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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 22, 2024 2:34:46 GMT -5
For film use I normally used leitz with the collapsible 50mm, then Rollei 35s and for a short while the unreliable-shutter-Minox in a suitable pocket.
With digital; a small Sony with a good sensor (probably same size as the N-1s) it plus the collapsible lens serves as the same purposes as my previous analog equipment. It is much easier to bring out than my clumsy and heavy Z-7 but does not have its flexibility.
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Post by paulhofseth on Feb 26, 2024 13:29:48 GMT -5
In this case either the sites spamfilters or its moderation obviously does not work, the posting above or possibly its instigator ought to be removed in order to keep the sites good signal to noise ratio.
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Post by paulhofseth on Feb 25, 2024 3:55:50 GMT -5
I can cover both U and V at the same time. mr. Glatzel designed the concave glass Ultron for the ZIV Icarex rather than using the original calculation . The letters Z and I are too far apart, but my Voigtländer Vitomatic IIa can easily fill two consequtive spaces.
Running a C41 film through it I discovered that both lens and camera works well.
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Post by paulhofseth on Feb 19, 2024 5:28:58 GMT -5
sir,
Yashica bought the famous lens-maker Tomioka and incorporated their products into the yashica cameras while also selling optics to other mkers.
The net is full of dubious and unfounded speculation about which lenses in fact came from Tomioka, so i will not risk speculating on whether yashica kept several different factories for their lenses after the merger. There are, however, some reliable and less gullible authors at netsites speializing in Yashica products
Yashica who mastered early camera electronics was eventually taken over by the precision ceramics company Kyocera who contiued to cooperate with Zeiss designers and quality control in making the Contax SLR optics before they gave up and another venerable japanese company took over. Anyone originally working at the Tomioka plant will by now have been buried.
Whether the ghost of tomioka was imbedded in the products is as dubious as whether the ghosts of Ernst Abbe and mr. Bertele still adheres to the Zeiss label.
Someone who is familiar with japanese culture and language can certainly guide you further.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jan 8, 2024 3:57:59 GMT -5
The Tele arton 85mm by Rodenstock is astonisinghly short and handy especially compared to my zeiss planar with approximately the same focal length (but 4 stops faster). Both only adapted flat forward pointing to my Z-7.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jan 8, 2024 3:36:41 GMT -5
The visoflex has the brightest reflex view i have encountered whether through the chmney or through (generously proprely dimensioned) prism.
Also the much maligned short mount lenses (included the simple (=einfache) very long ones) are reasonably good. Not long ago I needed to digitize a slide. To avoid fiddling with my big computer (with all windows traces removed) in order to use its excellent Minolta scanner where the Linux version of its Vuescan program would have to be reinstalled, I rigged up an old Novoflex with a black version 65mm- The result was up to that which my usual apo-ronar setup would have provided (it is away on loan together with the Olympus bellows slide copyer).
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Post by paulhofseth on Jan 1, 2024 4:41:52 GMT -5
While obviously an aesthetic advance, I count that as changing a historical fact and hence not allowed.
Just like a dubious shop on the rue Beaumarchais used to sell Alpas assembled fom parts and provided with exotic covers after Pignons had ceased trading . The official dealer Karl Heitz in New York also changed covers, but that was a factory approved dealer, so green Alpas can still count as original.
Although I must admit I once blackened a Leica IIIc to make it less visible when I took some snaps inside a Russian designed Nuclear reactor being built in Finland.
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Post by paulhofseth on Nov 23, 2023 17:10:22 GMT -5
I always regarded that one as quite elegant but have resisted aquiring one, since I do not use film that much and in principle (a long time ago) only collected Alpas. By now, however, other elegant and ancient contraptions have found their way here, but I still maintain that I do not collect, just never sold the interesting bits and believe the development of cameras and optics is an interesting field to study by using.
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Post by paulhofseth on Oct 27, 2023 9:38:00 GMT -5
Not much on this forum ad the results of Braunschweig and Singapore lens renaming exercizes and the sucessive apparatus flora hosting them.
When searching for Icarex posts I found two from 2009 with dead links onwwards
There was not just the original Prominent (& Vito) Vogitländer Ultron transforming into a Zeiss.named Ultron with different construction and then to a Rollei with Planar innards keeping the name- but also the Colour-Skopar rehoused and renamed Tesssar at the time that various other Voigtländer constructions were relabelled "Zeiss" during the ZIV period.
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Post by paulhofseth on Oct 15, 2023 9:08:29 GMT -5
no longer needed; I found a Pigriff-C which has a built in extendable tube for closups making a BAL-U for my "B" type superfluous.
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Post by paulhofseth on Sept 25, 2023 1:19:57 GMT -5
unfortunately Kodachrome is no longer available, for 8mm and super8 while precision narrow gauge recording and projection equipment still remains cheaap (if one can get bulbs for projectors!). KCII was better than alternatives just as it was for 35mm slides until Fuji Velvia appeared.
Pentona sounds like the innovative East German products from Dresden. One can still, obtain inexpensive high quality East Germen optics as lang as one avoids the fashionable ones and is prepared to have solidified grease replaced.
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Post by paulhofseth on Sept 19, 2023 3:09:27 GMT -5
How good a lens has to be is obviouslyn not a theme that gains much attentiom.
As an exersize in lens evalatuation I brought out a TenaxII with the sonnar 40mmf2 from 1939.and discovered that its 24x24mm negqatives were suffficiently sharp and contrasty to be entirely usable for film. No adapter exists to use it on my digital equipment.
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Post by paulhofseth on Aug 24, 2023 4:15:10 GMT -5
presumably a camera with a zoom lens?
For saving weight when walking around I use a similarly compact body on a handstrap having a kind of collapsible 28mm (Reasonably good; but annoyingly without sunshade) a zoom would be better. When travelling i use a small "1inch-sensor" thing which is even more compact and has a workable zoom. Never missed GPS or ever looked at the EXIFs Sufficiant dosumentation is in the picture itself.
The size of these small cameras are praiseworthy, but lack of proper viewfinders and possibilities for precise focussing is a serious shortcoming.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jul 17, 2023 1:58:38 GMT -5
Lenses as fashion acessories do not have to function at all.
An essential ability of expensive lenses is the boost to ones own imagined abilities.The actueal results may not be discernible without some training in evaluating outcomes, and if the lens is visibly rare and expensive one does not need to use it for anything but showing off . On leicas this may save film costs.
Lenses to be used, such as the Summicrons, deliver whatever is needed but others do as well -depending on purpose and final format.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jun 7, 2023 5:33:38 GMT -5
I find that just carrying my 50-300ED with original sunshade by itself is quite inconvenient, not to mention my (Meyer) 500 pentaconar for which I need a shoulder strap.
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