berlinhennig

So here is the question of an automatic dude:

Before I will look for somebody who is synchronizing the range finder/lens combination I

like to know if I possibly made a mistake with the handling of the baseboard.

How far do I have to pull the bellows/lens out on the baseboard?

Is there any marking how far or less far you have to pull?

Or, how do you get a Grflex sharp???

Here some technical details:

Lens: Graflex Optar 1:4,5/101 mm

Shutter: 1, 1/2, 1/5, 1/10, 1/20, 1/50, 1/100, 1/200, 1/400 Sek.; "B" u. ?T?; Graphex

By the way is this a lens you would recommand for portrait pictures?

Last week I went to the custom like a child on Christmas morning to collect my new old Graflex Pacemaker

Speed Graphic 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 which I got over ebay from a dealer in Rochester!!

Same time I got the rollback, a film was already bought and with the first sunlight I walked out to take

some test pictures. Ok. the first film was mine. I forgot to check if the curtain shutter is definetly open. It

wasn't and so I got a wonderful black roll back from the developing.

Second try was developed today and ... there is a little bit sharpness missing ;-(

Patric, this is exactly what makes me wondering. I didn't know that KW was ever in the center

of Dresden. But this is what your A1 one tells us. And in the case of Mark's Certo it also

shows us a kind of timestamp since parts of the suburbs came to Dresden very early or late

last centuries. The higher the number, the later they became a part of Dresden.

Patric, this A1 could be the first adress' area where they founded the company in 1919. But

this is out of my knowledges and I have no idea where it was.

I would like to know how you keep all this data (aperture, ect.) in mind. I can imagin that you

go for a shooting with a sheet of paper and a pencil if you want to test a special camera or

lens. But a lot of photographic books long before we had digital possibilities like exif-data

have all these information. And collecting them is one thing but getting them later connected

with the developed photo just another. There must have been a reason for the Kodak

autographic series in the early 1900's.

Ooops, my complete answer on the Dresden codes is gone.

I did submit it but it has not been posted. Sh** a lot of historical and geological research

work about the internal Dresden area codes and there special relationship on our cameras

for 0.

Ok., here is the short version.

MARK your dealer was not as wrong as I thought. 46 is the borrough of Dresden that

proofs, that your Certo must be made in or after 1947 since the 46 district was not before

1947.

PATRICK your A21 KW is around the 1920', before KW moved more downtown Dresden.

But the A1 is confusing because in the late 1930's they moved out of Dresden into the

suburbs but the A1 tells the opposite?!

P.S. If this post should overtake the first one and the first will also posted here later, don't

think I am gaga. Thx.

Just another P.S. Ok. my first post is gone, gone for ever. R.I.P. It was my fault, Bad bad

boy. I made a big, big mistake. I forgot that I had left Europe verbal, but I did use a word

with a "S" at the beginning followed by a "H" and an "I", before it comes to the end with a

"T". D***, no chance, never make a mistake twice.

Mark, thanks. About the "Dresden 46" I don't think that this is a postal code. There were no

postal codes before 1941. Between 1941-44 it only exist a code from 1-24 for the parcel

post. And there it was the #10. Than nothing. Up from 1950 they started with a 2 number +

1 letter code again, but "46" is not for the area Dresden. The number for Dresden was 10. In

1964 the East-Germany startet their 4 digit code system. Now Dresden has the numbers

8000-8900. No "46" in this area. For me it sounds more like the year of sale/production to

devide the post from the pre war models for what reason ever. Don't forget, they had the

Russians at guests there at this time.

So now we are on a 2:2 base. But I think that Bueh and Mark are wright. The knob is gone and

I am used to open the folder with my thumbnail so my first idea (when Bueh mentioned it)

was, it must be for somewhat else. But imagin a 1936 Lady should open this with her nails

only? Scandalous.

Therefore there is no other conclusion and I am glad that is not an important part I am

missing and that all of you are missing it too gives me a much better feeling. So thanks a lot

folks. Hope I can be helpful to you someday too.

@ Bueh B.

Good idea, but this lever is exactly in the middle just half an inch left from the red circle.

@ Pete Hobbis

There is no sliding button at the back but on the front side which works together with a

slider that probably secures the button if no use to move it. So I guess that is what you

discribed.

@ both, thank you so far for your assistance and suggestions, which I appreciate.

Hi,

I am new and I need your help. I just got my Certo Dollina II today and it is in a pretty good shape. On the

first view theres is absolutely nothing to critism. But on the second view there is a very little problem with

it.

I noticed on several pictures a very small lever on the right side (if you are looking on the camera) above

the 1/250 setting and under the rangefinder Window (bullseye), less than an inch away (to the right) from

the lens lid lock and just byside (left of) the view finder window.

This one is missing at my Certo. It has been there - sometimes - but it is gone now and for ever.

My question: is there anybody knowing what it was (is) good for?<div></div>

Winfried Buechsenschuetz conclusions about the photo shop are wrong and does not give

any proof about the roots of it. Sorry.<br><br>

1. Berlin SW 68 as a postal code was used until 1961/62<br>

2. 1/3rd of the Friedrichstrasse did belong to the west side of Berlin (you may have heard

about the Checkpoint Charlie?)<br>

3. foto-kino-kundt - Walter Kundt KG at Goerzallee 141, 12207 Berlin, Germany - phone

011 (4930) 8868 2000 is a still operating photo shop in the south western area of Berlin.

<a href="http://www.foto-kino-kundt.de/">May be that the web adress of this shop

will help you.</a>