Cool Oldie

[FrankS]

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.

 

[dadsm3]

That's a beauty Frank.
Camtech here in Hamilton has really nice looking Canonet for $50...should I bite?

 

[bobomoon]

Exactas are cool. Always wondered how the were as shooters.

I don't collect but if I did I'd collect Exactas.

 

[OldNick]

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.

 

[drmatthes]

Beautiful one, congrats, Frank!

Jesko

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2006 AD
800 yrs Dresden
80 yrs Zeiss Ikon

 

[SteveM(PA)]

btw, that's the camera Jimmy Stewart used in "Rear Window."🙂

 

[Flyfisher Tom]

Not bad indeed, congrats Frank 🙂

 

[FrankS]

The shutter came back to life after some exercise, but the second curtain is wrinkled and has pinholes.

 

[OldNick]

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.

 

[drmatthes]

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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2006 AD
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.

 

[FrankS]

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.

 

[FrankS]

This outfit is listed in the classifieds For Trade section. Looking for RF stuff. Make an offer!

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost-classifieds/showproduct.php?product=1095&cat=8