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Post by sevesteen on Mar 11, 2015 20:06:29 GMT -5
The problem seems to be taken care of via Ebay--Picked up an H1a body with a clip on mirror. Visual inspection shows everything appearing to work, and the meter at least moves with an alkaline battery. I've got zinc air batteries on the way.
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Post by sevesteen on Mar 11, 2015 19:58:21 GMT -5
A nice collection of chrome bodies. Is that a Minolta XE-5 beside the Oly in the front? Depending on working condition, it could encourage you to explore more. That's pretty much how I started to just going with the flow and then before you know it . . . Yes, that's an XE5. Never heard of that particular model before I saw the auction it was in--same batch as the Beauty, a Praktica and a bunch of lenses. The XE5 metering responds and it appears to work, haven't gotten around to running film through it yet.
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Post by sevesteen on Mar 11, 2015 19:43:38 GMT -5
One of my M42 lenses is a Super Lentar f3.5 35mm preset. The inner aperture ring is loose, and has to be held to the rear while operating. Held like this it appears to work properly, If I allow it to move forward it can rotate a full 365 degrees, and has to be wiggled back in place. It feels like a clip or set screw or something has come loose. How do I properly take this apart far enough to fix the problem?
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Post by sevesteen on Mar 9, 2015 17:51:35 GMT -5
Interesting display. What will you do when your collection grows to over 100? I'll either have to make room for the wife by getting rid of some cameras, or....
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Post by sevesteen on Mar 8, 2015 14:18:47 GMT -5
Displaying: Plan to do something similar on what open wall space we have for others.
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Post by sevesteen on Mar 7, 2015 16:56:26 GMT -5
Photo from the Beauty, using my DSLR as a light meter: I took the same picture stopped down and slower, eyeballing the negative appears to be the same exposure.
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Post by sevesteen on Mar 6, 2015 20:20:15 GMT -5
The Beauty was caught by accident, it came in a bundle with 2 SLRs and a bunch of lenses. It fires, winds exposed film and appears to work but I haven't run any new film through it yet. I'm unsure of the shutter speeds--I can't see much difference between 500 and 60, but I also don't have a known-good leaf shutter to compare it to. I also can't see much difference in my Electro 35 firing at my monitor at ASA 100 or 1000.
I'm guessing what you are calling a Metz is the flash on the Electro 35..that's a Yashica Pro-50 DX that came with the camera. Since both are PC cord only, seemed appropriate to leave them together.
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Post by sevesteen on Mar 5, 2015 19:43:32 GMT -5
I'm not sure I'm ready to call this a collection yet, I don't really have a theme or any curating, just what I've found inexpensively so far. I'm most interested in metal bodied 35mm, mostly metered but before autofocus and built in autowind. I particularly want cameras I shot with before I went to digital--three of those are represented here in the SRT101, OM10 and Electra 35. [/img]
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Post by sevesteen on Mar 5, 2015 19:21:29 GMT -5
I'm still figuring out the focus of my collection--but I do want to take pictures with as many as I can.
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Post by sevesteen on Mar 5, 2015 19:11:37 GMT -5
I already tried firing with a bit of rolled up lens tissue in the way, still got stuck. Although Eric the Pentax Guy is a lot less expensive than I expected, I think I'm going to hold off on doing anything to it for a bit--I'll practice on something less interesting first before I decide if I do it myself or send it to Eric.
I need the camera equivalent of the one-jewel mechanical watch movements--nearly worthless, but same techniques to CLA as a fine movement.
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Post by sevesteen on Mar 4, 2015 21:20:02 GMT -5
Your profile doesn't say where in the world you are but if you are in the USA and you want your Pentax back in factory working order than Eric is considered the Pentax guy -> Pentax Camera Service. If you do want to try to repair it, I believe there is a Pentax SV repair manual floating around. If not there is a Spotmatic manual at Roberts Tech Service Manuals. I would be more likely to attempt repair myself. Unless this camera is far more valuable than I think it is, or repair costs far less than I would expect I doubt the costs would be worthwhile for this camera. (That same situation is why I learned to fix watches myself) A Google search led me to a repair of similar symptoms on a Spotmatic, but the parts were considerably different when I took my bottom plate off.
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Post by sevesteen on Mar 4, 2015 19:07:25 GMT -5
I've got an Asahi Pentax S1a with a sticky mirror and diaphragm release lever (not sure that's the right terminology, the gizmo that pushes the pin to stop down the lens during exposure) I've managed to get the mirror down by poking at the linkages, but it pops back up and stays when the shutter is fired. While the foam could use replacement I'm near certain that isn't the cause of the mirror not returning--poking the linkage slightly will move the mirror enough to see that the top edge is free, but if I don't push a bit past that the mirror returns to the up position. It also isn't lens based--the lens that it came with is a Super Lentar preset with no pin, and it does the same without the lens. Additionally the shutter sticks, either the trailing curtain doesn't even begin to close at slow speeds, or it doesn't close completely at higher ones. It does shut properly when I wind it. Not sure I want to tackle shutter issues yet, but I would like to get the mirror to work right just to keep the viewfinder clear when fiddling with the camera.
I've got zero camera repair experience, but I can do some precision work, I taught myself to CLA old mechanical watches when I was collecting those.
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Post by sevesteen on Mar 4, 2015 18:43:07 GMT -5
Hi and welcome to the forum. You lost me a bit with sophomore and jr High - we don't have these in UK. But I was fine when you started mentioning cameras. I'm pretty sure you have them, but it's like boot and trunk. Junior high is generally 7th and 8th year, (not counting kindergarten) sometimes 9th. Sophomore would be 10th.
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Post by sevesteen on Mar 1, 2015 23:08:55 GMT -5
In the late 70's when I was in high school the yearbook staff didn't have sophomores (our district then had freshmen still in jr high) so I was able to spend a few months with the yearbook's Yashica. Don't remember the model, but it was a bayonet mount with LED based manual exposure. Not long after, I bought my own camera, an Olympus OM 10 with manual adapter and a 2x teleconverter. The OM10 was the cheapest auto exposure SLR from a brand I'd heard of with manual shutter speeds--and Serious Photographers had to have manual. Lost that camera through my own stupidity when I was in the Air Force. Wound up years later with an SRT-101, bought mostly because it was cheap, reasonable condition and had an f1.4 lens. Salvaged my sister in law's wedding pictures with it when the professional apparently changed film speed without changing the camera--mine were still OK. I wasn't doing much photography by around 2000, so I switched to digital point and shoot for family pictures, finally getting a Pentax Kx DSLR a few years ago.
I've been looking at thrift store cameras hoping to find old K mount primes for my Kx. One of the thrift store cameras I saw was an SRT200 I bought it in part to explain exposure to a co-worker--It's version of match needle seems perfect for that task. Another co-worker offered me his Minolta X370 outfit. "I might be interested, but I won't be willing to give you what it's worth" "What's it worth to you?" "$25" "Sold". (Body, 2 primes and a zoom, flash and winder). I started looking for a 101, and an OM10, and any other camera I had much contact with in my early photographic years. I've also wound up with a few "That's odd...and not too expensive" purchases. Searching for information on one of those oddities, a Ricoh 126C-Flex (126 film SLR, with in-body leaf shutter, interchangeable lens, hot shoe AND flash cube) led me here.
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