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Forum: Rangefinder Photography Discussion 3 Weeks Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 187
Posted By mooge
could be hairs in the film gate (is that what...

could be hairs in the film gate (is that what it's called? well, it's the thing the shutter opens to)... trip the shutter on B and have a look. if it's on the top left of the photos it should be on...
Forum: Leica M Film Cameras 04-13-2013
Replies: 7
Views: 331
Posted By mooge
Huh. I had this problem (M2) but I don't think I...

Huh. I had this problem (M2) but I don't think I was changing lenses at the time (I don't think I had other lenses to change to). I think it has something to do with the light baffle thing (the...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 04-12-2013
Replies: 14
Views: 429
Posted By mooge
try it yourself!!! replacing a curtain (the...

try it yourself!!! replacing a curtain (the opening curtain, to be precise) was the first (of too many) repairs I did to my M2. I used a curtain out of a Pentax spotmatic; and it worked fine. Well,...
Forum: Photography General Interest 04-02-2013
Replies: 51
Views: 1,158
Posted By mooge
... we're looking at you, Ernst Leitz GmbH!

... we're looking at you, Ernst Leitz GmbH!
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 03-26-2013
Replies: 13
Views: 783
Posted By mooge
Any luck, paradoxbox? My silver nitrate just...

Any luck, paradoxbox?

My silver nitrate just arrived, all 5g of it. yaaay.

And the canada balsam samples are not really curing. oven it is...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 03-18-2013
Replies: 10
Views: 430
Posted By mooge
I've got glasses... so probably not. I dunno....

I've got glasses... so probably not. I dunno.


it's snowing outside.
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 03-18-2013
Replies: 10
Views: 430
Posted By mooge
yeah... that's the idea. Pretty sure the wind...

yeah... that's the idea. Pretty sure the wind lever screw is a little big for regular drill bits but it's not that hard to grind it out. You can see my set of tools here...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 03-18-2013
Replies: 10
Views: 430
Posted By mooge
just so you know... if you remove that mask...

just so you know... if you remove that mask (nevermind putting a different one in with a bigger hole), nothing really changes. No extra view... I'm pretty sure. I took that mask off and kept it off...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 03-15-2013
Replies: 13
Views: 783
Posted By mooge
funny seeing this... I thought of doing the same...

funny seeing this... I thought of doing the same sort of thing (http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130414) about a week ago.

What's the plan? Rochelle salt method? and why 70%...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 03-12-2013
Replies: 10
Views: 445
Posted By mooge
Okay... so I went to the library (the other...

Okay...

so I went to the library (the other university's library, haha) and found a book on making telescopes and it discussed methods of silvering. It mentioned that the rochelle salt + silver...
Forum: Leica M Film Cameras 03-10-2013
Replies: 11
Views: 313
Posted By mooge
The bouncing noise at 1/15 and 1/30 (and in...

The bouncing noise at 1/15 and 1/30 (and in between) is from the slow-speed gear train bouncing back to the start position after being pushed by the second curtain. the other slow speeds (1- 1/8)...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 03-10-2013
Replies: 10
Views: 445
Posted By mooge
vic- CRR Luton (in the UK) offers a RF overhaul...

vic- CRR Luton (in the UK) offers a RF overhaul (including resilvering) service. I'd have my M2 fixed by them but I sort of spent all my money and more importantly, they're not accepting more...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 03-10-2013
Replies: 10
Views: 445
Posted By mooge
Re-silvering mirrors?

Hey fellas,

I've messed up again and I accidentally removed ~40% of the semi-silvering on my M2's beamsplitter. I put some water on the prisms and stuck them together to get an idea of how the...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 03-09-2013
Replies: 23
Views: 541
Posted By mooge
well I took the RF apart and everything was good...

well I took the RF apart and everything was good until I put water on the prism surfaces and stuck them together to see how the gluing would work... and I left the water on and it dissolved 40% of...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 03-07-2013
Replies: 29
Views: 801
Posted By mooge
the pawl opposite of the lens lock indent is the...

the pawl opposite of the lens lock indent is the one that can be filed... the bottom edge. you can see where the lens sensor thing is (brass bar on the right hand side of the lens opening; it moves...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 03-06-2013
Replies: 23
Views: 541
Posted By mooge
youxin may do it cheaper... but this finder has...

youxin may do it cheaper... but this finder has so many problems (there's another lens decementing, framelines mask has cracks of some sort, RF patch is weak and finder is pretty dim in general) that...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 03-06-2013
Replies: 23
Views: 541
Posted By mooge
heat? aww nuts... any suggestions for...

heat? aww nuts... any suggestions for temperature and time?

and how will this probably destroy the silvering?

