If I remember right late model 127 cameras had a wire feller that caught a hole is the edge of the film to cock the shutter.
I have not had time to down the manual for this camera I did find a on line sight that had the manual.
I am going on a trip and could be away from internet access for a few days.

Dean Sturgis

I must not have sent the message thru when I tried last week.
The camera takes 127 film not 126. A few years ago I saw that 127 film was still for sale, Duwaynes in Parson Kansas still processes the film.
The aperture stills opens & closes do you mean the shutter still opens & closes also? It probably is a little much to expect the light meter to still
be working. If you have not sold it and the shutter will open & close I have interest in this camera.

Dean Sturgis

Is the camera in workable condition?
I am interested in it if it is.

Dean Sturgis

I sent my Pentax Q10 in for repair the postal receipt said they got it on a Monday, It was back repaired at my house the following Tuesday 8 days.
Dean Sturgis

A older standard was the USAF lens test charts. you can down load the image as a .pdf & print out. Test at long distance outside if you have to say at 30X the focal
length if you get closer you are testing the camera close up ability that ok if that is what you want to do.
You can print out several charts, place one at the center, and one or more in the edges or corners, and at space in between.
Here is a place you can down load the chart
http://www.takinami.com/yoshihiko/photo/lens_test/USAF.pdf

Dean Sturgis

I do a lot of scanning of my own photos and have sent a lot to Scan Café to save some of my time I guess.

The cost is very good since the do the work in India.

Their work with B&W is very good, I have not been able to remove scratches & dust much better than I could.

Their work with color negatives seems all right.

They do over crop photos I checked some 35mm negatives which were scanned at 0.91x1.318" (23.11 x 34.24mm) which is smaller than the picture area of any 35mm cameras. The slides are typically scanned at about 0.808X1.222"
which is far smaller than the slide mounts show. I guess that saves them time in post processing. I had to rescan one of my slide because the composition got ruined which their scan.

I sometimes have to post process the slides they scan, change brightness, contrast, do the fill flash adjust, change color or add vibrancy. Some of these were probably not exposed correctly to begin with. In some cases I wanted the scan to look more like the slide not the way that they saw it.
I have had them do a few scans that I could not do any thing I liked but they did a better job.
They will offer to restore pictures (at a cost) I did it once to restore a scan from a copy negative of a faded print from the early 1950's. It made a good picture.

Cleaning they do some dusting.
They do not clean mildew or mold to do that involves removing the emulsion.
dsturgis

That sounds cheap enough even if I don't get around to selling the photo magenta & photo cyan carts. I hope I will b e able to find the 3e's when I need them.
My city is Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Dean Sturgis

I am in the US.
How many cartridges all together are you selling?
Do you have 3 sets of the 6 cartridges plus 4 more? Are the black cartridges No 6 Black or 3e black. Depending on the number $90 dollars will be ok. Is shipping higher because I am in the US? I have had some things set from Canada it looked like the postage is higher on your side of the border.

Dean Sturgis

I am interested, I can take all 3 sets if no one else wants any. But my printer can not use the photo cyan & photo magenta so if you can find some one to take those it will save me trying to figure out what to do with them.


dsturgis

I gather that is true, the best M42 lenses by Pentax were labeled Takumar, but when they started making K mount lenses they labeled them SMC Pentax. Then they brought out a cheaper line labeled Takumar. I have a 135mm f/2.5 Takumar I thought it took good pictures when I used it for film, at least looking at the slides. After getting a digital camera I tried it but the image quality was quite poor. I checked it for signs of damage being dropped, coming apart but could not find any sign of what happened.


dsturgis

My 18-55mm Pentax lens is on its 3rd camera body. The plastic filter threads got damaged but otherwise every thing functions, probably 30,000 exposures with this lens alone.

dsturgis

I am sorry I hit the send button too soon.
The second one the picture on left is as scanned from Tri-X film at 2400 dpi. Digital artifacts make the grain look even worse than film grain normally looks. On the right is after DeNoise;


dsturgis

Paint shop can do many things without need of plug ins like color changes, brightness, contrast & fill flash. Many of its art effects may as good as the Topaz effects.
However the Topaz plug ins are set up to do things in one step that may take a few steps with programs like Paint Shop.
One I found useful in DeNoise.
Here is the first example.



The shot was taken at ISO 12800 f/2.4 1/15 sec no flash, tripod or monopod allowed. These are areas cropped out from the center of the image. The one on the left is out of the camera the one on the right after DeNoise.


The next one.

In Mammoth Cave

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old tractor

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Or I guess the monitor can be much larger in physical size and pixel numbers.

dsturgis

Thoughts on a circular sensor.
1. the cost of the sensor will go up because of the much larger sensor and the lost 0f chip material between the round sensors cut out of the blank.

2. What size should the circle be? It would seem you could try a circle just big enough to cover the horizontal plus vertical pictures of this format. However the circles projected by lenses of any lens system vary from lens to lens and even with the focal length of zoom lenses. Maybe the round sensor should be even larger.

3. The camera will be larger. Since the sensor is higher the camera will be higher. With DSLRs the mirror, focus screen and prism will be larger. The camera will be deeper. The distance from sensor to lens mount will have to be greater. Circular sensors will require all a all new system of lenses or an electronic viewfinder to use lenses with the now standard lens to sensor distance. The shutter will be larger so probably more expensive.

4. Software engineers will have to work on program to save and display the round pictures. File sizes may be much larger for the number of pictures.

5. Most users will want a program to display the round picture and pick a cropped pictures from it, rather horizontal, vertical, square etc.

dsturgis

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