Show off your TLR!

Im so fascinated with the close up function of the camera that i keep going...shot this with the mamiya sekkor 135mm lens, apparently it cant get me close to the subject but well, its a super sharp lens!

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Currently useable TLRs. The Autocord is just back from Karl Bryan, with new leatherette. I have to say I'm happy with the results. I spent about as much on the camera, the leatherette, and the overhaul than Autocords in the same condition as mine prior to service are selling for on the bay. The Miniflex, aside from the missing nameplate - A shame as it's in great shape otherwise, just needs a good cleaning and a shutter CLA - I'll be sending it off to Karl later this summer. And the Yashica is in decent, fully functional condition; all I need to do with it is to decide on a material to recover it with.

My fourth useable TLR is a Diacord that's currently lent out to a friend. I'm in the process of recovering it with some tan, ostrich grain leather I found at a Tandy.

My other three TLRs are an Ikoflex Ia and second generation IIa which are both disassembled and in the process of being rebuilt, along with a Welta Reflekta. The Reflekta had a mirror with corroded, flaking silver, so I replaced it with a mirror I cut from a cheapo Walmart hand mirror. Unfortunately it's one millimeter thicker than the old mirror and there's not enough adjustment to get the lenses collimated. Edmund sells a 2" square mirror of the proper thickness, but I have a hard time justifying $18 or so for a replacement mirror on a $12 camera.

I'm in the process of stripping all the paint from the Ia and plan to apply a clear finish over the patina'd brass, along with covering the sides and front with tan leather. I think it's a perfect camera to make look old. Oh, and a reminder to everyone stripping paint from a camera with a red window - Remove the red window unless you want the acetone to do wild and crazy things to it.
 
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I haven't posted on these forums in a long time, but i used to own a C33 which i recently sold with my 80mm lens. And bought this baby (C330s) with the newer blue dot version 80mm.

Reason for upgrading to the c330s is because my c33 had a few minor issues and I prefer the newer WLF + a lot of other things.
Photos to come from it 🙂

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Rolleiflex are so overpriced these days. I am glad that i managed to find these gems before anyone started a bidding war over them...so far..most of which i have gotten at a nice price and all are functioning correctly..
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By e way guys,
Anyone of u r well versed with identifying a rolleicord? I really have no idea wat model mine is..

On the front, it shows DBP 1303150 DBGM, COMPUR RAPID, lens is franke & Heidecke
 
Well, I've been at it again, this time making a Franken-cord, not a Franke-stein. A Minolta Autocord body, a Hasselblad chimney finder, and a Zeiss Tessar 75mm in a Compur-Rapid shutter from a 1930s Zeiss folder.

The Autocord had a dead shutter and its taking lens was moved to a body with a scratched front element. The Zeiss folder had bad bellows and was bought to move the lens onto a Voigtlander folder. But I found an original Voigtlander Skopar in the meantime.

The shutter has to be cocked manualy. Aperture involves a small screwdriver reaching down, but today I will get a lever and indicator attached to the existing bracket on the shutter. Focus is aligned. The film wind mechanism works, although double exposure (or no exposure) prevention is not coupled.

Smooth focusing and no red window, while getting that uncoated Tessar quality and putting otherwise dead pieces back to work.... fun!

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oooh i get bad GAS when i think of the Jr!

i read about a guy who converted his yashica 44 to take 35mm,... and ever since i've been thinking of a Jr.
 
Yah, sprocket holes, ala Blackbird, Fly. But Topcon and Yashica glass are too good for toy camera territory, and I think it's illegal in most advanced countries to convert a Primo-Jr to a sprocket-hole 35mm TLR.
 
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