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Post by John Farrell on Jan 26, 2015 14:30:18 GMT -5
This arrived yesterday, from Trademe, New Zealand's local auction site.  I've cleaned the fluff out of the front of the lens - it looked like it was stored in a very dusty cupboard. The lens focussing is a bit stiff, and the wind lever is disconnected from winding - most of the time. I wonder if a ratchet pawl has lost its spring? I'll be following Ron Herron's excellent advice on removing the top plate, and looking into it, one of these days...... The accessory shoe is an interesting Asahi Pentax item, which has 2 spring lugs, which are pressed to remove the shoe. |
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Post by olroy2044 on Jan 26, 2015 15:32:08 GMT -5
John, that is an exact duplicate of my first interchangeable lens slr. Interchangeable lenses, switchable thru-the-lens metering? I was in HEAVEN!! Strangely enough, I had a Pentax accessory shoe on mine too. Totally wore that camera out, had it rebuilt, and wore it out again. That time my camera guy told me he couldn't fix it again, so I gave it to him for parts. I have another one now in working but very rough condition. "One of these days--------"  L-0-V-E-D that camera! P.S. Kept the lenses/ Used them (along with other M-42s, Taks, Viv's etc) on my Spottie, My K-Mount cameras, and still on my Canon DSLR. They are still very good lenses. |
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Post by philbirch on Jan 26, 2015 19:09:27 GMT -5
Similar to the Argus I had, except that the Argus had a special bayonet.
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Post by mickeyobe on Jan 27, 2015 11:52:29 GMT -5
This arrived yesterday, from Trademe, New Zealand's local auction site. I've cleaned the fluff out of the front of the lens - it looked like it was stored in a very dusty cupboard. The lens focussing is a bit stiff, and the wind lever is disconnected from winding - most of the time. I wonder if a ratchet pawl has lost its spring? I'll be following Ron Herron's excellent advice on removing the top plate, and looking into it, one of these days...... The accessory shoe is an interesting Asahi Pentax item, which has 2 spring lugs, which are pressed to remove the shoe. I have the identical camera with a f1.8 lens. The shutter is jammed securely. The accessory shoe is after market. It is not a perfect fit but it does the job. It must be a navel lens.Mickey |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2015 17:50:07 GMT -5
I had a 1000TL. My first camera with a through the lens meter (spot).
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Post by belgiumreporter on Jan 28, 2015 4:34:12 GMT -5
I got one for free, it was a leftover nos, everything new in the box. The only thing wrong with it was the everreadycase that was badly detoriated through age, completely dried out and cracked. The camera itselve is well...new and works perfectly and it has the Original mamiya flash shoe . Even so nobody wanted it, and since they wanted to trow it away, i volunteered to give it a good home. I don't know how it compares price wise but i suppose it must have been a good alternative for a practica in those days.  |
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Post by Stephen on Jan 28, 2015 6:25:24 GMT -5
The Mamiya was more costly than the Practica LTL, even with the fastest German lens option, I think when the LTL was about £50, the Mamiya was £90 or so. The F2 50mm lens was a good lens.
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Post by belgiumreporter on Jan 28, 2015 7:31:39 GMT -5
The Mamiya was more costly than the Practica LTL, even with the fastest German lens option, I think when the LTL was about £50, the Mamiya was £90 or so. The F2 50mm lens was a good lens. Stephen OK. that would explain why people kept buying practica's |
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Post by Stephen on Jan 28, 2015 11:37:29 GMT -5
I seem to remember the Pancolor Lens Practica LTL pushed the price to the same as the Mamiya and several rival cameras of the early 1970's. I think the the Mamiya was imported to the UK by Rank Photographic, the biggest firm in optics etc., in the period.
Stephen
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Post by truls on Jan 28, 2015 16:28:35 GMT -5
I love those simple cameras. Everything focused on the image, no clutter. Wish they could make such a simple digital camera, aperture and shutter setting, a light meter. Images could be saved in raw format, for later editing (the digital negative and printing).
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Post by philbirch on Jan 28, 2015 20:46:20 GMT -5
I love those simple cameras. Everything focused on the image, no clutter. Wish they could make such a simple digital camera, aperture and shutter setting, a light meter. Images could be saved in raw format, for later editing (the digital negative and printing). I agree, but people want features and widgets that they'd never use in a month of sundays. |
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Post by truls on Jan 29, 2015 5:14:31 GMT -5
I love those simple cameras. Everything focused on the image, no clutter. Wish they could make such a simple digital camera, aperture and shutter setting, a light meter. Images could be saved in raw format, for later editing (the digital negative and printing). I agree, but people want features and widgets that they'd never use in a month of sundays. You are quite right, and I suspect manufacturers are listening to all customers, leaving cluttered menus as a result. It could be fun if one manufacturer had the courage to create such a simple digital camera. Creating higher quality camera, even upgradable as those early Leicas. Another feature could be leaving all menus blank as a starting point, each user add what menu to be active? |
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Post by Stephen on Jan 29, 2015 6:03:12 GMT -5
The problem is the electronics are actually far more standard than the makers like to give us to understand. The core processors are pretty standard chips, the image processing uses the makers code, as do the menu contents and appearance. This has happened as the camera makers were not electronics makers and outsourced the core of the cameras to people like Seiko, Sony, and many specialist suppliers.
Most designs at a particular price level are basically the same cameras, with image processing additions and lens variations.
So dramatic changes would be very costly, even when it seems to be a simpler layout.
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Post by John Farrell on Sept 12, 2016 20:24:04 GMT -5
Just to add - back in May, I removed the top cover, and cleaned the wind ratchet - it was gummed up with old grease.  |
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