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Post by Peltigera on Mar 24, 2011 13:03:56 GMT -5
Michael, adjusting using your instructions is easy - thank you- but it is not working. The scale visible inside the rangefinder shows 2.5 meters when the adjusting knob is fully clockwise. If I turn the knob anti-clockwise, the scale shows successively lower numbers until the scale disappears - then the scale reappears at infinity. This is suggesting to me that someone has tried adjusting inside the device and bug messed up the alignment of the scale.
I shall have a look inside at the weekend when I am less tired.
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Post by Peltigera on Mar 23, 2011 14:06:00 GMT -5
I have the super. The knob on the left only turns very slightly - but vertical adjustment is ok. The other knob is too stiff to turn - I am somewhat cack-handed so do not like using force.
thjanks for the info.
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Post by Peltigera on Mar 23, 2011 8:18:17 GMT -5
I have just bought two rangefinders (just rangefinders, not cameras) and one of them is way off. They are a Medis and a Watameter. The Medis is about right but the Watameter tells me the lamp post at the end of the road is 1.2 m away - nearer to 30 feet, actually.
Any advice on how I can adjust this - preferably without taking it abroad - would be much appreciated.
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Post by Peltigera on Mar 3, 2011 5:25:38 GMT -5
Thank you for your help - but I am still not clear. Do I use the ASA or DIN figures on the Contaflex exposure meter? Or neither?
[later] OK, finally had the sense to work it out for myself. Compared the Contaflex with my Leningrad meter - DIN is the one that is OK.
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Post by Peltigera on Mar 2, 2011 12:03:57 GMT -5
I have just purchased (today) a Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Beta and have loaded a trial film. I have a problem, however - film speed setting on the exposure meter. The film I have is ISO 100/21DIN but when I set the exposure meter to 21DIN (there is no 100 marking on the ASA scale) the corresponding ASA number is 40! Do I go by the ASA (as ISO) or the DIN figure? Or are both wrong? I also have a secondary but not particularly important question - the focussing scale is in feet but the bottom of the lens has meter - which I prefer. Is it possible to remount the lens so the meter scale is against the focussing pointer? Any advice much appreciated. John.
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Post by Peltigera on Feb 27, 2011 12:11:53 GMT -5
The picture in #28 looks just like my Ikoflex II from 1937 - I am told the focussing changed from lever to knob in 1938 - and the Ikoflex I had a different shaped panel around the lenses.
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