Begs the question: If it's anything like my Tessar equipped Zeiss Ikon folders it focuses via movement of only the front elements. When you put it back together, did you check focus using a ground glass at the film plane?
Nope. I serviced this camera when I got it, including disassembly and cleaning of the lens elements, and this Skopar is a 4 element tessar type design and it cannot be assembled incorrectly: each piece of glass is mounted in its own ring and there's no way to "flip" one of the elements. Voigtlander undoubtedly made many versions of the Skopar, and on this particular camera, its a very mediocre lens. At anything less than f8 it's positively unusable.
Nope. I serviced this camera when I got it, including disassembly and cleaning of the lens elements, and this Skopar is a 4 element tessar type design and it cannot be assembled incorrectly: each piece of glass is mounted in its own ring and there's no way to "flip" one of the elements. Voigtlander undoubtedly made many versions of the Skopar, and on this particular camera, its a very mediocre lens. At anything less than f8 it's positively unusable.
Begs the question: If it's anything like my Tessar equipped Zeiss Ikon folders it focuses via movement of only the front elements. When you put it back together, did you check focus using a ground glass at the film plane?
I try to use a tripod or other steadying device at all times with my Record. But 1/60 would the the slowest speed handheld is my slowest.Agfa Record users - hand held photography. What is the longest exposure time you can use and still get sharp images?
Twenty years ago, I searched for lenses that created visible abnormalities for use in portraiture. I found that even primitive lenses like triplets and rapid rectilinears rendered surprisingly modern images.
Begs the question: If it's anything like my Tessar equipped Zeiss Ikon folders it focuses via movement of only the front elements. When you put it back together, did you check focus using a ground glass at the film plane?
I try to use a tripod or other steadying device at all times with my Record. But 1/60 would the the slowest speed handheld is my slowest.
The shot of the boy in the bus is amazing, it has so much atmosphere. And, given the inaccuracy and parallax error of the viewfinder, the framing alone is no small feat.
I wouldn't call a triplet primitive. It was a giant leap forward.
Triotar lens. It is the only lens in the Rollei TLR family where I *think* I can see a difference in how it renders as compared to the Tessar and Planar
That's pretty simple, put a ruler on the frame and see if it lies flat. As I understand it, there is the frame and a pressure plate pressing the film onto the frame. For a curved film plane frame and pressure plate are curved. This is not the case, the pressure plate is perfectly flat.
An example of an extremely curved film plane https://www.oddcameras.com/noblex_135.htm, but simple plastic cameras with meniskus lenses often also have one https://www.plastikcam.com/mini_style_focus_free.htm, there are more on the site.
If the film curves after leaving the film plane, that's not a curved film plane...
Obviously, yes.
Agfa Record users - hand held photography. What is the longest exposure time you can use and still get sharp images?
If this were a forum consisting of nothing but professional camera repair technicians, then we could probably assume that it was done. But this is a forum open to most anyone who has an interest in cameras - what one person calls "service" might simply mean cleaning the lens. Talk is cheap.
Anyway - looks like you have a bad sample. I'm sure the vast majority are fine.
I use my Record III exclusively as film camera for travel in lieu of a 4x5.To me, using a tripod is throwing away the main reason to use a folder: it goes in your coat pocket. I sometimes jam the camera against a post in the street, or hold it down on a bench or fence, if I need to use a slow speed.
I'm bitter about tripods lately. I went to get out my middle-sized tripod, and it's not here. Nowhere in the house, and I've created quite a mess looking. I'm afraid I may have put it down out on the hills, to have a drink or something, and then just walked away from it. The last time I remember using it, with certainty, was months ago, so it's too late to go looking for it.
I am a camera repair technician. I picked up where Chris Sherlock left off in April of 2022. Thanks for asking.If this were a forum consisting of nothing but professional camera repair technicians, then we could probably assume that it was done. But this is a forum open to most anyone who has an interest in cameras - what one person calls "service" might simply mean cleaning the lens. Talk is cheap.
Anyway - looks like you have a bad sample. I'm sure the vast majority are fine.
I love my Perkeo II. After i got it i sold my Plaubel, It's such a perfect tiny 6x6 that travels well alongside a Leica. The Color Skopar lens is a gem. Photo @ minimum focus off the test roll & the Pll alongside the Leica.
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I am a camera repair technician. I picked up where Chris Sherlock left off in April of 2022. Thanks for asking.
check each sample.
Maybe this was discussed back on page 6 or so, but I'll point out that along with sample variation and manufacturing tolerances, cameras can have some interesting things done to them over the years. Just worked on a Yashica-Mat where the front group was clearly marked 'Yashinon' and the rear 'group' was a single element, most likely from a Yashikor. This would be Yashica's 'Tessar-type' Yashinon and Yashica's triplet Yashikor. The camera owner had gotten acceptable images with this set up, but I could see on a ground glass that it was not giving what a Yashinon should.
folks use whatever they can lay their hands on when the need arises.
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