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Post by Peltigera on Sept 8, 2014 15:43:02 GMT -5
Pentax Spotmatic SP1000
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Post by philbirch on Sept 8, 2014 17:10:46 GMT -5
David, put up a pic of your thirty three anyway. They are lovely cameras.
Nice Pentax, I have one of these 'cept mine's a Honeywell Pentax.
Now some Spotmatics are marked Spotmatic on the front and SP on the top, some are not marked on the front and have SP500 or SP1000 on the top. Is there a difference. Anyone?
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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 8, 2014 22:21:43 GMT -5
David put up a pic of your thirty three anyway. They are lovely cameras. Nice Pentax, I have one of these 'cept mine's a Honeywell Pentax. Now some Ppotmatics are marked Spotmatic on the front and SP on the top, some are not marked on the front and have SP500 or SP1000 on the top. Is there a difference. Anyone? Yes. 500. My battery free abacus is never wrong. Mickey
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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 8, 2014 22:24:27 GMT -5
David,
I think slight departures from the usual such as this Ruberg do make a camera more interesting.
Mickey
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Post by genazzano on Sept 9, 2014 5:18:09 GMT -5
There is one thing that I don't understand about the Rubergs. Why do they sell for so much? I did write a piece on them for my defunct web site some time ago but I've forgotten the details except that the factory later used the same dyes to stamp ammunition cans during the War. They did make some coloured models with an attractive crackle finish. I have a blacK-blue one. Perhaps someone knows more about this maker?
Philbirch: i will shoot the Thirty-three Perfex soon and do a new thread on these interesting cameras.
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Post by philbirch on Sept 9, 2014 18:34:01 GMT -5
What McKeowns has to say about Ruberg:
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Post by genazzano on Sept 10, 2014 1:14:05 GMT -5
This is what I wrote several years ago for my site:
The Ruberg & Renner Company was founded in 1918 in Hagen, Germany, by Felix Ruberg who later became a notorious local industrialist and staunch supporter of the N.S.D.A.P. Before 1930, his company made bicycle parts and chain-drive mechanisms. However, after 1930 they also made simple inexpensive cameras during a brief period before the War began to make greater demands on Germany's industrial production. Later, about 1942, the factory ceased manufacturing cameras and began to produce materials for the war effort under contracts with the government. Among these products were small canisters for machinegun bullets, about the size and shape of the metal cameras for which the factory was already tooled.
Up through the early years of WWII, the company produced 25 distinct models according to Wilhelm. After WWII, the company did not resume camera production and returned instead to its earlier industrial products. Ruberg & Renner ceased operations in 1953.
For more information regarding this and other cameras produced by Ruberg & Renner, I would strongly recommend reading an excellent article written by Willi Wilhelm published by Photographica Cabinett (vol.44, pp.33-45, 2008). It is a comprehensive and well researched piece that details the history of the company and the development of the many camera models. Images of many models are presented by the author including those of several exceptionally rare examples.
David
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Post by philbirch on Sept 10, 2014 11:41:51 GMT -5
Fascinating information David, your defunct website is still available to look at, minus a few images. I'm bookmarking it and will take a good look. link to it: ldtomei
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Post by genazzano on Sept 10, 2014 12:10:17 GMT -5
Oh well. I didn't abandon the site. Google "migrated" it assuring me that all would be well. It wasn't. They created so many errors it would take someone with more experience than me and a hell of a lot of time. ...but it lives on in a twilight zone.
Photographica Cabinett is a great publication even if one doesn't read German.
David
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Post by philbirch on Sept 10, 2014 12:39:29 GMT -5
T for Taisei Koki Welmy. I have 2 copies and they both have jammed shutters.
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Post by genazzano on Sept 10, 2014 13:17:44 GMT -5
And once again, Univex. This time the True View cine. David
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Post by philbirch on Sept 10, 2014 16:22:40 GMT -5
What a beautiful cast body, even the exposure table has an elegance to the design. The Univex used a special single run 8mm film as opposed to the split 16mm of normal standard 8. Interestingly they used the name Single 8 decades before Fuji 'invented' it.
I know there is a normal clockwork key on the other side, but what's that little key inside the exposure table? The frame rate/speed?
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Post by genazzano on Sept 10, 2014 22:42:55 GMT -5
That's the latch to open the camera.
David
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Post by philbirch on Sept 11, 2014 7:33:59 GMT -5
That's the latch to open the camera. David Everything is on the opposite side to a normal double run std8 camera. Great! V for Voigtlander Perkeo 1
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Post by Peltigera on Sept 11, 2014 10:43:36 GMT -5
Ihagee West Exakta TL 500 (AKA Petri XX)
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