My First Dispute Though eBay/Pay Pal

[Prince of Darkness]

OM4Ti, the best ever manual focus 35mm SLR? Probably! Massive metering options and flash sync right up to 1/2000 sec (great bit of lateral thinking)!

[Donald Hanson]

[QUOTE=Mike Reed;11661]However, developing and processing options around nowadays hardly make one want to go out and shoot a roll of film. Locally I'm stuck with an expensive (£6), four day service for GLOSSY (yuk!) 7 x 5 prints. Lustre/matt a quid extra and a fortnight's wait.

I used my film cameras only a couple (well 4) years ago. At that time, I was able to get the negs copied right to digital format and worked them in PhotoShop. The processor was Glazier's Camera in Seattle and the quality was quite good.

I am assuming/hoping those options are still there for us die-hards.

[Donald Hanson]

Well, now that I have the camera and it is fairly close to "as described", I also got a Vivitar Series I 70-230 lens. I had this same combo back in the 70s and loved it. However, I didn't get the instruction manual for the lens and I can't seem to remember how to set it to macro. Anybody out there using this lens? And, how do you set it to mac????

Thanks

[alb]

Is that one of the lenses that you have to move the focus or zoom beyond its normal range of movement to get it into macro?
Is it definitely a macro lens?
I've had series one lenses, but it's many years ago, and i can't remember either.

[Donald Hanson]

Ya know? Most of them have the red line, then next to that is a yellow line and you move the focus collar beyond the normal range. I think I had that one back in the 70s. This one however just has the one distance line, then at the point closest to the camera, there are the letters M & N next to each other. I wonder if it is a true macro, or just a lens that focuses a little closer than some others. No sliding buttons or anything. I may look for another one on the Bay and sell this one.