Crooked SLR Film Camera Lens; WHAT DO I DO?

by familymwr

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If you can tell, the part of the lens that focuses is bent. I don’t know when this happened or how, it couldve resulted from me stuffing this camera with my digital nikon into the same bag.

It’s a nikon FM10 and the lens is a Nikkor 35-70 mm- I don’t really know what my question is, I guess its will this drastically exchange what my pictures look like, and is it going to cost hundreds of dollars to repair it?
It isn’t even my camera, it’s a school camera, I’m about to have a meltdown.

Answer by Camera Guy
Ooooooh, I don’t wanna be you when you turn in the gear….

Answer by bluespeedbird
Just come clean with your photo tutor as soon as possible… Accidents happen, and schools are covered for this kind of business… No major disaster really.

Answer by Johnny Martyr
Snappy, no need to worry! I used to work in my college gear rental department and this kind of business happens all the time, even with professional quality gear–which this lens is not!

This is a cheap lens that came with the camera and is not build to handle all the use it probably gets every semester. The folks at your school know this and will be understanding. You personally probably didn’t break it but rather all the use of everyone using it has worn on it and you were just the unlucky person to have it when it finally failed. The school probably has insurance on nicer gear and simply has budget to cover things like this with cheaper gear. This is what they are in the business of doing!

I honestly would suggest result a Nikkor 50mm fill in lens to use if you are just learning photography. These produce nicer images than that particular zoom and will teach you about depth of field and minimum handheld shutter speed more easily. They also are much less likely to break!

As for your photos, I really couldn’t tell you exactly how this will exchange them but you can bet you’ll have focusing issues as well as maybe some additional eerie optical aberrations.

Last night my girlfriend was shooting a concert on my Nikon FM2n which was just back from repairs when the shutter completely broke. These things happen to cameras and all technical gear. You just have to roll with it by carrying two cameras and multiple lenses to all vital shoots.

So don’t worry and keep shooting!

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Periflex Gold Star with it’s back off


Image by Gray Simpson
And this is what makes the Periflex so perfect for converting into a digital "Rangefinder" (Note that it’s near, but not reasonably a rangefinder camera.)

The huge deal is that I can remove the hole back and base of the camera and replace them with something else, without having to hurt the camera. If I use one of the two flash sync ports (The M port, not the X port) I can still use a modern flash but I can hook into the camera without altering it. I can even add a potentiometer above the battery pack in order to use the film rewind knob (still non-destructively) as a control wheel/jog dial, such as the one under your thumb on a Nikon DSLR.

Because this is a fully manual camera from 1957, the lenses are all manual and the shutter is clockwork. Literally. The flash sync is a mechanical small that happens when the shutter is closing. The benefit for me, is that disparate my Nikon – all the battery has to power is the CCD, the computer, the proximity sensor and the show (when it’s active.) This earnings I can use smaller batteries that fit better into the space I have, and still not worry too much about only having a few shots.

I’m looking into buying a new digital camera this year, just your basic point and shoot with maybe 10 or 12 megapixels, but I’ve had really terrible luck with cameras breaking in the past. I’ve had a Sony Cybershot which broke four times and was replaced by Best Buy for the no lemon policy, that was hard because I had to wait for it to break five times before they would replace it. I’ve had a Nikon that broke a few times and had to be sent out for repairs, and now it’s broken beyond repair. Most of the time when they break it’s something internal, I do take excellent care of them judge it or not. But since I’ve had such terrible luck in the past I’m looking to hold from a store with a fantastic service plot and really excellent customer service. I was thinking maybe Sam’s Club or Ritz Camera? Anyone have any excellent experiences with companies? What about brands of digital cameras that you’ve had excellent experiences with? Thanks in advance!

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