear is very sober and clear. I want to add a little tidbit on the video of Leica m3. Not knowing if true or not, I heard that when the camera was designed for the rewind know, it was made purposely to be rewound in a slow manner! The reason was if rewound to fast streaks of static electricity could appear on the film according to the environment you were in photographing! I just acquired one, and had an m3 many years ago and always regreted selling it. Now I have another, and this one stays with me!! Thanks take care. Paul Conway

One and a half metre, a little under 8 feet? One and half metres is 4feet 11inches😀

The F6 isn't that reliable because it has a lot of electronics that could fail. When changing batteries data, clock, date, hour are run by an internal rechargable buffer battery that died after near 20 year of use on my F6. Nikon repaired it recently but the bill was huge. My FM3A that is also a 21st century film Nikon camera and never failed.

U saved my life ty❤️

Great stuff as usual a wonderful channel many thanks Mark

Cool, calm and collected.

Hello Eric! I have two Canon A1s, but since I started using manual mode more I prefer other cameras of the time like the Minolta XD-7 that allows you to see in the viewfinder at all times the exposure chosen and the one recommended by the camera. In any case the A-1 is an excellent camera. Another highly recommended camera is the Konica autoreflex T3. Now a small con of the futuristic A-1, the battery door is very fragile and uncomfortable to open without fear of breaking (as you showed us)it. The program mode does not have program shift something that the XD-7 does have despite not being called program in shutter speed priority mode one can choose the minimum shutter speed in which the camera will try to find the necessary aperture to obtain a good exposure and if the largest aperture is not enough to obtain a correct exposure then the camera at the time of taking the photo corrects the shutter speed necessary to compensate effectively acting as a program mode allowing the user to choose a starting shutter speed.

That was terrific!!!

I just got one - it fires at all speeds, the LCD does display,but it doesn't seem to measure and A mode just hangs mirror up . Does anyone know can it be fixed?

Thanks for this!

Awesome review! Thanks!

Was one of the pictures of the Woodrow Wilson bridge?

Thank you of this!!!

I grew up with point and shoot film cameras like the 110 rectangular cameras. We later got a 35mm point and shoot. We bought the cheapest film. I never learned about the different film stocks or shot black and white film. 7 years ago I got into actual photography with my first DSLR. I've owned 2 DSLR bodies (still have the first one) and 2 mirrorless bodies. Back in April (2024) I bought an old Canon AE-1 and got back into film. A couple of months ago I bought a SRT 202 off fb market for $40. It has the 50mm lens but the lens has fungus inside the lenses. Last week I was on vacation in Arkansas and found a 50mm lens in a consignment shop for $14. When I got to the cash register to pay the woman said it was 45% off and was $11. A could of days later I found a 28mm at a flea market for $20. I also bought a Nikon FM2M and an F4 from a fb friend while I was out there. I bought a 28mm lens from a camera store in Florida for them for $90. I said I wasn't going to start shooting film because I didn't want to buy another set of lenses. Then I said I'm not going to start developing my own film at home. Well...... I'm going to stop saying I'm not going to do something because I keep eating my words and I'm getting full. I'll be looking for a medium format camera before you know it and then set up a dark room for making prints.

Eric.. my great gentleman, THANK YOU SO MUCH ! this tip just helped fix a roll that I accidentally rolled all the way but had no exposures on it yet 😅 YOU’RE THE BEST

Thanks very much for the video. I bought this camera back and back in the day and it’s been in my closet and I went to take it out and couldn’t find the manual that went with it so I appreciate that you pretty much went through this whole camera. Thank you.

Great vid. Do you know if the older models are fully mechanical shutter? The m645 or m645j ?

Great comparison, thank you! I received a brand new Canonet QL17 as an 8th grade graduation gift and am fortunate enough to never have sold it -- and I still use it! I eventually picked up the companion flash a few years ago but never used it until a couple weeks ago. Wow. Of course it's needed some maintenance over the years but the quality of this camera continues to astound me.. focusing is easy, photos are sharp and the light meter still works as good as new.

I absolutely love this video! I recently got my hands on one of these cameras and this video told me absolutely everything I wanted to know about it. Mine seems to be in working condition, all of the mechanics seem to be functioning, but I don’t have a battery for it. I’m happy that I found your channel :) I’m excited to see the other cameras you’ve talked about

Very good rundown

Super good ❤

Great video! I noticed your first side-by-side comparison was using JPGs which means you are probably seeing some compression artifacts on both sides. Also, any Lightroom mode except develop uses the generated previews which can be significantly lower quality than the originals. That does mean you need to flip between images vs doing side by side, but develop mode with TIFF would let you show off the pure differences. Keep it up - great stuff!

I loved this camera, I purchased it after watching this very video of yours! unfortunately it broke during a shoot and couldn't be repaired. Since then I've switched to an Autorex P. Bigger but so much better!! And you can choose between full and half frame.

What lens were you using? Cool pics.

Отлично. Это лучший ролик по этой камере. Недавно попала в руки такая и я был поражен тому, насколько эта камера хороша и удобна. У моей правда не работала обратная перемотка пленки. Но в комментариях под одним из роликов я прочитал, что под нижней крышкой нужно смазать шестеренку, которая на рычаге, которая переключает перемотку. Я разобрал и капнул wd 40. После этого все заработало. Камера - просто космос.

This is the best review of the Canon A1 . Brilliant work 5 star

There's a trick to keep the shutter speed at 1/400. It's on a KZbin video. My camera arrives next week, so we'll see. It could also be said that a rule of thumb for minimum shutter speed is the inverse of the focal length, so 1/40 should be OK. Maybe practice holding steady? Or bracing yourself against a tree or something.

