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Post by olddocfox on Jan 19, 2016 17:19:43 GMT -5
Dee, I couldn't resist re-plating the car. The random numbers and letters issued by Pennsylvania were rather boring. This seems much more appropriate! My BUGGER continues to be fun to drive. But then so was the first New Beetle I purchased in 1998 - I even wrote an editorial about it for Sound & Vibration magazine. Click here for PDFBest regards, George
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Post by olddocfox on Dec 16, 2015 10:47:05 GMT -5
One camera, one photographer, two images half a century apart: the painter was captured by my Graflex and its 20 year-old owner; the same pair captured my seven-pound-shadow sunning herself in 2012. I bought this 1946 Graflex Super-D in 1962 while I was a college student. It was my first "serious camera" and I never parted with it. Lana,my small tortie cat, is now 10. I adopted her seven years ago and she has been a great companion and always willing model.
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Post by olddocfox on Dec 16, 2015 9:14:49 GMT -5
Actually, that was just the peak of a yawn - Lana is a happy little girl.
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Post by olddocfox on Dec 15, 2015 21:09:33 GMT -5
What? Show me that tough guy!
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Post by olddocfox on Dec 15, 2015 15:06:43 GMT -5
You have a good looking supper guest with beautiful eyes! (A mouse might think differently.)
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Post by olddocfox on Dec 14, 2015 16:46:10 GMT -5
So, have you bought that VW Beetle yet? I bought this one in November and I'm loving it! It drives really well, gets excellent mileage and exudes high build quality.
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Post by olddocfox on Oct 21, 2015 19:11:49 GMT -5
Dear Stephen,
I'm a new kid in town (and only a little older than you) - I joined the ranks in August of 2015 and have only had time to make about 20 postings (as of October 21, 2015). Calm down and relax a bit. (You young Turks are so impatient!) We share an interest in a quietly dying area of history. Yeah, we'll loose folks to falls and strokes and other hard failures. But, on rare occasion, a young mind will join us. We must welcome it warmly, coddle and protect it and give it what knowledge each of us has to offer. This is the only way to assure our hobby will endure. There will be ebbs and flows in our membership and our contributions - we must each ride these tides with optimism. The most important thing each of us can do is to commit as much of what we know to paper or digital files as time permits. In short - keep posting!
With best regards,
George
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Post by olddocfox on Oct 12, 2015 18:21:55 GMT -5
A great question Rachel! I have edited my post to more carefully explain the adapter rework.
Thank you, Stephen, for stepping in with clarification. Regarding shimming, this only makes sense if you are going to dedicate an adapter to a particular lens. Lacking such "fine tuning" the Leica distance scale will be in error - but not grossly. That thin shim won't make much of a difference at the close-distance end. Since the GX7 is an EVIL, I have both X10 image magnification and focus peaking to aid my focusing of a legacy lens.
I sent the following e-mail to the perveyor of my flawed adapter:
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Post by olddocfox on Oct 11, 2015 19:19:24 GMT -5
I purchased an inexpensive ($7.89 including shipping!) FOTASY M39 to m4/3 adapter from Rainbowimaging via Amazon.com. I wanted to try hanging my 50 mm f/3.5 Leitz Elmar and Zorki Industar lenses on my GX7 to compare them against one another and against more modern lenses. The adapter arrived on schedule and appeared to be very nicely made of chrome-plated brass and black anodized aluminum. I was initially pleased with my purchase. However, a serious flaw became immediately evident. The adapter would not let the Leica infinity-lock release button be depressed. Hence the lens could not be used out to infinity, even though the mount was properly registered from the film plane. I fixed this using a fine-cut flat file. I filed a (file width) notch about 1/16" deep at the seven o'clock position (relative to the red mounting dot). The job took about half an hour. I used a mounted L39 lens to mark the desired location. Then I loosened the three set-screws (requires 2 mm jewler's screwdriver) retaining the rotatable inner brass ring and removed it. I clamped the aluminum part of the adapter down to my bench using hardwood blocks and small C-clamps. I used a fine-toothed flat file (with non-cutting edges) to make the notch. I worked slowly and carefully to make the notch even and smooth. Then I filed bevels at both edges to protect the lens-mount parts. I carefully cleaned all of the aluminum filings away and reassembled the adaptor (with the inner ring loose). With a lens screwed into the inner ring, I rotated the inner ring clockwise to position the infinity lock release button at the edge of the slot as shown below. Then I tightened the three set-screws. This worked just fine, allowing both my Elmar and Industar to work smoothly to infinity. Note that the rotational phasing of the two lenses is different. This requires adjusting the rotational position of inner ring when changing lenses. Some photographic results from these lenses will follow, of course. I may even blow a little black paint over my file work.
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Post by olddocfox on Oct 2, 2015 16:15:53 GMT -5
Makes my mouth water!
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Post by olddocfox on Oct 2, 2015 16:12:58 GMT -5
Is this what my English teacher meant by an indefinite antecedent?
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Post by olddocfox on Oct 2, 2015 16:09:00 GMT -5
I'm sure they specialize in divorce work!
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Post by olddocfox on Oct 2, 2015 16:07:04 GMT -5
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Post by olddocfox on Sept 24, 2015 13:16:11 GMT -5
I have reinstalled the link to my PDF and tested it from an unrelated computer. It appears to work properly.
My apologies for the difficulty, but I really suspect the problem may be caused at the receiving end. I use Google Drive to post PDFs to six other photography forums and and equal number of handgun forums. This is the only place where a problem has been noted. Could there be some problem with the way CAMERA COLLECTOR handles links to other sites?
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Post by olddocfox on Sept 23, 2015 18:41:10 GMT -5
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