sheepdog
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Hi all!
This is my first post on the forum, although I have checked it and read a handful of threads from before. Any consumer group to have such a information-packed and helpful forum should consider itself lucky!
I bought a very nice looking chrome Zorki 4 in June, as a birthday present for myself, and have run a handful of films through it. The sharpness and contrast in the images is great and I am getting reasonably good at judging exposures without a meter, but I am plagued by some minor to awful light leaks.
They vary from frame to frame, extend beyond the 36x24mm picture frames, and take the shape of vertical bars, 1/4 inch in width on film.
I first checked for shutter hick-ups by doing the TV-screen test (aiming at the TV-screen and seeing that the diagonal bar from the screen refresh/shutter movement is a straight line), but later became aware that, logically, leaks that extend beyond the 36x24mm frames cannot be the result of shutter action.
I then disassembled the body and checked the interior for faults or inconsistencies, and found that one of the blinds that isolate the in-camera lightpath from the filmchamber (located infront of the left shutter-spool when looklng in through the lensmount) is missing.
Could light be leaking in through there and expose the film while it's on the take-up spool? This would also perhaps explain why the leaks are inconsistent between frames, as time between shots or the angle to the sun at which the camera is held might affect the seriousness of the leak?
If this is the case, I remember seeing a shop which sold parts for Zorkis, (amongst those a set of lightpath blinds), does anybody here have the webaddress to said webshop?
Thanks in advance, I really want to get the Zorki working, as shooting it is such unrivaled fun!
Kind regards
Kjetil Høiby
This is my first post on the forum, although I have checked it and read a handful of threads from before. Any consumer group to have such a information-packed and helpful forum should consider itself lucky!
I bought a very nice looking chrome Zorki 4 in June, as a birthday present for myself, and have run a handful of films through it. The sharpness and contrast in the images is great and I am getting reasonably good at judging exposures without a meter, but I am plagued by some minor to awful light leaks.
They vary from frame to frame, extend beyond the 36x24mm picture frames, and take the shape of vertical bars, 1/4 inch in width on film.
I first checked for shutter hick-ups by doing the TV-screen test (aiming at the TV-screen and seeing that the diagonal bar from the screen refresh/shutter movement is a straight line), but later became aware that, logically, leaks that extend beyond the 36x24mm frames cannot be the result of shutter action.
I then disassembled the body and checked the interior for faults or inconsistencies, and found that one of the blinds that isolate the in-camera lightpath from the filmchamber (located infront of the left shutter-spool when looklng in through the lensmount) is missing.
Could light be leaking in through there and expose the film while it's on the take-up spool? This would also perhaps explain why the leaks are inconsistent between frames, as time between shots or the angle to the sun at which the camera is held might affect the seriousness of the leak?
If this is the case, I remember seeing a shop which sold parts for Zorkis, (amongst those a set of lightpath blinds), does anybody here have the webaddress to said webshop?
Thanks in advance, I really want to get the Zorki working, as shooting it is such unrivaled fun!
Kind regards
Kjetil Høiby
reagan
hey, they're only Zorkis
Zorki parts here at OKVintage Cameras. If you don't see what you need, he has an email link there somewhere and he's real good about replying pretty quick. Enjoy the Z4 and good luck!
sheepdog
Available darkness.
Thanks a lot guys!
I will try to replace the missing blind for now and then we'll see.
Found the appropriate "roll covers" at OK Vintage, and they are on their way now.
I'll let you know!
Kind regards
Kjetil
I will try to replace the missing blind for now and then we'll see.
Found the appropriate "roll covers" at OK Vintage, and they are on their way now.
I'll let you know!
Kind regards
Kjetil