What's your latest new old camera ? (Part 2)

[JensH]

I just scored this little guy for a very great deal from a fashion reseller. Slow speeds are too slow (who cares not using it with a tripod ever) but it's a beauty. I'll get it CLA'd at some point but it works great! Stoked!

Very nice! Gratulations, really. Looks great.
Some day I'll get one, too - as a fellow on my bicycle trips...

Best and may fun be with you
Jens

 

[GregY]

Beautiful The canon lens matches with it very well!

Thank you D. It's a gem of a little lens.

 

[AnselMortensen]

A black Nikon F body.

 

[lobitar]

I have this lovely Zeiss 6x9 folder with a Hugo Meyer rangefinder and an uncoated Zeiss Jena 10.5cm f/4.5 lens in an ancient Compur.

It only takes sheet film holders. The back does slide off which suggests a rollfilm holder may have once been available, I don't know.

Not sure of the exact model or vintage, but it does take nice pictures, at least in monochrome. The lens is tack sharp, but has that "vintage" lower contrast look. A few years ago, I had shutter serviced so it actually is in fine fighting form:

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Brings to mind a quote from Jason Schneider's writing about camera user/collecting in Modern Photography in the late 1960ties or early 1970ties: "Some wonderful person had (had) mounted a Meyer rangefinder" (on some 9x12 plate camera or other).
By the way abt pre-war Tessars: A good sample with clean glasses is not necessarily a 'lower contrast' lens stopped down, at least in my experience.

 

[Chuck1]

I have this lovely Zeiss 6x9 folder with a Hugo Meyer rangefinder and an uncoated Zeiss Jena 10.5cm f/4.5 lens in an ancient Compur.

It only takes sheet film holders. The back does slide off which suggests a rollfilm holder may have once been available, I don't know.

Not sure of the exact model or vintage, but it does take nice pictures, at least in monochrome. The lens is tack sharp, but has that "vintage" lower contrast look. A few years ago, I had shutter serviced so it actually is in fine fighting form:

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Rollex roll film holders might work,
Plaubel and rada flanges might be too thick.
There was a recent thread about roll backs for kodak reomar 18.
Also wondering about roll backs voigtlander avus 6x9 .
If anyone knows I'm wondering

 

[dynachrome]

A Yashica 230AF is on its way to me. It is coming with the 35-70. I don't remember how many that will be. I recently added a 70-210. A 35-70, a 50, a 60, the extension tube and a T to Yashica AF adapter. I am in a Yashica AF mood.

 

[dynachrome]

One more thing - I also got an FA-6 (grid type) focusing screen for the 230AF. While the standard screen is usable for close-up work, I think the grid screen will be better. From what I have seen, not all of the Yashica AF film SLRs have interchangeable focusing screens but I know that the 230AF does.

 

[John Wiegerink]

One more thing - I also got an FA-6 (grid type) focusing screen for the 230AF. While the standard screen is usable for close-up work, I think the grid screen will be better. From what I have seen, not all of the Yashica AF film SLRs have interchangeable focusing screens but I know that the 230AF does.

I never owned one, but I talked a friend into buying a Yashica 230AF with the standard 50mm and the 70-210mm. He later got a 400mm I believe. He was a deer hunter/nature lover who wanted a camera to captured shots of whitetail deer and other critters. He had limited funds and the Yashica 230AF was the best bang for his buck (pun intended) at any of our local shops. The reason I talked him into the Yashica was one very good reason and that was it had "trap focus" capabilities. You focus on a certain spot or area and when an animal or person walked into that area or spot the camera shutter tripped. Perfect for wildlife. He even took the camera to Africa and got some really great photos and stayed out of danger doing it.

 

[fstop]

Mamiya 645 Super

 

[t5SQ]

Picked up a Kodak Retina I model 117 at a thrift store. The viewfinder is missing the rear element, but the lens is in decent shape, the shutter fires and speeds seem good, and all the winding contraptions appear to work!

