Today: barn-fresh Autocord, enormous Kodak 3A, tiny Boy Scout

[jay moussy]

Local chat board yielded a Minolta Autocord, Kodak Autographic 3A, and a (vest pocket) Boy Scout.

- Autocord: dusty, all new to me, need to learn a bit, a biggie, and I will certainly need help here!
- Kodak 3A: massive, maybe 122 film, and what literature says is a split-image range finder(?).
- Boy Scout: 127 film, which I need to get into to feed a 'grown-up" Vest Pocket, anyway.

EDIT: Minolta is a CdDS model

You never know what people have sitting in their closets

 

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Minolta is a CdDS model

That's why it's so big. The unmetered ones are roughly the same size of other TLRs. Autocords have excellent lenses.

You sure did good on that website. I haven't heard the expression "chat board" in a long time.

 

[jay moussy]

The "chat board" is the well-known site where local people talk about this and that problem, in my area, currently, coyotes!

The Autocord seems to be doing well, running a dummy paper backing through. Slight stiffness on shutter speed adjust slider, film advance crank also a bit stiff, but working, old grease for sure. I NEED to invest in a Bay 1 hood.

 

[GRHazelton]

If the Autocord focus lever is stiff, have the helicoid cleaned and lubricated. The focus lever is made of a fragile alloy; I've heard of folks making 3D printed replacements but a CLA for the camera might be in order. Dan Daniels here on PhotoTrio is a TLR expert. I bought my Autocord from him, it works and looks like new.