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Post by pentaxgraflex on Oct 12, 2008 18:06:20 GMT -5
I can tell from the cosmetics yours is a rebadged Sigma. Our local camera store also sold them. I have a M42 mount one I use on my Spotmatic that is actually pretty good.
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Oct 12, 2008 15:04:46 GMT -5
On the KX make sure the meter works. All I have seen (about 12) the battery check circuit was fine (which show the galvanometer is OK) but pressing on the shutter button either with or without the wind lever pulled out ( the instructions say the wind lever must be out) produced nothing. I've never been able to find one that I could use the meter on. I do have a rare KX though. It's the motor drive version that at one time had a databack installed also. When I bought mine at a pawn shop the data back had been removed (leaving two holes all the way through the pressure plate). A pressure plate and back covering from a K1000 fit exactly and alows me to use the camera. I also have a MX. The MX meter is easier to read in low light ( being LED) and it accepts a readily available winder or motor drive. The KX has mirror lock, but very few people will miss that. Other then that, functionally they are well nigh identical. And of course, all the MX meters I have tried have worked.
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Sept 1, 2008 19:13:53 GMT -5
I believe the lens is a Rodenstock, so their serial numbers should put you in the ballpark.
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Jul 12, 2008 21:50:18 GMT -5
I'm jealous!! In some aspects they were a improvement on Graflex's because they had more movements.
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Nov 11, 2007 22:49:32 GMT -5
That is correct!
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Dec 17, 2006 13:45:25 GMT -5
I use the 200mm F/5.6 Topcor lens on a Exacta IIb and it takes great shots. At Garland Camera in Garland TX ( a suburb of Dallas), the owner used to buy Topcon equipment because he had a guy who would buy everything he had. And don't forget, the US Navy used motorized Topcon Super D's, so they had to be pretty good.
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Dec 17, 2006 13:48:49 GMT -5
I have a clean and functioning IIb that I use occasionly. The only thing I don't like about it is it does not have a finder lock like the IIa does. Other than than that, they are identical. Remember that only the VX1000 has the instant return mirror.
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Dec 17, 2006 14:01:23 GMT -5
I have two Spotmatics, a black one and chrome one along with a smattering of lenses. I love em'! By the way, the 35mm F/2 Takumars also used rare earth glasses and take on a strong color cast you can see in the viewfinder. Both the single and mulit-coated ones!
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Oct 16, 2007 1:41:54 GMT -5
I am preparing to use some Scala in my Type 1 MX Rolleiflex. I have an old Kodak Type G (Wratton 15) filter. In my old Graflex books it says the filter factor is 3 with Pan Type B film and 2.5 with Type C panchromatic film. Given the cost of processing, I don't want to bracket too much. Anybody have any ideas what the filter factor might be with Scala?
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Mar 22, 2007 22:10:34 GMT -5
I believe Kodak started using the Camerosity code in 1940. They made lenses labelled Ektar beginning in 1936 (I have a 107mm F/3.7 Anastigmat Ektar) but it has no code. The earliest lens I have seen with the code is from 1940, and I have read the latest is from 1963. Some of the cheaper lenses never had the code assigned. And I think only the USA built lenses used the code.
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Dec 1, 2007 1:58:31 GMT -5
Yeah, that lens was made by Osawa. It was also sold by Qauntary but with different cosmetics. It looked like it was a re-badged Soligor.
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Oct 7, 2007 21:01:07 GMT -5
The Olympus FTL's also used the locking pin with aperture ring lug to communicate aperture info. Only Pentax and Praktica were different. I like Fuji's approach better than Pentax's. Praktica's electronic system was OK I guess, but over here wide and long lenses were impossible to find for them.
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Sept 2, 2007 0:42:28 GMT -5
Looks like a cross between a Tokina (focus ring looks identical) and a Soligor (the macro ring is identical to what they used on a bunch of their lenses).
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Aug 10, 2007 22:26:40 GMT -5
Also sounds like one of the old Sun zooms that Spiratone sold. There was a Sun 24-40 F/3.5 zoom marketed by them in the late seventies.
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Post by pentaxgraflex on Apr 29, 2007 1:58:18 GMT -5
I have the 60-120mm Tokina F/2.8 AT-X I bought in 1985 that produces some of the sharpest Kodachromes I have. Tokina had/has a good reputation here in the states. In the 70's they sold their designs as the Asanuma line.
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