terry_scott

Next day: Does anyone have the phone number, e-mail address or postal address of Tom Page -- who has been recommended to me by Ed Trzoska. A number suggested, 0116 267 4247, was intercepted by a British Telecom 'Not recognised' message.

 

Terry Scott

Thanks for your suggestions. I'll follow them up.

 

Terry Scott

The Agfa Super Isolette certainly has this feature. Lace up the film, shut the back, and wind the film: it stops at frame 1 automatically (shades of the upmarket Rolleiflex models). After you have taken an exposure, you wind on - then it stops you winding once you've got to the next frame. It's a superb camera, with 6x6cm format, shutter speeds of B + 1-1/500 sec and a coupled rangefinder.

I have a used Vivitar Zoom Thyristor 3500 flashgun but no

instruction booklet. So, can someone tell me whether it's okay to

use NiCd batteries with this unit?

 

Terry Scott

Depending how much cash you have to spare, consider a Gossen Lunasix F (the 'F' means it can meter ambient light or flash) and a Weston Master V. Both are excellent.

I'd like some recommendations: who, in Britain, can repair an Exakta

Varex IIb -- is likely to do a pretty good job of it? The problems

are: (a) on 1/1000 sec, one side of the image is missing (in other

words, the shutter is still capped); (b) the 1/500 sec isn't that

hot either, giving density variation across the frame; © my 50mm

f/2.8 Tessar lens doesn't always stop down when the firing button is

pressed -- mostly, yes, but sometimes it stays wide open regardless

of set aperture.

 

Terry Scott

Slightly off-topic, but in response to the comment on Pentax 110: If anyone is looking for this camera plus accessories, Graham Photography in Market Harborough, Leicestershire (UK), has a couple of them right now. He also has some accessories.

Two years on (from November 4, 2002), I've just come across TUAN HOANG's clear, concise information about the yellow triangle on the Vivitar 3500.

 

I, too, have bought a used 3500. I, too, was unsure what the triangle meant. Now I have the data I need, thanks to Tuan Hoang and to Martha Taylor, who raised the matter in the first place.

 

It's a good little gun: lighter and smaller than the Vivitar 5600.