Vintage film cameras

[johnnyrod]

Blimey. Lever only?

Yeah people can be ****s. If you'd been eating a hamburger they'd have shouted "**** hamburger!". Means nothing.

[Kenzie]

Yeah, its snapped off. Not the end of the world.

[johnnyrod]

Well I took the Certo rather further and took out the shutter blades and rings. I was frankly crapping myself, particularly when I found that a couple of springs were leaning against the inside of the casing I'd just removed, but it's a well-engineered piece of kit and went fine in the end. Swabbed a fair bit of muck out of there so worth it. Just have to refit the shutter to the camera, give the body a bit of a clean, and check the focus. Phew. Hopefully it'll sort out the faster speeds, but it's as good as it gets in any case.

[Kenzie]

Hope you took loads of photos for when you do mine!

[johnnyrod]

An actual bucket load. I'll have to re-test the shutter speeds again on the top two. Speeds from 1/2 to 1/100 were pretty well spot on (these are controlled by the escapement), but 1/200 was actually 1/120 and 1/400 was 1/180. Hopefully they'll be better now but it's as good as it gets - they run at full speed with no regulation.

It's well worth you trying the solvent bath like yer man in the link. It's pretty easy and could be good enough. As with a lot of these things, you just keep going until it's finally clean. I would resist operating the shutter while it's wet though - they can stick due to the suction between the blades, though I guess it'll release when it dries, if it sticks.

[Kenzie]

Don't think I'm that brave. I can fix some things but others don't go so well and I don't want to kill it. Is Yoko lurking? Or busy doing macro shots?

[yokohama]

Not lurking - just watching football,cricket, football in that order.
Macro shots?? You'll be lucky. The whole apparatus with the extension tube and mounts took me a while to put together. I had a little play with it and it focuses right down. you can practically fill the entire viewfinder with a bean. I don't think I'll ever use the thing so will probably sell.
Someone bought the Billy record on ebay today finally. It took a while.

Nice little shopping basket from the boot sale Kenzie. Nothing doing in any of my local charity shops unfortunately. What was the thing you mention with the exposure in the x300? I've fired half a roll through the x700. It'll be interesting to see what they are like.
The manual metering in the 300 is much more user friendly than the 700 though

[Kenzie]

It seemed a bit overexposed so I dropped the level in an editing program.

[yokohama]

Light seals, or just over exposing in general? Only saying light seals because on all the Minoltas I have, there's quite a bit of movement when the back cover of the camera is pressed, which makes me think the string seals are well past their best.

[Kenzie]

Light seals do look a bit past their best but that would produce streaks rather than being overexposed. May well be interested in the macro lens depending on price. Also finally landed a manual adapter for the OM10. What are you going to with yours now you have the OM20 Yoko?

Some shots from the MV1 and Hanimex 135mm. Its a little soft wide open though.









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