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Post by 33dollars on Oct 28, 2012 3:17:27 GMT -5
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Post by col on Oct 28, 2012 9:28:26 GMT -5
Three very nice cameras
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Post by 33dollars on Oct 28, 2012 12:01:42 GMT -5
And they are all shooters Colin. All of em.
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Post by Stephen on Oct 28, 2012 12:30:38 GMT -5
What are the lens like? Kowa had a good reputation for compacts, but the SLR's were always a bit rare in the UK, perhaps because of the fixed lens designs
Stephen.
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Post by 33dollars on Oct 28, 2012 14:27:36 GMT -5
Stephen, I haven't put film through any yet as I have just acquired em. One from ol blighty. The others from the Americas.
Am looking forward to putting film though all of them as the light seals & meters all look good for their age. They are after all as old as I am. There in bettera nick than me, & deserve a day out with film for some exposure.
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Post by Stephen on Oct 28, 2012 15:56:36 GMT -5
I knew a fellow camera salesman who had worked in the trade in the 1940's, and he had good words about the Kowa lens performance, but all his comments was along the lines of why Kowa used leaf shutter and non-interchangeable lens, he said it caused lost sales by the 1960's, the period that they were made in.
Kowa were always well made, although the SLR's looked a bit plain.
Later with secondhand sales they sold OK, people often asked for the add on converter lenses, but the importer had not imported many. All SLR,(and most compacts), with selenium meters were looked upon with distrust, early types seemed to corrode the connections to the cells.
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Post by 33dollars on Oct 29, 2012 1:49:40 GMT -5
I've checked the auto shutter system with the door open & it appears that its adjusting the aperture down as it should. I beleave it runs at about 125sec & adjusts aperture to suet. Also the leaf shutter is interesting because of it 4 leaves. The image will more than likely have some drop off or under exposure at the corners @ higher shutter speeds. It opens from the center out to the corners & then closes back to the center. I have the lens adapter set for the Kowaflex E & Kowa H.Lens hoods & flash brackets are very hard to find.
Thanks for the imfo Stephen.
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Post by Berndt on Oct 29, 2012 8:37:20 GMT -5
Good stuff. Looks like that at least the first two ones are selenium meter based. Does it still work ?
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Post by Stephen on Oct 29, 2012 10:50:32 GMT -5
I've checked the auto shutter system with the door open & it appears that its adjusting the aperture down as it should. I beleave it runs at about 125sec & adjusts aperture to suet. Also the leaf shutter is interesting because of it 4 leaves. The image will more than likely have some drop off or under exposure at the corners @ higher shutter speeds. It opens from the center out to the corners & then closes back to the center. I have the lens adapter set for the Kowaflex E & Kowa H.Lens hoods & flash brackets are very hard to find. Thanks for the imfo Stephen. The light loss at the edge with a leaf shutter is surprisingly minimal on any half decent shutter design, as the blades open and close so much faster that the total exposure time. Don't forget the edges of the frame are not shielded from the light by the blades, as the shutter opening is only an extra varying aperture within the lens. This minimises the effect that you expect of the edges getting less light. Also at medium to small apertures the blades are in the "shadow" of the iris aperture blades for most of the time they are moving, again minimising the masking of the edge. So any fall off with be at large apertures only, at F16 there would be virtually none. This whole argument was the reason Zeiss stuck with leaf shutters for so long. Stephen. |
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