CoryAmmerman

I've repaired the Shutter on my Petri 1.9 which had the shutter blades come loose, but I believe that has a Copal shutter. At least that's what Camera Wiki seems to suggest. Just in case it might help, here's a link to the Flickr gallery of the pics I took while taking it apart.

 

Petri CC 1.9 Shutter Repair

 

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Nice post Rick. The N2000 was the first manual focus camera I ever purchased. I have a bit of a soft spot for it. I love the sound the shutter and winding mechanism make. It reminds me of the generic shutter sounds used in movies and TV back in the days before digital became the norm. I haven't used mine in a while as I'm very slowly working my way through the backlog of cameras that I've purchased a few years ago when I spent more time shopping on eBay for cheap cameras than I did actually using said cameras.

 

That Vivitar lens looks like a good performer as well. If I had a need for another mid-range zoom, I'd definitely give it a look. I may or may not have already taken a peek at the going prices on eBay.

A Nikomat FTn and a 55/3.5 were some of my first purchases when I first got into manual focus gear. I've used the 55/3.5 on both film and digital for years and have never had any complaints about the sharpness, up close or at a distance. Maybe it's not as sharp as the later 55/2.8, but I never felt the need to "upgrade" and thus, have no means of comparing the two.

 

As a side note, my FTn came with a working mercury cell of unknown age in it, which I have swapped in and out of various other cameras through the years. I've just now checked and that battery still has a charge some 11 years later.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I’m interested in opinions of those that have used this camera on how you feel about the focusing levers. I’m sure I could get used to them with more usage, but they were the only thing on the camera that didn’t fall naturally to hand. Otherwise the camera was very enjoyable to use.

 

About a month ago I had the opportunity to attend the Edge Motorfest car show that was put on by the Edge Motor Museum here in Memphis TN. I don't usually wait a month to have film processed, but inadvertently opening the back of the camera mid-rewind has a tendency to take the wind out of your sails for processing the film. Luckily, I was closer to the beginning of the roll than I thought when I opened the camera and only lost the first 6 frames.

 

From previous posts by other CMC members, it seems that there are quite a few of us that also enjoy classic cars, so I thought I'd share a few pictures from the day. I was a bit rushed during my time there as I had my two daughters with me who were, shall we say, less enamored with the whole affair than I was. As a result these are pretty much just snapshots. I definitely plan to revisit the museum at a later date and take more time with my compositions.

 

All the exterior shots were taken handheld at f11, 1/125th with the exception of a few engine bay shots where I opened up a stop and a few images from inside the museum which were taken at f2.8, 1/60th if I remember correctly. Film was Ektar 100, processed by the local lab and scanned on an Epson V600. Minimal processing was applied, mostly involving placing a black point on something black and saving to jpeg. I left the unsharp mask setting active in the Epson software, but no other sharpening was applied.

 

Probably my favorite from the show, a '71 Hemi 'Cuda.

 

A closeup of the hemi engine and the "Shaker" air cleaner.

 

A modern LS engine in the engine bay of the Nova in the first image. I left this image pretty much untouched to highlight the flare I was getting from the chrome in some of the shots. Not sure if this is characteristic of these cameras or if I was less than diligent when cleaning the elements of the lens after getting the leaf shutter going a few months ago. The lens hood that came with the camera did a fine job blocking flare from things outside of the frame.

 

'70 Plymouth GTX (I think)

 

There were a few motorcycles. Not sure of the year on this Indian.

 

Not all the cars at the show were shiny.

 

It's not a Dodge Monaco, but this Ford Galaxie cruiser reminds me of the Blues Brothers just the same.

 

'55 Chevy Bel Air, probably my favorite of the tri-five Chevys

 

A supercharged engine in another '55 Chevy

 

Staying with the Chevys, this one a '57 hardtop. I think that's a '69 El Camino behind it.

 

Tri-powered Pontiac GTO

 

A Chrysler Cordoba and a 40's Ford

 

I don't know why, but I have a thing for MG's. There were a couple of E-type Jags at the show as well, but those pics were among the ones exposed when I opened the camera.

 

'67 Corvette with a 427, my dream car as a kid

 

One of these things is not like the others.

 

A couple of shots from inside the museum and I think I'll wrap this post. This is a Muntz Jet, a car I had never heard of before.

 

The museum is pretty small. This is the main display area. The '53 corvette is on a turntable.

 

That's it folks. I created a Ricoh 500 gallery in my profile that has a few more images that I didn't include here, should anyone be so incline to see more.

Well, I'm a bit late to the party, but I'd like to play too.

 

 

F Photomic TN, F2 Photomic (DP-1), F3HP

 

I've recently discovered that the DP-1 can be used in place of my non-functioning Photomic TN on the F, so I may have to give that combo a try soon.

Well, whatever is rattling around in there doesn't seem to have hurt the image quality, from what I can tell.

 

When I was first starting to get serious in photography, I remember that the overriding opinion was that most low-end zooms, particularly third party zooms, were mostly junk and better used as paperweights. So, of course, I started buying all primes. But over the years, I've acquired quite a few inexpensive zooms, mostly from third party manufacturers. Some were included in with other equipment, some I purchased intentionally. There have been a few that were not very good, even for my less than exacting standards. However, most have been perfectly adequate for my uses, which is mostly hand-held middle aperture type stuff.

