Vs: Glad I got the Yashica TLR's
F*** GA645 rangfinders do. The winder stops when the sensor detects the thickness of film. Works with 120 or 220. Collin === From: Raimo Korhonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Vs: Glad I got the Yashica TLR's Sorry to be nit-picking, but it they did not copy Rolleiflex completely. Only Rolleiflex had automatic first frame positioning. Actually I do not know if any MF cameras have this feature evn now. All the best! Raimo -- . --- I know what I'm doing. Picard, Star Trek: First Contact -- - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Vs: Glad I got the Yashica TLR's
Really - nice to know - that´s how the Rolleiflex does it as well. I´ll stick to my old Rolleiflex 3.5F from 1968, though. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Collin Brendemuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Päivä: 16. tammikuuta 2002 19:39 Aihe: Vs: Glad I got the Yashica TLR's F*** GA645 rangfinders do. The winder stops when the sensor detects the thickness of film. Works with 120 or 220. Collin === From: Raimo Korhonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Vs: Glad I got the Yashica TLR's Sorry to be nit-picking, but it they did not copy Rolleiflex completely. Only Rolleiflex had automatic first frame positioning. Actually I do not know if any MF cameras have this feature evn now. All the best! Raimo - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: Glad I got the Yashica TLR's
The older Rolleiflexes did not have that feature. Now who knows which model first had it? Ciao, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Raimo Korhonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:14 PM Subject: Vs: Glad I got the Yashica TLR's Sorry to be nit-picking, but it they did not copy Rolleiflex completely. Only Rolleiflex had automatic first frame positioning. Actually I do not know if any MF cameras have this feature evn now. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Frantisek Vlcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vastaanottaja: Bill Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Päivä: 16. tammikuuta 2002 0:10 Aihe: Re: Glad I got the Yashica TLR's Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 7:35:41 PM, Bill wrote: BO Boy am I glad I got these yesterday! Had some minor outpatient surgery this BO morning and my left arm is in a splint that prevents me from using my 35's, BO but I can use the waist level finders on the TLR's. I think I'll be able to BO load the daylight tank and at least process BW. Hopefully I can try out BO the 635 today and compare it to the 124G. Plans are to use one camera for BO color and the other for BW. Looking forward to trying E100VS too. The BO 124G will accept 220, whereas the 635 is 120 only. Hi Bill, I hope it isn't anything serious! On Yashicas, even if they are just a copy of Rolleiflex (and they don't even hide it! The design is completely copied Rolleiflex), they are very nice cameras. My Y-D works greatly with colour slides, and the shutter is nearly just as smooth as on an old Rolleiflex (but because the rollei has uncoated lens, I don't use it that much now), and that's a highest praise any shutter can get (apart from using hat shutter)... Really try a 100VS or Velvia with it, the big size slide will blow your head off :) BTW, the finder brightness can be often vastly improved by cleaning the mirror and the focusing screen. The removal of finder assembly is easy and without any focus issues, at least on my Y-D. The mirror is often full of dust and deposit and can be CAREFULLY cleaned using a technique I developed by trial and error - get handful of (clean) cotton swabs on stick (for cleaning ears), get HOT water handy (distilled!). Wet the swab with the water thoroughly, and _lightly_ touch the mirror (lightly!), so a droplet forms around the swab. apply NO PRESSURE at all! Then, swipe a part of the mirror, guiding the droplet of water with the swab. Near edge of mirror dry the droplet quickly using a dry cotton swab. Re-wet and use clean swab as necessary. Why hot water? It makes for much stronger together bonding droplets than cold water. Stronger bonding droplets? You don't want any of the water to be left on the mirror, so you need to move the droplet as a whole (its surface tension keeps it together), and for some reason, this works much better with hot, about 60 degree Celsius water (I didn't try higher). And of course distilled! Experiment on something less valuable if you like, but it's pretty simple. I even cleaned a much dusty mirror of my K2DMD that way, although I couldn't clean enough the foam deterioration deposits, the accumulated dust which didn't go even when I blowed it off disappeared using this method. My Yashica D's finder brightened by at least a stop, that much dust was there! Good light, Frantisek Vlcek - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Glad I got the Yashica TLR's
