Lens shade for Isolette

Arvay · 10-05-2008

Have anybody ideas how to make / to use some shade for the lens?
Seems it has some side flare...

freeranger · 10-05-2008

I didn't make one, but picked one up quite cheaply from the 'bay. Seller named old_cam (uk seller) seems to shift a lot of accessories for...well..old cams like this.

Good luck!

fidget · 10-05-2008

Me too. I bought a vintage 30mm push fit hood for mine. I found that if I used a push fit filter (Agfa) with the hood stacked, I got the corners of the frame masked a little.

Windscale · 10-06-2008

The Isolette will probably NOT need a filter for colour. B&W is different But a hood is mandatory in both cases. What I have done in the past, before I found all the perfect fit accessories, was to take out the glass from the push on filter and, with some filing, glue the push on ring to a metal step-up ring, say 34-37mm, and built everything around the 37mm thread as these are relatively easy to find. Some Isolettes take 32mm push ons (mainly the Solinar 75/3.5 whereas the 85/4.5 lenses would take 30mm push ons.

charjohncarter · 10-06-2008

Back to the question, I am making one just to see if I can make one with a latex rubber hood so I don't have to remove it when the camera is collapsed. I just got started and I'm using as a ring a cap from a medicine bottle.

Windscale · 10-06-2008

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Originally Posted by charjohncarter

Back to the question, I am making one just to see if I can make one with a latex rubber hood so I don't have to remove it when the camera is collapsed. I just got started and I'm using as a ring a cap from a medicine bottle.

Yes. It is possible. But difficult to find material strong ad flexible enough.

You can even consider a set of inverted bellows which can fold up when you collapse the camera!

A30 and A32 accessories are not difficult to find if you looked hard enough.

charjohncarter · 10-06-2008

I'll have a look, I guess the Apotar is 30mm.

Arvay · 10-06-2008

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Originally Posted by Windscale

The Isolette will probably NOT need a filter for colour. B&W is different But a hood is mandatory in both cases. What I have done in the past, before I found all the perfect fit accessories, was to take out the glass from the push on filter and, with some filing, glue the push on ring to a metal step-up ring, say 34-37mm, and built everything around the 37mm thread as these are relatively easy to find. Some Isolettes take 32mm push ons (mainly the Solinar 75/3.5 whereas the 85/4.5 lenses would take 30mm push ons.

Great idea!
Another one came into my head - to look some for videocams...Anyway the videocams' filters are easy to find for the "project" you described.

eli griggs · 10-06-2008

charjohncarters' post reminds me of a thread, perhaps here, where someone is making lens hoods out of medicine bottles (soft plastic) for difficult to outfit lenses. I'd bet with a little poking around a suitable size bottle can be found.

A tube or small bottle of Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Carbon Black Matte would serve to paint the inside of the bottle after a light sanding and heat from a hair dryer would likely be good enough to 'set' the acrylic so it would resist separating from the plastic and flaking off.

I think I'll try this with my Iskra, though I do have a Series lens hood somewhere that fits.

Cheers

chippy · 10-06-2008

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Originally Posted by eli griggs

charjohncarters' post reminds me of a thread, perhaps here, where someone is making lens hoods out of medicine bottles (soft plastic) for difficult to outfit lenses. I'd bet with a little poking around a suitable size bottle can be found.

Cheers

you may be thinking of a post FallisPhoto listed (not sure where it is) making lens hoods out of plastic bottles i think it was (non colapsible tho), with details on how to do it...i remember seeing the pictures of the results and they looked perefectly made and presentable...one of these days i was thinking of making some for my folding plate cameras various size lenses, instead of forking out the cost for different size genuine hoods and a bit better than the makeshift ones i use

FallisPhoto · 10-07-2008

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Originally Posted by chippy

you may be thinking of a post FallisPhoto listed (not sure where it is) making lens hoods out of plastic bottles i think it was (non colapsible tho), with details on how to do it...i remember seeing the pictures of the results and they looked perefectly made and presentable...one of these days i was thinking of making some for my folding plate cameras various size lenses, instead of forking out the cost for different size genuine hoods and a bit better than the makeshift ones i use

I think it was probably this one, Andrew: http://photography.qj.net/How-To-Mak...g/49/aid/42505 I think this was originally posted on the "Rangefinder Cameras Of The Soviet Era" website, but the website got taken down and for a year or so, a few people who saved it were posting it, without attribution, all over the place. It was everywhere. Now I can only find it on two websites though. Anyway, rectangular bottles work best for rangefinders, and zone focusing folders (keeps the lens hood from obstructing the viewfinder). Round bottles work best for SLRs, view cameras, and so on. Not that it's important, but I think the bottle in the post is a bottle of "Swan" rubbing alcohol.

charjohncarter · 10-07-2008

Fallisphoto, that is a kick. Thanks for the tips on shape.

eli griggs · 10-07-2008

Fallisphoto, that is the article I was thinking of.

I don't have an alcohol bottle at the moment to play with but I do have a round, brown H. Peroxide bottle I just emptied and will see how that does for a self-made hood.

Cheers

FallisPhoto · 10-07-2008

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Originally Posted by charjohncarter

Fallisphoto, that is a kick. Thanks for the tips on shape.

If you think tht's a kick, you should read the archived page "Rangefinder Cameras Of The Soviet Era" I found (the link is below). Almost all of the photos are gone, which is a shame, becaue the guy did absolutely beautiful work. The writing is still there and he is the only guy I know who is crazier than I am.

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Originally Posted by eli griggs

Fallisphoto, that is the article I was thinking of.

I don't have an alcohol bottle at the moment to play with but I do have a round, brown H. Peroxide bottle I just emptied and will see how that does for a self-made hood.

Cheers

Good luck! Found an archived "Rangefinder Cameras Of The Soviet Era" page, with most of the photos missing. http://web.archive.org/web/200309190...kis/index.htmlIt was a great resource for FSU camera buffs, and it is missed. Ironically, just about the only photos still there are the ones for making a lens hood.