[rollei_list] Re: OT: Contax II
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:21:58 -0500
At 03:07 PM 11/6/2008, Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
>Thank you very much Marc for the detailed info, I'll try to locate
>Eddie Smoloff in Brooklyn.
Carlos
I serve as an officer of elections. That meant
that I was on my feet for 18 hours this Tuesday
past and am still slowly regaining my
wits. Members of this List will be dismayed and,
well, astonished to learn that I have to be NICE
to everyone for those 18 hours. It is
emotionally draining for me to be NICE for that
long when you just want to grab someone and shake
them and to tell them to quit being a fool. Oy
Vey! What's a guy to do? I finally got myself
together enough today to drive over to the
Goodwill to drop off my wife's latest decisions
of abandonment, to hit the local Library to pick
up two DVD's they were holding for me (HIGH NOON
and THE LONGEST DAY, for those interested in my
taste in movies, though my all-time favorite is
UNCONQUERED, in which Ward Bond plays my
fourth-great-grandfather.) Then I hit the Class
Six (liquor) store at Fort Lee and came home. I
have managed to decipher five serial number
queries, one of which was yours, over the past
day, but I am simply out of energy until next week.
I will dig out the contact info for Eddie in a
couple of days and post it here. He is also
great with Leica thread-mount cameras, due to his
FED training. The very last Contax II cameras
made were those with a serial number beginning in
O; these were made during the Second World
War. When I bought one of these, I had Eddie
overhaul it. I would not have entrusted this
camera to just anyone: he has always done
superlative work for me. For the reasons set out
above, prompt me if I've not posted the contact
information by next Wednesday. (Tuesday next is
MY holiday, Veterans' Day, aka Armistice Day, and
I shall celebrate it in some fashion.)
Daniel had suggested that Eddie served as Fedka's
maintenance guy. Fedka is Yuri Boguslavsky, a
purveyor and authority on Soviet/Post-Soviet
(SPS) cameras. I know Yuri quite well but I do
not know the answer to that. The first Russian
Camera List was destroyed by the disappearance of
the owner; its successor was destroyed by the
devolution of Bob Shell. We had a repair guy in
the Ukraine who was active on those Lists, and
perhaps that is the person Yuri uses. I will ask him.
In any event, my suggestion is Eddie
Smoloff: fast, inexpensive, and VERY capable. I
have entrusted several of my most valuable
cameras to his care, and he has done grand work.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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