Fully functional Autocord, an XD11 and SRT201 that just needed batteries and light seals and an x-700 that I’m seeing if I can get working.
Lenses are rokkor 50mm 1.4, 50mm macro 3.5, 28mm 2.8, 35-70mm 3.5 and a big ol’ bushnell 90-230 4.5.
Motor drive for the XD, a 360px flash and a few other bits and bobs.
It’s always so fun to find a big box of stuff.
I had enjoyed taking some photos with 35mm with my 500CM with those ubiquitous 3D printer adapters but was annoyed by how often the spacing was all off frame to frame and just how much film was wasted.
This got me to thinking of why, well the A12 is winding your film expecting a thickness of film+backing paper, and obviously that 35mm doesn’t have backing paper so the gearing to advance a frame would be all wrong. Well 220 didn’t have backing paper, and those backs are about half the price of A12’s all over eBay, so I picked one up. Using about 18” of old film off-cut as a leader I loaded it up and got 22 perfectly spaced frames out of a roll of Fuji 400. Also, for those people with skill that can nail critical focus better than I can, the lack of backing paper would I assume make for a more precise focal plane.
So obviously 35mm in a Hassy is old news, but I hadn’t seen much talk about using A24’s to do it.
*also please don’t judge the landscape orientation shot too harshly, sprocket holes that don’t allow for fixing horizontal horizons combined with shooting sideways handheld with a WLF is uh….awkward.