Excellent informative video. Thanks!!👍

I remember shooting my first roll of Velvia 50, I shot it twice between June 2018, and March 2020. Nowadays it's harder to find Velvia because I already know that Ektachrome (the new one) is taking over the slide film industry and it was the only one that is still around over Fujifilm's Velvia 50, and the now discontinuted Velvia 100 which makes Ektachrome the only one left in the world that is still better than Velvia. I don't know how true it was, Velvia 50 reminds me of Kodachrome 25 based on the people who used to shoot this stuff, when they changed it to Velvia, it was convenience to shoot over Kodachrome. Is that make sense?

I was reasonably happy with the Epson software for my V600, but it's not supported anymore on newer Macs. I went to Silverfast, but hate the interface and the poor automatic frame detection, among other issues like the clunkiness of batch scanning. Just installed Vuescan and am hoping for a better workflow.

Wow! I cannot believe it! There IS a double exposure feature on the Barnacks!!! I wondered why not… as the manual expressed mention the way it was designed to prevent double exposure - I thought there was no way to bypass that! Thanks a lot!!

Thank you for this video, I was on the fence about getting one of these and now I’m sold lol

Ups, on the side where the cartridge is, you have the film under the wrong roller. The film goes under the thick roller, not the thin one. You get out of focus pictures on one side. It happened to me as well, when I had the camera new.

You just mentioned about the depth of field lever and didn't explain much about it if i am not wrong... I noticed though, when I press it, it acts as an exposure lock lever... M

is the leica mini 2 a good deal for 200€?

Great talk through Eric. Just watched in 2024.

hELLO....nice video. I have a ROLLEI 35S gold-plated 24 k..lens TASAR 2.8/40 .a gift a never actually used SINCE 1970....now I like to use it but FIRST THING I NOTICED the white needle doesn't move....I think is the battery....I used an LR44 1.5 but it spent work,,,,,INSIDE the battery compartment I see that I must use a PX625 BATTERY but I cannot find one....another question: how much do you think is the value of this camera now ?? it has a very low serial number...maybe a good collection camera......I would appreciate a reply...thank you......by the way I live in Italy

can you do a video comparing this camera to the Nikkormat FT3? That would be great thanks!

How did you get so interested in old cameras?

Hi, late to this video i'm aware of it. Hope to get a response though. Can you regulate the hight of the mount like you can do with the Betterscaning one? Thank you very much.

I'm kinda dumb, gonna need to rewatch this again, the F stop, and shutter speed parts are where I got lost. The Flickr looks amazing. My IIc came with a whole bunch of correct accessories, and allegedly has never had film through it. Thinking of dragging it along to my next wedding, for the film effect.

If you want this but don't have the budget I implore you to get the Canon IV SB and IV SB2 Build quality is on par with Leica with multiple improvements in the combined viewfinder/rangefinder system

I enjoy your videos and the details in camera features, thank you!

Accessories for the Rollei 35 s and 35SE are presently (2024) surprisingly easy to acquire. For lens hoods, there are many Chinese rubber copies of the original Rollei item and also many hard, metal hoods. I found that my original Rollei rubber hood rotted with age, so I recommend not to buy the real thing off eBay. Rollei offered a very limited selection of filters for the Rollei 35S/SE, not worth the price they tend to command today. Conventional 30.5mm filters in a wide variety are sold on eBay for less than half the price of the originals and are just as good, or better when coated. Over the years, Rollei included protective pouches in real leather pouches or high quality vinyl, either being nice and common. However, there was also a separate semi-hard, fitted "everyready" style case which is now hard to find but nice if acquired. There were also hard sided box-type cases which are not very nice and have not held up that well - avoid them and their Chinese copies. Finally, to mitigate that useless flash hot shoe on the camera bottom, Rollei originally sold a small extension bracket and a slip-in adapter to give a PC plug to work with mounting a regular flash to the side of the camera. The whole little package originally sold for $4.95 retail. Today, you can find the flash bracket with little effort for a few dollars. However, the PC plug adapter to fit into the hotshoe AND work with the bracket is almost always missing. That adapter commonly goes for $50 to $75 if found. (A generic PC adapter will fit the hotshoe, but will not fit the bracket.) I searched for many years and finally found one, but I had to buy an unneeded Rollei 35S to go with it.

I apologize if this has been asked a million times! I have a screw mount 50mm summitar. The smallest aperture is labeled as 12.5. Is that the equivalent of f/16? Thank anyone for a reply. X

I just bought a Yashica Electo35 Gsn and a Canon Ql17 g3 over the last 2 days. I'm excited I'm glad my money went to cameras that were comparable to a Leica in any way. I know they aren't Leicas since Leica makes more then just images production it's an experince and everything inside the body with all the moving parts are grade a . But I can't afford that experince yet so I'm glad I can get somewhat in the ballpark with image quailty after this video I'll probably put a few rolls threw it and set it on the desk next to my other film cameras and primarily use my canon but who knows everyone's experience can be a lil different I may preference the yashica for some other reasons. Either way I'm excited to get them in my hands hopefully they won't get lost in the mail.

Great review! Am I right to assue the 645 and 645 1000s are much the same except for the one stop higher speed?

at 5:07, NO!!!, you have to take that watch off!-its luminescent paint/led display can fog the film.

Thank you for your review! I can tell by how you use your hands that you really love your cameras!! I have several Voigtlanders - including a pre war Bessa! I would love to hav e a Bessa 2 - I'll keep saving!!