Filmwasters
Which Board? => Main Forum => : choppert July 14, 2011, 03:45:24 PM
-
Woohoo!
Look at the bellows on that baby!
Thank you Mr Lynch.... ;D
-
Beautiful indeed. Love those orangish bellows!
-
Lovely.
-
Nicey, Nicey - happy shooting with that!
-
Mmmm ... that looks pretty. I hope it goes well for you.
-
Sweet! I have one too but I have yet to shoot film through it. :( And thanks to your pictures I think this might happen very soon! I had to take the lens out and clean inside but I did not know where that pin that stops the lens from going around goes? But thanks to your picture now I know. (I have just adjusted mine to be like yours. I think this will work now. :D )
-
Ralph - did you recheck your focus after cleaning the lens?
-
Wise thing to do... especially since it's so easy with the older cameras that have a B setting...
-
So Mr. Lynch...after checking out your site I am throughly stoked at the prospect of sending you one of my cameras with the need for new bellows..so nice to have you so close at hand..vertually if not actually! :) :) You do beautiful work..Do you actually make your own cameras also?
-
Oh, they do look good. My Isolette with it's old black bellows suddenly looks so plain! :P
-
I'm jealous of your bellows. :) Very nice.
-
Diane, thanks for the compliments. Message me if you wish. I last made a cam seven years ago, but since then I've only restored oldies. There are very few folders that you can do an authentic bellows replacement, but the Isolette/Speedex and Record/Viking are two and they are very easy to do. This is because the bellows are held in place by a film gate which is screwed in, rather than rivetted (Voigtlander) or under bent metal tabs (Zeiss).
Nigel, bronze is the new black ... though paisley, tartan and polka dot are not impossible.
Oh, and if anybody really wants to wind me up, just call me "Mr". :P
-
That's a very attractive machine. Look forward to the results! Skj.
-
Sandeha Lynch I have not shot film with it since I got it. I did not know if I could put the lens back in its proper place after tanking it off. I think it is on right now. I saw this pic here with the little pin on the front where mine was in the wrong setting. I will have to shoot some soon when it is nicer outside. :D
-
Here's an easy one for you all.
What aperture is set here? Is it 32 (where the crinkly bit of the indicator is?) or 16 (where the indicator finishes)?
Thanks,
Chops
-
It depends when you put the lens full open on where the cursor falls.
-
It depends when you put the lens full open on where the cursor falls.
Eh?
The lens is fully extended, but I don't know which part of the indicator I should use to show me the aperture
The metal thingy appears to go fully beyond both the minimum and maximum apertures. If it stopped at one I could work it out. But it doesn't.
-
it seems to me it is at "16" I always wonder about this with my isolette...hmmm..
-
Just look at the aperture through the back (or front). If you don't see much a difference between them, just use 16 as a base...
-
I think it's on f16, or that's how I've always read it on my Isolette. That little piece of metal on mine is chamfered on the left hand side which I've always taken to be where the reading is taken. Also if you go to the other end of the scale the lever won't go far enough to read f4.5 on the RHS.
Very long explanation = f16. ;D
-
Yeah, it's 16, at the sharp edge. The rest is just handle. ;D
-
Here is a pic of my Isollette.
(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd481/antoniowilder/th_94347c82.jpg) (http://s1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd481/antoniowilder/?action=view¤t=94347c82.jpg)