Kodak Retina IIIc (small C) with both accessory lenses, close-up filters, rangefinder and parallax-compensating viewer for the accessory lenses, instruction manual, and the matching Kodak hard case/"purse-ette".
no- just lens caps of one variety or another. But it does have a two-piece lens hood that says "Kodak 35mm" on it, that must go to the 35mm lens because it's too small in diameter to fit the 80. Mine are Schneider lenses as well.Did the additional lenses come with the little case they originally came in? Some of those cases (though not all) are designed to function as a hood for the lens as well. Some very clever engineering. I have the big C in Schneider version, and its definitely my favorite rangefinder.
And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon. The seller is dead wrong or lying. The Pentax M series leak light like a sieve if the seals are compromized, and if the back feels loose it does need new seals.Hey. I recently bought a Asahi Pentax ME with a 50mm f1.7. I haven’t shot it yet. The back cover feels a little loose, but the seller says there should be no light leakage.
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You may be very right, but I thought I’d test with one roll of film.And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon. The seller is dead wrong or lying. The Pentax M series leak light like a sieve if the seals are compromized, and if the back feels loose it does need new seals.
It's not hard to do and the material is pretty cheap on *bay. I've done it a couple times, including to a very leaky Canonet GIII.
In all honesty though, you can probably find a better K-mount body for twenty or thirty bucks. I guess I've had fun with an ME before but it's not the camera I would want to be my main K-mount.
You may be very right, but I thought I’d test with one roll of film.
Hey. I recently bought a Asahi Pentax ME with a 50mm f1.7. I haven’t shot it yet. The back cover feels a little loose, but the seller says there should be no light leakage.
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I was gifted one of these, Nikon F with non-meter prism. Comes with an F36 MD and a AA battery pack. It works. I also got a bunch of nice Minolta flash meters and a spot meter. And a mint C3 thrown in to boot. It also came with a 105 2.5 handing off the front. That's on my F3 now. I gave the F a more appropriate 50 1.4
Oh that I should have such nice gifters as you have!
About that...
Best part? Everything. Works. Not clear what the Minolta color meter is used for.
A little heavy on the light meter side, but it would keep you from buying light meters or at least a month or two.
A little heavy about sums up the haul. The F with the MD loaded with 8 batteries. The C3 isn't a feather either.
I was gifted one of these, Nikon F with non-meter prism. Comes with an F36 MD and a AA battery pack. It works. I also got a bunch of nice Minolta flash meters and a spot meter. And a mint C3 thrown in to boot. It also came with a 105 2.5 handing off the front. That's on my F3 now. I gave the F a more appropriate 50 1.4
In the "old" days commercial and industrial photographers who had to shoot under very strange artificial lighting, such as a open hearth forge or mixed floor flood lighting, would use the color meter to determine the color temperature then use color correction filters to match either chrome or negative color film.
The C-3 is definitely for defense. Banging on a thief's head will reset his registers.
I had that colour meter, though I seldom used it.
The biggest advantage that I see to colour meters is with positive colour film and keeping the same colour balance throughout a series.
Negatives can be tweaked in the enlargement but positives, aka slides, are best corrected in the camera, IMO.
If I had the assortment of Wratten gel CC filters I have now, I would have kept that meter, but without Cibachrome, and no shooting Modern and Ballet dancers, I seldom shoot colour these days..
That and the fact of the long term colour changes in Ektachromes I shot, make me hesitant of shooting new Ektachromes without a quality way to print them by myself.
That spotmeter is a dandy but, is more delicate than a Pentax V, etc.
Enjoy!
That’s a thing of beauty!!!
Roger
I was gifted one of these, Nikon F with non-meter prism. Comes with an F36 MD and a AA battery pack. It works. I also got a bunch of nice Minolta flash meters and a spot meter. And a mint C3 thrown in to boot. It also came with a 105 2.5 handing off the front. That's on my F3 now. I gave the F a more appropriate 50 1.4
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