Camera Talk

I have a Zorki4 for a few years but the shutter needs replacement (it is a sieve) and the quote to fix it was pretty high

Zorki-4 1958

The lens is supposedly brilliant

Are those you "meh" pictures?
you have raised the bar too much

Espectacular!!! I saw those in your FLickr, the ones you claim are low contrast are great, moody

got it I got mine 3-4yrs ago and basically stopped looking after that one THen came the Karats with the Rodenstock and Super-Xenar lenses :) Yeah, I know it EXISTS, but it’s been a l-o-n-g time since I’ve seen any come up for sale. Last one I had in hand was probably ten years ago. I was being hyper...

Solinar version does exist, dont know if a Solagon version was ever made but that would be yummy

Yeah, that is a bear! I added some superlube instead of rem-oil and its been fine since I love the lens in the Jsolette 3 and mostly use it as scale focus but sometime the RF is very useful. Had a bear of a time freeing the pivot arm. Required alternating application of Goof-Off and RemOil on the to...

the RF unit is not complicated, opening the top is, let me know if you crack that one

It seems to be working fine now, havent been kicked out for over a week

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I can confirm it is a left hand screw. Mine came off really easy. If yours is still stuck then someone might have used some thread locker on it. Alcohol might dissolve that. PF This is the camera I haven been able to take the top off. I know how to fix the RF now, but the left hand screw is glued t...