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I don't know, but I do know that to indicate "damaged with many problems" in japanese, you just need to write "EXC+3"

As a P67 user... i'd also wish for 100% coverage, and a better mirror dampening system. More leaf-shutter lenses too. Try to make a 105/2.0 so we can drool. I want it to cost $99. Thanks Ricoh for listening.

According to whom? According to Purple Tentacle? Among camera collectors, the popularity of the Pentax 6x7 is on the rise. Pentax produced the 6x7 camera from 1969 to 1975, then improved it on 1976, kept producing it until ca. 1989, then revamped it as the Pentax 67, then in 1998 they released...

Your prolly rite. (just joking) You're 100% correct.

Savage!!

Exactly.

These things can often be removed using mouse pads. Get a mouse pad, the kind that have a thick rubber base with a sticky material at the bottom. Use the sticky rubber to press against the top of the beauty plate. Works very well in many cameras.

I never said you need to be apprenticed to Nikon. Glad you recognize the need for custom tools. Of course you need to make them. This underlines my point -- this is something that needs dedication and commitment. mikeno62 is great.

If you're fitting such a luxury, famous, high-performance, zeiss-pounding lens such as a KODAK EKTAR, make sure to calibrate the focusing screen height to the particular back you're going to use. The "Kiev survival site" has documentation on how to disassemble the back. If you don't find it...

Leitz? This is the first time I hear the mention of Leitz having manufactured a medium format lens. As far as I know Leitz only manufactured amateur-format lenses.

Dear Cholentpot, Let me give my opinion as a camera tech. When you have a failure caused by lack of lubrication and cleaning, which is pretty common, it's not only one part of the mechanism the one that needs to be "unstuck", but the whole camera needs to be cleaned and re-lubed because, even...

If the film advances but the camera doesn't fire, a possibility is that the mirror mechanism is stuck. When pressing the shutter button, the mirror mechanism should fire the mirror, which in turn fires the shutter mechanism. The camera needs a stripdown so the mirror box is accessed , the...

Any RF camera without a combined RF/VF has a serious ergonomic hindrance. A rolleicord Vb, simplistic as it might appear, is not such a simple camera, because it has a leaf shutter inside. If the question is "best medium format camera ever designed", my vote goes to the Mamiya RB67 (later...

Wow! Sirius preferring Hasselblads?! Who would have guessed?

The haze is most likely on the cemented element. This is typical of many lenses. For example the Pentax-M and Pentax -A 50/1.4 lenses suffer of the same problem, also at the rearmost back group. As well as the famous Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 6x7 105/2.4; many many of them suffer from haze...

A technician can replace the focusing helical grease for a stiffer one. But to tape the barrel with electrician tape sounds, to me, a more practical proposition...

But... do you have a Pentax LX? My current MF gear: Two Bronica ETRSi, lenses 40MC, 50PE, 50MC, 75EII, 105MC, 150PE, 200PE, 1.4x and 2.0x teleconverters (PE). Two Salyut-S cameras in need of repair One Pentax 67 with factory-installed multiple-exposure device and aftermarket focusing screen...

Fuji has always been like that. Raising prices, raising prices.

That's some sincere, refreshing honesty from them!!

My recommendation: Screw Leica. And I don't mean "buy a leica screwmount camera". If you want a LTM camera, the Canons are nicer. If you want a M-mount camera, there are those Voigtlander machines for an affordable price.

Ah, enslaved color. It seems "NC" in "NC500" stands for "No Color" Well, let's hope the next batch is improved, cross fingers...

Now, to continue my descripiton of the Hasselblad 1600F/Salyut... And to specifically tease mr. Sirius Glass... The good part was that my Salyut-C cameras, both of them, had dramatically less camera vibration than my friend's (mint, serviced) Hasselblad 500C/M. The difference was easy to feel...

I never got good results with the Selfix 820. Either the lens (ross xpres) has enormous field curvature, or the film plane is curved. I could calibrate it for a sharp center but then the edges would be unsharp. Only way to have the whole field sharp was to use it at f11 or 16.

They're really way too expensive now. The soviet Salyut is exactly the same camera, and can be had for much lower prices. And i bet you have more chance to get a properly working Salyut... All these cameras have a Focal plane shutter with curtain straps being fragile. Plus, of course...

The SEI meter you describe is a comparison meter, technology that has been largely superseded by meters that directly measure the light instead of relying on the eye (like extintion meters)

Yes, plus I risk to say using a LED light behind your Dunkelkammerschutzfilter is risky, since LED lights have a pretty weird spectral response.

I believe you want to use a "dunkelgrün" safelight not a "dark green" safelight when you're using OrWo films!!

Interesting, it mentions instructions for development under inspection: Dunkelkammerbeleuchtung Die Filme sollten bei völliger Dunkelheit verarbeitet werden. Falls unbedingt erforderlich, kann die Verarbeitung beim Licht einer 15-Watt-Lampe (indirekt) mit Dunkelkammerschutzfilter ORWO Nr. 108...

Depends on the camera, sometimes on the brand itself. I have reasons to believe Pentax and Canon did achieve reliable electronics, Pentax from the ES II onwards (1973? 74?) and Canon from the AE-1 onwards (1976). Pentax was the first manufacturer to put electronics on a pro SLR, the Pentax 6x7...

Never attempt to remove the lens mount in the P30. It'll be a nightmare to put the electronic contact pins and aperture coupling lever back again.