So I found an Argus C3.

[mongo141]

Okay. I'll have to run a roll of film through it first to see where the problems lie and then I'll send it off. So it'll be a couple of weeks I'm guessing.

remember that when those things were made about the fastest film you could buy was ASA (ISO) 64 and the slowest around ASA10 so try to shoot about ISO 50 -100 film. I never use anything faster than ISO 100 and up here in the high desert country I still end up using 100 to 300 shutter speeds and F11 to F16 aperture settings. Regards Dave

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I thought about getting my hands on a couple rolls of Ilford stuff to test it out with and perhaps the roll of ISO 100 slide film that I'm getting from someone here that has an unknown expiration date. I'll probably go with ISO 50 film.

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Wow, people give away lenses? Wayne actually got a j8? Giving away a C3?

Any philanthropists out there with a Plaubel Makina 67? The one camera I really do lust after?

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I'm thinking of giving away my loose focus Nikkor AI 50mm f/2 because I can't seem to actually sell it anywhere. So yeah, it can happen. Person A wants kit. Person B wants to get rid of kit. Person B gives kit to Person A and everyone is happy. I like that kind of 'Pay It Forward' philosophy. If someone does something nice for me, I should do something nice for someone else. So goes the way of the trade.

Good system, really. There should be more of it.

 

[Krasnaya_Zvezda]

Hello Stephanie,
I have the full kit C3, the 50mm Cintar, the 35, the 100, the accessory viewer...
I also have a beautiful Zeiss Ikon Contina III, including the 70mm lens. And my collection includes the Retina IIIc that you mentioned. If I were to have to decide where to spend my hard earned cash, knowing what I know from experience from these three cameras, it would be a damn hard choice between the Zeiss and the Retina. The Argus is a very cool kit, but it loses out slightly in image quality and in 'usability' to the Contina and the Retina. And the Retina has the coupled rangefinder, so... that would be my "pick one for the desert island" choice.
Hold all three in your hands, and you will see what I mean, the engineering of the Kodak AG is definitely superior.

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

Wow, people give away lenses? Wayne actually got a j8? Giving away a C3?

Any philanthropists out there with a Plaubel Makina 67? The one camera I really do lust after?

Yes it is true. I have received both lens and they are in excellent shape. So why not pay it forward?

Here:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5924

And Here:

http://www.apug.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14668


Sorry, fresh out of Plaubel Makina 67's today. 😡

Wayne

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound as though I doubted the generous nature of RFF members. I believe it.