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Post by rreeder on Mar 23, 2017 23:09:53 GMT -5
Hello: I realize that this thread is at least a year old, but maybe I'll can pick up some information here. I purchased a Kodak Monitor, #3794, lens #6400. It might be a 1939 model as it doesn't have the CAMEROSITY date code on it, & I've heard that the date codes didn't start until 1940. Anyway, the shutter is good, & the bellows are dark, everything seems good. I loaded it with a trimmed 120 roll of Ilford FP4+ with a 620 take-up reel. It started ok, but I'm suspecting that the film/paper is not, at times, turning the little sprocket that turns the frame counter. I still have to finish the roll, but if my suspicions are correct, the film will run out before the frame counter shows "8". Is there anyone out there in the ether that has experienced this with a Monitor? What did you do to remedy it? I'm thinking that perhaps a spacer, foam or ?, in between the film/paper & the pressure plate, right where the sprockets are, might aide in the film/paper to consistently turn the frame counter. Or not. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks. -Rich Reeder, Mesa, Arizona.
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Post by rreeder on Mar 18, 2017 23:42:27 GMT -5
Most of the local photo labs have shut down here, & I've been getting iffy results from color film when I used the local drug store photo labs, to boot. The only real photo store in town is about 20 miles away, & they do a decent job, but it's a bother to drive there & back. I have started using black & white film, specifically Ilford FP4+, & develop it at home with HC-110 developer, using dilution 'D' (1:39), upping development time to 125% of dilution 'B'. I used to do nothing but B/W, & I can finally again start using the yellow, red, etc., filters I've got.
Just my 2-cents worth.
Rich Reeder, Mesa, AZ
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Post by rreeder on Feb 28, 2017 23:54:03 GMT -5
YES!!! We have a winner! I had to wrap the collar with a cloth & use a little Force = (m)(a) on it, but it started to turn, then screwed off. I have one of those shutter timers with the adapter for the cameras that need the business end like what you have in the above photo; it screws onto the camera as pretty as you please, & a regular cable release screws into the adapter. Thank you, Merci Bo coup, Danka schoen.
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Post by rreeder on Feb 28, 2017 19:21:28 GMT -5
Rachel: Yes, that's the camera. The shutter release is just a button inside that ring or guard on the top of the camera. It looks like a special cable release might be able to grip that guard affair & then be able to push down on the shutter release. If you have ideas, let me know, & that goes for anybody out there. I know it wasn't produced in great quantity, but it was a Petri top of the line export camera. One would think that a cable release, even a proprietary design, would've been available at the time. Thanks for the link to the photo. -Rich Reeder.
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Post by rreeder on Feb 27, 2017 1:43:52 GMT -5
John: Thanks for the reply. I was hoping that there would be an "Add Attachment" button somewhere, but....
Thanks, again. Rich.
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Post by rreeder on Feb 26, 2017 22:38:44 GMT -5
I picked up a 1958 Petri Automate, & I noticed that it does not have the conventional shutter release with the threads that a cable release can be screwed into, nor is there any indication of a secondary shutter release with the threads. The Users manual doesn't mention it, either. Does anyone out there in the ether know what kind of cable release this camera uses? Thanks. I'd post a photo, but I'm new here, & it's not obvious how to do that. Thanks, again.
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