Boy am I glad I got these yesterday! Had some minor outpatient surgery this morning and my left arm is in a splint that prevents me from using my 35's, but I can use the waist level finders on the TLR's. I think I'll be able to load the daylight tank and at least process BW. Hopefully I can try out the 635 today and compare it to the 124G. Plans are to use one camera for color and the other for BW. Looking forward to trying E100VS too. The 124G will accept 220, whereas the 635 is 120 only. Bill KG4LOV [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: Glad I got the Yashica TLR's
Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 7:35:41 PM, Bill wrote: BO Boy am I glad I got these yesterday! Had some minor outpatient surgery this BO morning and my left arm is in a splint that prevents me from using my 35's, BO but I can use the waist level finders on the TLR's. I think I'll be able to BO load the daylight tank and at least process BW. Hopefully I can try out BO the 635 today and compare it to the 124G. Plans are to use one camera for BO color and the other for BW. Looking forward to trying E100VS too. The BO 124G will accept 220, whereas the 635 is 120 only. Hi Bill, I hope it isn't anything serious! Not really. Had a squamous cell skin cancer removed and a skin graft from my leg. The arm is fine and the leg pain is easily managed. Thanks for the concern though. Really try a 100VS or Velvia with it, the big size slide will blow your head off :) I've got a roll ready to load with processing already paid for. Maybe tomorrow. BTW, the finder brightness can be often vastly improved by cleaning the mirror and the focusing screen. The removal of finder assembly is easy and without any focus issues, at least on my Y-D. The mirror is often full of dust and deposit and can be CAREFULLY cleaned using a technique I developed by trial and error - get handful of (clean) cotton swabs on stick (for cleaning ears), get HOT water handy (distilled!). Wet the swab with the water thoroughly, and _lightly_ touch the mirror (lightly!), so a droplet forms around the swab. apply NO PRESSURE at all! Then, swipe a part of the mirror, guiding the droplet of water with the swab. Near edge of mirror dry the droplet quickly using a dry cotton swab. Re-wet and use clean swab as necessary. Why hot water? It makes for much stronger together bonding droplets than cold water. Stronger bonding droplets? You don't want any of the water to be left on the mirror, so you need to move the droplet as a whole (its surface tension keeps it together), and for some reason, this works much better with hot, about 60 degree Celsius water (I didn't try higher). And of course distilled! Experiment on something less valuable if you like, but it's pretty simple. I even cleaned a much dusty mirror of my K2DMD that way, although I couldn't clean enough the foam deterioration deposits, the accumulated dust which didn't go even when I blowed it off disappeared using this method. My Yashica D's finder brightened by at least a stop, that much dust was there! I defintely need to do this!!! I'll try it first on the 635 before tackling the 124G. Am I correct in assuming that access to the mirror and underside of the screen is via removing the 4 small screws that hold the focusing hood on? Thanks for the tip! Bill KG4LOV [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: Glad I got the Yashica TLR's
[...] //cleaning of mirror// BO I defintely need to do this!!! I'll try it first on the 635 before tackling BO the 124G. Am I correct in assuming that access to the mirror and underside BO of the screen is via removing the 4 small screws that hold the focusing hood BO on? On my Yashica D, it's those 4 screws. You might want to check the web for an exploded view of the Yashica D, it seems it could be similar (I am not familiar with 635 model). I have it downloaded, but I don't have the URL for it in my archive :(. If you can't find it, I can send you the images myself. After you remove the hood, you will notice the focusing screen (actually a glass groundglass and a brightening fresnel screen underneath it) is held in the hood assembly. I hope the 635 is the same ;-) I was thinking of exchanging the groundglass and fresnel with a hasselblad (?) plastic all-in-one splitimage screen I have got from somewhere I don't remember where... but because of the construction of the finder assembly, I would have to adjust focus :( or at least put some spacers above the new screen, which I don't feel up to withuot a collimator or opt. bench. Good light, Frantisek Vlcek P.S.: sorry for the OT but imagine it as enablement for larger formats like Pentax 645 and Pentax 67 ;-) - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
