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daveco
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I wish I had my dad's Argus C-3 rangefinder, but at least my sister has it. I do have a 1948 35mm Leica rangefinder M lens that I use. I also have a russian brand film rangefinder camera that I bought from a russian on ebay. The shutter worked three times before it broke.
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Chuck Norris Joined: June/18/2011 Location: TEXAS Status: Offline Points: 121794 |
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I had an Argus C3 ( with light meter ), but my littlest daughter (!!) has it now!! In her museum! ( We call her Willie Sutton! )
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I bought it for $20 in Meade, Kansas....in 1995 |
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( When I die, my daughter will mysteriously have a pile of firearms in her house!! )
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Chuck Norris Joined: June/18/2011 Location: TEXAS Status: Offline Points: 121794 |
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I am an ebay junkie. 35mm cameras have gotten even cheaper recently. The Good Stuff is still expensive ( like the Nikon F2As and the Zeiss Contarex-es ...and the old Voigtlander Prominents ) , but lots of goodies are going dirt cheap. I see Nikon N80s in mint condition for, like, $59 and up!!
I see a couple of Russian knock-off Contax rangefinders on ebay this week. Counterfeit ones... I always wanted to get one of those fake Contax rangefinders....but, I understand they are of variable quality depending on when they were made. Here's a little counterfeit!! $110 plus $28 shipping from the Ukraine! A few years ago I bought a nice Gossen Luna Pro light meter from somebody for $ ONE DOLLAR!!! [ plus ten dollars postage... ] |
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I'm waiting for this to come in from an ebay purchase....
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I noticed all my old Zeiss Ikon camera photos have disappeared from page one.... This was the Contaflex Super B....I have two of them and several lenses and some old accesories----27mm filters, 27mm polarizer, etc.. My daughter, Meghan, now has my Olympus 35 SP..... |
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Remember loading film when the black bear was standing up in Yellowstone Park? And you missed the shot? |
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Recently I gave Meghan the Olympus camera and all the goodies including bunches of cans of film.....
.....so now I just have Museum cameras.... " Eduardo belongs in a Museum..." |
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Convex
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I'm fascinated by German engineering via legacy guns, but also the photographing of those guns when I get the chance, w/legacy cameras that in themselves were masterpieces of German engineering. Voigtlander was a German cameramaker that lasted 200 yrs., eventually going out of business because they refused to produce the mediocre to save or to make money. It's not a digital "Wunderkind" like some of my digital cameras, but the masterful engineering that went into this camera is no less amazing. The film rewind knob is spring loaded to where the knob is pushed inside/retracts into the camera becoming/changing it's function to that of a button to be pushed when you need to rewind film. Here it is extended, when the film is rewound, and the knob is pushed back in, it's flush against the camera body as you see on the right side the camera via the topmost image. Below is the film advance lever which is flush against the rear of the camera. The film advance lever/arm starts the rewind cycle inside the camera and only extends at the end of the cycle when you're advancing film which of course is when the camera is out of your pocket. Most incredible of all, looking at the door which supports the lens, at the back is the shutter release, which rises as the door opens to reach its full height to be used for snapping exposures, then it retracts inside the door, as you close the door, and all this is done mechanically. The camera isn't touching the box it's sitting on, there are 3 spikes extending from the bottom of the camera protecting the actual camera from the wear and tear of sitting the camera on anything. If you want to know good the lens is, I took this shot, w/this camera. I 6-8 shots bracketing both the focus and exposure and developed the film. I selected this particular frame, developed it, and digitally scanned in a file, which is the image of this 44 magnum. German engineering has been both pervasive and an inspiration to anyone interested in making things as well as they can be made, and made w/style. Don't let me dis the fact that there are other outfits out there that make primo stuff; one of my favorite legacy pieces is my Tag Huer stopwatch which works perfectly to this day, and will probably work like a charm for my great-great-great-Grandson. Edited by Convex - December/23/2022 at 14:17 |
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Dogger
Optics Jedi Master Joined: January/02/2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Status: Offline Points: 8866 |
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Beautiful piece of engineering.
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God save the Empire!
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Convex
Optics GrassHopper Joined: December/28/2021 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 23 |
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And this was their "entry level" camera which was as well made as their most expensive cameras for their lowest price!!!
They went out of business KNOWING they wouldn't last producing the kind of value for the money they were getting. |
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Convex
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The camera isn't much bigger than a pack of cigarettes which makes the lens tiny, so they incorporated depressions in the lens shade so you can adjust focus that way, by grasping/turning the lens shade.
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In 1971 my uncle gave me his "old" camera ( a Voigtlander Prominent) because he bought a new Japanese camera (A Mamiya). Anyway that was the camera that I learned how to work. It had an f 2.0 Ultron lens. Years later I bought two more at a pawnshop....one of them had a 1.5 lens! 30 YEARS LATER I sold the 1.5 lens for $150 bucks. |
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My compliments. A great looking camera.
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