Camera Talk

I took the Karat 36 / Heligon to LasVegas and had some time to travel to AZ and the West end of the Grand Canyon I had a roll of Adox CHS100 and one of SuperPan https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53291665060_2d55bdfb9f_z.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53362780480_db8f781bb2_z.jpg https://l...

It's a good simple design though complicated by the fact they used the same body shell from the older Silette cameras. It's never really cut-and-dry with the German manufacturers when it comes to the internal mechanicals. PF Luckily the arm pivot is a shallow hole and cant contaminate the optics so...

Finally find the courage to open the top and fix that RF. It was only good between 1 and 3m and then it was a crapshot. Chris Sherlock videos plus the service manual had enough info and everything seemed OK, but the RF unit was returning to the infinity (resting) very slowly or not at all. I wanted ...

Naked Ambi Silette
Trying to figure out why the RF was only good between 1 and 3m
At the end it was some grease (green Agfa goo) in the arm for the spli-beam mirror

Yashica FX-3 Super 2000 A simple manual camera made by Kyocera, its main feature being the addition of a 1/2000 sec shutter speed. Mine came with the attached 1.7/50 Planar. https://live.staticflickr.com/7115/27290571613_8e8502c73d_c.jpg Yashica FX-3 Super 2000 by P F McFarland , on Flickr PF Found...

Not exactly a selfie, but a pic taken by my daughter while hiking for my BDay

Can you find a 40-40.5 step-up ring? Otherwise I can design a shade for you to 3D print Wish that I were so fortunate as to own a 3D printer, but thanks for the thought. Manyu chinese sellers hve 40-40.5 stp up rings at a decent price E.g. https://www.ebay.com/str/yoyocameraaccessories has it for $...

1983! wow!
I have a version from before you were born.
It is the binder type and the last update was in the early 60s

My uncle inherited from a friend of my grandfather, and he passed it to me in the 90s

PS, what year is you Lester&Morgan PhotoLab index?

HAPPY 70!!!
I, for one, am glad to have you on this side