 

That's not to say that cheap zooms are on par with the more expensive stuff. I don't really have any expensive zooms to compare to. Just that I'd probably have been just as happy running around with a couple of zooms as opposed to 3-4 primes in the bag, if not more so due to the ease of use when not having to change lenses as often is factored in.

That's quite the haul, Rick. And you can't argue with the price. As far as Olympus stuff goes, I have only an OM-1 with a dead meter and a couple of primes, so I cant add much on that front. I'm interested in your opinions of the Tamron zooms. I recently acquired their 35-135 and 80-210 in Adaptall-2 mounts. I was really impressed with the 80-210. Less so the 35-135, but it has quite a lot of dust and some slight hazing in it. Ill have to try to give that one a clean and try again.

Inspired by the recent "Your First Camera" and "First Film" threads, I spent a couple of hours yesterday re-scanning negatives from one of my first ever rolls of black and white film. The images are from an abandoned creamery that sat abandoned for many years in my hometown of Starkville, Mississippi and were taken in early 2005. Not long afterwards, the building was torn down. Thought I might share a few of the images here. Equipment was a Nikon F65 with the kit 28-80 zoom with Agfa APX 400 loaded. A Tiffen orange filter was used for some of the shots, but I don't remember which ones exactly.

 

Exterior

 

Electrical and graffiti

 

Dark in here

 

Apollo space capsule?

 

Nice work Rick. I’ve managed to revive a few leaf shutters and a lens here and there, but never attempted anything as involved as what you’ve accomplished here. In your shoes, I quite possibly would have ended up with nothing more than a box of spare parts. Glad you got it up and running again.

My first roll was Fujicolor 100, which I posted an image from in the First Camera thread. My first black and white film was Agfa APX 400, which I purchased at the same time as my first camera. Here's a shot from one of those first rolls, even though it wasn't taken with a manual camera.

 

As I am a few years younger than many posters here and I didn't buy my first camera until I was a few years out of college, My first camera was this Nikon F65 that came bundled with the kit 28-80 and 70-300 zooms. Purchased from B&H on February 4th, 2005, according to the receipt I kept. I still have them, and they all still work, despite having left the camera out in the rain all night after a night of drunken revelry about 15 years ago.

 

 

Here is an image from what I believe is the very first roll I ever shot with it, a 12 exposure roll of Fujicolor 100.

 

I'll share a few from a recent outing with a Sears KS500

 

with Sears branded 135mm/f2.8

 

With Sears branded 50mm/f2

 

with Chinar 28mm/f2.8

Testing an old Sigma manual focus 35-135 zoom after disassembly and cleaning. Still more work to do, unfortunately. Shot with D600

 

From a couple of weeks ago. Nikon F2, 50mm/f2

 

 

same gear as above

 

 

F2, 28mm/f3.5

 

Wow. that Sultan of Brunei Leica is a steal at only 15-20,000 pounds.

I never cared for the Epson software for image processing. I only use the software for scanning, with no corrections applied, and then process the resulting full-sized .tiff file in another program. I then save the processed image as .jpeg, leaving the source image untouched (other than the dust removal, which I do by hand).

 

My usual workflow is: scan with Epson scan as a .tiff (at desired output dpi) > open image in processing software > clone out dust > save .tiff > make global and local adjustments > save as .jpeg

You might try DSLR scanning, if you have one, and use different software to invert the negative and see if you can reproduce the artifacts. This would remove both the scanner and the scanner software as possible sources of the issue.

Nikon F3, 55/3.5 Micro-Nikkor

 

Nikon F3, 55/3.5 Micro-Nikkor, Fuji C200

 

Good to see some Ricoh images, Cory. During the peak of production Ricoh offered a good feature set for the money on several models. The KR-5 Super II I think was actually made by Cosina, but it was well made for a budget camera. It was a lower cost alternative to the Pentax K1000 for photography classes. The Cosina made 35-70 f 3.5-4.8 was often sold as a kit lens labeled under the brand of camera it was sold with. Actually a pretty decent performer.

 

Thanks Mike. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the images I got from the Ricoh. I've got a Sears KS500, which I believe is also made by Ricoh, that's now in the queue to be taken out for a spin.

It seems to me like the instructions are probably geared towards SLR's with focal plane shutters that sync at much lower speeds. I would think that with a leaf shutter you could probably use whatever shutter speed you wanted.

 

I recently tried out an older Vivitar flash on my D300 when my main flash stopped working. I used a cheap off camera flash cord in between, with the though that maybe if there was a voltage issue, the cord would bite the dust first. I cant say for sure if my plan was effective, but my D300 is still working.

Nikon F3, 55/3.5 Micro-Nikkor

Thought I'd share a few macro shots from last week, all taken with a Nikon f3 and the 55/3.5 Micro-Nikkor.

 

 

 

Ricoh XR-10, 35-70/f3.5-4.8, Fuji C200