Author Topic: Look what the postman brought... (Read 2957 times)

choppert · « **on:** July 14, 2011, 03:45:24 PM »

Woohoo!

Look at the bellows on that baby!

Thank you Mr Lynch....

calbisu · « **Reply #1 on:** July 14, 2011, 03:57:40 PM »

Beautiful indeed. Love those orangish bellows!

Chris A Fraser · « **Reply #2 on:** July 14, 2011, 04:11:52 PM »

Lovely.

Alan · « **Reply #3 on:** July 14, 2011, 08:37:41 PM »

Nicey, Nicey - happy shooting with that!

Sandeha Lynch · « **Reply #4 on:** July 14, 2011, 09:11:22 PM »

Mmmm ... that looks pretty. I hope it goes well for you.

Rafael Morales · « **Reply #5 on:** July 15, 2011, 05:03:03 PM »

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.

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Sandeha Lynch · « **Reply #6 on:** July 16, 2011, 07:59:56 AM »

Ralph - did you recheck your focus after cleaning the lens?

Francois · « **Reply #7 on:** July 16, 2011, 03:04:42 PM »

Wise thing to do... especially since it's so easy with the older cameras that have a B setting...

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #8 on:** July 16, 2011, 04:35:07 PM »

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?

Nigel · « **Reply #9 on:** July 16, 2011, 06:16:55 PM »

Oh, they do look good. My Isolette with it's old black bellows suddenly looks so plain!

otto k · « **Reply #10 on:** July 16, 2011, 07:22:30 PM »

I'm jealous of your bellows.

Very nice.

Sandeha Lynch · « **Reply #11 on:** July 16, 2011, 07:45:30 PM »

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".

Skorj · « **Reply #12 on:** July 23, 2011, 04:47:42 AM »

That's a very attractive machine. Look forward to the results! Skj.

Rafael Morales · « **Reply #13 on:** July 25, 2011, 05:29:54 PM »

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.

choppert · « **Reply #14 on:** August 02, 2011, 03:44:41 PM »

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

Francois · « **Reply #15 on:** August 02, 2011, 03:56:16 PM »

It depends when you put the lens full open on where the cursor falls.

choppert · « **Reply #16 on:** August 02, 2011, 03:58:12 PM »

Quote from: Francois on August 02, 2011, 03:56:16 PM

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.

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #17 on:** August 02, 2011, 04:57:39 PM »

it seems to me it is at "16" I always wonder about this with my isolette...hmmm..

Francois · « **Reply #18 on:** August 02, 2011, 05:05:57 PM »

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...

Nigel · « **Reply #19 on:** August 02, 2011, 08:43:05 PM »

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.

Sandeha Lynch · « **Reply #20 on:** August 03, 2011, 05:33:21 PM »

Yeah, it's 16, at the sharp edge. The rest is just handle.

Rafael Morales · « **Reply #21 on:** August 29, 2011, 06:18:15 PM »

Here is a pic of my Isollette.