Look what came in the mail

[FrankS]

Originally Posted by VictorM.

Back in the sixties, my parents gave me a little Olympus Pen S 3.5 for my birthday. Lout that I was, several months later I traded it toward a FED I with a 50/2 collapsable lens. Almost 40 years later, the Pen S with the 3.5 is a hard to find collectable, sometimes selling for more than $75.00 US. I snagged this one for only $26.00 US because the description and photo were bad. 40 years of guilt have been washed away.

Sure is nice when it's that easy!

[raid]

Originally Posted by ampguy

What's the degree of coverage? I think my built-in Chinon meter does better, and my hexar AF in manual mode does a 4 degree accurate spot reading.

It covers exactly one degree. Most camera built-in spotmeters cover more than one degree.

Regards,
Raid

[rbiemer]

Just got this:
Optimus Turret Viefinder. Settings for 3.5, 5, 8.5, 9, and 13.5 cm. Built in diopter adjustment(-4, -2, 0, +2, +4) and parralax correction in both feet and meters. decent condition and a nice small leather case(which I don't think was actually made for it but it fits).
Rob

[Fedzilla_Bob]

My j12 from Alex Photo in Ukraine arrived, along with two extra take-up spools and a yellow filter. The lens is ok, but kind of clicks through at three points of the focus rotation.

The skin in the back came from Aki-Asahi a week ago.

The stuff from alex and Aki-Asahi took 6 days each.

I made a rear lens cap from an empty plastic spice jar.

[Kim Coxon]

It is fairly typical of a lens needing a re-lube. The grease may well have gone waxy.

Kim

Originally Posted by Fedzilla_Bob

My j12 from Alex Photo in Ukraine arrived, along with two extra take-up spools and a yellow filter. The lens is ok, but kind of clicks through at three points of the focus rotation.

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Originally Posted by Kim Coxon

It is fairly typical of a lens needing a re-lube. The grease may well have gone waxy.

Kim

I thought that might be the case. Then I realized that I could hear a kind of spring like "tink" sound with each of the clicks. I wondered if I had not mounted the lens correctly, After looking it up I learned that I had to align both the camera mount and the lens at infinity.

Things improved quite a bit after that. Only one "tink" remains.

There's a lot to be said for Leica thread mount. Very straight forward. The Contax mount seems like a touch of mad genius.

[Dougg]

A Zeiss-Opton Sonnar 1.5/50mm arrived today from an eBay seller in India. Very pleasant transaction. It was $168.50 including shipping by EMS. The lens looks pretty good, with a couple of dust spots but no sign of fungus. It appears the filter ring once had a dent that was thoroughly straightened, and the aperture ring is a bit stiffer between 11 and 16. This will go on my Contax IIIa, and then I'll see what all the praise has been about!

[Dfndr90]

I just got back into town and sitting waiting on my desk for me was a complete Konica Hexar RF kit that I won on Eboy. Had it shipped from Australia. I think Australia is one of the last countrys with a favorable exchange rate. Only 1500 U.S for the body and three lenses, 28mm, 50mm and a 90mm.

Matt...

[Dougg]

Wow, nice kit, Matt!

[dcsang]

Now I am jonsing for a Luigi case again.. sheesh..

Dave

[back alley]

Originally Posted by dcsang

Now I am jonsing for a Luigi case again.. sheesh..

Dave

for which camera?

[dcsang]

Originally Posted by back alley

for which camera?

Joe,

M3 (with budda ears) and perhaps the IIIc.

(and of course, any other M or non-M camera that I get in the future.. because I know that I'm going to continue this buying thing.. )

Dave

[back alley]

my m3 has the budda ears too but sadly no luigi case.
which is kinda strange in a way. my main reason for the cases is for winter shooting as trying to kep my hands from freezing and i thought the m3 would be the main outdoor winter shooter as it has no meter/battery etc.

i do have an old m case donated by brian (sweeney). i poped the rivet and it's now a half case.
this will do the job but it ain't so pretty like luigi...

joe

[physiognomy]

Got this lens saturday morning... Didn't arrive in the mail, but I met the seller who offered to deliver it. Really nice guy, we talked about rangefinders for nearly 2hrs... I think he was a little thrown that a young guy like me would be interested in film photography!

