In my last post I gave some observations and conclusions I’d reached from my initial examination of the shutter assembly in my Pentacon Six. In this post I’m going to describe the progress I’ve made to get the shutter working again prior to trying to calibrate the shutter speeds. After my initial attempts to lubricate the mechanism, and getting the mirror and shutter blinds out of sync, the whole mechanism was not working anymore so I decided to try to...
This evening I took my first steps to repair my Pentacon six by having a look at what was stopping the second curtain closing when the shutter is fired. To do that I had to remove the top plate of the camera so I could examine it and I’ve detailed the Pentacon Six strip down procedure here. I won’t give many more details than the pictures because it is all pretty self explanatory and was actually quite easy. Pentacon Six...
As I said in another post earlier today I recently acquired an Edixa Reflex D 35mm SLR to join my vintage camera collection but discovered that the shutter assembly wasn’t working properly. The shutter release button seemed to jam and feel ‘gritty’ when pressed and the shutter operation was not at all reliable. I decided to have a go at stripping the camera down to see if I could find the cause so I took pictures along the way as...
This Ilford Sportsman is a camera which I inherited from my Dad a few years ago. It's a simple 35mm viewfinder camera with a Dacora Dignar 45mm f/2.8 lens and was made about 1959.
The Voigtlander Vito Automatic is a 1960's viewfinder camera with a selenium cell which controls the camera's aperture, making a fully automatic 'point and shoot' model.
The Pentax MZ-50 has all the features of a modern slr - auto focus, multiple exposure modes, scene modes, camera body control for aperture and shutter speed
We took a trip to Knebworth House in hertfordshire in April 2011 where I took this picture of James and Emma. We discovered a hollow tree, and I thought it would make a good frame for them to pose in, which it proved to be once I’d stopped them arguing about all the things that sibling seem to find to argue about. I turned out to be quite a nice picture. There was a fair amount of light but I...
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