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FrankS

FrankS

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It's an SLR but it's old and it's cool. An Exacta VX IIa version 3, with 58mm f2 Zeiss Jena Biotar, Primagon 35mm f4.5 from Meyer-Optic Gorlitz, and 135mm f2.8 Tokyo Koki Tele-Tokina, at a lawn sale today while on a motorcycle cruise. Life is good.
 

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That's a beauty Frank.
Camtech here in Hamilton has really nice looking Canonet for $50...should I bite?
 
Exactas are cool. Always wondered how the were as shooters.

I don't collect but if I did I'd collect Exactas.
 
Exactas are cool, but very complex machines. My shutter quit working, and my effort to investigate led to damage to the first item I tried to remove. It now resides in my closet. Its little brother, the Exa, however, is much simpler. Though limited to a top shutter speed of 1/150, the Exa, with its combined mirror/shutter design, just keeps on clicking. It uses the same viewfinder components and lenses as the Exacta.

Jim N.
 
The shutter came back to life after some exercise, but the second curtain is wrinkled and has pinholes.
 
Frank S. - Good luck with the shutter. It was problems of this sort that drove me to the Exa. I originally went to the Exacta and its waist level finder because of problems I encountered with my Leica IIIa and eyeglasses. While it worked, it was great, but age has a way with such mechanisms.

Jim N.
 
That's the type of problem which constantly is a PITA for me, get beautifully looking gear only to find that something is wrong. Anyone noticed the similarity to girls, by the way? - So I have this 2nd Contax II body with slow speeds far too slow, this Contax S (ok, no RF) with the same problem, that strange Leica I with a Zeiss Sonnar 2-5cm in front of it with the shutter not opening at 1/500 and finally the Leica IIIa, again with the same problem. That means they will either have a nice and lazy shelf life - or else... hundreds of Euros for repair, and I'm crazy about my old gear to be in working order, I mean, what 's a camera for after all?

Can you do the repair by yourself, Frank?

Jesko

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800 yrs Dresden
80 yrs Zeiss Ikon

P.S.: I'm off to Dresden next week with my (working) Contax II. An old lady returning home... Plan: Take some b/w rolls (let's say, FP 4 or Adox 50, to stay in the proper ISO range of the old days) and - shoooot. Problem is, with that Sonnars 5, 8.5, and 13.5, the Biogon 3.5, plus the Actino meter and the turret finder this is going to be a heavy pre-war trip.
 
Hi Jesko, I'm going to try Victor's acrylic latex paint shutter curtain repair. I can't make it any worse. This is not a camera I'll be spending money to fix. The Contaxes and Leicas are more worthwhile having repaired/cla'ed.
 
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