cmedin
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Well, long story short, I used to shoot a lot of film and toyed with a lot of different cameras back in the 90s. Got digital, sold off my film stuff, stopped taking pictures, now much later sold digital, bought a couple film cameras and getting back into it.
Anyhow, was sitting at work today, and thought to myself "I wonder if I ever sold that old folder I had sitting on top of a shelf..." and honestly couldn't remember. Pretty certain I didn't. I raced home after work curious as hell as to whether I still had something sitting around. Well, on top of the shelf I found:
Rollex 20 folder. No aperture settings, shutter T or 1/50 and that's it. Looks like 620/120 film.
Kodak 620 film folder. Has a Kodak Anastigmat 105/6.3 lens, scale focusing, some little weird tilt-up viewfinder thing attached to the lens at the front of the bellows, shutter (Dakon name) T,B,1/25,1/50,1/100.
And best of all: A Kiev 4AM(b) I believe. It has the meter with the little flip front, the 53/1.8 lens, and for all purposes looks like the 4AM(b) in the picture on the soviet camera site I found. Shutter speeds sound a bit slow, I'm guessing I can find something on how to tweak that here on the site. Rangefinder is nice and clear, easy as hell to focus. Lens is extremely smooth throughout, no stickiness. Everything seems to work dandy short of the shutter speeds. Oh yeah, it's in cosmetically mint condition, with a nice brown case.
Now I'm off to dig around in another closet, see if I can unearth anything else.
Any experiences with the folders I found? I have some 620 spools and rolling 120 onto them isn't hard so might bust them out and try... the shutter speeds don't seem too off on the Kodak from eyeballing it. 🙂
Anyhow, was sitting at work today, and thought to myself "I wonder if I ever sold that old folder I had sitting on top of a shelf..." and honestly couldn't remember. Pretty certain I didn't. I raced home after work curious as hell as to whether I still had something sitting around. Well, on top of the shelf I found:
Rollex 20 folder. No aperture settings, shutter T or 1/50 and that's it. Looks like 620/120 film.
Kodak 620 film folder. Has a Kodak Anastigmat 105/6.3 lens, scale focusing, some little weird tilt-up viewfinder thing attached to the lens at the front of the bellows, shutter (Dakon name) T,B,1/25,1/50,1/100.
And best of all: A Kiev 4AM(b) I believe. It has the meter with the little flip front, the 53/1.8 lens, and for all purposes looks like the 4AM(b) in the picture on the soviet camera site I found. Shutter speeds sound a bit slow, I'm guessing I can find something on how to tweak that here on the site. Rangefinder is nice and clear, easy as hell to focus. Lens is extremely smooth throughout, no stickiness. Everything seems to work dandy short of the shutter speeds. Oh yeah, it's in cosmetically mint condition, with a nice brown case.
Now I'm off to dig around in another closet, see if I can unearth anything else.
Any experiences with the folders I found? I have some 620 spools and rolling 120 onto them isn't hard so might bust them out and try... the shutter speeds don't seem too off on the Kodak from eyeballing it. 🙂
