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I have a roll of 120 Kosmo Foto 100 in this seemingly rare Super Wester that I just finished refurbishing. The film came as a bonus with another camera I bought. I'm halfway through the film and hope to finish it in the next few days. I've already exposed a test film, a Shanghai GP3, it went well, no light leaks, but I was getting camera shake, so the camera needs to be held sturdily or fixed to a tripod.

 

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kmac said :

I have a roll of 120 Kosmo Foto 100 in this seemingly rare Super Wester that I just finished refurbishing.

 

Regarding the Wester cameras, you may be pleasantly surprised by the quality of the results. There's some information in an old post of mine featuring the Autorol, a close relative of the Super Wester.

 

The Uncommon Wester Autorol

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kmac said :

 

Regarding the Wester cameras, you may be pleasantly surprised by the quality of the results. There's some information in an old post of mine featuring the Autorol, a close relative of the Super Wester.

 

The Uncommon Wester Autorol

 

I read your thread Rick, when I was researching "Wester". There's more info in just your one thread than there is on the rest of the internet, of any Wester camera ... thanks for posting it. I also bought two Wester S2 parts cameras which I'm now making up one good one from both. It's coming along nicely and luckily, one of the lenses is detriment free. There's a few left-hand threads in the film advance in those cameras, I imagine the Autorol will be the same, the film winder comes off by turning it clock-wise, but it won't screw off without a special tool gripping the spindle it's attached to.

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Do you happen to know if it works the other way around, can FE/FE2/FMx use the FA motordrive?

 

The designated drive for the FA was the MD-15, and to quote from the great Mir.com site:

 

"This motor drive was produced exclusively for the Nikon FA - it is a dedicated unit and it cannot be shared with other Nikon body as with the MD11/12"

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I will be diving into large format photography soon (when Intrepid is finished building the camera I ordered last month).

Realising how much a 4x5 sheet of my usual preferred HP5+/FP4+ film 4x5 cost, I decided to use Fomapan 200 to "learn to walk".

A couple of 50 sheet packs arrived from Fotoimpex this week, but as I don't have the 4x5 camera yet, I also ordered a bulk roll of Fomapan 200 in 35mm to get the developing process straight before I begin my €1-pr-frame learning project.

Thus, my Nikon F2 with the <NEW> Nikkor 35/2 lens is now loaded with Fomapan 200 (in old Sovjet Union cartridges - to stay in character).

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An oddball this weekend, the Pentax ME-F fitted with the Takumar AF SMC 35-70mm f/2.8-3.5 zoom lens, Asahi's first attempt at an AF lens. The ME-F was the only camera in the ME series that could utilise this lens in AF mode. Big and clunky and loaded with 4 AAA cells, the lens is painfully slow and noisy in AF mode, but optically it's a superb lens and I usually use it in manual focus mode.

 

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An oddball this weekend, the Pentax ME-F fitted with the Takumar AF SMC 35-70mm f/2.8-3.5 zoom lens, Asahi's first attempt at an AF lens. The ME-F was the only camera in the ME series that could utilise this lens in AF mode. Big and clunky and loaded with 4 AAA cells, the lens is painfully slow and noisy in AF mode, but optically it's a superb lens and I usually use it in manual focus mode.

 

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Enjoy it Rick - I have got a Canon T80 with a similar lens, a Nikon n8008 with a sigma copy and a Oly OMG with a Vivitar series 1, slow but fun shooters.

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I have cleaned a couple of simple cameras that I intend to take out, 2 Box type: A Macy*s 120 made by Pho-Tak Corp, and Tower 7 Made by Bilora; Recently overhauled a Richter Vitaflex as well so should have some fund burning some film through it. I plan to use some Holga 400 film, processing time indicates it to be a Foma made film, however the emulsion is quite different from what I am used to from Foma.

 

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I have loaded HP5 in the 3.5C for the weekend. Photographed from this angle it seems like the old Rollei yellow filter is coated. I am a little surprised I must admit - I didn't think they coated coloured filters.

The in the camera meter works, but it is faster to use the old (but not as old as the camera) Sekonic L-308B.

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Newly acquired from Japan. A Konica III A. Improvements over my IIB-m are a double stroke front mounted advance lever, self cocking shutter and 50mm Hexanon 1.8 lens. Build wise it feels something like a fixed lens Leica M3. Noticeably superior to later Konica rangefinders that feel hollow in comparison. (Yes I have one). I have it loaded with Foma 200 for a few shots this weekend.

 

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An oddball this weekend, the Pentax ME-F fitted with the Takumar AF SMC 35-70mm f/2.8-3.5 zoom lens, Asahi's first attempt at an AF lens. The ME-F was the only camera in the ME series that could utilise this lens in AF mode. Big and clunky and loaded with 4 AAA cells, the lens is painfully slow and noisy in AF mode, but optically it's a superb lens and I usually use it in manual focus mode.

 

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I have the non-AF version of that lens (SMC Pentax 35-70 f2.8-3.5). Not sure if the optical formula is identical but I've been very pleased with it.

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I found this Vollenda 620 6x9 folder about a year and a half ago at a local antique shop. I ran a test roll through it after I first cleaned it but haven't taken it out since.

 

It came in a reptile skin pattern leather case that a previous owner had written his name and address inside. I did some internet sleuthing and found out he was a Romanian Jew who emigrated to the U.S. in 1940. He was 27 yrs old and sent here by his family due to the worsening situation in Romania. His family never made it over ... most/all were killed in the Romanian holocaust. He passed away in 2000 at age 86. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a story about his son-in-law who collects Nazi anti-semitic memorabilia so people won't forget what happened.

 

Anyway, this is the only camera in my collection that has an interesting story behind it (that I'm aware of). I suspect he may have brought the camera with him in 1940 but can't be sure. It seems to have been produced for the European markets since the distance scale on the lens is in meters.

 

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