Camera Talk

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:

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...

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.

This is one of the few photos that I took with the Vito IIa.

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...

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 ...

I really like the b/w shots a lot.

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/

Here's a photo of the film advance gears. Everything was fairly clean, so I really just had to lightly add some lubrication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEW_oNJ-vAs In this week's video, I look at the Exakta 66 vertical. Given the opportunity again, I probably would buy this camera unless it was in the $200 range. It's an interesting camera, but that doesn't make it a great camera. I think that I need to shoot with i...