Hand Me Downs

[2WK]

I recently went home to Canada on vacation. Two uncles, from separate sides of the family gave me their old shooters. 🙂

The first is an Edixa Prismat, made in West Germany. It seems built like a tank. Although it has strange features like how to set the shutter speed and ISO. It came with 3 lens':
50mm 2.8 Edixa Iscotar...made in Germany.
135mm 3.5 Hanimex Tele-lens...made in Japan.
35mm 3.5 Soligor...Japan, came with a nice metal hood.

The Asahi Pentax SV seems pretty sweet. I have already put a few rolls of neopan 100 though it, but haven't developed yet. Controls are smooth and precise..the camera feels very nice in my hands. It came with 2 lens':
55mm 1.8 Super-Takumar. Lens is slightly yellowing, but in otherwise perfect condition.
135mm 3.5 Super Takumar.

Both cameras look like new. The Edixa feels like it might need some TLC as sometimes I have to advance the lever twice for it to catch. I'm excited to start using them both and checking out these strange (to me) lens'.

 

[c.poulton]

Nice! They really do look like new... 🙂

 

[Roger Hicks]

The SV is one of the nicest SLRs ever made, the closest in feel (in my fairly extensive experience) to a screw Leica: size, fit in the hands, smoothness. They do however tend to have shutters that run slow with age: mine runs a stop slow at many speeds. I've found the 1,4 to be better than the 1,8, and apparently it's not just sample variation: most people who've tried both agree. You know about the self-timer, concentric with the rewind? And that you need the latter models (as far as I recall, with the orange 'R' on the rewind) to use the 50/1.4?

Cheers,

R.

 

[2WK]

Thanks for the info! I guess I'll have to see the results to determine if the shutter is slow, but that would make sense seeing as there is at least 40 year old lube inside. I will keep my eyes peeled for a 1.4 as my lucky camera has an orange R on the rewind!