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Canon F1 New, 50mm 1.8, 28mm 2.8 - $150 OBO

1. If the film leader is not loaded properly, after a few winds the film will be caught between the two takeup spools (the leader comes all the way around and ends up caught in the takeup spool closer to the shutter) and the film advance will jam. The back will need to be opened and the jammed film removed. I have managed to load the film properly (with the back open, make sure both takeup spools have teeth inside the film sprocket, and then wind a few times to make sure there is full takeup), and I was able to run whole rolls through with careful advancing using even pressure; YMMV.
2. The meter underexposes by about 3-4 stops when compared with a known good light meter. I set the exposure compensation to +3 to compensate and my pictures come out well-exposed.

Nikon FG, 50mm 1.8 Series E - $90 OBO

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• You can mine anything with Stone: You may be thinking, "No you can't! Stone tools can at most mine up to a Block of Iron and that's it." Well, normally that's true, but you can change that. Suppose you've made a Tinkers Pickaxe with a Stone Pickaxe Head. Currently, you only have an Iron Mining Level. But if you combine an Obsidian Sharpening Kit with a piece of Flint in a Tool Station/Tool Forge, you can upgrade your Pickaxe's Mining Level from Iron to Cobalt, which I believe is the highest one possible. This can be easily done from the start of the game.
• Easy repairs: As you can guess, a Stone-headed tool can be repaired with a Stone Sharpening Kit. "Yeah? So what?" Well, we've just made a pickaxe that can mine just about any material in the game. Plus, Tinkers tools don't disappear when broken like vanilla Minecraft tools; when they break, all you have to do it repair it and it works like new. When you combine these three facts together, you can see the whole picture: we have a pickaxe that can mine even Obsidian, that can be repaired whenever it breaks, and can be repaired with Stone or Cobblestone, which are the easiest resources to obtain in bulk in the whole game. And you can craft such a pickaxe early on in the game. Wow, now that's powerful! Anyway, to make repairing even easier, you can carry both a Part Builder and a Sharpening Kit Pattern with you in your inventory as you go mining for easy repairing on the go. I know that you can just make a stack of Stone Sharpening Kits to carry with you in your inventory, but if you're planning on going on extensive mining expeditions, even a stack of Sharpening Kits might not be enough for you (especially with a Stone Pickaxe Head), so you might need to take the whole Part Builder table with you. Anyway, speaking of long mining expeditions, one of the problems you may constantly be dealing with is darkness, because if you're mining for a long time, you may bump into lots of caves, which are usually poorly lit. Luckily, Stone can be used to shed a little light on the situation...
• Stone torches: Normally, Torches are made with a Stick and piece of Coal/Charcoal. But you can make Torches with Cobblestone instead. Firstly, put two Cobblestone pieces in a crafting table, one directly above the other. Now you have 4 Stone Rods. These Stone Rods can be used with Coal/Charcoal in order to make Stone Torches. Stone Torches are like regular Torches, except for their appearance and the recipe required to make them. But why would you want to make Stone Torches? Well, to make regular Torches, you need sticks, which require wood, which requires a tree, which requires you to surface/leave the caves. Now if you're on an extended mining expedition, you are probably too busy to want to stop and go all the way back to the surface just to make Torches. With Stone Torches, you can make Torches with both Stone and Coal - things you can both find in caves - removing the need to return to the surface. Now, having enough light sources to light your way is a must for extended journeys in Minecraft. Another is having enough food to be able to survive the journey in the first place. But how can Stone help us solve this problem?
