Vintage film cameras

[yokohama]

Whole family history of Lordox is here. http://www.cjs-classic-cameras.co.uk...lf.html#junior
It was eventually taken over by Leica.
This camera was bought in Aden in the mid 50s when the owner was in the military and cost £5.
Spitfire shot sounds good. There's an air museum near here which I've always planned to visit but never quite got round to.
There's a classic car and bike show up here this weekend, which might be a good opportunity to play with cameras.

[johnnyrod]

The Lordomat is said to be a nice camera. I'm also trying to resist the GAS, it's not like I need anything. Except perhaps a Konica Pearl... there's always Christmas!

Put the Automatica back together last night. There is a problem with the rewind button to release the mechanism, I think I've figured it out so will have to have a look sometime. I assumed the meter was nearly dead, but in fact it's almost fine. I did a bit of a write up here if you're interested:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/foru....php?p=2799026

[Kenzie]

I'll have a read Johnny. Yoko, did they give it to you then? I might have a go at this https://www.lomography.com/magazine/...n-camera-strap
Just reading back some of the earlier posts and it's pretty much two years and a day since Yoko popped in to sell some cameras.

[Kenzie]

I've been out for a stomp today with my wife, took the Afga Standard 6x9 and the Seagull with me loaded with the HP5 I was going to take to Duxford (will need to buy more) I will try and get the rolls souped and scanned today if my back stops hurting.

[Kenzie]

Very difficult to frame a shot with the AGFA Standard

[yokohama]

I've seen worse composition, usually on my shots.
Image quality looks good though.

[Kenzie]

It's ok for an older lens, from the thirties I think(actually just found that they date from 1926-1930). The Pentax A3 arrived today, it had the SMC M lens not the SMC A lens. Not too much of a problem but it has a lot of fungus. Thankfully there was a helpful video on YouTube to tear it down, it's back together but a couple of dust specks. I'll take it out on the next shooting run.

[johnnyrod]

Looks like one my 820 Selfix would produce. That too is hard to frame, the finder is about the right coverage but it ends up witt too much foreground

[Kenzie]

This has a sports finder and one of those small 1cm square finders next to the lens. Pretty much useless!

[johnnyrod]

Just looked it up, not self erecting then? Slidy-focus. Looks the part alright.