Spiderman on the house. Click to enlarge.

As I still love shooting film and my main camera is a RB67 which is a little heavy to drag around town, I was looking for something light-weight to try some street photography. Also I very much prefer waist-level finders so I ended up looking for a TLR (so at least one out there has two eyes :-)) There are quite a few different models available on ebay. I went for a Seagull (4A-103 I got) as these give nice results and are usually going for a nice price – it’s planned as a „toy“ after all…

As with all bargains from ebay there’s always the chance to get a crappy piece. But so far I’ve been quite lucky. Again so this time. It arrived in very nice condition. Clear lenses, no scratches, very little dust to blow out and a nice and bright focusing screen. The shutter also seemed just fine by listening. One interesting thing to note is that the aperture setting doesn’t have click stops and by the smooth feel of it, it never had. That too is truly analogue. Over all the Seagulls seem to be very well built and solid. Weiterlesen →