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More than you need;

 

Unified National Coarse, British Standard Witworth are general standards for threads. The other, bigger, less popular camera holding thread is 3/8-16. Just know there are other visually similar size and pitch configurations that can be incorrectly crushed into a hole.

Isn't that the home of the outrageous arsenall?

Newly bought film, placed in the freezer, has a moisture level deemed safe by the maker - likely so low the mechanics of freezing are moot. When you freeze an opened roll you introduce an unknown level of moisture to the gel which, after freezing, has every right to look like your windshield on an icy morning. That you get away with sometimes is irrelevant.

Pictures are interesting enough. Too bad the city stopped short of billboards, flashing lights, and toll booths.

For $30, a Vito II. Early ones have the weak spots of filter and viewfinder bump. Late IIas get expensive and have the snaggable lever and shoe. In between is an ocean of fun - smooth operating and young enough to actually work, for the most.

Sometimes you can bluff your way in with a candy bar.

I feel so dirty - not being the first to know.

It's good you've left room for a pair of socks.

If you can say that everything works right now, then money spent on a CLA will be wasted. People are quick to suggest you have the thing cleaned but really, really, really slow to pay for it. Also, sell everything separately - right down to the strap and instruction book. A package, while saving you effort, will draw a lower total price. Don't expect to be paid for the sentimental attachment I sense.

Sprint. Never had a sensitizer clearing problem and the same dilution fixes RC paper in 30 sec.

I'd gamble on '88, but not with a lot of money.

"I want it perfect, right now, for free". Isn't that the customer from hell?

There's only two inches' difference between lenses. Putting an imaginary apple on the subject's head will account for that - up close it's important and it becomes less relevant with distance. If you're losing entire heads you'll need a different cure.

Not using working bottles for chemistry is asking for a fatal work stoppage, usually at 1am Sunday, when an entire lot of something is contaminated. Used solutions are more easily monitored if kept segregated.

Soda bottles make good working containers - eliminating the potential of ruining larger volumes of stock. Sixteen ounce bottles are big enough to supply most roll tanks.

Certainly one bad Apotar won't spoil the whole bunch.

Higher shutter speeds, larger aperture, less depth of focus? Maybe try what Conrad said? Even look at the bare plate from the front with the shutter bulbed open. Poke it. Is it snug to the rails?

Or... The pressure plate always closes too high and most of the time a taut wind holds the film near the rail plane. The occasional slack winds show up as blurs.

It's just a forward stop for the shoe. I don't recall if it may penetrate to the casting to hold the cover as well. There's nothing on a I to adjust.

Most likely they weren't extended, but if I couldn't see the legs I'd pass. Lacking information to the contrary, I assume a twisted flange implies a bent of missing lock tab - there are just too many cameras around to mess with junk.

 

I don't think Bessas are worse than others but a slight (and readily corrected) misaligntment on a 6X9 will show up as softer ends/corners; more pronounced than with a square.

 

Among the worst for alignment is the 28-pound Ensign. The struts aren't quite enough to hold the lens assembly at the end of it's travel, so the lens isn't consistently parallel. Also the Baldix has a knack for locking solidly but early, on-time, or late depending on it's mood.

 

Overall, the lens alignment argument (as well as it's cousin film-flatness) is manufactured as a distraction from a lack of knowing the camera's limits.

Once upon a time I scattered a box of color paper on the floor and managed to find 93% of it. I can't imagine your proposal.

I didn't mean the shutter. If anything, there may seem to be more broken Prontors around only because a greater absolute number. The EV lock - on any shutter - is a monkey with a football.

Aw. Mike just ruined my breakfast. The only greater disappointment is having to fumble with that trash on something as straightforward as a Rolleicord.

The IIs and Bs I know of have no such feature. May have happened on a later, uglier model.

Would draw too many stray cats.