I spent all of saturday afternoon shooting at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival & should get to see some results soon!



Peter

[physiognomy]

Happy boy today!!! My 'new' Nicca IIIS with Nikkor 5cm f/2 arrived... I'm very, very happy with the condition... Will be posting some shots I just took of it in the appropriate threads. Here's one for starters...



Man this is a nice camera! Can't see it leaving my hands tonight!

Peter

[back alley]

that looks new from here!

very nice.

joe

[Dougg]

Looks really nice, Peter! A compact fine-photo machine!

[Trius]

Whoa, Peter, that is one handsome, sexy camera! It's a shame Nicca didn't survive as another Leica-clone manufacturer.

I've got a couple in my eBay watchlist ... not that I'll actually pull the trigger at this time, but I am interested in final price.

[physiognomy]

Thanks Joe & Doug... Trius, I think it's a shame as well. If the latter models (Nicca 4,Tower 45/46) were more common it would give the LTM people another choice among the greater featured quality cameras. I'd love one of those models, but they just go for too much money! I've been watching the Tower/Nicca prices and I'd like to think I could give you a concrete price range, but from what I can see it really depends on the auction. Mine had crappy blown out pictures & hardly any description, so it went cheaper than I expected (didn't initially think I was going to win this one)... Good luck!

Peter

[darkkavenger]

The nice fellow Contax-III body on the right arrived after a long trip from Canada, I bought it from FrankS and will undergo a complete overhaul sometime in the upcoming 18 months hopefully. I snapped in my 50/2 sonnar and it fits perfectly. It's standing there with my good old reliable Kiev-2A fitted with a 50/1.5 Jupiter-3

[SCOTFORTHLAD]

Looks great Max,well worth waiting for I should think,

Brian.

[Paul Connet]

This one showed up a couple of days ago. I had been looking through eBay for something interesting and noticed this with only one bid, ($150) on it and only a couple of hours to go. I thought why not stick a low bid in and see what happens. Thinking the other bidder would probably out bid me and not wanting to snipe the thing in the last few seconds I just entered my bid and promptly forgot about it. A couple of days later I'm checking my e-mail and there is the notice that I won the auction. Not bad for $169.

I do have a Leica 90 Tele-Elmarit, but mine has the dreaded "etching" problem, and even though it takes great pics I know it is sub-par optically. I am going to see how this new Rokkor compares with the etched TE.

Regards, Paul C.

[vrgard]

Wow, Paul, that's a good deal on that lens. I just picked one up myself (paid just a little bit more than you, however) and I, too, already had the TE. Will be curious to hear what you think about the Rokkor versus the TE after shooting with the Rokkor a bit. So, I guess this is a request to post your results/thoughts when you got 'em! :-)

-Randy

[Paul Connet]

Originally Posted by vrgard

Will be curious to hear what you think about the Rokkor versus the TE after shooting with the Rokkor a bit. So, I guess this is a request to post your results/thoughts when you got 'em! :-)
-Randy

I will let you guys know what I think, but I have never been very good at lens comparison shooting. I think a person really has to put their mind to the task and set shooting parameters that give viable results that actually show any differences.

I want to do the comparison mainly because I want to evaluate the "etching" problem of the TE. The only outward manifestation of that problem has been a tendency toward flaring by the TE. Most shots taken with no bright light hitting the front lens turn out very nice, and certainly sharp enough.

Regards, Paul C.

[JimG]

It took 36 days but I got my Summitar back from DAG and it looks and feels like it was new again. It adjusts so smooth now. This lens is ready for another 50+ years of use. JimG