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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 5, 2014 18:48:13 GMT -5
My contribution. I have not done much research on it. Mickey
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Post by Stephen on Aug 6, 2014 9:57:19 GMT -5
The Foth, and it needs a lot of restoration work, the focal plane shutter runs though, but the second blind has deteriorated to nothing, the tapes shot. The delayed action lever is missing, and a bit of leather on the top needs replacement. Lens needs a clean, but no major scratches or missing elements, focus works as does the aperture. The shutter blinds need new silk rubberised cloth, I have the dimensions to work to. In the meantime the Foth lens can be removed, only three screws, and tried out on the Olympus PM-1, via a Leica adaptor, taped on. The case needs a clean and polish. Stephen
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Post by Stephen on Aug 6, 2014 10:52:00 GMT -5
Shot via the Foth lens on the PM-1, seems good performance, bit of fall off in brightness, I will try a series of more general shots. Only the front and back gently cleaned. Stephen
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Post by genazzano on Aug 6, 2014 14:09:23 GMT -5
This is what always happens. I get into discussions about some camera and, voila!, I need to get one.
I see one with a Tessar. Good lens choice or wait for a f/2.5? ...or get some therapy.
Compulsive wishes to all.
David
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 7, 2014 3:38:55 GMT -5
Steve,
"a bit of leather on the top needs replacement."
That "bit of leather" has almost always presented me with problems. Short of finding a matching piece on a "parts" camera I could never find a satisfactory match. So I have several cameras that are awaiting grafts that may never come. I once tried making matching artificial leather with Plasti Dip. I got a reasonably good match IN REVERSE. But I could not get a good positive copy. I also tried plaster of Paris. NDG. So I have left that trick to someone wiser than I. Mickey
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Post by Stephen on Aug 7, 2014 16:05:31 GMT -5
Well I have opened up the body and got to the shutter, the second blind is simply not there nor any tapes, apart from a short scrap piece. The cloth is silk I think, very fine, under the .2mm thickness that Micro tools do as a spare, but that does not need coating, and there is just enough space to get thicker cloth in there. The timing mechanism is in full working order,as far as can be ascertained, without the second blind in place. I think I will make a set in ordinary silk, get it all to work and tested, and then make a set of black to match. I have the basic dimensions from the net.
In the meantime the lens is all cleaned now, and an adaptor made to fit the M4/3 Pm-1. First shots show promise for such an old lens.
Stephen
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 7, 2014 21:28:32 GMT -5
This is what always happens. I get into discussions about some camera and, voila!, I need to get one.
I see one with a Tessar. Good lens choice or wait for a f/2.5? ...or get some therapy.
Compulsive wishes to all.
David David, Forget about therapy. It is useless. C.C. is incurable. Only two things work - temporarily. 1. Go out and buy the beauty and they are all beauties. Overspend and that will temporarily cool your ardour. 2. A wife who is bigger and stronger than you and with whom you meekly use Rumpole's old formula, SWMBO. Mickey
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Post by Stephen on Aug 22, 2014 7:32:09 GMT -5
Amazingly the missing delayed action lever has turned up, on the front porch, where it must have fallen from the package. I only spotted it in sweeping up the front, it stood out due to the nickel plate finish. I have re-attached it and the delay gearbox works, although needs a clean and lube. Some cloth on order for the shutter, and sourced some silk tape as well. In the meantime the lens can stay on the adaptor and used on the M4/3 Olympus.
Stephen
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