OFFICIAL I HAVE A NEW (FILM RELATED) TOY THREAD!!

My Recesky TLR and Olympus Trip 35 arrived yesterday! I spent about 2 hours building the Recesky..... if youre buying of these my top tip is not to touch/polish the reflector mirror. I put a tiny finger print on it during the build and thought best to use a lens cloth to give it a clean, it took the coating off. So now i have a little smudge in the viewer!


Recesky 7 Olympus Trip 35 by Alan Dow, on Flickr

Can't wait to get them out at the weekend for a test!

Alan
 
It's only just been ordered but I've just acquired a Leica II with Leica Elmar 5cm f3.5 lens for £165. Its in a 'used' condition but apparently its fully functioning.

Seems like a bargain to me.
 
Adow2 said:
My Recesky TLR and Olympus Trip 35 arrived yesterday! I spent about 2 hours building the Recesky..... if youre buying of these my top tip is not to touch/polish the reflector mirror. I put a tiny finger print on it during the build and thought best to use a lens cloth to give it a clean, it took the coating off. So now i have a little smudge in the viewer!

Alan
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2 hours!....impressive!.... given that kits usually tax my patence to its' limit, I best give myself a week to build mine up ....approx 20 mins per day :D

The camera looks to have a distinct "Lego" look about it don't you think?

Thanks for the advice re viewer....at least you can't get yours mixed up with someone elses now that it has that "personal" touch :D
 
Asha said:
2 hours!....impressive!.... given that kits usually tax my patence to its' limit, I best give myself a week to build mine up ....approx 20 mins per day :D

The camera looks to have a distinct "Lego" look about it don't you think?

Thanks for the advice re viewer....at least you can't get yours mixed up with someone elses now that it has that "personal" touch :D
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It was quite straight forward. I got the English instructions with mine ( I know some ship with the Chinese instructions!)

It does have a Lego look to it, however once constructed it does have a "stable" feel to it!

The proof will be once I've took a test film and see what the results are. There is a lot of adjustment instructions so may take a while to get any shots worth keeping, but that just makes it fun for me!

Good luck with yours!
 
Adow2 said:
( I know some ship with the Chinese instructions!)

Good luck with yours!
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I'll need all the luck I can get if it arrives with Chinese intsructions!!:help:.....I occasionally call at a chinese restaurant for coffee.....maybe best to try construct it sat there amongst translators :D :D :D
 
Adow2 said:
If you do get the Chinese instructions only, message me and I'll try n scan mine in and send them to you :)
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Thanks for that:thumbs:....tbh i reckon the bumph will be in english seeing as I've bought from a UK distributor.

If' I'd known how helpfull you were going to be I would have had the kit sent to you first so you could have built it up before forwarding onto me....missed out there somewhere didn't I ??!! :D :D
 
The pictures are really clear, I had the Chinese one and I still managed it ok :) Yay for Club Recesky!
 
How many projects can i give myself?? :D :D

Picked this little package up....All in need of a good clean.

Not sure what cameras the stuff has come from...vewfinders maybe German do you think??

Bottom left looks like it may have been a lens for a magic lantern projector....has adjustment for focal length along with a slot for waterhouse stops.

Lens/Shutter assembly far right has loosened up with a bit of playing around and now snaps way at all speeds!

Not sure if the item top right and middle far left aren't loups.

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An interesting lot. We need Arthur (Ambermile) to help with the ID, he has a good handle on this vintage kit I think.
 
Jao said:
An interesting lot. We need Arthur (Ambermile) to help with the ID, he has a good handle on this vintage kit I think.
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My thoughts too .....in fact he might have an answer to a jammed aperture ring on a brass lens that i have...I opened a thread on it ages ago here
 
Asha said:
My thoughts too .....in fact he might have an answer to a jammed aperture ring on a brass lens that i have...I opened a thread on it ages ago here
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there is one trick - put the stuck item into a sealed ziplock bag with a eggcup (other similar sized containers are available) of paraffin, leave it somewhere away from naked flames (but ideally reasonably warm) for a couple of days. Then take it outside carefully, and open the bag, allowing the vapours to disperse. The parrafin vapour is often enough to soften old oil/grease that's "set" through the effects of anno-domini...

It's a variation on a old watchmakers trick to get dirty/old watches going again by leaving the mechanism over a small tin of parrafin/lighter fluid ;)
 
TheBigYin said:
there is one trick - put the stuck item into a sealed ziplock bag with a eggcup (other similar sized containers are available) of paraffin, leave it somewhere away from naked flames (but ideally reasonably warm) for a couple of days. Then take it outside carefully, and open the bag, allowing the vapours to disperse. The parrafin vapour is often enough to soften old oil/grease that's "set" through the effects of anno-domini...

It's a variation on a old watchmakers trick to get dirty/old watches going again by leaving the mechanism over a small tin of parrafin/lighter fluid ;)
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Will have a go with that Mark, Thanks!

