Agfa Isolette

ZeissFan said:
The Agfa cameras are much easier to do a bellows swap than other cameras.
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There are a few Kodaks and the Welta Sport where the back of the frame is held in by screws too. On all of those it is pretty easy. If you don't mind drilling out and then reinstalling rivets, most folders are pretty easy. The only ones that I know are a real PITA for changing bellows are some of the Zeiss cameras (I am tempted to say all of them, but I haven't tried this with every Zeiss folder). In the Zeiss folders I have tried this with (a couple of 6x9 Nettars and Ikontas), the tripod socket also had to be removed and they tapered the face of the thing, so you can't get a grip on it. It is endlessly frustrating and the term "greased pig" keeps coming to mind.
 
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I've got a wonderful Isolette I (no depth of field table!!) but there's a problem : there are some unexposed patches on the neg, making black spots on the print. Unexposure? Dust on the neg? Scratched negative?
Thanks a lot!
 

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sure looks like a bunch of dust on the neg before exsposure...

does it happen on each frame? is it still on the neg after processing? do you process your own film? i assume you have checked the inside of the camera for dust, loose paints particals,?

it may need a clean out i guess. you could try washing a used or unwanted roll of neg and drying in a dust free enviroment (bathroom for instance), then load it in the camera an 'mock' shoot a frame, then remove the neg to inspect it for particals on the neg. some of those isolettes fly open with a bit of snap so maybe there is some bits in there and the snaping open is making them fly around onto your neg...just a thought

edit; just another thought ,unless its dodgy film
 
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