Excellent, Greg ! I am looking for a Minolta Leitz CL or Leica CL whereas the meter does work, too.
Excellent, Greg ! I am looking for a Minolta Leitz CL or Leica CL whereas the meter does work, too.Yes it works. I had a '75 anniversary model also with a working meter (checked against handhelds)...when it failed, DAG repaired it. I had this one adjusted for modern batteries. photo exposed last week using built-in meter....
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On the way to me from KEH a Nikon Z7 II body to use with my Nikon lenses. I will have to buy extra lens adaptation plates and software.
Welcome to DPUG...
Nikon F3... First new old camera in two years
digital is much better for remote sensing from spacecraft.
Again, this is mostly about reloading. Having to travel several hundred kilometers to reload a camera takes on a whole new meaning when that distance is straight up and includes accelerating to about 7.5 km/s in the process...
Got me one of those too. (I have one of each size) Great cameras!
A pipe wrench was needed to turn it out but it's all good now.
ouch. Mine was in iffy condition too. The front standard was mounted to a rear standard carrier--which works fine, but places to control on the wrong side. I replaced that, and had Custom Bellows build me a slightly longer than standard bellows (standard maxes at around 470mm, I had mine built to 600mm.) But I love the Normas. I assume you've seen the video CLA instructions out on the net?
Almost exactly 2 years after I decided finally to give up on large format forever and ever, amen. A Pacemaker Speed Graphic with a Graphic 127mm lens, unmolested light saber, and restored original trunk. It's in a lot better shape than I expected. The Kalart rangefinder and the curtain shutters appear to work, but the seller had never used them. I doubt I'll have occasion to either. After downloading the manual and fiddling with it for a week, it feels nice and comfortable to use. It should be plenty handy for setting up away from the car.
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Almost exactly 2 years after I decided finally to give up on large format forever and ever, amen. A Pacemaker Speed Graphic with a Graphic 127mm lens, unmolested light saber, and restored original trunk. It's in a lot better shape than I expected. The Kalart rangefinder and the curtain shutters appear to work, but the seller had never used them. I doubt I'll have occasion to either. After downloading the manual and fiddling with it for a week, it feels nice and comfortable to use. It should be plenty handy for setting up away from the car.
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Don't avoid using the curtain shutter and associated settings, they are a lot of fun to use and you can, with the aid of an inexpensive self made shutter tester and "Audacity" software, easily establish a chart of actual shutter speeds and match it up with your b&w developers.
That camera needs badly exercise, like any workhorse, and is a lot of fun to shoot hand held, as designed.
I used my speed graphic ani with the built in shutter and a barrel lens fully open at F4 (5.6?) to photograph some models long ago, and if I still did that sort of modeling photography, I'd still use the 4"x5" S.Graphic for some shots.
Have fun and enjoy your beautiful camera.
Thank you for the tips. I made a point of exercising the shutter after reading this.
As I said in the first post, I gave up on LF simply 2 years ago because my life has too few years left in it to fill them with the endless frustration and aggravation of the errors that can be discovered only one at a time. And for $5 a try! But our darkroom instructor talked me down off the ledge and helped decide how to go about it rationally.
Last week, a bit disgusted with myself in the midst of a terrible attack of GAS, I told my wife that I was really tempted to buy stuff I didn't even want. Later that same day, this popped up, and it was almost exactly what I was looking for.
"I do not know what I will ever do if and when I actually catch a truck."
The most recent 35mm camera I bought was a Canon EOS Elan 7E. Now it's what I use 9 out of 10 times. I like using it with the weather sealed and near-macro capable Tamron 45mm f/1.8 image stabilized lens, taking it out in medium amounts of rain and snow without an umbrella no problem, shooting slow high-resolution film handheld with the help of the stabilizer. And I also took it out with Portra 800 and was able to get some lovely 1/6 second handheld portraits under streetlights. This lens/camera combination has really expanded the number of situations that I can do tripod-free photography in, it's been an absolute game changer for my style of shooting. The motorized film advance/rewind is the quietest I've heard. It cost less than $100 in perfect working order.
For medium format, I also got a Mamiya M645J to replace two Pentacon Sixes that would not stop giving issues even after CLA. But their lenses are worth their weight in gold for me. It needed light seals replaced which wasn't too difficult, but it's working well now.
The last Camera I bought was about four years ago, it's a Canon F 1 body, it was absolutely mint in the original box with the papers, packing and instructions. The body looked like it had never been used it even still had the piece of plastic on the film gate that protects the shutter from the film guide rails.
I was very happy to add this to my stable of F 1s, and I was very lucky to see it first on the website of my local analogue film camera and dealer dash down there, and buy it first at very reasonable price with a six months warranty.
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