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Old 18-01-19, 03:29 PM   #1171
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I guess you need to shoot with small apertures and rely on DoF to get you out of trouble. If you want me to have a go at collimating it then PM me. Some TLRs come with or are modified to have a little magnifier over the ground glass screen so you can look at a detail to fine-tune the focus.
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Old 18-01-19, 04:12 PM   #1172
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There's no glass in this model at all - all plastic, including the optic elements with a few screws holding it together. Fixed aperture and spring loaded shutter means the only adjustment is focus, unless you count putting different speed films in depending on the weather and available light. It has a threaded socket to mount it on a tripod but even that does not work as it does not tighten up...

Was fun to build though.
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Old 18-01-19, 05:23 PM   #1173
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presumably it has a screen of some sort, which in a real TLR would be ground glass? Or some sort of focus aid for the viewfinder. Collimation is adjustment of the taking lens' focus so that when you set it to 5m and/or it is sharp in the viewfinder, then the taking lens is doing the same and taking a sharp picture. Not sure how much sharper it could get than what you have but might be worth a look, up to you anyway. Does it take 120 film? You can normally rig up some sort of 35mm adaptation using 3D printed parts - called sprocket photography. Kenzie's done this with at least one of his TLRs.
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Old 18-01-19, 07:45 PM   #1174
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Johnny, these are plastic fantastic 35mm toys. I'm amazed Admin even got a photo out of it! I actually have the unbranded version of this somewhere, it does has a plastic focus screen but you'll be lucky if you get a decent image.

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Old 18-01-19, 09:33 PM   #1175
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Johnny, these are plastic fantastic 35mm toys.
Spot on - it's just a toy really. All of the exposures actually came out which I was amazed at to be honest. Some are hopelessly out of focus, some are blurred and some have so much light leaking in it's hilarious. But I got 16 images all the same. Not bad considering I had no idea how far to wind on after the first time when the indicator stopped working (linked to the sprocket moved by the film - the gears did not mesh fully).

The focus screen is plastic, just like everything else, and the viewing lens moves in/out in line with the exposure lens through a simple gear drive, but there is no way to calibrate this - I may have been a turn or even two out when I out it together.

Nice bit of fun though.
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Old 18-01-19, 10:19 PM   #1176
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If you like building them, try the Lomography Konstructor.

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You are a fully qualified Lomo hipster now!
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Old 19-01-19, 07:02 AM   #1178
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You are a fully qualified Lomo hipster now!
Yeah, I have a shelf full of them!

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Old 17-02-19, 04:29 AM   #1179
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Wow, stiff competition this month.
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"Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing".. he came from a very posh background / schooling and has definitely never had "almost nothing".
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