Camera Talk

Gracias! It used to be sold by the same representative as AGFA in my town but it was cheaper, so as a student I bought many boxes of it. It was very similar to Brovira and they had the texture that look like cloth that was loved for portraits in the late 80s. I feel I have asked this before, but I r...

I have some electrical contact cleaner I use to clean out pots on amplifiers - wonder if that would work? ECC is very aggressive and works great to eliminate the old grease I use a combination of PF's PB Blaster and ECC and yes it can take many many applications but considering C.Sherlock is is Aus...

Ugh. The inner helicoid is moving smoothly. The outer helicoid, that the focus/distance wheel turns, is still mostly frozen. It’s been so long since I did one of these. Drat - so close… Yes, the focusing helicoid (the one with the grip pins) is the hardest to move The inner is easier to desolidify ...

P C Headland wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 03, 2024 1:33 am

It is Japanese, and shoots 6x6 and 6x4.5.

Hint: think India.


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Awesome!!! Is it a Mumbai Special

There can't be many of such models.
I havent seen one such camera, what is it?

Someone already took it apart!
https://pentaxrumors.com/2024/08/01/pen ... own-video/

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Let me check if I have one I can send you I'm sure I have a speedex with Vario you could have but not sure if I have one with prontor/compur Check the colimation and you might need to add/remove those paper spacers to get to full infinity The Isolette 3 is not hard to repair, and the RF is easy to d...

Could you frankestein-it with a Prontor from an Isolette?
I guess if the location of the shutter release is the same they could be interchanged?

Oh man!
I'm starting to see why not many of these have survived

Did you lubricate the shutter blades?
a little moly powder goes a long way