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Robbie Moubert
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During lockdown I got back into film photography and now have a couple of old Olympus 35mm cameras - an OM-20 and OM-4. For a while I've wanted to try a medium format TLR and recently acquired a 1965 Yashica-Mat EM in very good condition. No light leaks and the exposure meter appears to be accurate. I think it's been kept in its case which has helped prevent the selenium cells from degrading. It's entirely mechanical and takes 120 film with a negative size of 6cm x 6cm (2 1/4"), giving 12 shots to a roll.
I've put a couple of rolls of film through it so far. I wasn't trying to capture anything stunning, just testing it, but I quite like a few shots. You can see the results here.
Any other vintage camera enthusiasts around or, more broadly, anyone else got any old tech that's still going strong?
Edited by Robbie Moubert on 10 November 2026 at 3:50pm
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Joe Franklin
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| Posted: 10 November 2026 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | 2
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This is a fun time of year for photography, and your pictures reflect that in a vivid way. Thanks for sharing!
I have a LaserDisc player, a VCR, and a VCR/DVD combo. I also picked up a TV/DVD combo. The LaserDisc player was sold by a school and is a true workhorse, though not one that auto-plays both sides. Gotta flip it over like a record after about an hour!
I recently picked up a TV/cassette/radio combo. Only the radio works. It might be a good reason to start tinkering with vintage electronic repair!
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Peter Martin
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| Posted: 10 November 2026 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | 3
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The years roll by so that a lot of my tech is old. I have a working scroll-wheel iPod still. I bought it literally 20 years ago -- November 2006 (it was my second iPod). And I still run with an iPod Shuffle.
I also have a Yamaha Clavinova from 1998... It has a floppy disk drive! Everything still works on it. And it weighs nearly as much as me (it's about 70% of my mass!).
When it comes to photography, even my digital stuff is getting old now. My venerable Nikon D90 is 16 years old. Doesn't get much use, but still works.
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Bill Collins
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| Posted: 11 November 2026 at 7:17am | IP Logged | 4
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I'm not into taking photos seriously, but like to see
photographi art. Love yours Robbie!
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Robbie Moubert
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| Posted: 12 November 2026 at 12:20am | IP Logged | 5
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Thanks Bill!
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Lionel Faure
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Hi Robbie. Nice Yashica Mat! And nice pictures. What do you use for scanning them? They look consistantly low contrast, is this intentional? I run a homebased film lab here in France (Homemade Photo Lab). Tip: if you want them tho look more like paper prints, try to adjust the contrast with a S cuve in any photo editor like Gimp. Negatives are designed to be low contrast because once they are printed on paper, the paper adds its own S curved contrast to the image. You can check out some of my film pictures on this old fashioned photo sharing site: https:// www.flickr.com/photos/lionelffaure
Edited by Lionel Faure on 12 November 2026 at 12:44pm
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Steve Gumm
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| Posted: 12 November 2026 at 1:11pm | IP Logged | 7
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Nice photos Robbie!
Edited by Steve Gumm on 12 November 2026 at 1:18pm
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Steve Gumm
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In today's world I have all but given up trying to take candid photos. You get one shot in and then everyone has to find their default pose and you have to take it at the exact camera angle they like. EVERYONE just looks like cardboard cutouts... the same look/pose in every one of their pictures, it just sucks the life out of it.
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Robbie Moubert
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| Posted: 12 November 2026 at 1:32pm | IP Logged | 9
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Hi Lionel, there's some lovely shots on your site!
I currently use a business in the north of England, AG Photolab. They sell a wide range of film stock as well as their processing and scanning services. I'd previously used another lab but changed to AG because I experimented with some old 35mm film (expired in 1999!) and they offer push processing. I used to order the scans with no adjustment but for my last couple of orders, including the Yashica photos, I chose "Balance images for colour, contrast and density." They also offer flat, low-contrast scans.
Although I routinely edit my digital photos, so far I've tended not to edit the film ones. I may have a play with some of them at some point and see how they look.
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