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Thank you, Tim. Any suggestion other than the "evil bay" ? I was hoping to find some "generic" hood in order to avoir the absurd prices of original Rollei hoods.
Paul
Paul
Thanks, Tim. I'll keep looking, Maybe for a "well-loved" BR hood !
All the best
Paul
Thanks, Tim. I'll keep looking, Maybe for a "well-loved" BR hood !
All the best
Paul
I got a Rolleilux hood/meter combination some years ago -- Bay I. If you loosen a set screw on the bayonet mount and turn it to a second index marking on the hood, the Rolleilux will fit the 4x4 spacing perfectly. You may not want the meter hanging off the hood, but it's pretty handy. I don't know whether the Rolleilux is easily found these days, but I wanted to mention this option.
Hey. I have a Yashica 44 and Sawyer Mark IV. Something wrong with the Yashica so I'll continue on with the Sawyer.
I have the Camerhack adapter cutter. First roll my Yashica ate it--never even go to the number "1"--, so on to the Sawyer. Second roll I actually used the template on the white side of a roll of film and had to do a few things backwards but in the end I think I might have something--fingers crossed. I'll develop the roll tomorrow. The third roll I did like you're supposed to and after I was done and loaded the camera I couldn't find the "1" to start the roll.
Anyone else?
Another thing, I did as Vince suggested and cut the paper at frame 16 but cut the film at 11 not 10 and carefully fed it back into the roll--no tape --before I closed up the cutter to roll the film back onto the 127 spool. This helped to not have the lump from the film bunching up a the spot where it is taped to the paper. It still bunched up a little so I had to unwind the backing paper to the start of the film and re tape.
I'd be curious to know what other folks experience is with this cutter.
I don't have any experience with it.....but the reports here are somewhat deflating.. Perhaps Vince will jack us up a little.
CSS9450,
The plastic hood you found, does it have the required cut-out to account for the small spacing between the two lenses of the Sawyer's ?
Hmmm, if you mean a cutout like the hood for my full-size Rollei 2.8 has, then no, I don't think it does. I've never seen a Sawyer's up close enough to notice the lenses are closer together.
Something interesting I noticed about my Ricohmatic: the lenses are further away than they are on the Rollei. Apparently there was no real standard.