Recent content by ggray79

Thank you both. I will also do BW with yellow or orange if there is much sky in the shot! Driving now!

Haven't been to BBNP before. Are these two films good choices for the landscapes? Will be using a polarizer most of the time. Thanks!

I have been looking into those type of issues. Bruce Varner has some very thorough how to's specifically for the Instamatic 500. "Overllooked Kodak Instamatic 500/Loading the 126 Cartridge". Thanks!

Thank all of you for these perfect answers! My daughter got this for me at a garage sale without realizing it was 126 and not 35mm. But that German lens ought to make this fun. I have a couple of wonderful Retinas. I hear that the lack of a pressure plate might hurt the image at the widest...

Image 5 is the Corpus Christi bay front. I used to office on the top floor of the tallest building in the group of buildings to the right!

Because of this spec in the manual I am concerned about buying 126/24 exposure. Is this camera incompatible with 126/24? Since I am mainly wanting the case to reload with 35mm film from a normal roll, can I assume that the case is the same for 12, 20 and 24? I would rather shoot and develop the...

For the Series VI adapter ring for this camera, what is the stated size of the slip on type. This camera has internal lens threads of 43.5mm but I am looking for the slip on type. Thanks!

That's the info I needed - the effect does depend on the position on the lens thread. I will probably do the second CPL in my pocket approach and mark the CPL on the camera so that I can make it match the second one. No real advantage to a linear polarizer that I can see, so y'all saved me the...

Thanks!

Since this camera is a coupled rangefinder it is very awkward to use a circular polarizer. Does a linear polarizer create the same amount of polarizer effect without turning it on its threads, i.e., just screw it on and I get the full amount it can provide? A circular polarizer allows...

From the Gospel according to Tim the Toolman Taylor! Thanks!

My wife, the wise, discovered online that the top doesn't have to come off for a rangefinder adjustment, so I no longer need to remove this screw! Good grief!

Long story short, I saw tech papers for this camera and it is left-handed!

Left handed would make sense now that you mention it because unscrewing counterclockwise is the same direction the lever itself moves.

I will try this before I buy the spanner!