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Thanks Nathan. If you happen to remember the seller's name would you mind PMing it to me? Thanks in advance.

That's interesting. On my unit I did definitely get some leakage and it showed up on the negatives. As a temporary fix I put some cloth tape over the door join where the leak seemed to be coming from and this solved it. I haven't had time to order seals yet - hopefully this month sometime. Thanks (sorry for the late response - I don't seem to be getting notifications from this thread).

Thank you Orsetto. Sorry for the late reply - for some reason I don't get any notifications from this thread. I'll start thin and if it needs it I can always change it for slightly thicker foam. Thanks for the heads-up about the yarn.

Thank you very much Conrad. I will report back when I try it. Laurie

Hello, I would appreciate it if anyone could put me in the right direction for Mamiya C3 light seals. The original seals are so degraded I really can't tell much about them. Mostly I need to know what thickness to use: doing a search, you can get generic seals anywhere between 1.0mm and 5.0 mm. There are also various materials: open-cell, semi-open-cell etc. I know I can order specific kits for the C3 but only from the US (can't find them in Europe), but the last time I ordered something from the US I paid 3 times the original cost in duty and taxes - so not worth it. In the end, maybe it isn't so important which one I use, but any advice would be great. thanks in advance. Laurie

Thanks everyone, I appreciate you taking the time to write down your advice. This is just a small project for my own interest. I got 4 cameras with various multiple faults at a good price, and wanted to see if I could get them up and running. Two done, still 2 to go. rodeo_joe Joe -I was a bit leery of putting anything in the shutter mechanism as the things seems to work okay and the times seem about right - So I will leave well alone. And, yes, the self-timer will probably never get used - I just wanted to get it working a well as possible. JDM Thank you JDM, your advice is always valued. Andyfalsetta Thanks Andy - probably a task I will tackle later as I don't have the time nor probably the skill to tackle it at the moment. The "flushing with naptha" was from one of the many web pages I looked at for advice - it wasn't a pro service place. Paul Ron Thanks Paul - I have looked at their website but not had anything from them yet. The shutter doesn't actually seem to need any work done on it at the moment so I won't touch it. Thanks again everyone. Laurie

Hello all, It's been quite a while since I read or posted here - it's good to see that the site is still up and running and still popular. I have a question about what if any lubrication to use on a mechanical self-timer mechanism. The camera is a Petri 7s rangefinder with the shutter and everything built into the lens assembly. You can see see an example here (not my photos). The self-timer had a problem which I fixed (an out of place spring), but I noticed the movement was still quite stiff and that there didn't appear to be any grease or oil, nor on the shutter mechanism for that matter. The various places I have looked give advice from washing it out with lighter fluid and don't add any form of lubricant, to using a small amount of lithium grease, or using machine oil. So I am not sure what to do. Does anyone have any advice? This could apply to the shutter mechanism too. Thanks in advance. Laurie

I came across this today and thought it may be of interest to some people. LINK An archive of Soviet 1950's slides, photographs and 16mm films was recently re-discovered by an American historian. The photographs were taken by a Major Martin Manhoff who was attached to the US Embassy for 2 years in the 50's. You can read more about the history of this on the website. You have to scroll down to Part1, Part 2, and Part 3, for the photos. So far only a part of the archive has been digitised. Apart from the historical perspective, which I find interesting, I like the aesthetics of the photos, particularly the colours. Most of the images are reportage style but if you look through you can come across some that have more of an artistic look, for me anyway. Enjoy. Laurie

<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Please see How-to Manual Part 1: The answers for details on how to do this. It is towards the end of the current thread. <br> <br> Laurie

Thanks for this information - I posted a "How to" in the Help Forum. Laurie

How to download your own photos from Photo.net: This is a new feature Thanks Glenn and Team. Thanks to fotograaf1957 for this information. Hover your mouse over your avatar/icon in the top right hand corner next to the red "upload button". Select "My Portfolio". On the left hand side, under the heading "Portfolio" you will see 6 menu items. The first is "Photos" and the last is "My Library". Choose "My Library". You will now see large thumbnails of all your photos. By hovering your mouse over a picture you will see a box appear below the photo - in it there is a link to download. Click on "Download". The link will now load a full res version of your photo and you can now use the regular "right click" and "Save Image as" functions (Windows PC). In both the thumbnail gallery (in point 4) and the full res image you can drag and drop you photo to other applications. Note: dragging the thumbnail will give you low res file. Additional note from Wayne Melia: This also provides (right-click) access to the url of the photo so it can be copied and used to post to threads (see Reply #29 for a description of how to do this).

<br> Hi,<br> Yes, one of Photo.net's members (Leslie) has started 2 threads under the Photo.net site help forum. They are pinned to the top. <br> They are not exactly for bug reports as such but one is for questions and the other is for answers. Here are the links:<br> <br> How-to Manual Part 2: Unanswered questions<br> How-to Manual Part 1: The answers<br> Laurie

<br> Hi, sorry to take so long to answer. I read your post but didn't have time to respond.<br> <br> To answer your last question first - yes I get the same problem.I first get taken to the homepage and when I do the sequence again only then do I end up at my profile page. I think Leslie has the same problem so it is probably affecting a few people.<br> <br> Now for the harder question. A couple of days ago I did a trial and left 2 comments on someone's photos. These appeared in my comments list in 1st and 2nd place followed by comments I had made on photos in the original Photo.net. So it appeared that everything was working okay. However today I made a comment on one of my own photos and this is now in 3rd place even though it is "newer" than the others. In addition, one of the old Photo.net comments is in front comments made by Leslie as a trial on my gallery a couple of days ago. (I hope all that makes sense). So in other words either the sorting system is out of whack or the date system is. <br> At least we know that a few people at least have this problem.<br> <br> Laurie

<br> Greg sorry for taking so long to reply. I posted an "answer" How-to Manual Part 1: The answers thread. I think it will be the 18th reply. In short, there isn't a way to do it at the moment that I can find. All you can do is paste in a link - so fairly useless. More details on the above ink.<br> <br> Laurie<br>

Adding a picture to your comment under someone's, or your, photo (very partial solution): NOTE: At this stage it seems there is no possibility to add any sort of image directly to a comment on a photo. However as a temporary (i hope) and not very satisfactory fix, you can copy and paste a link to your own photo.net gallery, Flickr, or some other online gallery. Unfortunately the photo comment system doesn't see it as a link so if someone wants to view the image they will have to copy and paste the link into their browser address bar. As I said - not very satisfactory, but usable if you absolutely have to reference another image.