• Pig Iron lets you eat Stone: Yes, it's true. Well, sort of. Pig Iron is a special alloy that allows you to EAT whatever Tinkers tool has it as one of its components. It's relatively easy to make in the beginning of the game, too. It's an alloy of Iron, Clay and Blood. Blood comes from smelting Rotten Flesh. If you don't have any Rotten Flesh, you can just have a creature walk into your Smeltery and take damage, thus causing it to bleed out a bit right into your Smeltery setup. It could be any creature, like a Pig, Sheep. or even...yourself (but not a Villager though; that just gets you Liquid Emerald, I think). But if you want to jump into your Smeltery and burn yourself alive for a bit, you can at least be safe about it. Firstly, you can have your health at max to be able to survive the damage. Next, you can build your Smeltery to be very shallow. To do this, you first build a 3x3 base. Then you build 4 walls surrounding the outside edge of the base. Each of the walls are 3 blocks long and only 1 block high. With one-block high walls, you can easily jump into/out of the Smeltery at will, to avoid burning yourself alive. Note that there must actually be something in the Smeltery for you to burn yourself with in the first place; you should first burn an Iron Ingot to produce Molten Iron, then jump into the molten metal to be able to be burned by something. Anyway, let me explain how Pig Iron lets you eat Stone. First, you make it so that the Head/main part of your Tinkers tool/weapon is made out of Stone and make one of the other parts out of Pig Iron. Then, whenever you're hold the tool in your main/offhand and lose some of your hunger bar, you begin to automatically start to nibble on your tool until your Hunger bar is topped off. This uses up some durability, of course. But remember, Stone tools are easy to repair. In this manner, you practically have access to infinite food. Now, granted, you only get back 0.5 Hunger per bite (thus allowing you to restore health rather slowly), and this "food" offers no Saturation, but infinite free food is infinite free food, so none of that other stuff matters much (not to me, at least). Now if you TRULY want infinite free food, you can just make a Tinkers tool with 5 Modifiers. This can easily be done by replacing at least some of the tool's parts with Paper to get extra modifiers (or another material that gives extra Modifiers, like Livingwood from the Botania mod). Then you can make the tool Unbreakable, thus allowing you to have ACTUAL free infinite food (because the tool can never be damaged again [Except with some materials like Extra Utilities 2's Magical Wood, which make your tool Magically Brittle], thus preventing it from losing durability whenever it feeds you). {Note: Not all modpacks lets you do this; in some modpacks I've played (can't remember which), once a tool/weapon is made Unbreakable, Pig Iron's Tasty trait stops working for some reason. This is probably done on purpose, because infinite free food is probably seen as too overpowered and needs to be stopped.) One of the Tinkers weapons I like to do this with is the Shuriken. Speaking of the Shuriken, that leads me to my next point.
• Stone lets you create a Meal-Shield-Weapon: "What the heck is a Meal-Shield-Weapon?" Well, it's a term that I just made up. Let me tell you what it means. First of all, the term is sort of self-explanatory; it's an item that operates as a meal, shield and weapon all at once. A Tinkers Shuriken can operate in such a manner. Here's how you build it: Firstly, a Tinkers Shuriken is basically a 4-point ninja star, with each point being a Knife Blade. To make a Shuriken into a Meal-Shield-Weapon, make three of the blades out of Pig Iron, Stone and Wood (the Stone is for easy repairs and the Wood is for auto-repair via the Ecological trait). The fourth blade can be made out of any material you wish, though there are some materials I recommend (but we'll discuss that later). Now, how do this Shuriken work as a Meal-Shield-Weapon? Well, it operates as a Meal because it auto feeds you. It is a Weapon, because, well, it is a weapon and meant primarily to do damage. It is a Shield because it can be held and operated from the offhand and lets you block damage. It doesn't block damage in the traditional way, but it does let you block damage by auto-healing you, thus allowing to restore health. In my opinion, auto-regen and blocking damage with a shield are technically the same thing because they accomplish the same task; both are designed to keep your health from dropping too low (I use the same tactic in other games, like Final Fantasy 5. I don't equip my characters with shields because I like to dual wield weapons. Instead, I equip all my guys with Protect Rings, which give auto-regen). Anyway, I said I was going to tell you what you could make the 4th blade out of, so let me do that: Restonia is a material from Actually Additions mod. This material has the Hearts trait, which lets you do 70% extra damage at full health (and staying at full health is easy due to Pig Iron's Tasty trait. By the way, Pig Iron also has Baconlicious, which makes blocks/enemies sometimes drop Bacon - another way to keep your health up). Bone is good, as it does a lot of damage for such a cheap material. Cactus is a good defensive material, as it helps you attack enemies from a distance via automatic retaliation, this lets you deal with skeletons a bit more easily. End Stone is good, because it helps you fight Enderman via the Enderference trait; this trait allows you to attack Endermen with any weapon (even a projectile weapon, which the Shuriken obviously is), and keeps them from teleporting for a short time. But if you happen to come across a lot of Gold early game (at least 10 ingots worth, or just 5 Gold Ore Blocks which can be transformed in the Smeltery into 10 ingots), then that 4th blade should be made into Paper; this usually gives you 5 Modifiers. All you need now is 5 Blank Gold Casts and 40 Obsidian to make 5 Reinforcement Modifiers and make your Shuriken Unbreakable.