I'd send it out if CRR Luton was taking repairs now and I had a spare three hundred...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 03-06-2013
Replies: 23
Views: 541
Posted By mooge
so I got the Canada balsam in the mail (from...

so I got the Canada balsam in the mail (from fleabay) and I've just set up a few test specimens to gauge curing times, strength, etcetera. a few observations:

1. it's a yellow viscous fluid. I was...
Forum: Cosina Voigtlander Bessa 03-02-2013
Replies: 3
Views: 249
Posted By mooge
yes and yes (I had the same thing happen, pretty...

yes and yes (I had the same thing happen, pretty much)--

you'll have to unscrew the rear retaining ring with baffles (which holds the rear element in) and then under that is the ring that holds the...
Forum: Cosina Voigtlander Bessa 02-27-2013
Replies: 25
Views: 740
Posted By mooge
is it just that the ring on the back is loose?...

is it just that the ring on the back is loose? the one with the two tabs? try and see if that's loose... or maybe it's something else. actually on second thought, it's probably something else because...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 02-10-2013
Replies: 23
Views: 541
Posted By mooge
Acetone and q-tips. okay. and more info. ...

Acetone and q-tips. okay. and more info. Thanks.


maybe I'll look for a balsam fir tomorrow too.
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 02-10-2013
Replies: 23
Views: 541
Posted By mooge
Yeah, from what I understand from the wikipedia...

Yeah, from what I understand from the wikipedia article, balsam either dissolved in essential oil or xylene was used as optical cement, so if that's correct, I guess either would do... but on the...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 02-10-2013
Replies: 23
Views: 541
Posted By mooge
I haven't taken the RF out yet but I did take the...

I haven't taken the RF out yet but I did take the top plate off to take a look around. There's a loose prism for sure...

so I guess I'll buy some Canada balsam then. And apparently I can use it to...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 02-09-2013
Replies: 23
Views: 541
Posted By mooge
thanks for the replies guys! lots to think...

thanks for the replies guys! lots to think about...

Vick--
how do I push out the prisms? I thought the beamsplitter was held in on a sort of pivot thing...
(and Austenite bay is a place on an...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 02-09-2013
Replies: 23
Views: 541
Posted By mooge
optical cement?

Hey guys,

I dropped my M2 again (ugh...) and now the beamsplitter has split. And CRR Luton isn't taking repairs in until June. and I kind of like this camera alot and I don't want to wait that...
Forum: Photography General Interest 01-16-2013
Replies: 2,833
Views: 159,302
Posted By mooge
Yamaha DX11. Sine wave + sine wave + sine wave =...

Yamaha DX11.

Sine wave + sine wave + sine wave = weird metallic noise.
Success.

-_-
Forum: Leica M Film Cameras 12-08-2012
Replies: 16
Views: 864
Posted By mooge
I think the 12 is on the verge of being too wide...

I think the 12 is on the verge of being too wide though-- you're given all this angle of view but what are you going to do with it? in my case, it's often stretched faces or empty space at the edges...
Forum: Leica M Film Cameras 12-08-2012
Replies: 16
Views: 864
Posted By mooge
I've got a voigtlander 12mm. It's pretty insane....

I've got a voigtlander 12mm.
It's pretty insane.
I used to think that too wide was not wide enough, and then I got this lens. You can be right beside your subject (or subjects) and with this lens,...
Forum: SLRs - the unRF 12-02-2012
Replies: 23
Views: 1,219
Posted By mooge
stilts or take pictures of people that are...

stilts or take pictures of people that are shorter than you.

conversely, you can crouch and hold the camera upside down above your head.


...that's what I do anyways.
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 11-27-2012
Replies: 8
Views: 510
Posted By mooge
just my opinion but... if you're going to go in...

just my opinion but... if you're going to go in just to look around, try not to mess with things too much. I wouldn't remove the framelines mask (why??? you shouldn't have to...) or remove the RF...
Forum: Roger Hicks -- Author of The Rangefinder Book 11-25-2012
Replies: 24
Views: 1,182
Posted By mooge
making fun of hipsters is so mainstream.

making fun of hipsters is so mainstream.
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 11-25-2012
Replies: 8
Views: 510
Posted By mooge
shouldn't be too difficult... Dust spots in the...

shouldn't be too difficult... Dust spots in the RF patch will be from dust on the lens of the framelines mask.

Dunno about cleaning the rest of the viewfinder though; when I tried it, nothing...
Forum: Rangefinder Photography Discussion 11-15-2012
Replies: 34
Views: 1,194
Posted By mooge
a couple tips if you're going to use a RF in the...

a couple tips if you're going to use a RF in the rain or snow:
-use a lens hood if you can; it helps to keep the rain/snow out
-try to keep the RF/VF windows clear; water on these will blur the...
Forum: Analog DarkRoom / Printing 10-31-2012
Replies: 1
Views: 217
Posted By mooge
Brown dektol turns prints brown ish

In case you were wondering--

Brown dektol (powder or liquid) turns prints brown ish. Or yellow ish. Well basically it's not white.

