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by melek
Mon Oct 14, 2024 8:32 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Chatter — 'Sound Off' Here
Topic: Dad bragging...
Replies: 4
Views: 303

Re: Dad bragging...

Did you say, "freshman year of college"? Well, those years certainly flew by, didn't they?
by melek
Mon Oct 14, 2024 8:27 pm
Forum: Technical and Site Issues / Spammer Alerts
Topic: New feature - You can now 'like' a post
Replies: 0
Views: 18

New feature - You can now 'like' a post

It took a while, but you can now "like" a post. Click the gray smiley face on the right side of the post: post-like2.png You can then select from one of seven Facebook-like images. It took a long time to find one of these that worked. For some reason, the developers of the forum software o...
by melek
Sun Oct 13, 2024 11:59 am
Forum: Words/No Words
Topic: Camera Porn Friday
Replies: 386
Views: 2962163

Re: Camera Porn Friday

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The Zeiss Ikon Tengoflex box camera. Sort of fun to use because you don't have to spend a lot of time with shutter speeds and apertures. Here's the video:
by melek
Fri Oct 11, 2024 8:26 am
Forum: Rangefinders
Topic: Ansco Super Regent
Replies: 24
Views: 14494

Re: Ansco Super Regent

PB Blaster? I need to get some of that. I am a fan of Agfa cameras from the 1950s and earlier. The Super Solinette is a nice camera and seems to be identical to the Super Regent. Agfa also did this wth the Isolettes in that it produced cameras for itself and Ansco. My one gripe about many of the mid...
by melek
Sat Sep 28, 2024 6:18 am
Forum: Scale Focus
Topic: The four folding Voigtlander Vitos
Replies: 4
Views: 1266

Re: The four folding Voigtlander Vitos

I'm glad to see that there's a lot of love for the Vito II. A buddy of mine had a Vito II, although it was missing the plastic on the door-closing tabs. The first model that I bought was the IIa. The Vito III arrived a few years later. It's an entirely different camera.
by melek
Thu Sep 26, 2024 5:17 pm
Forum: Scale Focus
Topic: The four folding Voigtlander Vitos
Replies: 4
Views: 1266

Re: The four folding Voigtlander Vitos

HK Cultural Center Kowloon (tone) TMax 100 Vito IIa Sept 200.jpg
This is one of the few photos that I took with the Vito IIa.
by melek
Thu Sep 26, 2024 7:40 am
Forum: Scale Focus
Topic: The four folding Voigtlander Vitos
Replies: 4
Views: 1266

The four folding Voigtlander Vitos

vito_x4a.jpg In chronological order, from left: Voigtlander Vito, Vito II, Vito III and Vito IIa. The Vito IIa was released after the Vito III but really is a continuation of the Vito and Vito II. This video was complicated by the Vito III, which is really a folding version of the Voigtlander Promi...
by melek
Sun Sep 22, 2024 8:24 am
Forum: TLRs, SLRs, RFs, non-folders
Topic: The Standard Rolleiflex
Replies: 1
Views: 1395

The Standard Rolleiflex

standardrollei.jpg Rolleifle_Standard_sm01.jpg Rolleifle_Standard_sm02.jpg Rolleifle_Standard_sm03.jpg In this video, I talk about the Standard Rolleiflex. It was the first model to use 120 film. The earlier models used 117 film. I forgot to include the third photo in the video. What's interesting ...
by melek
Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: Cell Phones and Tablets
Topic: Shapes and Shadows
Replies: 5
Views: 2427

Re: Shapes and Shadows

I really like the b/w shots a lot.
by melek
Wed Sep 18, 2024 7:36 am
Forum: The Fix-It Forum
Topic: Video: Reviving the folding Contessa's meter
Replies: 1
Views: 1414

Video: Reviving the folding Contessa's meter

https://youtu.be/THwd4CTMxg0 Here's where I show how to revive the meter on your folding Zeiss Ikon Contessa. I've had this camera for about eight or nine years, and I was fairly certain that it would work, and it did. Here's my old webpage on this: https://elekm.net/zeiss-ikon/repair/meter-repair/