Rick_van_Nooij

Getting ready for my week in Normandy for the D-Day 80th Anniversary. 1937 Contax II, with CZJ 50/1.5 Sonnar 1941 Leica IIIc, with Leitz 50/2.5 Hektor Bringing Fomapan 100 and Kentmere 100

Last Sunday, showing off some of my WW2 US Army tanker kit, the Leica IIIc and the M70 Telescopic sight drew the most attention.

Got a roll in a Contax D for the week. Will load up something 1940s vintage for the weekend as I'll be spending a day as a living display in the Overloon Liberty Park museum. Will probably crawling over a tank all day.

Testing a Nikon S2 with Nikkor-HC 50mm f/2 in the first two and a shot from a Leica IIIc with 5cm f/2 Summitar. Fomapan 100 Classic

The large crank is the same as the winding keys for charging the internal spring motor. TM 11-487F mentions a couple of professional sounder Recorder systems used by the army in 1940-1950 PH-271, which was an optical recorder that was used in conjunction with the PH-270 camera. PH-346-A and the PH-346-B optical recorders, the A was a compact version that could be operated by one man.

It is one of my Bell & Howell "Eyemo" 35mm cameras, a 71-Q model with the spider turret, a removable 400' magazine and a 'St-George' motor drive, with a battery box and "Junior Professional" tripod. Motor drives would've run off 6 or 12 volt DC. In 1944 every Combat Assignment Team in a Signal Photo Company would have one of these, though only the News Reel Teams in the company would have the full accessory kit, including sound recording gear. The 71-Z , single lens version, would be the secondary. And yes, running a 90 second roll of R100 through it, with developing and digitizing/projecting will ruin me financially.

Looks like they're back in force today. I think if you ban the word "quickbooks" you'll cover 90% of this stuff.

There was, particularly on Sunday, when we celebrated the liberation and the end of World War 2. Had about 5 milliseconds of screen time as well (around 1:30) :

Shot a couple of rolls with that Leica IIIc, the Nikon S2 and a few sheets with my Speed Graphic during Memorial Day and the Liberation Festivities over the weekend. Talked to a lot of folks about film and photography during WW2 that came to my small Signal Photographic Company display.

I still haven't finished the roll in the Leica IIIc as off earlier this month. BUT, the weather is supposed to be nice this weekend. Might even load up a Nikon S2 that I've serviced for someone and shoot that for a bit.

And no, I've looked for way to mark them down or report them, but there doesn't seem to be an option for it.

I think if do run into problems of the film disappearing into the cassette you could use the same tricks you use to get the film leader out of a cartridge again, i.e. with a film picker or a moistened strip of old film.

And it works exactly the same for spam images and albums in the member galleries.

If it's anything like the forums I moderate, reported posts go on a list that makes it quicker to bulk-delete them. It saves the mods/admins the trouble of having to select each post one by one.

I normally don't either, but the newest images/albums show up in the previews on the main page.

Hah, as much as I don't like this ad spam, I can't see myself making a living out of combating it. 😄 Let's hope the admins and mods will find a way to block it all sooner rather than later.

Also a lot in the member galleries. I've been marking them as SPAM when I can, but I've got a hard time combining it with my 40-hour job 😉

Couple of snaps from the "Open Museum Weekend" at the Dutch Royal Engineer Museum. Contax II with 50/2 Sonnar and Y2 filter, loaded with Fomapan 100 Classic

Yeah, I've reported a couple more albums in the last two hours. Mostly spam images showing nefarious 'service' call-centers and websites.

Still have a roll of Fomapan 100 in a Leica IIIc after last weekend. Not sure I'll get around to shooting it. Visiting an exhibition on pinhole photography set up by a couple of friends.

Graflex Century 35, Fomapan 100 Not a 100% sold on the focus calibration, and it had some issues with frame spacing, possibly with the film slipping over the sprockets when not held taut.

I bought my 5th Contax II last month with a Sonnar 50/15 attached for $150. It needed a little love to free up the slow speeds again. But both curtain straps had already been replaced at some point, so that saved me the trouble. A well-serviced Kiev 2 will also be a fine user for anyone.

Rolleiflex Automat, 75/3.5 Tessar, Fomapan 200 Creative

I think one of my H.Martin tailboard cameras allows you to take the back plane off the rails and reattach it at 90 degrees.. I seem to recall the bellows turned with it, behind the lens board assembly. I'd have to check.