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Gentlemen,zhang xk said:
Yes we are! This is awonderful thread you two are making! The cameras are fascinating. Thank you very much for sharing these with the rest of us.
Rob
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Zhang,
Got lucky tonight and found a Voigtlander Prominent 310/47 hood for my silver ring Norton (1951, by serial number) in Hong Kong.
It's impossible to found online, try search this in yahoo.com....
Swapped an older 310/49 for it, which are for later black ring norton, ultron etc.
(sorry about the webcam photo)
Got lucky tonight and found a Voigtlander Prominent 310/47 hood for my silver ring Norton (1951, by serial number) in Hong Kong.
It's impossible to found online, try search this in yahoo.com....
Swapped an older 310/49 for it, which are for later black ring norton, ultron etc.
(sorry about the webcam photo)
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Will said:Zhang,
Got lucky tonight and found a Voigtlander Prominent 310/47 hood for my silver ring Norton (1951, by serial number) in Hong Kong.
It's impossible to found online, try search this in yahoo.com....
Swapped an older 310/49 for it, which are for later black ring norton, ultron etc.
(sorry about the webcam photo)
Congratulations! I know some weird lens hoods are very hard to find, and once found they could be very expensive. I don't know if there was a lens hood for my tracking lens, but the lens cap alone could be an expensive item.
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zhang xk said:Congratulations! I know some weird lens hoods are very hard to find, and once found they could be very expensive. I don't know if there was a lens hood for my tracking lens, but the lens cap alone could be an expensive item.
Get a custom one done in BJ, China's labour for this kind of stuff is cheapest in the world...
With a 3000mm FL, the FOV is so small, I assume you can just but any tube in front of it as a lens hood.
Next I am gonna get one for my Alpa.
Also, I located three for Contax RF standards, but I already got a chinese 40.5 hood for it...
Any new toys?
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It looks like the Agfa Optima Flash Electronic. That's a nice little camera. Unfortunately it's based on the Agfa Optima 1035, not its big sister 1535 which would have had a rangefinder (and is BTW quite an excellent camera).
Did Agfa actually have these assembled in China or is it a copy?
Philipp
Did Agfa actually have these assembled in China or is it a copy?
Philipp
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rxmd said:
I think earlier cameras were Agfa assembled in China, and later ones were Chinese cameras with local parts.
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A black Peafowl with a microscope adaptor. These were called "black diamonds" by users in some foreign countries. It is built like a tank. The 58/2 Zeiss Biotar copy normal lens is very sharp.
Early version was called Panda that is an uncommon camera with provision for a motor, DOF preview, flash contacts for X, FP, and mirror lock-up.
Early version was called Panda that is an uncommon camera with provision for a motor, DOF preview, flash contacts for X, FP, and mirror lock-up.
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zhang xk said:
This is a lucky found, sure it will be come very valuable one day.
Well done.
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http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=32157&d=1157013543
Zhang,
You better go to New Zealand or Indonesia.
In the northern part of the North Island , New Zealand; which is almost tropical, you can find giant sea shells (10~16inch) for very little $.
Dad likes them, and we have about a dozen, brough in 1992~93. They took like a hundred years to grow.
It's a good way to remind yourself how power nature is...
Zhang,
You better go to New Zealand or Indonesia.
In the northern part of the North Island , New Zealand; which is almost tropical, you can find giant sea shells (10~16inch) for very little $.
Dad likes them, and we have about a dozen, brough in 1992~93. They took like a hundred years to grow.
It's a good way to remind yourself how power nature is...
Will
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zhang xk said:A black Peafowl with a microscope adaptor. These were called "black diamonds" by users in some foreign countries. It is built like a tank. The 58/2 Zeiss Biotar copy normal lens is very sharp.
Early version was called Panda that is an uncommon camera with provision for a motor, DOF preview, flash contacts for X, FP, and mirror lock-up.
Which era is this, Zhang?
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Zhang,
Any experience with that MeiLi camera in BJ?
Any experience with that MeiLi camera in BJ?
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The Red Flag 20 is actually a copy of Leica M3 and M4, and possibly the only one in the world. Mao's wife, Madam Jiang was very keen on photography. She worked as an actress in Shanghai in 1930s and had several affairs with some stars of that period. During the Cultural Revolution, Madam Jiang's role was mainly to control the arts movement for the campaign's propaganda. Being loyal to Mao, she took a quite number of Mao's portraits and published them under different pseudo-names. When the then Iranian king visited China, Madam Jiang was presented with Leica M3 as gift which she adored immensely. In 1970s, production of sophisticated cameras was regarded as a symbol of a country's industrial strength, particularly for developing nations. And also in the 1960s and 70s, China was pursuing an economic policy of absolute self-reliance and attempted to produce anything it needed. Against this background, Madam Jiang ordered the copy production of Leica M3 and gave her M3 to Shanghai Camera Factory to dissemble. The copy production of Leica M3 was a huge challenge to China's manufacturing industry. Every parts of the original M3 were measured and then hand-copied. Many institutes, universities and research centres were involved in the process and special glasses were imported from East Germany. The first batch of Red Flag 20 kit came out in 1973 with three lenses, 35mm f1.4, 50mm f1.4, 90mm f2, exact copies of Summilux and Summicron. But the Shanghai Camera Factory also made some modifications, including the back-door film loading mechanism. However, the production cost was unsustainably high. So only a total of 187 cameras rolled off the production line. The quality of the Red Flag 20 is said to be a long way behind Leica but is of great collection value due to its rarity and special history.
