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Post by paulhofseth on Jun 26, 2020 9:31:39 GMT -5
I agree that putting a lump on seems daft while Leica type shapes like the Olympus Pen F and the Fujis manage to fit a decent viewfinder. I hope that sooner or later sales managers will stop demanding "expensive-looking" styling and adopt the brick-look while sacrificing the myriad of knobs in favour of once and for all menu-settings plus on and off switch, shutter release and focus enlarge + menu choice button.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jun 26, 2020 9:18:27 GMT -5
An unexpected, but predictable problem occurred when I packed equipment for this summer. I decideed to take slides as well as negatives and brought both my Contax ST and the Leitz R-8 which of course need a tripod as well for the longer lenses . plus the digital alternative and its adapters. those, plus the "necessary" short and long lenses weigh a ton.
So getting into a habit of using analogue stuff will burden you a long time.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jun 1, 2020 3:34:12 GMT -5
those Canons were sturdy and accurate.and I recall that one of my early ones had a winding trigger rather like a leicavit.But with the later types changing films needed care not to touch the metal shutter blind which would easily crincle-
My leicas M3 and M6 had frames that moved with the distance setting, so avoiding parallax error. but I must adsmit that i resorted to the Visoflex, the elmar 65 and my 90 and 135 lens-heads in order to snap smaller objects
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Post by paulhofseth on May 20, 2020 8:37:53 GMT -5
sir, I consulted the gebrauchsanleitung where Pignons write that all intermediate times can be set, but do not specify which exactly. They also state that this is not possible between 500 and 1000 since "that is only one tooth" and not between 25 and 10 since that dsetting is occupied by B.
as to eyepiece-rubber , the chapter on accessories has no mention, but state that there is an additional ring: "Montur" for eysight correction and that for type 7 distance measuring window ther is the extension for rflexeinblick, "Oculur"
In conlusion they have tips for maintenance where they advise not to store with cocked shutter , never ope, and that one should not try to lubricate with ordinary oil, since that will be incompatible with the type of oil they use.
I have found the old Alpas to be very robust and its Switar 50mm contrasty and sharp.
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Post by paulhofseth on May 18, 2020 3:56:38 GMT -5
A terminology "complaint":
Filters in past vocabulary were suppposed to be meticulously madde planeparallell glass (Or in the case of Asahi two same-radius convex surfaces so as to avoid reflections)or even cheap plastic bits; all with closely specified spectral transmissivity so as to correst colours or block some rays.
These are usually confused with front mounted close-up lenses chich may be achromatic doublets with specific diopters and sometimes happen to be matchded to a specific lens.Many experimenters peersist in calliong them filters when they make attempts to avoid sensor problems with wideangles.
Effects attachments like star-burst prisms, vignetting discs and straightforward dabbing vaseline on the front lens element or looking through objects deserve to be be more precisely named than just being called filters.
Theere is even one rare tarnsparent filter fulfilling a particular role as part of the design of of a catadioptic lens (the end filter), it was even designed to be made of a tightly specified type of glass.(I suspect low dispeersion since it is not supposed to have any refractive purpose, merely to let light through, or as its siblings, to reduce light by a specific amount.)
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Post by paulhofseth on May 3, 2020 11:01:03 GMT -5
My slide copying setup uses a rodenstock enlarger lens and an Olympus bellows. One point I forgot to raise about macros old v/s new is that autofocus for macro without a tripod is useless, since both you and the motive will be moving so snapping when in focus is the best triposless method. also, the ancient Leitz and Zeiss creations can keep up with more recent lenses. Still, in practice, even the lesser pedigree Asahi Takumars do reasonably well.
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Post by paulhofseth on May 1, 2020 8:26:51 GMT -5
when I travelled on job missions digital did not exist, so i experimented with tiny Minox C and their unreliable 35mm before moving to Rollei 35. The Leica and its various lenses was usually too big to fit in a suit pocket. Now not travelling that often, i still find bringing the heavy artillery too cumbersome, so I have a small Sony-something with a rettractable so-called "Zeiss" zoom. The camera has a back screen that has to be used as a viewfinder, but usually works, while giving fairly good raw-files. Replay, wiFi and other useless frills can be disabled to save battery power while the memorycard can be extracted so that the pictures are securely stored and "developed" on my laptop.
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 27, 2020 4:40:58 GMT -5
Anyone still having a link to the Zeiss\contax-yashica mount lens datasheets (diagrams, MTFs + sales bumf for each lens)? Unfortunately links to (a german- language) forum plus the specific zeiss-history site disappeared when my laptop conked out and my triple security NAS\harddisk storage only contains pictures and texts .'
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 27, 2020 4:32:07 GMT -5
Addendum to my confessions as "an accumulator"above,
In the late 1950es a close friend initiated me in the mysteries of developing prints. He sported an Altix and other friends had Exactas, while I had to do with a 6x9cm rollfilm box while my father recommended Tenax as a replacement for his former wiew camera.
An industrious classmate bought an elegant Voigtländer VitoB and proceeded to make it pay for itself by organizing school photos. Afterwards I have always regarded those as paragons of camera mechanics of times past. And a peculiarity of their film transport, locking up- until a film (or a well informed buyer) moves the sprocket wheel - has helped not paying too much at camera fairs.
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 9, 2020 8:50:06 GMT -5
In my case I never collected , but used, just did not sell off much, and was continually tempted to try variieties, So I chanced to have the Alpa Standard as well as the 11Si together with Riga Minox and LX, the SL2 and the R9 etc. Lately, since i have switched to digital, I find various half-ancient optics both more useful and more interesting.
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 4, 2020 11:31:08 GMT -5
never look back. That goes for taking farewell of hardware as well as for partings of the human kind. SP and Hologon is mentioned above; I once swapepd my IIIG for a black SP but did not find it suitable so it went again. The 15mm did not give quite the edge sharpness i wanted (but excellent contrast and no distortion) so I swapped it for an extemely rare Alpa Half-frame plus a suitable wad of cash.
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 4, 2020 11:10:14 GMT -5
Hoping that you stay well, I did look for old camera equipment once 30 years ago and found some Leitz stuff up north in Shimla.
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Post by paulhofseth on Mar 27, 2020 10:13:23 GMT -5
Participation in a forum depends on time available, yes.
In my case "self isolated" for a forthnight after spending some time abroad, I find that I still nurture my collection instincts. Since walking out in the woods herabouts is still allowed, I ration time by the computer between work and pleasure, so that the (digital) pictures I take with my diverse optical marvels while outside have to be prepared before looking at historical details & possibly contributing to fora.
I am not worried about a lack of serious collectors, we of the original generaation will of course die out,but there will always be connoiseurs and just plain investors seeing out old and rare stuff., just look at the watch- as well as the furniture& general antiques market In my case I have started to sell a few lenses on the Westlicht auctions and find that there still is collector interest
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Post by paulhofseth on Mar 17, 2020 15:48:44 GMT -5
One interesting bit of asahi history is that the M42 mount was introduced by the Zeiss Dresden factory for the first Contax SLR and apparently was licenced by the japanese (if such a thing as a copyright on a simple thread can exist)
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Post by paulhofseth on Feb 25, 2020 7:25:50 GMT -5
I am tempted to revive my Dralowid, but that is double eight, and the Bolex 160s are devislishly complicated when they break down, so at that cost, I think I will exercise the Leicina .
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