dani_l_oosterhuis

I, too, love to use old, souped up 1980s filesystems on modern operating systems. Darn diddly, I'm still mad I can't run Windows 10 with FAT! All this FAT16 and FAT32 nonesense won't work with the backup utility I bought in '85, USELESS! Don't even get me started on NTFS. At least Apple had some sense in endlessly beating a dead horse with HFS! Now that's the good stuff.

How is he doing that? By just comparing two brands in a totally fair, and IMO unbiased way? Neither get bashed, only their up and downsides are being compared. A bit extreme for a mod to make such an insinuation against a member who has done nothing wrong.

<p>The one you linked is a Pentacon Six mount, this is the according to the web rarer M42 mount version. I know it's M42 since it fits on the Praktica cameras I got, which are M42 mount cameras.</p>

<p>Today I went to my favorite thrift shop, since they recently had a lot of analog photography stuff, and lo-and-behold, they finally had some SLR gear. A Praktica MTL5, still in its original box, with a Pentacon Multi Coated Auto 1.8 50mm lens, Praktica strap, leather case, flash cable still in the plastic bag, and the manual for €5, a Brownie Six-20 Model E, in leather case with manual and paper invitation card to the Brownie Club Netherlands for €5, and then a big leather bag with a Praktica IV F, different filters, and quite a few M42 lenses, which costed me €10. The lenses in question are: Auto Edixon 2.8 35mm lens, SMC Takumar 1.8 55mm lens (some fungus, should be treatable), Hanimex Tele-Auto 3.5 135mm (pretty bad fungus, might not be worth attempting to save), and then the lens this thread is dedicated to, the Jena Bm 2.8 80mm M42 lens. From what I understand, Bm stands for Biometar, and this lens is said to be rare and valuable. But I can't find any images online of this specific M42 variation that only is marked Jena and not Carl Zeiss Jena, and Bm instead of Biometar. Anyone got a clue what I have on hand here? It looks to be clean and I can't really see any signs of fungus. Thanks!<br> <img src="http://oi64.tinypic.com/p3wqt.jpg" alt="" width="369" height="384" /></p>

<p>I have absolutely no issues with FireWire. I use a PowerMac G4 MDD to scan (I collect old Macs), which runs OS X Leopard, capable of running both older versions of VueScan and Nikon Scan 4. If I didn't have this, I would not have been able to test the device and report that VueScan throws an "No film" error.</p>

<p>The strip film holder is only needed when the MA-20 slide adapter is used for film strips. The SA-21 is the automatic 35mm film feeder, you can find footage of YouTube how it works. It needs no adapter because it has rubber rollers that pull the film inside, and it automatically scans all frames of a strip of film, unlike with the FH-3, which is all manual. </p>

<p>Recently, I acquired a broken LS-4000ED and broken SA-21 adapter, for €72 including shipping, with the intention of fixing it up and using it for scanning film, since my Epson V600 just doesn't cut it for 35mm negatives. The scanner itself is said to leave stripes or smears on the image. I'm thinking it will probably be a dirty mirror. The SA-21 was just described as broken, and was thrown in for €5 extra, so I had little to lose on that.</p> <p>The problem with the SA-21 is, that next to missing a chunk of plastic on the back, probably due to shipping damages (not when sent to me, because the missing plastic was not in the box), it appears to be completely dead. The LS-4000ED will go through its power on self test, and fail at the very end, when according to an online friend it should engage the motors of the SA-21. It does exactly the same when the SA-21 isn't inserted. When attempting to feed it a film strip, nothing happens, and VueScan just asks me to insert film.</p> <p>A quick inspection inside the SA-21 doesn't show damage to any of the wires or the PCB, but I haven't been able to look at the underside of the SA-21's PCB. I know it can't be just the photoresistors, as it should still come alive at the POST when booting the Nikon scanner. Anyone ever had this problem, and if so, what was done to fix it? From what I could find on the web, the SA-21 doesn't appear to have any fuses that could have blown, but maybe the solder points went bad? Or just one of the SMD components on the PCB? Any help is appreciated! If the SA-21 is fixed, I can then focus my attention to the scanner itself and see what the problem is with it, and fix it, and then finally scan my backlog of film on a nice quality scanner. TIA!</p>