Height of chromatic

Det här är en trevlig kamera. En modell som många bar omkring på magen under 1970-talet. Den är väldigt lättmanövrerad - det är bara skärpan man ska hålla reda på, resten är automatiskt.
Isn't this a very nice camera. It's a model sported by loads of tourists during the '70:s. Easily manouvered, it's only focusing that demands your attention apart form framing the motif.

Just det här exemplaret har varit med om något som har spräckt sökarglaset. Dessutom har den en ytlig missfärgning som antagligen kommer från platsen där den legat undanskuffad en längre tid.
This one's journey ended with a cracked finder glass. Storage in a unconspicious place has also added a yellowed tint to the metal.

Men så snart jag bytt tätningslisterna, tvättat av och den satt i batterier så ska jag sätta i en filmrulle och ta ut den på en tur.
But as soon as I've replaced the light seals and batteries, it will be cleaned and loaded with film. Who knows what I'll catch in the finder then?

Förr eller senare så får ni se resultatet här på sidan. Och när jag lyckats byta ut glaset så finns kameran kanske till slut att köpa i min butik på Etsy!
Sooner or later you'll see the result here. And when I've also replaced the glass maybe it'll show up in my shop at Etsy!

Comments

Chaika Leica

Well, here's a Chaika 2M that I bought from Alex Helios via Instagram. It's a great full manual viewfinder half-frame camera. The wheel on the top is for shutter time selection, from B to 1/30th to 1/250th of a second. The square button on the front right of the camera is the release/exposure. The lens mounted on the camera in the picture is not the original Industar-69. The Chaika is a rare model compact camera since the prime lens is detachable. What is more is that it has M39 screw mount. But - like with the Paxette M39 system - you can't get focus with a lens from another M39 system. Unless you adapt the lens or - in this case - the camera (mount)! The Chaika mount is easily detached from the body by loosening four screws. If I want to mount the Leica thread mount M39 (LTM) lenses on the Chaika - which is my goal with this mod - I have to add 1.3mm to the mount. That is what is needed to change the camera's flange focal distance (FFD) from Chaika system to L

A busy photographer

This photographer is now an owner of a house with all that entails. That is my focus since October and will be for some time.

Lomo-Modd-Orama

A Lomo Smena 8 camera with a faulty shutter. An Olympus Pen F camera. Part of a microscope adapter for the Pen. That's what I started out with. 45 minutes later I had a new lens! Mount The mount came off a microscope adapter. I got the adapter from my first (of two) attempts to buy an Olympus Pen F. There seem to be some unscrupolous ebay sellers around peddling useless Pens with microscope adapted prisms. Luckily - in hindsight - I got a microscope adapter with this first Pen. Which I now trashed when a Lomo Smena 8 without a future landed on my doorstep (figuratively speaking). Conversion / Havoc Smena I only knew the camera as a half-frame camera [Correction - it's a full frame camera!] called Smena 8 and hadn't thought to place it in Lomography-land until I read the name Lomo on the lens when it was already modded. Unwittingly I had tread the tiles of lomo-dom twice in as many weeks, also having put two rolls through a Praktica CX-1 which appears to be Gr

getOBphoto

Search This Blog