[pure-silver] Re: Wife brings home a garage sale camera
- From: titrisol <titrisol@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:58:26 -0700 (PDT)
try using hearing aid batteries.
Put 4 together with eklectrician's tape and put them in the
camera observing the correct polarity
That may work.... it did for me in a Gossen lightmeter ;)
--- Mark Blackwell <markb1958@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well the one adaptor is $15 which is more than she paid for
> the camera. It
> was $10 and another $5 for a slide projector that at least
> seems to work.
> An Argus I believe.
>
> I shouldn't bother but I know I probably will at some point
> buy the adaptor.
> The electronic shutter won't work without it. Probably be
> better off buying
> film but if I am going to collect a camera I would rather it
> be a camera I
> could use if I wanted to.
>
> I am going to check around first to make sure someone doesn't
> make a battery
> that would work before going to the adaptor route. A $5
> battery long term
> wouldn't make sense if a $15 dollar adapter lets it take AA or
> AAA, but to
> see if the camera is even worth messing with it does.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 1:03 PM
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Wife brings home a garage sale
> camera
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Blackwell" <markb1958@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 9:55 AM
> > Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Wife brings home a garage sale
> camera
> >
> >
> >>>>>
> >>> I wonder if there were two versions of this camera, one
> with and one
> >>> without interchangeable lenses.
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>> Richard Knoppow
> >>> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> >>> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>
> >> Richard I did look further and as the previous reply stated
> they do seem
> >> to screw on to the front of the 45mm lens that was there.
> Just seemed
> >> counter productive from an optical stand point to have a
> lens over a
> >> lens.
> > I thought of this possibility and just forgot to mention
> it. Adaptor
> > lenses vary. Some, like these, are simple lenses with
> positive or negative
> > diopter values which modify the focal length of the lens
> they are put on
> > but degrade the correction of the lens. Some of the fancier
> ones are
> > chromatically corrected, some, like the common "close up"
> lenses are not.
> > Another, and more elaborate type is the type of lens where
> the entire
> > front component is changed. This is found on some 35mm
> cameras with
> > between the lens shutters like the Kodak Retina. This type
> of lens has
> > very much better performance than the diopter lens but is
> not quite up to
> > a dedicated lens.
> > I wonder how Yashica couples these adapters to the
> rangefinder. Since
> > the focal length of the lens is changed its entire focusing
> range is also
> > changed. Perhaps they rely on guess focus. For that matter,
> I don't know
> > how the rangefinder on the Retina is coupled.
> > I suspect the battery adaptor may cost more than the
> camera is worth.
> >
> > ---
> > Richard Knoppow
> > Los Angeles, CA, USA
> > dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
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