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Ron (Netherlands) said:
That's a real beauty; can they still easily be found on the chinese market?
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Yes, these can still be found for about $200-300, but often in less than ideal condition. Most only look more like a Leica. A Zorki is a better user camera. I serviced my cameras so that now they are good cameras.😀
 
wolves3012 said:
That Industar needs a re-lube, tr0x, I can see the congealed grease on it. It'll take you 10 minutes and is a very easy job.
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I think i'll do the relubing in the next few days.
Yesterday i've opened the camera and found real junk inside it: dust, pieces of film, etc... gears are full of black rotten grease, bleah...
The shutter seems ok, but since i have to disassembly it for cleaning, i think i'll change the curtains as well... i don't want to open the camera again :bang:
 
but zhang that shanghai have rf/vf window which is better than leica III.
and what is the quality of that lens? is it different than industar or elmar?
 
nzeeman said:
but zhang that shanghai have rf/vf window which is better than leica III.
and what is the quality of that lens? is it different than industar or elmar?
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Hi,

The lens is not up to I-50,22 quality. I think it is a 3g/3e simpler lens. In 1950's China had limited optical glass types. This camera cost more than 2 ounces 24K gold when new.😀
 
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tunznath said:
me too - got one colapsible - so how do I do the relube?
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Very easy! Undo the larger stop screw and then screw out the inner part of the helical. Make a note of where the parts separate so that you can locate it back correctly in the thread. Then it's just a case of cleaning the old grease out and putting in fresh. I use a wooden toothpick to get the old stuff out.
 
tr0x said:
I think i'll do the relubing in the next few days.
Yesterday i've opened the camera and found real junk inside it: dust, pieces of film, etc... gears are full of black rotten grease, bleah...
The shutter seems ok, but since i have to disassembly it for cleaning, i think i'll change the curtains as well... i don't want to open the camera again :bang:
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Unless there's a good reason, I wouldn't change the curtains unless you are going to make new ones yourself. The replacements have crimped laths rather than sewn ones. Personal taste etc but I think sewn are better. It's not TOO bad a job to replace them later if the need arises.
 
wolves3012 said:
Unless there's a good reason, I wouldn't change the curtains unless you are going to make new ones yourself. The replacements have crimped laths rather than sewn ones. Personal taste etc but I think sewn are better. It's not TOO bad a job to replace them later if the need arises.
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The curtains are ok, well: they seem light-tight, but are really worn and i prefer to change them as soon as possible. I've found various infos on the net, in particular:
http://aki-asahi.net/store/html/shutter-material/inst/01.html
I only wonder if I can find a good substitute for the "SUPER-X" adhesive 😱
 
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About two weeks ago I got over a barging I couldnt say no to. A Zorki-4 working condition, nothing wrong with the shutter etc for only 11£. So it was settled and the camera was sended to me from a UK seller. About 5 days after the auction I got the camera and I was suprised how well made it was. It may have some minor scratches but it shows that it have been well used by the former users.

I bought my first film a day after it arrived and now im testing it. But to be so old it quite impressing that both the lense and shutter never have failed once.

Zorki-4 S/N:6084604, Jupiter-8 lense, Actian 42 Natural cover and a mounted Sunpak GX17 from a Ricoh camera I borowd from my grandmother that have bought it in the middle 70 for her first real paycheck from a Iron-Factory. It great to get in contact with the history behinde the cameras. The Ricoh was used in Danmark befor it was moved with my granfmother to Sweden and showed in a box and forgoten about.

When I first got it:
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Original, out of the box.
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With the mounted Sunpak GX17
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Together with my Ricoh 35 ZF.
 
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Took a photo of my two metal Horizon.😀 And 4 minty Kiev 4 from 1958-1969.
 

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zuikologist said:
Wompa - nice story. Welcome to the forum. Glad to see the Ricoh survived. How were the photos from the Zorki?
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Thank you! It feels great to have found a place where I both can find history, guides and new friends on one place!

The cameras feels different when you know something about their history, it not just a ordinary camera is a bit of history and someons old friend for cold days 🙂

I couple of days ago I found out that the film has not been winded up so about 30 photos arent captured... Its about 18 photos left on the film so next week I can get my photos and see how the camera works 😀 Cant wait, allways fun to not be able to see the photos before they are printed.

Nickfed said:
Hey Wompa, can you tell us anything about the little car?
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Sure I can, Its a Peel P-50 and was manufactured by Peel engineering on Isle Of Man in the middle of the 60's. It had a 50cc automatik engine and was only 134 cm (53 in) long and 99 cm (39 in) wide and weight about 59 kilos.
If you search on youtube for Top Gear Peel you can see a video clip about a man that are 1.95 geting in to the worlds smallest production car 😛

I allready fell welcome to this forum 🙂
 
Wompa said:
Sure I can, Its a Peel P-50 and was manufactured by Peel engineering on Isle Of Man in the middle of the 60's.
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Ha! That's interesting, and indeed why I asked the question! The Peel in the YouTube has one wheel at the back two at the front. I'm sure (?) this is the other way round.
 
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