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<p>Maybe send the photo to Wayne Carini, the main player in HDT's "Chasing Classic Cars". He seems to know all about these things. Here's his website:</p>

<p><cite>www.f40.com</cite></p>

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<p>Your suggestions were all great. I went with the 24-105mm for now and lvoed it. I am posting a few shots over the next few days that warrant anyone else's eyes but my own and those of my wife. Point Lobos and Big Sur were simply amazing.</p>

<p>Thanks for all the responses. I do have a 70-300mm IS mentioned above. I also have a 24-85mm older EOS that I like and may stick with for the trip, but I'm often not real happy with the sharpness (even on tripod). I also have a 50mm prine 1.8.</p>

<p>This is not a quality of lens question, but one directed to what lens would serve me best for the trip I plan based on geography and photo opportunities.<br>

My wife and I are spending our 15th wedding anniversary in Monterey, California. I expect to take a lot of photos with my new 5dMKII. I am debating buying a new lens for the trip, but I wonder what would serve me best based on the views and the like. I am debating between the 17-40mm L or the 24-105mm L. I like the idea of the 24-105mm as a good walkaround, but I like the wider 17-40mm for the vistas I might encounter. From those who live there or who have visited, which would you take? What photos would you expect to take more in this area? Do you run out of the wide sweeping shots there and spend more time taking architectural or street shots, or vice versa? </p>

<p>For those of you who live or have spent time in Monterey, please let me know your thoughts.</p>

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<p>Thanks for all the responses. I will contact the seller and make arrangements to get a photo. Your help has been great.</p>

<p>A local small antiques dealer has in stock what appears to be a field camera with a plate with the name "Hahn Opticians". The camera has a Wollensak Optima No. 1A lens. Sorry, I did not have the chance to get photos yet. I was hoping some Googling might get me a start on this, but I found nothing regarding the camera.</p>

<p>Can anyone get me a start on information about this company/maybe the camera? I will try to get photos later as well.</p>

<p>A life time of realized dreams up in smoke. So sad. We live in a country of blithering morons with little else to do than take away from others what they cannot have. </p>

<p> Your pictures had to be hard to take, but you put true emotion into very well-taken photos. I hope there is a rebuild, and new dreams are pursued there. </p>

<p>Thanks to all for your input. Richard --your notes and diagreams are great!. What I plan to do is follow the advice to see how the current roll comes out. Then, I'll follow Richard's notes as necessary to tinker with the camera (something I obviously love to do), and see if that changes any adverse results I receive on the first roll.</p>

<p>I'm not sure my first post on this made it to the site. I bought a Mercury II to replace one my father taught me on decades ago. That one was lost to time. This camera appears okay, and I am running a roll through it, but I believe the shutter speed settings per the knob are incorrect. Anyone know of a good site regarding repair/settings on this old camera? I'm looking for a site like those devoted to reapirs of the Agfa Isolette.</p>

Thank you all for all your help. I am putting everything back together. The focsuing issue is next on the list. I will have this thread by my side when I start this.

Thanks Craig. Sounds like a task for next Saturday. But I appreciate your direction on this. Hopefully, all this works and I get a nice film medium format out of all of this.

I answered my won question just now. After staring at the "barrel" for several minutes, I thought maybe I was missing the point on the focusing section issue. I was, and used some brute strength, what little I have, to untwist the two sections, which are now soaking in nail polish remover. Now understand the focus movements and now maybe I can get this camera up and running.

I have an Agfa Isolette II with Apotar lens and Prontor S shutter that I bought for fun, and it needs work. The

focus ring stuck, as well as the shutter trigger. I fixed the latter (YAY), but I am not certain where I stand

on the former. I

read the forums on sticking focus rings, and went to the various (and very good websites) on the issue. I am

still a bit confused and wonder if I am clear on the rotating elements issue. I read other posts on this site,

and I do not see my answer.

 

I removed, using the pipe clamp per online instructions, a lens housing, after removing the focus ring per

instructions as well. The housing had what appears to be one glass element in a brass tube to which the focus

ring was originally "attached". on the end (interior side) of the tube was a brass ring which was threaded,

which I removed. I then removed a concave element from this location and cleaned both. elements, etc. However, for

replacement, instructions continually suggested I screw the second (concave?) element back into the shutter

assembly. This does not seem possible at all. All I have currently done is clean as described, put this tubular

section back together in reverse and reinstall it into the camera (after fixing some shutter gear issues -- at

least that

went well). I also removed the lens assembly from the inside of the camera after great effort and cleaned that.

 

Before I put the focus ring back on (at more risk of damages those little itty-bitty screw heads), how do I

reconcile the instructions regarding these elements to what I am seeing on the camera itself?

 

Sorry if this sounds like an odd inquiry, but if i get this camera to work, I've hit a goal and I like hitting

goals and learning new things.

As a learning amateur, I like my 24-85mm, and having the 50mm f/1.8 appears to be a good choice, too. Great images when I do what I need to do as a photographer, light and fun.

I, too, had a good sales pitch on Canon when I moved to digital, and I am happy with the results of the sales pitch. I

spent time reviewing cameras, and found Canon and Nikon overall equal with having a superior point here and there

over the other. My best firend uses NIkon with similar grades and styles of lenses, and we achieve simlar decent

results if we as photographers so what we need to do.

I recall that it was an 8X10.

Ilelarned on an Isolette, and wish I still had it. What a great camera! The right hands, the right skills, the right shot, and you have a classic photo. Your post proves that!

I am in search of, first for interest, then maybe later for purchase, a Deardorff P8 portait camera with the stand that

typically came with that moidel. My Grandfather was a well-known portrait photographer (and journalist

photogrrapher, etc.) in southern West Virginia. He took up the trade after leaving vaudeville. He had a P8 that was

gorgerous, but we sold it I suppose to pay bills when he passed away in the 1980s. I was too young then to know

the camera should have been kept. With my interest in photography rekindled by digital, I still find myself interested

in the old ways.

 

I found a little bit online, but I would like to find more sources of information, and the names and locations of classic

camera dealers. I appreciate any input.