Recent content by lobitar

My specimen of the 6"/2.5 A.E. has aperture stops from 2.5 - 28 and a mounting thread (don't remember if there is a flange, and as at present stowed away in the attic can provide no picture). Not yet got around to testing it.

I suppose there's a reason you have mounted the rangefinder on the underside (with the tripod mount); perhaps there's a flip-up okular for the frame-finder on the upper side, that makes it impractical to mount the Blik on the upside of the camera? Nice camera, by the way, and lens. If this is...

A Minolta MD Macro 50mm 3,5 at a flea market for abt. 20$; especially helpful as I already own the 1:1 adapter from a close-out sale a few years ago.

Copy that!

My first 9x12 plate camera (more than half a century hence!) was a lever-focused Volta with 135mm Novar. This Novar (sorry, I don't remember the f.nr.) was definitely a triplet, and although the camera was quite shabby it was really a fine picture taker. Triplets are often quite good, I seem to...

Have used a couple of these lenses (in the Zeiss variant called Distar-lenses), but regret I cannot now say precisely how much sharpness declines towards the edges. But edge-sharpness definitively suffers. However there is one curious effect of using a Distar with a suitable (uncoated) Tessar...

Probably the Leica Flex body? Foto/c recently had a very defective body (not displayed). However a few months later they had an apparently identical body displayed, priced abt. 1000 dkk.

Your Eurynar 18cm 6,8 cannot possibly have separation, as it's a 4-separate-lens configuration. I own the exact came lens, and seem to remember it's quite easy to take apart for cleaning. By-the-way in my opinion a very nice lens, sharp but not too sharp (on 4x5").

A Polaroid SX-70 PolaSonic Mod.2 at a local street sale, for 15 $. Not pretty, but working!

I always wanted the M, but newer saw it around.

Rangefinders: my well-used Leica M4-P with 35mm Summaron and 90mm Tele-Elmarit. SLR: a Nikon FG with 50mm E-series 1,8 (for light-weight convenience - especially the 2-stop contre-jour button!)

Of course I've had only one specimen of each, and thus have to surmise I had run into bad samples. Both bought used at dealer. But as I've played with hardware for half a century I don't hardly think I've done sloppy testing.🙂

I once owned the Kowa 250/5,6 but never managed to make a sharp neg. with it. Likewise I once owned the Mamiya Pres 250/5, coupled, but the coupling didn't really work, not accurate enough, and when ground glass focused the picture was only sharp in the right half of the frame.

Thanks, koraks - spot on. I certainly meant no offence! But perhaps I've read too many PerryMason mysteries?

Can you provide proof of it in fact being a Bronica thing?