Camera and Coffee

[denishr]

Congratulations, Denis. Very nice of Brian to assist, too. Looking forward to its "Camera and Coffee" debut 🙂

D2, you should have left others to wonder about it for a while... those who have not seen my previous post, which you quoted...

It would be interesting to see who else, besides jdos2, would have taken the bait 😀

Denis

PS: and yes, the obligatory C&C shot will be posted once it arrives...

 

[Honu-Hugger]

Oops, sorry Denis! This place is getting pretty classy with all these new Leicas -- I hope this bug isn't contagious (my wife is off shopping this weekend -- I can't afford to catch it!).

 

[FrankS]

I'm still a bit confused, but congrats Denis!

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Denis' New M6 is BEAUTIFUL. Just got the pictures back; Perfect. In the US if someone ships you something in the mail without you ordering it, it is considered a gift. So yes, technically speaking, a Free Leica M6 Wetzlar. It did not have a body cap, and I remember the story (either here or Stephen Gandy's RF users group) of a Leica (or Canon) shipped without a body cap that the customs officer poked his finger through the shutter. Denis' camera NOW has a body cap, could not bring my self to sending a camera without one. And as he is not paying ME for the camera, so that makes it a gift.

 

[back alley]

brian,

you have my address, right?

joe

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Joe,

I keep your address on file to print out TWO mailing labels per page.

Brian

 

[2maneekameras]

Camera in coffee or coffee in camera? I wasn't sure which you wanted so I did both. I used a Zorki C parts carcass. After the wet shot I dissassembled it to dry out the shutter curtains. Before coffee the shutter didn't work. After coffee treatment the shutter now works. Maybe it dissolved the old grease and film chips. I am now looking for enough parts to make this into a functioning camera. I not quite ready to do the coffee treatment on my Leica IIIa, but I'll try it on any cameras rff members want to donate to me to further the investigation into alternative camera cleaning solvents.

 

[denishr]

Camera in coffee or coffee in camera? I wasn't sure which you wanted so I did both.

Radical!!!

LOL!!

Denis

 

[Sonnar Brian]

This is the first time in the Camera and Coffee thread that "Actual Cameras were Harmed in the Making of these Photographs". OUCH!!!

 

[the lobster]

Finally got access to a digicam. Here's my IIIC and a cup of joe. The camera's naked (old cover off, new cover coming!).

 

[2maneekameras]

This is the first time in the Camera and Coffee thread that "Actual Cameras were Harmed in the Making of these Photographs". OUCH!!!

Brian et al, this camera was actually improved by the making the the wet coffee picture. The shutter worked after but not before the making of the picture. The Zorki C that I used was a parts camera that came to me missing many pieces..

 

[Honu-Hugger]

Camera in coffee or coffee in camera? I wasn't sure which you wanted so I did both. I used a Zorki C parts carcass. After the wet shot I dissassembled it to dry out the shutter curtains. Before coffee the shutter didn't work. After coffee treatment the shutter now works. Maybe it dissolved the old grease and film chips. I am now looking for enough parts to make this into a functioning camera. I not quite ready to do the coffee treatment on my Leica IIIa, but I'll try it on any cameras rff members want to donate to me to further the investigation into alternative camera cleaning solvents.

Wow! Love it -- this is like Hendrix at Monterey!

 

[back alley]

lookin' good!

i hope yankeedoll isn't jealous. 😉

joe

 

[Honu-Hugger]

Greyhoundman,
Very nice and distinguished in the burgundy!

 

[2maneekameras]

Maybe someone could start a thread about beer and cameras. I could put some beer in my already wet from coffee Zorki and see if beer further improves it.

 

[2maneekameras]

My Burgundy Baby.
Arrived yesterday. New clothes and a new hood for the J-8 too.

Sorry, it's too late in the day for coffee. It's beer thirty! 😀

I have an early(little frames around front VFand RF windows) Zorki 4 with J-8 on the way. Where did you get the lens hood? I want one too.

 

[2maneekameras]

Maybe we need to start S.P.C.C. group.

society for the prevention of cruelty to cameras. :0

I guess I made in mistake in thinking that CLA meant "coffee lubrication allowed!"

 

[jdos2]

Beer? Are you sure it's not crying for Vodka?

 

[StuartR]

Vodka might be best as a solvent, but I might as well list some other Russian beer based degreasers that might help: Baltika, Yarpivo, Sibirskaya Korona, Zolataya Bochka, Pivovar Pit, Afanasiy, Bravo...man, I can't remember any more...they must have worked!

 

[2maneekameras]

I save the vodka for the glass parts of the cameras