• First of all, you can forget about the Shuriken. They don't exist anymore. Well, they do, but they've been transformed into cheap throwaway consumable items. You have Flint ones for Knockback and Quartz ones for damage. That's it. They're not regular weapons anymore, and can't be upgraded with Modifiers. This is possibly do to the fact that Shuriken can be OP, so that particular weapon had to be nerfed to the ground.
• Therefore, we need only to focus on the Pickaxe. Obviously, we still make the head out of Stone (well, it's called Rock now). But what about the Tool Handle and Tool Binding?
• Let's start with the Tool Handle. We should make it out of something durable. But what? Three good early options are Wood, Whitestone and Slimewood. Wood no longer allows for auto-heal via Ecological, but instead wood now has the trait Cultivated, which lets you restore 50% more durability whenever you repair it. Or if you have Botania installed, you can spring for Living wood instead of regular wood. Livingwood has the trait called...well, Livingwood. This trait is similar to Cultivated, but repair materials are 75% more effective instead. Whitestone is good, too. It gives your tool the Stoneshield trait: Stoneshield adds a second durability meter, and when you mine Stone, sometimes that Stone is consumed and then added to the Stoneshield meter. Then when you use the tool again, you can randomly use the Stoneshield meter's durability instead of regular durability. Whitestone is made from... well, white stone, AKA End Stone. End Stone can be easily obtained early in some modpacks. But if not, there are alternative ways to make Whitestone: you just pour molten metals onto a Rock tool part in a Casting Table - metals like Tin, Aluminum of Zinc. Slimewood lets you do the same thing with Overslime, which lends you a second slimy durability bar with, I believe, a minimum value of 50 points (or more, depending on the number of tools parts have the Overslime trait. This meter can also have more points based multiplying 50 by the tool's base durability multiplier). Slimewood is made by pouring Slime on a Wood Tool Part. Slimewood also has the Overgrowth ability, which makes your tool slowly regenerate its Overslime meter. So now your tool has THREE ways you can repair it: Rock Repair Kits, Slime Balls, and auto-repair. A good fourth material could be Pig Iron, but I'll discuss that later.
• What about the tool binding? Well, in this version of TiCon, the Tool Binding doesn't affect the stats of the tool in any way, meaning it doesn't affect the tool's durability. It just adds traits instead. So here, you can add relatively low durability materials if you want. You can use any of the materials from above, or you can use a Chain for the Reinforced I Modifier, letting your Pickaxe take 25% less damage.
• Based on the info from above, a cool idea would be to have a Stone Pickaxe Head, a Whitestone/Chain Tool Binding and a Slimewood/Pig Iron Tool Handle.
• Actually, I think I have a better idea: Keep the Rock Pickaxe Head, but make the other two parts into Pig Iron. Pig Iron is different now. Pig Iron tools don't auto-feed you anymore; you have to hold right-click in order to eat them (plus I don't think Baconlicious is a trait anymore, either). But the trade-off is that they heal more. Each level of Tasty restores 1 Hunger and 0.1 Saturation. So with two Pig Iron Tool Parts, we have Tasty II, which restores 2 Hunger per bite and 0.2 Saturation as well. This is the best early game pickaxe possible: it restores a decent amount of Hunger (at least, for an item that's normally not supposed to be edible) and can easily be repaired.
• Oh yeah! I almost forgot about mining levels! Well, the highest mining level now is not Cobalt, but Netherite. To boost out Pick to this mining level, we need to first apply either the Diamond or Emerald Modifiers. I prefer Diamond, if you have to choose; this boosts your mining level to Diamond (which seems to be one below Netherite) and gives us 500+ extra durability (in contrast, Emerald only adds 50% extra durablity and gives us an Iron mining level). Only then can we apply the Netherite Modifier. This requires 1 Netherite Ingot, which isn't really an early game material, unless your particular modpack allows you to get it early for some reason; in that case, you can just add on the Emerald Modifier anyway, instead. Of course, if you can afford it, you should add all three Modifiers to your Pickaxe; you durability will then shoot through the roof.