Post by Berndt on Aug 7, 2012 6:42:17 GMT -5
If not, surrender. If it is you can probably make the necessary adjustments which might just entail ignoring the red focus line and drawing on your own.
I think, I need to surrender. Nothing to adjust on this simple constructed camera and the focus is quite weird. If it wouldn't sound that strange, I would say, that the focus adjustment ( distance ) has no meaning at all on this camera. You can get the best results at far distances/infinity, if the camera is focused to the shortest distance ( app. 3 ft ) and that means, that closer objects will never be sharp because the lens would be needed to become pulled out more, which is technically impossible on this particular model.
On the one side, this is not that surprising. I used similar ( we would nowadays say "toy like" ) cameras of the 50s, having the same issue. The focus is "somewhere" and the focussing scale/device is in reality not much more than a decoration.
But on the other hand, I expected more, because the nearly in the same way constructed "big brother", the Bencini Koroll works pretty good. I got sharp pictures on all distances with it. Therefore, it is a little bit surprising and disappointing, that the Comet ( or just my Comet ? ) is so much worse.
Just bought from a fleamarket about 20 rolls for € 1 a piece (over time) just for these kind of purposes: testing equipment.
Last weekend, I needed/wanted to check four cameras ( all using 120 film though ). I just used one film for all, always spooling it back and forward to the next frame in the next camera. Saves testing material too, because the development is actually more expensive than the film and we mostly do not need to waste a whole film to see, what is wrong ... or finally fixed
