[pure-silver] Re: rollei not fixed
- From: shannon stoney <sstoney@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:29:29 -0600
Hi,
Thanks for all the advice about the unfixed Rollei. I talked to the
repair guy today, and he offered to try to get it closer to right on.
Weirdly, he had not run it through his speed-checking machine. He
said he would try to get it right and send me a chart of the actual
film speeds.
I tested the camera using my old method from The Practical Zone
System book, where you put a roll of film through the camera at one
shutter speed (1/60 in my case) and different apertures. On the
first frame, you shoot at the right exposure according to the light
meter. Second frame, half a stop less. Third frame, one full stop
less, and so on through frame five. Then go the other way. So, your
first frame was essentially shot at ISO 400 (for trix), second at
600, third at 800, etc. The only frame that looked good on my test
was the 1600 frame, indicating to me that the shutter was two stops
slow.
But the repair guy insisted that that meant it was two stops fast! I
had to call back and explain that if you have to shut down the
aperture two stops to get a good exposure, the shutter must be slow.
This does not inspire confidence.
However I feel like I should give him another chance to get it right. Right?
--shannon
PS I had called the first guy on Richard's list--Oceanside Camera
Repair-- before I sent it to the guy that worked on it, and he said
he only did rolleis after 1950 I think. So I had to find somebody
that works on older ones.
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