Re: OT: My latest toys.. something 'old' and something 'new'
Don't make me laugh like that, I nearly coughed up a lung... graywolf wrote: As an addendum to this. I noticed in the current Freestyle catalog that they now offer Polaroid backs for the Holga camera. Can digital backs be far behind. -- Fred Widall wrote: Fred Widall wrote: The Cocarette has a 105mm F4.5 Tessar lens and produces 6x9cm negatives. Apart from a very minor pinhole in the bellows (now fixed) and a dirty lens (now cleaned) the camera is in amazing shape for 75+ years. I've found that by stopping the Tessar down to F16 I get excellent sharpness and resolution. Not bad for a CA$40 camera off Ebay. But does it have matrix metering and will a digital back be available? :) Tom C. I think they added matrix metering in 1928, and the digital back is due out next year :) I confess I'm not very impressed with the speed of the auto-focus on this either - I can wait for hours and it still doesn't focus !!! Fred.
RE: OT: My latest toys.. something 'old' and something 'new'
>Fred Widall wrote: >>The Cocarette has a 105mm F4.5 Tessar lens and produces 6x9cm negatives. >>Apart from a very minor pinhole in the bellows (now fixed) and a dirty >>lens (now cleaned) the camera is in amazing shape for 75+ years. I've >>found that by stopping the Tessar down to F16 I get excellent sharpness >>and resolution. Not bad for a CA$40 camera off Ebay. > >But does it have matrix metering and will a digital back be available? :) > >Tom C. I think they added matrix metering in 1928, and the digital back is due out next year :) I confess I'm not very impressed with the speed of the auto-focus on this either - I can wait for hours and it still doesn't focus !!! Fred.
RE: OT: My latest toys.. something 'old' and something 'new'
Fred Widall wrote: The Cocarette has a 105mm F4.5 Tessar lens and produces 6x9cm negatives. Apart from a very minor pinhole in the bellows (now fixed) and a dirty lens (now cleaned) the camera is in amazing shape for 75+ years. I've found that by stopping the Tessar down to F16 I get excellent sharpness and resolution. Not bad for a CA$40 camera off Ebay. But does it have matrix metering and will a digital back be available? :) Tom C.