 

[Rayt]

Leica IIIF Red Dial Self Timer

 

[chuckroast]

Leica IIIF Red Dial Self Timer

You'll love it! I had mine serviced (most recently by DAG) and it's a dream travel camera. I have an old uncoated Elmar for it, as well as 21mm, 35mm, and 50mm Color-Skopars. Pretty great. Enjoy it!

 

[Rayt]

You'll love it! I had mine serviced (most recently by DAG) and it's a dream travel camera. I have an old uncoated Elmar for it, as well as 21mm, 35mm, and 50mm Color-Skopars. Pretty great. Enjoy it!

The Barnacks are such beautiful cameras. I have a IIF RD coming from KEH and will use that for the 50mm and the IIIF for the 28mm. I will keep an eye out for a 21mm preferably the 21/4 Super Angulon.

 

[chuckroast]

The Barnacks are such beautiful cameras. I have a IIF RD coming from KEH and will use that for the 50mm and the IIIF for the 28mm. I will keep an eye out for a 21mm preferably the 21/4 Super Angulon.

I love my 21mm f/4 Color-Skopar. It's tack sharp and really small. The expensive part of that lens is finding the matching hood.

With all those older LTM Skopars you do have to keep an eye out for crud inside them. Apparently, they used a glue that outgasses and etches the glass and this cannot be fixed. However, so long as you buy from dealers that take things back, the flashlight test will quickly reveal whether you have that problem.

Here's a scan of a print made from an image taken with that 21mm:

 

[Rayt]

I love my 21mm f/4 Color-Skopar. It's tack sharp and really small. The expensive part of that lens is finding the matching hood.

With all those older LTM Skopars you do have to keep an eye out for crud inside them. Apparently, they used a glue that outgasses and etches the glass and this cannot be fixed. However, so long as you buy from dealers that take things back, the flashlight test will quickly reveal whether you have that problem.

Here's a scan of a print made from an image taken with that 21mm:

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Very nice shot! There was a thread over at rangefinder forum regarding older Voigtlander lenses with fogging problems. Highly sought after Cosina made LTM lenses already approach $500 on the used market so I’d rather go full retro with a Leitz Super Angulon for a bit more. I had the later f3.4 version and liked it a lot but sold it with some regret for a 21mm that could work with a metered M body.

 

[chuckroast]

Very nice shot! There was a thread over at rangefinder forum regarding older Voigtlander lenses with fogging problems. Highly sought after Cosina made LTM lenses already approach $500 on the used market so I’d rather go full retro with a Leitz Super Angulon for a bit more. I had the later f3.4 version and liked it a lot but sold it with some regret for a 21mm that could work with a metered M body.

Yeah, I have an M5 I love and the SAs that work with it are in nosebleed territory. The nice thing is that 21 works like a charm with my IIIf and all my M bodies. It went to Greece with me this year bolted onto an M2

 

[Rayt]

Yeah, I have an M5 I love and the SAs that work with it are in nosebleed territory. The nice thing is that 21 works like a charm with my IIIf and all my M bodies. It went to Greece with me this year bolted onto an M2

I plan to travel to Tokyo next spring and will look for a 21mm screw mount there. I am sure I’ll find the 21mm Voigtlander. It’s too bad Voigtlander releases a killer 40mm in screwmount but won’t reissue their 40mm finder.

 

[chuckroast]

I plan to travel to Tokyo next spring and will look for a 21mm screw mount there. I am sure I’ll find the 21mm Voigtlander. It’s too bad Voigtlander releases a killer 40mm in screwmount but won’t reissue their 40mm finder.

Since all aux finders are an approximation anyway, I mostly just buy the cheap 3D printed ones on eBay for $25 or so. It's close enough for a rangefinder

 

[Rayt]

Since all aux finders are an approximation anyway, I mostly just buy the cheap 3D printed ones on eBay for $25 or so. It's close enough for a rangefinder

I used 35mm framelines with my Leitz 40mm and it was fine most of the time. The M6 framelines are supposed to be smaller than older models to accommodate added 28mm framelines so I thought it was ok.