Vintage camera porn (Bored...)

[Nokton48]

Autocord Hassy Stovepipe Viewing Frame Hack by Nokton48, on Flickr

I like this hack. I can remove my eyeglasses and dial in the ocular to make the screen grain razor sharp. Magnification is increased a bit. Useful. No spurious light spill onto the screen with the stovepipe. I find I can study the composition more intensely with the stovepipe.

I can change it back to the original waist level finder in under five minutes Balance while carrying the Autocord with stovepipe is actually quite good. Not at all top heavy like with prisms.

 

[Chrismat]

I bought a Retina IIIc locally from an ad on Craigslist about 8 or 9 years ago. I got it cheap because it wasn't working and part of the leatherette had been torn off in the back. I had replaced the leatherette
on a Konica Auto S2 with a tan version I had purchased from cameraleather.com. I liked the material so much that I ordered a piece specifically for this camera. I replaced the old leatherette, but put the camera away and
never got around to sending it to Chris Sherlock in NZ until a few months ago. I got it back and now it works great. I normally don't procrastinate that badly, but at least it's finally up to form.

 

[Helge]

The best Retina.

The big C finder is vastly overrated.
The port for the standard 50mm, that you will always be using if you are sane, is the same size, or from what I can see actually smaller on the C.

The rangefinder patch has the same precision and size, so not the usual advantage with a larger finder here either.

The top is also far easier to take off to clean inside on the little c.

The shield over the cell is very handy after plus sixty years, for not having it wear out.

And of course it’s far, far cheaper, so you have more leeway for finding a good one.

 

[John Earley]

Leica M2 with Nikkor HC 5cm f2 by JOHN EARLEY, on Flickr

 

[John Earley]

Yashica LM with lens shade (square crop) by JOHN EARLEY, on Flickr

 

[John Earley]

Nicca (1) by JOHN EARLEY, on Flickr

The Marine in the photo served in 1st Marine Division in WWll on Guadalcanal and Peleliu. Thankfully he is still with us.

 

[John Earley]

Nikon siblings by JOHN EARLEY, on Flickr

 

[ph]

Nikon siblings by JOHN EARLEY, on Flickr

 

[ph]

[this the analogue of the post-leica, is the most common Alpa since Alos bought a lot of them for use to take photos of the counters for billing phone subscribers in centrals provided by the Swiss firm "TN" (telefonbau und normalzeit) the lenses were 35/3,5s bought in from Asahi:.

After Pignons went out of business Alos equipped special Canon F!-s the same way, my copy has exacly the same front coupling devivce which fits the Alpa flash device that came with the camera when I bought it as surplus British Telecom equipment.

p.

 

[AgX]

Such cameras are called register-cameras, at least over here.


Here a Leica register-camera setup for telephone-fees counters
http://archiv.club-daguerre.de/image/mda-post-20.jpg

Here similar for Exacta (flash tubes integrated in the cone):
http://www.exaktapages.com/pictures/Ex_post_tube1.jpg
(Atttaching a WL-finder in a fix-focus set-up makes no sense to me. However in this case the telphone authority seemingly bought Exa-kits off the shelf and added arrests at helicoid and shutter dial. Thus the camera already got the WL-finder...)

 

[ph]

Such cameras are called register-cameras, at least over here.


Here a Leica register-camera setup for telephone-fees counters
http://archiv.club-daguerre.de/image/mda-post-20.jpg

Here similar for Exacta (flash tubes integrated in the cone):
http://www.exaktapages.com/pictures/Ex_post_tube1.jpg

yes, register is the word, here is my canon- alos

variety

 

[John Earley]

Calumet C1 8x10 camera with 300/f9 Nikkor by JOHN EARLEY, on Flickr

 

[flavio81]

yes, register is the word, here is my canon- alosView attachment 251538 variety

WHAT on earth have they done to that Canon?! This is an outrage!!

 

[flavio81]

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Minolta “P”

That's one of the most beautiful Minoltas i've ever seen.

 

[StepheKoontz]

A fairly rare Walz Automat with 6cm zunow lenses and the optional square shade.

 

[Sirius Glass]

 

[John Earley]

Shen Hao 4x5 HZX45-llA by JOHN EARLEY, on Flickr

 

[Nokton48]

4x5 5x7 8x10 Normas by Nokton48, on Flickr

Third Norma Shutter came back repaired today. So you can see I have an original Sinarsix TTL on each of my three field Normas; the 4x5, 5x7, and 8x10

 

[John Earley]

Bronica ETRS by JOHN EARLEY, on Flickr

 

[John Earley]

Nikon FE with 50mm 1.4ais and MD-12 winder by JOHN EARLEY, on Flickr

 

[Ariston]

Mother and daughter - I recently picked up a Super Ikonta to pair with my Contessa. The lens needs to be cleaned, but it is otherwise beautiful:

 

[AnselMortensen]

1946 4x5 Anniversary Speed Graphic with custom 250mm f4.5 meniscus lens.

 

[awty]

Calumet C1 8x10 camera with 300/f9 Nikkor by JOHN EARLEY, on Flickr

My C1 beast.
The Orbit 8x10 by Paul Fitz, on Flickr

 

[StepheKoontz]

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1946 4x5 Anniversary Speed Graphic with custom 250mm f4.5 meniscus lens.

That's awesome!

 

[AnselMortensen]

That's awesome!

Thank you very much!