amoebahydra
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I have a Konica FS-1 modified to accept Alpa lenses. Attached is an Alpa mount Angenieus 180/4.5 lens.
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john_van_v
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My issue with the FS-1 is that it has a fully electronic shutter release, rather than a mechanically released wound-up shutter w/ an electronic timer. So you might tell that I am partial towards the older konicas, and I like the TC and T4 because they have the brightest viewfinders.
I just put together some of my debating from a couple of years ago yesterday (CLICK) I also started a Camerapedia page on the topic, but I am not sure it is accurate beyond my desire to rid my life of electronic shutter releases. I do know that any camera that can release w/o a battery (at any speed) is in this category, such as the Nikon EM, and many that cannot are as well, possibly the OM-2n (because the OM-2 can as well).
That Alpa lens is interesting though--an arrangement like that might make me want to dilute my purity.
I guess Alpa is short for alpine--they should have put a picture if the Matterhorn in their logo. I read on an Allpa page that the desiger of the Zoomar zoom lens, the first zoom, was the designer for Alpa, and that the the Lithagon name we see in Argus mount was also linked to Alpa. And somehow the Egleet name from 16mm cine C mount is also linked.
Needless to say Alpa is out of reach for most of us, but this mounting is interesting. Do you know the history behind it?
This is all getting me hot for a quartz timing system--do you think they came in Alpa mounts? Is there Swiss watch (and chocolate**) smuggling involved, or possibly an Eiger sanction? Will Bond come screaming through the trees down the slopes followed by a fat guy obsessed with gold, and a solo-flyer name "Pussy Galore?"
**When chocolate is outlawed, only outlaws will have chocolate.
Disclaimer, nearly all my information relies on other information and my imagination, so...
I just put together some of my debating from a couple of years ago yesterday (CLICK) I also started a Camerapedia page on the topic, but I am not sure it is accurate beyond my desire to rid my life of electronic shutter releases. I do know that any camera that can release w/o a battery (at any speed) is in this category, such as the Nikon EM, and many that cannot are as well, possibly the OM-2n (because the OM-2 can as well).
That Alpa lens is interesting though--an arrangement like that might make me want to dilute my purity.
I guess Alpa is short for alpine--they should have put a picture if the Matterhorn in their logo. I read on an Allpa page that the desiger of the Zoomar zoom lens, the first zoom, was the designer for Alpa, and that the the Lithagon name we see in Argus mount was also linked to Alpa. And somehow the Egleet name from 16mm cine C mount is also linked.
Needless to say Alpa is out of reach for most of us, but this mounting is interesting. Do you know the history behind it?
This is all getting me hot for a quartz timing system--do you think they came in Alpa mounts? Is there Swiss watch (and chocolate**) smuggling involved, or possibly an Eiger sanction? Will Bond come screaming through the trees down the slopes followed by a fat guy obsessed with gold, and a solo-flyer name "Pussy Galore?"
**When chocolate is outlawed, only outlaws will have chocolate.
Disclaimer, nearly all my information relies on other information and my imagination, so...
shadowfox
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amoebahydra: That's a pretty cool conversion. That lens is also available in Exakta mount, correct?
Speaking of using other lenses, here's another Konica I have, the T4, sporting the Exakta adapter. Now I just need to wait for a reasonably-priced Angenieux with Exakta mount to float by 🙂
Like John Van V. I also like these older Autoreflex for their heft and metal.
Speaking of using other lenses, here's another Konica I have, the T4, sporting the Exakta adapter. Now I just need to wait for a reasonably-priced Angenieux with Exakta mount to float by 🙂
Like John Van V. I also like these older Autoreflex for their heft and metal.
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shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
Paul, the 40/1.8 is a very good lens, and you're right, feels like using an RF 🙂
I had an FS-1 once, but sold it to get the FT-1 which to me feels more solid:
I had an FS-1 once, but sold it to get the FT-1 which to me feels more solid:
john_van_v
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Heft and metal (??) If my Olympus plastic point and shoot had decent lens (and metering over-ride), I would use it exclusively.
In fact that camera, a 170mm zoom Stylus I bought for bird watching from my kayak, was huge disappointment. Another "in fact" is that I see that Olympus changed drastically at the end of the OM series, and I am naturally suspicous of the 4/3rds phenomea. I don't see 4/3rds doing anything my Kodak c875 doing, and my c875 has a Schi-Kreu lens, and Schi-Kreu never made a bad lens, unlike Olympus with my Stylus point and shoot.
The stylus does Holga duty now from the kayak. Here is a ghost ship:
amoebahydra
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Yes, Angenieux also produce the Alitar 180/4.5 in Exakta mount. However, the Alpa-mounted Alitar was tested and graded by Alpa (similar approach as Linhof); a test report of each specific lens is also provided with the package.
For Exakta mounted lenses, I prefer using Topcon Super D...
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Dave Wilkinson
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john_van_v
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I took pictures of beaver lodges on a frozen pond today at sunset straight into the Sun w/ a 40mm w/ and w/o lens shading. That should be a pretty good test. The cold film was hard to advance, but that shouldn't be a problem with yours.
