Comments on: 400TX and QL17 http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/ a new city. a new life. here's my two sense. Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:49:40 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Thad http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/comment-page-1/#comment-149879 Thad Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:37:40 +0000 http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/#comment-149879 My father just gave me a Minolta Hi-Matic 9, a rangefinder with full auto, aperture priority, shutter priority, or full manual exposure modes. It used a 1.35v Mercury battery as well. I just followed your recommendation about using the Zinc-air 675 battery with an o-ring, and the meter is back to life. Nice! It has a Rokkor 45mm f/1.7 lens, so we'll have to see how that works. It was my grandmother's camera, and the chromes from it always came out fine. It should be fun to play with... My father just gave me a Minolta Hi-Matic 9, a rangefinder with full auto, aperture priority, shutter priority, or full manual exposure modes. It used a 1.35v Mercury battery as well. I just followed your recommendation about using the Zinc-air 675 battery with an o-ring, and the meter is back to life. Nice!

It has a Rokkor 45mm f/1.7 lens, so we'll have to see how that works. It was my grandmother's camera, and the chromes from it always came out fine. It should be fun to play with…

]]> By: Kurt Weiske http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/comment-page-1/#comment-149878 Kurt Weiske Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:18:45 +0000 http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/#comment-149878 Thanks for the link to my site, I see quite a bit of traffic clicking through to my Canonet pages. If you want aperture exposure, I think the closest you could get is the Canonet 28. it's full auto, slightly slower lens.The Ricoh 500G is a nice little camera, works fine with alkaline batteries and is aperture priority. http://www.mattdentonphoto.com/cameras/ricoh_500g.html Thanks for the link to my site, I see quite a bit of traffic clicking through to my Canonet pages.

If you want aperture exposure, I think the closest you could get is the Canonet 28. it's full auto, slightly slower lens.The Ricoh 500G is a nice little camera, works fine with alkaline batteries and is aperture priority.

http://www.mattdentonphoto.com/cameras/ricoh_500g.html

]]> By: Colin Devroe » Blog Archive » A roll of 400TX film shot with a Canon Canonet G-III QL17 http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/comment-page-1/#comment-126621 Colin Devroe » Blog Archive » A roll of 400TX film shot with a Canon Canonet G-III QL17 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:57:08 +0000 http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/#comment-126621 [...] much to you - don’t worry. All you need to know is that my friend Albert Yee has managed to take some fantastic photos with his new toy, the Canon Canonet G-III [...] [...] much to you – don't worry. All you need to know is that my friend Albert Yee has managed to take some fantastic photos with his new toy, the Canon Canonet G-III [...]

]]> By: luminouslens http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/comment-page-1/#comment-125648 luminouslens Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:27:36 +0000 http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/#comment-125648 I really, really love these photos. They are beautiful. I really, really love these photos. They are beautiful.

]]> By: Laura Eaton http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/comment-page-1/#comment-125205 Laura Eaton Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:47:28 +0000 http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/#comment-125205 Thanks so much for adding me to your blog roll! And great images! I have an old Canonet QL17 too - your images really make me want to stick a roll of film in there again! Take care, Laura Eaton Thanks so much for adding me to your blog roll!

And great images! I have an old Canonet QL17 too – your images really make me want to stick a roll of film in there again!

Take care,
Laura Eaton

]]> By: kyle cassidy http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/comment-page-1/#comment-125080 kyle cassidy Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:30:19 +0000 http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/#comment-125080 you've done some wonderful commercial work in the past -- you really turned around the way i look at photographing things like conferences now. you've done some wonderful commercial work in the past — you really turned around the way i look at photographing things like conferences now.

]]> By: Thad http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/comment-page-1/#comment-125017 Thad Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:51:13 +0000 http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/02/18/400tx-and-ql17/#comment-125017 The results from that camera are really great! Your newspaper stand shots are really cool, including the one here. I'm not as enamored with the rangefinders as you are... other than pocketability and the quiet shutter, I find SLRs preferable in pretty much every way. I must be missing something... Your results show how good they can be. And, um... Smith & Wollensky is on the west side of the square, where traffic flows southbound (counter clockwise around the square). That cyclist is riding south: with the traffic, not against... The results from that camera are really great! Your newspaper stand shots are really cool, including the one here.

I'm not as enamored with the rangefinders as you are… other than pocketability and the quiet shutter, I find SLRs preferable in pretty much every way. I must be missing something… Your results show how good they can be.

And, um… Smith & Wollensky is on the west side of the square, where traffic flows southbound (counter clockwise around the square). That cyclist is riding south: with the traffic, not against…

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