Voigtlander Vitomatic images

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You think? Should be clearly written on top.

I never had a IIb open, so I cant help you. But I am going to write a little topic about opening the IIIb here in this forum soon, maybe next week or in 2 or 3 weeks as I said before. Will be with example photos. This might help you anyway.

So please be patient, thanks.

Kind regards.

 

[monemmer]

This is a very typical problem and it is very very easily fixed also:

I can speak only for the Vitomatic IIIb IIICS Ib ICS IIb IICS, but on the others it will probably be the same:

Remove top plate, then remove the whole light meter with unscrewing the 2 bigger screws.

Sorry for my english, hope you will understand:

Afterwards carefully clean the the moving lens in front of the rangefinder mechanism. Clean it with lens cleaner. Clean the front of this moving lens and also clean it between the lens and the white thing that moves on to the finder. This is a little bit tricky, you have to make some cleaning tools yourself for doing that. Be careful, not to disadjust the rangefinder while doing this.

Afterwards you will have an very well visible double image and focussind will be easy.

I did that on Voigtländers where the double image wasnt visibel at all. Afterwards I had a very very good rangefinder patch and focusing was easy.

The image wont disappear at these Voigtländers, its just dirt, that make them to be disappeared.

Great great cameras by the way!! The finder is made of ONE piece of glass and is 1:1. They will never ever deteriorate or something. Just ONE piece of glass.....UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

I love them so much... Will open a Vitomatic fan thread soon.😛

I bought a Vitomatic IIa and its RF patch was almost invisible, to be more precise, only about 20% of it was visible. In this case it turned out that simply cleaning it did not do the trick. The two parts of the rangefinder assembly had almost completely separated. I managed to fix this by re-cementing these two pieces back together with Canada Balsam. Adjusting the rangefinder after that was a major pain but after many attempts and revisiting it while the cement was curing, I now have it adjusted spot on. Now the camera is waiting on the shelf to be taken for a spin... what I found amazing is that when I got it, it still had the white plastic cover for the light meter, that is presumably used for incident light metering.

 

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Okay, I am sorry for that. Then I was wrong....I never had a Voigtländer like this, but it seems to happen. Great work, that you fixed it!!

 

[johannielscom]

BUMPin it for Vitomatic photographs!

 

[jajong]

I'll play. I have 3 of these machines, all IIa. one with the Ultron lens. This one took some work to get the shutterbutton going and to get the lens/rangefinder aligned. It is okay now. Have a look here: http://www.pbase.com/jajong/vitomatic_iia_c_sk ; http://www.pbase.com/jajong/vitomatic_ultron

Cheers,
Jan

 

[lynnb]

I picked up a Vitomatic Ia a few days ago and am very impressed with this little viewfinder camera. The build quality is superb. Here's a picture of me taken by my wife yesterday, at a coffee shop.

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