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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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Post by paulhofseth on May 8, 2023 1:02:41 GMT -5
I recall with pleasure the VI T I used to have before I switched to the better viewfinder but less innovative film-charging andtransport of the M3- Yesterday however I came across a Contina at a fleamarket with the special SVS shutter AND a working light meter (plus a ddefunct Horvex as a bonus. The Zeiss just needed some exercise of the slowest speeds to get them up to full speed.
With some cautious use of its big rewind handle i may be able to get a film partially exposed (Ilford XP) in order to compare its Tessar with a Color Skopar on a VitoB, an early F2 Ektar on an old Retina as well as the Ultron and Nokton on a Prominent.. All with just one scanning operation but beyond keeping strict control of numbers, possibly needing darkroom bag fiddling if the cartridge swallows the film end.
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Post by paulhofseth on Feb 28, 2023 11:48:47 GMT -5
I will soon be travelling to Holland where I have not been for years. I never check in luggage and use a small rucksack to carry essentials. Hence the choice of potoequipment is problematic. My bulky multipixel stuff will not fit and I have to choose between my two small P&S things, one with an excellently sharp 28mm and one with a serviceable zoom (reasonably sharp but dim), plus a smaller sensor. Both tend to focus on their own and not always on what I wish to be sharp. Both cameras lack a sunshade so I have to use a hand as shade and both have the useless rear screen which is impossible to use in fulll sunshine.
Conclusion; for really good snaps smaller cameras are an emergency solution, but necessary until the makers start shrinking their biggest products
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Post by paulhofseth on Feb 2, 2023 2:34:52 GMT -5
How does one attach pictures when there does not seem to be any buttons for that and "copy-paste" does not work.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jan 18, 2023 16:12:03 GMT -5
further to this thread rather than its digressions; I just looked through and did not find any reference to the Chinon camera that Pignons in Switxerland marketed as an alpa when they were in economic difficulties and needed something showy. They also markeded a number of Chinon lenses labelled Alpa. when their normal Angenieux , Kinoptik and Schneider lenses became too expensive. Some unsubstantiated net rumours have connected the lens designs with the Tomioka factory that Yashica bought.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jan 18, 2023 15:40:05 GMT -5
I just ascertained that the Werra 3 listing omitted the interchangeable lenses. I also tested the indexing at camdex, Surprisingly the rare Ponticac lynx II was listed, but not the slightly older Derlux from anotheer maker,but I should have looked under Gallus.
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Post by paulhofseth on Nov 30, 2022 11:03:54 GMT -5
Despite its precision and compactness I gave up on both the M3 and the M6. A 1:1 viewfinder is excellent since it allows you to keep both eyes open and see what is about to come into the picture (unlike with the SLR). But the R-8 gives a better impression of the finished snap and its viewfinder is quite brilliant. Still I normally use my Z7 with its ability to enlarge the crucial focus point.Of course, the Olympus magnifying angle finder also allows for magnification but the digital finders compensate well for lower light scenes and the z can take absolutely all kinds of lenses, -even my old leitz ones with M mount.
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Post by paulhofseth on Nov 12, 2022 15:29:25 GMT -5
As I understand the situation, Rollei bought Voigtländer when the ZIV unit collapsed and went on to produce their new products when thy closed the factory in Braunschweig and started in Singapore. They licenced multicoating "HFT" and the Planar name and design from Zeiss and labelled some of their Planar lenses "Ultron" in order to keep the goodwill gained by the earlier designs. As you remark, the negative curve of the front lens (Icarex) Ultron was not kept, enither was the design of the early Ultrons of "Prominent" fame.
And also according to the standard Alpa book by Lothar Thewes, Pignons ordered some samples of the Singapore versions of the 35mm Distagons and 135mm Teletessars which they did not find adequate for Alpa standards, so the quality control might have been less stringent than in Braunschweig and Obercochen Although they went on to make a sucess with mr.Waasches tiny Rollei 35 made in Singapore.
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Post by paulhofseth on Nov 10, 2022 16:21:45 GMT -5
I just aquired a very unfashionable VSL2 which has the mechanical shuttertimes besides automatic times AND it actually still works.But to run one of the films in my fridge through it owning only the one QBM 50mm would be a waste of opportunities. Better to use the film in my Contax ST or the R-8 where I do have a selection of focal lengths. AND wait til the rain stops (or bring out my Nikonos).
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Post by paulhofseth on Nov 3, 2022 12:42:42 GMT -5
Does anyone have a spare Novoflex BAL-U? It is an "upside down" bellows made for focussing the Pigriff closer and has a fixed special bayonet on the Pigiff side and a "standard" Novoflex camera adapter on the camera side. I need the bellows with the pigriff attachment, not the camera side ring.
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Post by paulhofseth on Nov 3, 2022 12:35:21 GMT -5
I found the M3 to be exceedingly robust.
Once when I was accompanying my archeologist wife on one of her shorter fieldtrips to photograph viking age "kettleworks "we were surprised by an intense rainfall while walking in dense forest without rainclothes. Her OM1 got the prismhousing full of water and stopped working while my M3 was unharmed (no cases used in order to save weight and eliminate cumbersome fiddling ). To be certain that it was OK I later visited the national Leitz HQ and had it tested: thy confirmed that everything worked according to specs.
I would not dare to bring my R8 & 9 on such an expedition -too much vulnerable electronics inside although the mechanics are up to LEitz standards.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jul 28, 2022 1:40:54 GMT -5
The lenses for the G can certainly be repurposed. I have a very fiddly and heavy "kipon" adapter for my 90mm and used it on my MFT, but do not have an adapter for my Z and suspect that it mighty be equally impractical. Due to its Optical quality and its light and compact construction, the 90 deserves to be used (but my reasonably compact Contax C/Y 85 and 100 perform almost like the G90 BUT need the unwieldy zeiss metal sunshades and do not have the slide out version used for the G)
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Post by paulhofseth on Jul 24, 2022 5:26:36 GMT -5
I avoid everything auto and electronic since even Leica does not provide spares after a while. Lens motors-, cameraoperated focus and aperture is even less reliable.
For Nikons screwdriver focus, my Angenieux zoom is fortunately equipped with mechanical focus rings that work.
Cameramarkets here in Norway are not particularly well supplied, so bargains like the above are very rare. At the moment I am trying to find a 65mm zeiss planachro/160/0,017 for my microscope, but that is even more difficult
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Post by paulhofseth on Jul 7, 2022 9:34:55 GMT -5
Dismissing large format photography:
I once briefly used a Linhof 6x9cm. quite snappy photos,and pleasant to focus on the big matte screen. but too easy to forget the darkslides while developing sheet film demanded more juggling of film clips than 35mm rolls AND the rollex back was unreliable. so I gave it away to a friend who used it with more circumspection and stuck with more manageable formats ever since.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jun 20, 2022 0:26:24 GMT -5
Shocking venture. After having read about Leitz accuracy demands where 1/100 mm is regarded as worth adjusting to, and seen how short a distance that really is on my microscope measuring slide, I would not have dared to unscrew anything out of worry that tightening an extra turn would move glass one hundreth too close to the next element So I have never attempted such surgery. But haze and mushrooms is of course much worse than upsetting the seidel fault balances. The cemented bits can reputedly be separated by draconian measures, but only rejoined by very difficult centering methods.
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