Recent content by Dwight Anderson

I haven't had to repair mine. But a long time ago I did a Contessamatic E which has the same shutter. I remember it was one of the most difficult shutters I've worked on. I found a workshop manual for the Contessamatic here: zeiss_camera_contessa-matice.pdf https://share.google/6PHWsbqvORCMI5szj

Here's an in depth review of the camera. Great Wall DF-3 (1984) - mike eckman dot com https://share.google/BfpszTbHFMLgtuW51 I lent my camera to Mike for the review, if anyone's interested, it's for sale.

If you don't find someone, I've done a couple of them. They're fairly simple if there's no missing or broken parts.

The Contina III and Continamatic III had interchangable front elements (30mm and 75mm) like a Kodak Retina IIIc. But they are scale focus cameras. So the 425 rangefinder was designed to help accurately focus the 75mm lens.

Zeiss made a viewfinder/rangefinder for the Contina with interchangeable front elements. Model 425. Unfortunately for your purpose it's a 75mm for 35mm format.

Nothing, it is just a lens designed with a smaller image circle, typically to make it smaller and lighter. If you don't need a larger image circle required by a larger sensor, why not make the lens smaller? They will both have the same image on the smaller sensor.

As mentioned by others, you can prove this yourself by taking a picture with both a "crop" lens and a full frame lens of the same focal length on a "cropped sensor camera. You will find that the images are the same. I have a 90mm tessar lens that is marked 2 1/4 x 3 1/4, so that is the size film...

This fellow has some very specific criticisms of the camera and the video is fun because he's with a group of storm chasers. He doesn't think the camera is for him, he's a landscape photographer. Well, until he got his scans back. It's worth a watch, if for nothing else but a more critical...

I specifically listed a model Minolta made that was intended for casual shooters, that had similar features that sold for a similar price at the time. Not the full featured camera you listed. The point is that casual shooters were paying similar amounts as the new Pentax for an amateur cameras...

Interesting, you totally ignored my point and gave me an example which is not relevant.

No matter what folks here want for themselves, this first effort was not going to be a camera for serious photographers. After all, why would Pentax chase after the same group of photographers that quit buying new film cameras 20 years ago. They're going after a totally new demographic with...

Bracket your exposures and focus, turn 72 into 12. 😁 On a serious note, it has a bokeh mode, which prioritizes wide apertures and night mode which prioritizes longer exposures (think small apertures) plus exposure compensation. Not exactly manual mode, but quite a bit of flexibility. Also, it...

A good review from people at the Film Photography Store and The Darkroom An interesting conversation about using zone focus for street photography and the quality of the exposures and images. The good reviews on 35mmc, the Casual Photophile, and this video will go a long way towards making...

I mentioned the ZX5n because it has the most features comparable to a K-1. Developing a film camera from a K-1 would only require a new body, new electronics, and a motorized film transport. Easy peasy.

That would be a Pentax ZX5n, I've opened one of those up to replace the mirror drive gear and the level of difficulty to reproduce that would be 10 times what they're doing with the 17.