Tbh I think it could take some budging as the brass was so oxidized before i cleaned it up....I reckon it's that oxidation that is binding the aperture ring to the lens barell.
 
hmm - you could try running a drop of strong "white vinegar" - the really strong stuff they sell for home pickling - into the gap, see if it helps... failing that, try the opposite - household ammonia - think one or the other will budge the oxidising - i'm not sure if the stuff that causes it is copper sulphate, or if it's degraded to copper carbonate... it's an awful long time since I did this sort of chemistry stuff, so I may have mis-remembered it, but one would be shifted by an acid (probably the carbonate) the other by an alkali (the sulfate)
 
Well its here,


Leica-II by andysnapper1, on Flickr

Its in really nice condition given its age as is the lens, it even came with an original Leica case.
But.....I am just a little wary as the serial number seems to poit to it being a Leica I which it patently is not.


Serial-Number by andysnapper1, on Flickr

Any thoughts?

Andy
 
Oh dear, Rob's got his banjo out again.


Banjo boy by andysnapper1, on Flickr

dada da da da da da da der
 
O oh' might be a Russian fake....:'(
 
Andysnap said:
O oh' might be a Russian fake....:'(
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The uneven stamping of the serial number had me a little curious, not something i can imagine Leica letting out of the factory doors
 
It's all good..... Seems to be a Leica I that has been back to the factory for a refit and has emerged as a Leica II.

Now where's that happy bunny emoticon? :woot::banana::beer:
 
Andysnap said:
It's all good..... Seems to be a Leica I that has been back to the factory for a refit and has emerged as a Leica II.

Now where's that happy bunny emoticon? :woot::banana::beer:
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Was just about to copy this for you

Leica offered factory upgrades for earlier cameras until at least the middle 1950's. Many cameras were sent back to the factory to be converted to the latest model. The converted camera would keep the original camera's serial number. This explains why your camera may have left the factory as a black A, II or III, but is now a black or chrome Leica II, III, IIIa, IIIc, or IIIf. Conversions may have been done to IIId or IIIg, but I personally have never seen one. The most interesting conversions for me are converted black IIIa, IIIc, and IIIf -- models that were not usually produced in black.
 
robhooley167 said:
The uneven stamping of the serial number had me a little curious, not something i can imagine Leica letting out of the factory doors
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Thoughts on the Leica forum are that it has had a rangefinder attached to the cold shoe and that has worn down the stamping.
 
Yep,seems that it was the thing to do. The clincher was that the focus cam is a roller version, the fakes had a solid one. :thinking:
 
That is rather nice but not exactly a Mamiya MF, which is what you wanted? How can you tell from the pic whether the cam is roller or solid?

Also a bit of an own-goal, since you've just reminded us salivating over your Bessamatic what we reallly want...
 
Hi Ken, you're right its not a Mamiya but I've just sold my Voigtlander R3A so the Mam is nearly mine.......

Personally I didn't even know what a focus cam was but there are people over on the Leica forum who can tell its a Leica just be smell alone so I've trusted them on this one.

And please don't salivate over the Bessamatic, it gunges up the works. Now if you were to buy it you would soon forget all this foolish talk of Leicas, look into my eyes....you need to buy a Bessamatic.....:eek:

Cheers

Andy
 
Got my paws on an Olympus 35 SP [to add to my Trip, RC and RD] for £35 off the 'bay. It's had a fall which dented a fitted filter and cracked the mirrored glass in the rangefinder. The filter came off no prob and I've recalibrated the rangefinder horizontally and vertically as it was a mile off, the crack in the glass isn't an issue in use. The meter seems to be ok both for central and spot metering. Sadly there's a little light fungus behind the rear element which might necessitate a teardown, but I've loaded it up for a test to see how it goes.
 
Mmm...I only have one kidney left, what to sell?
 
Many times.....
 
I have my Eos 30 now. Weighty little thing and ready to be paired up with the 28, 50 and 85 I have. May even put a piccy up later! ;)
 
Andysnap said:
Now if you were to buy it you would soon forget all this foolish talk of Leicas, look into my eyes....you need to buy a Bessamatic.....:eek:

Cheers

Andy
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As lovely and as tempting as it is, if I was going to buy another 35mm SLR atm it would be an F4 of some description, since they are cheap now and I've already got lenses.

Out of idle curiosity though, do those lenses meter on the D300 with the adapter?
 
Andysnap said:
Well its here,


Leica-II by andysnapper1, on Flickr

Its in really nice condition given its age as is the lens, it even came with an original Leica case.
But.....I am just a little wary as the serial number seems to poit to it being a Leica I which it patently is not.


Serial-Number by andysnapper1, on Flickr

Any thoughts?

Andy
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Sorry, late to the party! Very nice, very jealous:thumbs:
 
"My giddy aunt", that is quite a haul!

I'm afraid "a few bits and bobs" has to be the understatement of the week!!!

All look absolutely lovely!
 
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