u/Flyinace2000

Been going through my late mother's old camera gear. The Canon FTB was recently CLA'ed at Garry's Camera and waiting on my first roll of film from the developer (hopefully today!).

The Canon has a 50mm f1.8 lens, a 110/4.0 macro, and a 70-210 zoom lens (macro mode at 70mm). The macro has an extension tube. A bunch of filters including a Hoya center spot and Multivision. The canon had a leather case but it was deteriorating. My dad said she used the macro stuff for taking pictures of her jewelry for magazines or ads.

The other camera is a Yashica FX3. I've redone the light seals, camera bump, fixed the mirror slipping, and ordered some leather from Japan. It only has a 50mm f1.9 lens and a flash (CS-201). The Yashica leather case is in decent shape and needs a spot of glue to reapply one loose bit of leather.

Anyway, the canon is a beast! Body is nearly 2lbs, and with the zoom lens it's close to 5. I'm going to run a roll of film through the Yashica next to see how it works, but I was considering getting a small zoom lens (35-80'ish) for it since the lighter body might make a better "walking around" camera. But that might be silly since I have the 70-210 for the FTb and I'll just wait a year or so to see what I actually "need".

Thanks all, glad to be here and looking forward to this new hobby.

Watch just past the orange construction side you will see a black truck make a left hand turn and a silver car swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid them. Not sure they had enough time to slow down, but it was concerning to see!

After a storm a branch clipped my car and snapped the red mirror cap on my car. Could have been a lot worse. So got some aftermarket carbon fiber looking ones on eBay for about $120. Fitment was pretty good and turns out my other mirror's clips were already broken, so now all mirrors are tight!.

$50 per box. Super tempting but might wait to see if they drop in price.

Recently went through box of my mom's stuff from the 70s/80s and she had a Canon FTb along with some zoom and macro lens for taking photos of her jewelry. I've run 2 rolls of Kodak Ultra 400 and the biggest thing to improve is me. The small thing to improve is that the mirror will get stuck in the up position at shutter speed 60 and sometimes at 125 and 30 (one in ten).

I took off the bottom and everything looks pretty clean. Cleaned up some of the old grease with a cotton tip and some alcohol and added a very very very small amount of TriFlow. I've replaced the light seals and the mirror foam to no change in mirror performance. The mirror goes back up when going to the next exposure.

Video of issue: https://youtu.be/VZzx1yYxnKE?is=Il4OZr0fUpXqfmRa

Machine was my grandfather’s and as a kid it was my job to turn it on after we were done eating. He passed away a while ago but I refurbished the gaskets and seals and had a local metal shop shine her up. It was a show piece in my dining room for a while but it was a terrible location. Just got back from Sicily and Naples and now the machine lives in the kitchen and has been getting nearly daily use.

Had my local shop install the tray about 6 months ago. I was finally getting around to doing an oil change and the oil door doesn’t line up with the train plug. I have a Fumoto valve installed for quick drains, but even without that valve it looks like the oil would spill directly on the tray. 

oil filter door access is fine.

This light technically is a single lane but it’s wide enough for two lanes so people naturally sort them selves into a right hand turn only or left hand turn only lane. The street across from me is one way. Person comes up behind me goes around to my left and cuts in front to run the red light.

edit: timestamp didn’t adjust for DST. It was 7:57am or during the time when right in red is prohibited.