Wide is better!
Wide, wide, wide!
You, the reader, can see the difference between the new old camera and the other new old camera.
The Zeiss Ikon Nettar 515/2 takes pictures in 6x9 format as opposed to the 6x6 of the other camera.
It also has a state of the art viewfinder:
That's right eyes wide open fans!
No more squinting yer eyeballs trying to look into a viewfinder the size of a peephole!
Nosirreebob!
If it was any bigger you could actually use both eyes!
It also has this prism like thingy mounted on front:
So I get this new camera and I'm admiring it and all but I notice that the front element is a bit fogged.
Or something.
Anyways, I get the idea in my head that I'm gonna clean it.
I find some instructions on the ole intranetz that says to just unscrew it.
Okay!
So I take off the focus stop thingy and unscrew it and give it a good cleaning.
Except it appears that the fogginess is in between the elements.
Not okay so I screw the lens back on.
Then I scroll down the instructions thread where another dude mentions marking the lens when removing to make sure you don't toss the focus off.
Nice.
I slap my head like I could have had a V8 and start to worry and fret.
So I put a roll of that cheapo film in and do some distance tests:
Oh thank you Photography Gods for smiling down at me!
I swear I'm never going to tinker around with a camera again!
More on that later.
So off I went to the beach to test that puppy out.
The camera I mean:
A-okay!
These negatives are so wide you only get like eight shots per roll.
Wide, wide, wide!
The scans are also so huge I gotta scale them down so that I load them into blogger.
Which is good thing.
I think.
So anyways I got that other camera, the one I was trying to fix.
You know, the rangefinder part:
Well after I glued everything back in it seems there are some adjustments to do to the mirror thingys.
More internetz reading and instruction.
After I was adjusting the wrong screw.
Yes, you called it: banana head.
Okay lemme see if I can dig myself out of this one.
I mean after I spend hours breaking and fixing the thing with more tinkering around it seems I keep going backwards!
So I adjust this and it turns out I needed to adjust that also and I think I got everything aligned!
Now I just need to do some distance tests (again!) to see if I got it close.
I was going out to shoot some test shots but it's like raining felines and woofers so maybe I need to take my waterproof camera out instead.
Or maybe I'll get some lunch and scan some negatives.
Stay tuned.
2 comments:
You seem to have a knack for fixing those things back to working order! I see a small shop in your future, perhaps Camera Kodamatsu Pottery Bikes! Yeah baby!
I wouldn't call it a knack.
More like a bold naiveté.
Or stupidity.
Well, except for the pottery thing.
I went to school for that.
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