Camera Talk

Update: The Retina II like Julio said is a nice camera, solid silent and the RF is nice.
I think it's a bit better than the Silette (same ballpark)
I'll develop the pics sometime soon.

You are a bad bad influence! i've never had a Retina; but you pushed me to buy one at evilB for peanuts (type011 with 2.0 Xenon) Nice camera, solid and will have to check the film transport and frame counter after my vacation The front barely opens when the button is pressed but shutter seems to be ...

Those look great!!!

I admit I have a problem!


Clockwise from bottom-right
Karat 12 Xenar
Karat 36 Xenar
Karat 36 Heligon
Karomat Xenar
Karomat Solinar

I' dont own one but it seems like one of the springs that pushes the door is faulty.
I think those should be flat springs?

At least it opens and closes smoothly

While working on a Karomat I made the mistake of removing the big brass screw that holds the RF-lever
It can come lose over time, so remember to add threadlocker to it during reassembly

I added some notes to supplement PFM pictures
https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjC9N8i

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...