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Post by rogerb on Apr 1, 2018 18:41:26 GMT -5
I'm Roger Bradbury, I live in Milton Keynes. My first camera was a Diana, and for a while as a teenager I carried an early Dacora Dignette everywhere. My first SLR was the good ol' Zenith B, with 58 f/2. I'm 59.
I have a couple of Brownies, an XA2, a Rex 6x9 with an f/7.7 lens, and an Ilford Sportsman. I have plans to adapt the Brownies for modern film speeds, but I've used the Rex and the XA2.
I've also got a couple of Pentax DSLRs and some of my lenses are MF. The K20d is adapted a bit for easier MF use and for improved controlment.
I have a few questions to ask you folks, so here I am.
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Post by mickeyobe on Apr 1, 2018 23:03:23 GMT -5
I have a couple of Brownies, an XA2, a Rex 6x9 with an f/7.7 lens, and an Ilford Sportsman. I have plans to adapt the Brownies for modern film speeds, but I've used the Rex and the XA2.
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Welcome to The Camera Collector, Roger.
Why not adapt the film to the Brownies? Appropriate Neutral Density filters over the camera lens should do that quickly and easiy and you wont have to lift a screwdriver.
Mickey
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Post by hansz on Apr 2, 2018 5:17:31 GMT -5
Welcome Roger! My first SLR was a Zenit B also, fitted with the Helios 44. I still got it. Bought at the East-West-Agencies in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and loaded with ORWO (East German) film inside... Hans
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Post by rogerb on Apr 2, 2018 8:43:33 GMT -5
Mickey One Brownie is a 1917 No.2, so it's a simple matter of altering the shutter speed by blocking off a bit of the hole in the blade. There's already a choice of three apertures. The other one is a Six-20 Model E, but I think that by altering the bits that go into the spool ends and a spacer at the take-up end, it can be made to use 120 film. The Model E doesn't have a choice of apertures but there's a yellow filter to give a one stop variation. I can do the same trick with the shutter.
Hans I used to use Orwo's 50ASA slide film in the Zenith, UT18 I think it was called. I liked the warm and contrasty results.
Roger
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