shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
Hi all,
On this thread I asked around about what to expect on this old (as in 1936-ish old) rangefinder.
When I opened up the package, I have alreadly prepared myself for the worst, the camera turned out to be quite pristine (as in nothing falling apart or hanging loose) 🙂
The shutter works all the way, focusing check!, aperture opens up nicely without a trace of oil on the diaphragms. Bulb setting works ok too. I'm not sure what T setting is... 😕
Next, the rangefinder is working, but way out of alignment vertically, it looks as if one of the mirrors has fallen halfway from where it should be. But still useable and when horizontally aligned, the distance it gave is pretty accurate.
This model has two windows for RF and VF respectivelly, the RF window is magnified, which is nice, the VF window is bright but smallish.
The lens is very clean, I can see the shutter blades (no oils either), from the front clearly, and from the back, no haze or scratch. Now, I think the lens is so old, it's not even coated, so I won't worry about cleaning marks that I can't even see with naked eyes, they'll never show up in the pictures anyways.
The backdoor looks good, the film chamber is clean, the bellows is light-proof. No pinholes, YAAAY!
Sorry, in my excitement, I only take one shot from one angle, the camera looks better in person.
Now, what's next. I'll of course run a testrolll on this, but since this camera is so rare in this condition, I think I'll spend the money to get it CLA'd.
Anybody know anyone else besides Jurgen (certo6 on the bay) who CLA folders like this? Jurgen has a backlog until Dec 1. If possible, I'd like to get this camera CLA'd sooner than that.
On this thread I asked around about what to expect on this old (as in 1936-ish old) rangefinder.
When I opened up the package, I have alreadly prepared myself for the worst, the camera turned out to be quite pristine (as in nothing falling apart or hanging loose) 🙂
The shutter works all the way, focusing check!, aperture opens up nicely without a trace of oil on the diaphragms. Bulb setting works ok too. I'm not sure what T setting is... 😕
Next, the rangefinder is working, but way out of alignment vertically, it looks as if one of the mirrors has fallen halfway from where it should be. But still useable and when horizontally aligned, the distance it gave is pretty accurate.
This model has two windows for RF and VF respectivelly, the RF window is magnified, which is nice, the VF window is bright but smallish.
The lens is very clean, I can see the shutter blades (no oils either), from the front clearly, and from the back, no haze or scratch. Now, I think the lens is so old, it's not even coated, so I won't worry about cleaning marks that I can't even see with naked eyes, they'll never show up in the pictures anyways.
The backdoor looks good, the film chamber is clean, the bellows is light-proof. No pinholes, YAAAY!
Sorry, in my excitement, I only take one shot from one angle, the camera looks better in person.
Now, what's next. I'll of course run a testrolll on this, but since this camera is so rare in this condition, I think I'll spend the money to get it CLA'd.
Anybody know anyone else besides Jurgen (certo6 on the bay) who CLA folders like this? Jurgen has a backlog until Dec 1. If possible, I'd like to get this camera CLA'd sooner than that.
