Vintage film cameras

[Kenzie]

Just dropped off film from the GEr, Trip 35 and OM-10.

[johnnyrod]

If you get totally stuck then I'll take a look. Had a look at the MX today, I really need to take the top off and that needs the film out so it'll have to wait. Am off to try to find owls in the morning.

[Kenzie]

[Kenzie]

What are your thoughts on these? Focus test on the GER. Do they look in focus?

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[johnnyrod]

Have you used a flash on these? What f stop? The closest ones look good, the 10ft one looks like it might be focusing a little long but hard to say - the buildings behind are reasonably sharp compared to the foreground.

[Kenzie]

No flash. The camera was in auto. Probably why the colour is off. Rangefinder is off but I don't know how to adjust. Nothing obvious under the screw on the back of the top plate.

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[johnnyrod]

No idea how to adjust it without seeing it. If possible you want to do the focus test with aperture wide open for minimum DoF, doesn't matter what the shutter speed is.

[Kenzie]

You have to take the lens apart and undo three screws holding the lens to the focus ring.

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[johnnyrod]

To be honest I do a lot of this stuff, if no instructions or advice is available, by figuring out what's in front of me, so it's hard to say. The focus scale and rangefinder both need setting. On my Contessa you do the focus scale first then the rangefinder, on my Contessamat it's the other way round. I think the GER doesn't have a B setting but you could do repeated exposures on the 2 second setting (but try to fix aperture at wide open, and go for about 1.5m or so) and just keep adjusting - I'd use a split circle focus screen here for sure. Exactly how to do the adjustment of the rangefinder I don't know, what you've said sounds more like the focus scale side of things. Sometimes though only one needs adjustment, or you can fudge it with what you have at your disposal. If you take a few pics with the top cover off then I'll glady have a look.

[Kenzie]

The latest Zorki 10 arrived. Its older than the one I have and has the Russian style writing on the top . Oh, and I also bought a bulk film loader to play with. Comes with some Ilford HP4 inside.



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