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Post by yashica1943 on Aug 21, 2023 0:38:46 GMT -5
Last night on BBC TV programme 'Antiques Roadshow' a lady brought in a Leitz leather case containing a camera and 3 0r 4 large lenses and some other items including film containers. The expert handled the camera, it was a Leica 111a from 1938 in apparently good condition.
Becausa a lens cap was fitted he didn't realise that the body had a lens on it retracted (probably an Elmar?) What the other lenses actually were we were never able to see because they were not examined. Could have been very rare or disireable.
Then gave a valuation of £1000 to £1500. For the lot. She should have been referred to a Leica expert.
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Post by yashica1943 on May 24, 2023 9:40:58 GMT -5
The problem of the film being rewound into the cassette is easily fixed. Ilford make a film retriever which works surprisingly well.
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Post by yashica1943 on Feb 19, 2023 10:43:10 GMT -5
I have just purchased a mint Tokina 500mm mirror lens in case, Olympus OM fit. from a camera shop for £29. I have had two cheap mirror (catadioptric!) lenses at different times in the past. A Makinon and a Centon, either 300 or 400mm - cannot remember and had mixed results from those. I have ordered an adaptor to Lumix bodies for this one and hope that this might be ok for occasional use.
I also still have a Sony Nex 5 body and might use it on that when I find the adapter! I purchased an adapter for Micro 4/3 bodies. When trying to fit it to my Panasonic G9 it did not lock on completely - so not wanting to force it, it then ftted perfectly on to an Olympus Pen body , not a well matched thing to hold, but so far the results have been good.
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Post by yashica1943 on Feb 3, 2023 6:58:09 GMT -5
I use a Lumix TZ 70 for general & street photgraphy, it is with me all the time because its goes int almost any pocket. Capable of almost macro to long telephoto. I also have an Olympus waterproof camera. (TG82?)I bought it very cheaply because the memory card was stuck in the body. I now only get about 5 images from its internal memory but I like some of the special effects it provides.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jan 30, 2023 8:18:54 GMT -5
I have a job lot of cameras coming from an eBay seller. Amongst them and the reason for buying is a medium format 120? SLR film camera which looks like an Agiflex with a Brown Bros. Unimar 4.2 lens. I assume that the 4.2 = inches. Any help with identification, further details, age or history would ne helpful and appreciated. Will include a photo wnen it arrives. 2) It may be a camera by A.G.I. a company that later made the Agiflex. Looking forward to looking at it properly. Also the Miranda and Super Frankarette that is with it.
3) The cameras arrived today. The large one appears to be an 'Ex-Admiralty remodelled A.R.L. Mk 2' based on an Agiflex type. Note the gearwheel around part of the lens.
The Miranda is good as is the Super Frankarette.
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Post by yashica1943 on Sept 6, 2022 10:13:59 GMT -5
Now I just have the 35mm left if anyone is interested.
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Post by yashica1943 on Aug 25, 2022 7:15:17 GMT -5
The package has arrived. The Bronica is an ETRC the version without interchangeable film backs, which is OK by me, it works and everything is clean. The Pentax ME Super is fine, obviously used but it works and is clean. The Lunasix works but I am annoyed by the tiny ISO number window. The Halina works but the battery door is broken. The tripod goes to the charity shop together with the Miranda zoom with a PK/A/R mount and a Cobra flashgun..
I am assuming that the Bronica is more likely to have been owned by an amateur photographer who did not need different film magazines? And if so, possibly had an easier life.
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Post by yashica1943 on Aug 23, 2022 12:57:29 GMT -5
Thirty years ago I sold my mint Bronica ETRS 645 with prism finder and grip which I really enjoyed using. I doubly regretted selling it a few months later when my good friend who I had bought it off died in a traffic collision. In the last few weeks I started looking again in that auction site. I would have liked to buy a SQA but they are all expensive.
Then today I bid on and bought a ETRS in a job lot with a Pentax Me Super with a 50mm f1.7 lens, a PK fit zoom, a Gossen Lunasix F meter, a Halina compact and lots of filters, Pentax size, a spindly trpod and an unknown flash. These were all pictured but not described very well. The Bronica looks good with what looks like a 75mm lens film back and a WLF so it is a slight gamble but if the Bronica has problems it goes back. I intend to use it if it is ok.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jul 30, 2022 14:06:31 GMT -5
Bought today a Minolta SRT 101 with a Rokkor 35mm HG f2.8, a 58mm MC Rokkor PF f 1.4 a MC Tele Rokkor QD 135mm f 3.5 all in apparent good condition. Looking forward to checking it out.
Despite the best efforts of the courier, Evri, the contents of the squashed box arrived and seem to be in order. All the glass is clear and the camera is very clean and working. Bubblewrap saved the contents.
The 58mm is particularly nice.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jul 23, 2022 4:37:23 GMT -5
I have just invested in a Diax 11b with a Xenar lens, looks very good - from a seller with good feedback, just hope that it is as good as it looks! Will pass on more information as it arrives.
The Diax arrived this morning in very good order, everything works and it is clean. Bargain.
Photo to follow.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jun 24, 2022 8:15:56 GMT -5
For Sale. Carl Zeiss Biometar 120mm f2.8 for Exakta. Excellent, in UK Offers around £210 plus postage.
I just looked in a Wallace Heaton Blue Book for 1966. The Biometar then cost £77.19/10d. new !
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Post by yashica1943 on Jun 10, 2022 8:58:36 GMT -5
Which postal service was involved? Up to the change of name from Hermes to Evri, Hermes were taking insurance money for cameras and they were a prohibited item!
Hermes managed to damage my Pentax 50mm f1.4 lens which was well wrapped and deep inside a sturdy box through several layers of bubble wrap. There was no mark on the outside, it must have been struck accurately with a small but heavy hammer. No chance of any compensation although I paid for their own insurance. I avoid all cheap couriers if possible.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jun 6, 2022 2:26:23 GMT -5
There are some photos of the sides of a Montana and of it open on ebay listing 165378950950. On the end opposite the hinge there is a rectangular housing the height of the camera. There are two half moon openings on the face of the housing. Inside these openings appears to be something like a hinge or catches?
If that housing does not slide up or down then as there does not appear to be any other tab there to open a catch so, as said, I would assume that you pull the wind-on knob up (on that side) fully.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jun 3, 2022 11:33:43 GMT -5
I have decided to sell the Exa 500 body as it appears to be absolutely new. No marks at all on it and should appeal to a collector. I do not think that a film has ever been inside it or through it. I don't want to use it as it will take off the newness. Comes with the original gloss black ERC in excellent condition. Offers around £125 (location, England). PayPal accepted.
I am also selling the Carl Zeiss Jena 120 f2.8 Biometar, Exakta fit, in very good condition now that the focusing had been eased off by a professional camera mechanic.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jun 2, 2022 10:38:15 GMT -5
I decided to send the Biometar off to a known camera repairer to get the focus sorted out. Should be worth it because the lens (and the Flektogon) are some of the cleanest that I have seen for their age.
I sold the Flektogon for a good price. If I cannot get a decent return on the Biometar now it is back with me I am going to keep it and use it.
Now ordered an Exakta Varex 11b with a Domiplan..
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