Yard Sale Camera

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sat morning yard sale find. Voigtlander Vito CL. It has a 50mm f2.8 lens. Shutter speeds B-1/500, built in meter and it's a zone focus camera. Cost me 2 bucks with the eveready case.

 

[xayraa33]

a very nice camera John, is it in full working order?

 

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Just loaded a dollar store roll of color in it for testing. Looked to be in good working condition but I won't know for sure untill the test comes back.

 

[clintock]

Nice! I really like guess-focus, and if that meter works, it's a cool setup to meter separate like that. Since that's a 50 instead of the more common for asian cameras 35 focal length, you may have to be pretty good at guessing! Or just use 400 film and stop down, which is almost the only thing stores have now anyway.

 

[sbug]

Very cool find!

 

[pesphoto]

nice find. Hope it works for you. I had one once but didnt get to use it.

 

[SolaresLarrave]

I was led to believe those things don't happen... But I'm glad it happened to you. I've never been lucky, at least in that sense.

I did find an Argus in an estate sale... 🙂

 

[Stephanie Brim]

This camera is a rangefinder, not zone focus. I had one and...er...lost it(?) somewhere. The patch was very dim, though, and I had to do the tape trick. The lens is pretty good, though.

 

[peterc]

Nice find, John. Hope the test roll comes out OK.

Peter

 

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This camera is a rangefinder, not zone focus. I had one and...er...lost it(?) somewhere. The patch was very dim, though, and I had to do the tape trick. The lens is pretty good, though.

Stephanie, Nope this one anyway is a zone focus. No Rf window only a big bright finder with frame lines.

 

[raftman]

Very nice find, I'm envious.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Okay, I'm mistaken...this isn't the one I had then. I'm going to have to do more research. Mine was definitely a rangefinder.

 

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I kinda wish it was a range finder but alas ya take what ya can find. I thought it was a range finder at first and for the 2 bucks I took it and ran before looking at it to closely. Oh don't know how many toy collectors are out there but I missed the box of tin toys (large fire truck and army tank ect ect) for 10 bucks.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Haha. Vito CLR. R=rangefinder. Probably one of the last of the line.

Crap...now I want another one.

The lens is great on this camera. You won't be disappointed. I believe the lens is at least the same that was on mine.

 

[raftman]

Does the light meter work?

 

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probably right this is most likely the poor mans version.

 

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Does the light meter work?

seams to be about one stop out compared to my VC meter.