New film Leica spotted at skunk works.

Huss

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Ok, well maybe not Leica's skunk works but the place definitely smelt skunky...



A mini M? Never heard of the brand Atlas before, found it at an antique mall. Already shot a roll of Kodak ProImage through it, it 'seems' to work. Ok, what I found was that dry firing everything is ok. With a roll of 36exp film in it, the film advance train starts to slip at exposure # 33-34. So perhaps I should only be shooting 24 exp rolls in this little brick.
 

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Huss said:
Does not compute.
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I think he must be referring to the natty old Mercedes hiding under a tree in the third photo.
 
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Following up on cramej's posting, this Atlas is a rebadge of the Yamato Pax M3. Yamato cameras are small, cute, but fragile: the film-advance mech and shutters are weak spots. In addition, the focus helicals on earlier models is usually stiff or frozen. Consider yourself fortunate that it works as well as it does. The lens is a 4-element clone of the Tessar, and gives decent sharpness.
Mark Overton
 
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