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Post by yashica1943 on Dec 16, 2015 3:51:42 GMT -5
Just been down to my local car boot sale (0800 on a cold damp Wednesday next to the beach!). Found a Lordomat in its case. Seems to be from 1953. Needs a bit of a clean and I have no idea if it is working, but a good buy at £5. I will put a photo of it on here when I have tidied it up. Just given it a superficial clean, everything seems to work, the viewfinder/rangefinder is clear and there is still a film in it. It has a Lordonar 50mm f2.8 lens.   And this is an advert from my 1953 German Photo Magazin! |
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Post by Stephen on Dec 16, 2015 13:22:12 GMT -5
Lordomats are known to be a bit delicate, wind on can jam, and heavy handling can upset them. In good order they work well, the lenses were made by them, but later on they bought in lenses.
Leidolf also made Microscope lenses.
An oddity is the use of Wetzlar on the lens, they were in the same town as Leica, but unconnected.
The make was middle of the market in price and features, too many rivals though, and they closed down by the late 1950's. Not to be confused with the Lord brand from Japan in the same period.
Stephen.
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Post by yashica1943 on Dec 20, 2015 4:44:01 GMT -5
I have now cleaned the exterior, getting rid of all the grime in the crevices. It now looks almost as good as new. There is a little wear in the base of the flash shoe and some slight rubbing below that and on the base plate but that is all. I operated the shutter two or three times before I realised there was a film in it, it is now on exposure 28 so I assume that it is 36 exposure and the memory disc is set on 200, but could be anything. I was going to go out and finish the film off today but it is now pouring with rain. Then look at the interior.
I consider this to be my best old film camera buy so far. I liked the Neoca Robin, because it was rarer but that cost me £10 and the shutter didn't work.
I took the Lordomat out today and tried to finish the film that was in it. The exposures number was on 28, so I kept photographing the same scene at different exposure settings until it had gone right past 36 and was back on 5, still not reached the end, eventually I felt that I was wasting film so I guess that the previous owner had set it wrong. I wound the film back, quite cleverly Lordomat had put the sprocket free-wheel button incorporated with the film counter, on top. When I opened it up, in the very clean interior there was a Tudor 200 ISO DX coded 24 exposure film!
Under the circumstances I don't think that I will get it developed. I have a Rolleiflex SL35, a Couple of Pentax, a Vivitar V6000, a Canon EOS with a Helios lens a Kershaw 120 and a Minolta 110 to try out yet.
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Post by Stephen on Dec 20, 2015 8:06:11 GMT -5
The Lordomat is in another league over the Neoca, it was far more costly, and the lenses should be better than the Japanese Neoca.
Stephen.
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Post by yashica1943 on Dec 21, 2015 7:14:54 GMT -5
I liked the Robin, it was nicely made and reminded me of an early Nikon Rangefinder. Wish that I had kept it now.  |
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Post by Rachel on Dec 22, 2015 5:12:56 GMT -5
A lot of these cameras looked quite ordinary in their day, well to me anyway, but look very attractive now  |
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Post by yashica1943 on Dec 22, 2015 8:49:33 GMT -5
I think that what is amazing about digital cameras is the way that they show up every speck of dirt. (As on the Lordomat). I have cleaned cameras carefully to sell on ebay and they always show dust particles and need a bit of spotting in photoshop. (Dust only, not dents! When I was making detailed 1/35 plastic model tanks I deliberately used to photograph them when I thought that I had finished, they always had missing paint and needed more work. |
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