My first successful "mutation"

[Henryzx]

I'm so happy! just got the first roll back, came out perfectly metered / focused from my GT / GTN hybrid!

Perfect condition of early GT (notice the notch), being paired with the GTN lens, and GSN meter (ASA setting up to 1000)!

 

[Henryzx]

Couple test pix

Couple test pix

Here are couple test pix!

 

[zuikologist]

A fine looking frankenstein camera! Please share some more test pics.

 

[Bill58]

I'm interested in your creation. What parts came from what camera? You did it to get the ASA 1000 capability?

 

[Henryzx]

A fine looking frankenstein camera! Please share some more test pics.

The work is very simple, but I screwed up once if you read my post couple months ago on mating G with GS parts (use the front element from the GSN on the G lens and couldn't get to the focus correctly, but the meter was right on).

Any how, for this project, I had an early GT with a bad lens (stuck shutter) and obviously with an old meter that only go up to ASA 500.

The donor is an beat up GTN with damaged meter/rangefinder, but the lens and shutter is perfect. Second donor is a GSN meter+rangefinder.

The rest is just removing and putting back together, matching wire, replace the POD, calibrate the rangefinder (tedious). and bam! I used the ASA 800 for the test roll, the picture came out perfectly metered perfectly focused... if you want some detail, email me.

I forgot one last detail, I also used the battery test from the GTN which I moved the light to the frame counter, which is really cool...

 

[Henryzx]

Another pic from this "Frankie" GT.

Another pic from this "Frankie" GT.

Using Kodak 100