Retina 11c photos.

[Brian Sweeney]

I rarely run into people with worse eye-sight than my own. Must be the prescription.

But I just do not have a problem using the finder on the Retina II, and my original statement that the eye relief was better than the Contax II and Nikon S was made by looking through them this evening. These cameras have squinty finders by mid 1950s standards. The Leica M3, Nikon S2, and Canon V series cameras raised the ante on useable finders, and Zeiss just did not keep up. The Retina IIC and IIIC finders are very good. For extended use - worth looking at.

[Brian Legge]

This thread inspired me to spend some time cleaning oil off the shutter blades of my IIIc which started sticking. Also cleaned the lenses a bit as they had some haze while I had the front and rear elements out. Not perfect but we'll see how a test roll goes.

[Brian Sweeney]

The IIIc is very simple to pop the top and clean the finder. rewind knob comes off, three screws on the top plate- done. I will put together a thread on it. Same with the IIIS top plate. The Retina II- the advance knob is reverse threaded.

The IIa is the most difficult: I end up using dental floss to hold back the claw that locks the advance lever at exposure zero. It took a lot of attempts to learn that trick.