So if you don't want brown prints, don't split your powder up...
Forum: Leica M Film Cameras 10-27-2012
Replies: 11
Views: 912
Posted By mooge
dunno about that, man...

dunno about that, man (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tokyocamerastyle/6606291815/)
Forum: Leica M Film Cameras 10-21-2012
Replies: 3
Views: 442
Posted By mooge
http://collectiblend.com/Cameras/Leitz/MD-2-black....

http://collectiblend.com/Cameras/Leitz/MD-2-black.html

here's a start.
Forum: TLR Forum - Twin Lens Reflex 10-20-2012
Replies: 3
Views: 641
Posted By mooge
Hmm. I was thinking about that too-- but if it's...

Hmm. I was thinking about that too-- but if it's coming from the door wouldn't the light hit the paper backing? and if it got to the film, wouldn't it affect the sides more than the middle? it seems...
Forum: TLR Forum - Twin Lens Reflex 10-20-2012
Replies: 3
Views: 641
Posted By mooge
Rolleiflex MX-EVS light leaks...

Hey fellas,

I'm stumped.

My Rolleiflex is leaking light, and I can't figure out how.

The weird thing is that the leak ends up on the tail of the film, too. here's what it looks like, this is from...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 09-16-2012
Replies: 14
Views: 1,336
Posted By mooge
that Tomosy bloke suggests using very fine...

that Tomosy bloke suggests using very fine graphite powder if you're having trouble with sticky shutter blades in one of his books (camera maintenance and repair? I think it was that one).

graphite...
Forum: Leica M Film Cameras 09-09-2012
Replies: 22
Views: 2,614
Posted By mooge
New MS-Optical 50/1.13 Sonnetar

Coming soon. According to these guys anyways...

http://www.japanexposures.com/2012/08/31/ms-optical-lens-news/

http://hklfc.com/forum/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=108687



in case you didn't know.
Forum: Leica M Film Cameras 09-09-2012
Replies: 25
Views: 1,660
Posted By mooge
the back element of the nokton also unscrews......

the back element of the nokton also unscrews... well, the ring that holds it in does. It's the one with the two things.
Maybe check if your lens rattles (i.e. there's something loose inside)-- I...
Forum: Repair / Camera Care 05-03-2012
Replies: 0
Views: 336
Posted By mooge
A reminder to tighten screws and retainers

if you repair your own cameras, make sure that you tighten screws and things so that they're secure.

the retaining ring for my rolleiflex's shutter lock fell off yesterday. I found it later but...
Forum: Photography General Interest 04-22-2012
Replies: 6
Views: 787
Posted By mooge
Was it Shinya Arimoto...

Was it Shinya Arimoto (http://www.flickr.com/photos/55411539@N04/) and his Hasselrad SWC?
Forum: 120 RF Folders 04-21-2012
Replies: 12
Views: 802
Posted By mooge
Plaubel Makina 670? probably not cheap either...

Plaubel Makina 670? probably not cheap either...
Forum: Rangefinder Photography Discussion 04-20-2012
Replies: 55
Views: 2,838
Posted By mooge
I do. I assemble a little show to put on each...

I do. I assemble a little show to put on each year around new year's when we have a sort of family gathering. slide film and slide projection is one of those 'magic' things about photography to me;...
Forum: Fixed Lens RF 04-10-2012
Replies: 4
Views: 785
Posted By mooge
check the QL spool: can it be turned...

check the QL spool: can it be turned independantly from the sprocket thing (can't remember the name now...)? it should be possible to turn the QL spool with your fingers, but it shouldn't be really...
Forum: Analog DarkRoom / Printing 04-07-2012
Replies: 7
Views: 887
Posted By mooge
I think the idea was that if you get the silver...

I think the idea was that if you get the silver out of fixer, you can dump it down the drain and it's not as bad for the environment. I guess. there is a hazardous waste thing somewhere here, so I...
Forum: Photography General Interest 04-01-2012
Replies: 14
Views: 832
Posted By mooge
... did you guys read the article?

... did you guys read the article?
Forum: Photography General Interest 04-01-2012
Replies: 14
Views: 832
Posted By mooge
ever thought of making a large-format camera from a dead turtle?

well sorry, but it's already been done.




http://www.americanphotomag.com/files/imagecache/ajax_galleries_image_default/gallery-images/confrontation.jpg
Forum: Rangefinder Photography Discussion 04-01-2012
Replies: 148
Views: 5,224
Posted By mooge
I bought an m2 when I was 17. in retrospect:...

I bought an m2 when I was 17. in retrospect: sorta not worth it, but fun anyways.
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