Help, Santa's coming and my wife wants a TLR.

[mark]

Cupog comes highly recomended. I know of people who have gotten duds from him and he replaced them without a problem. It is good to see an ebay guy with his track record.

my2cents

 

[Foto Ludens]

Yes, I myself have dealt with him, and even though all I bought was a waist level finder, it came exactly as described. I'm just curious as to how the flexarets work because my Pentacon 6 (not bought from him) has one foot in the grave already, and I'm looking for alternatives (yashicas, rolleis, and flexarets with 4 element lenses). I figure that if the flexaret has good lenses and advance mechanism, popping in a Satin Snow ground glass shouldn't be too hard (if it needs it).
Not that I'll purchase a camera any time soon, I still have a good chunk of negs to print from my last project...

 

[Brac]

The one I'm awaiting is a Flexaret IV (they went up to VII) and has a 4 element Belar taking lens. Unlike so many TLR's the manufacturers, Meopta, are still in existence and they still make Belar enlarging lenses amongst other things. Unfortunately there have been no THR's made by them since the 1970's, but its good they have survived in some form. There are some instruction manuals on their web site.

 

[Jeffrey A. Steinberg]

can I clone your wife? I can't get my wife that interested in photography that she asks for a TLR.

I would ove for a Mamiya C330s?

 

[Canuck]

Rollei or Mamiya for me, as long as they have a nice new bright screens attached to them.

 

[Helen B]

I wrote: 'As she's an archeologist she might like the panorama head as a stocking filler. Not just any panoramic head: it centres the front nodal point of the lens over the axis of rotation.'

It should centre the entrance pupil, not the front nodal point, over the axis of rotation. I've just thought this through and realised that I was spreading erroneous information. Apologies.

Best,
Helen

 

[titrisol]

Since you love your wife soo much, get her a Rolleiflex. You won;t regret it, even if she doesn;t like it

 

[eagleowl]

I´d have to...

...echo the praise for the Mamiya tlr´s.
They´re very simple(although you WILL need a handheld lightmeter),Iknow of 7 lenses(so they´re versatile).
When I printed my first photo from my C33,I was VERY impressed with the image quality-especially after years of using 35mm exclusively.