[rollei_list] Re: Ikonta Film Spacing was Fuji/Bessa folder rangefinder.
- From: "Austin Franklin" <austin.franklin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:45:13 -0400
Hi Marc,
I'd have to concur with you on this. In the more than a decade I've been
using Super Ikontas (I probably have 30 or more of them...), I've only run
into film spacing issues with cameras that needed the "sludge" cleaned out
of the film advance mechanism. Once I've done that, or heated it up and
worked it in as I previously suggested, they have always work
perfectly...and they are superb cameras IMO.
Biggest issue I've seen with Super Ikontas is bad focusing. This is caused
by someone who doesn't know what they are doing putting the front element
assembly back on not realizing (or caring) that it has multiple helical
threads, so it can be screwed in some, I believe, 6 different "ways".
Regards,
Austin
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> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Marc James Small
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> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Ikonta Film Spacing was Fuji/Bessa folder
> rangefinder.
>
>
> At 09:45 AM 4/9/2009, Jan Decher wrote:
>
> >The negative overlap is the achilles heal of the
> >more advanced Super Ikontas with todays
> >films. Here is what Henry Scherer wrote to me
> >after he had done a full overhaul of my Synchro Compur BX (1 1/2
> year wait!):
>
> Jan
>
> This is yet another example of Henry's
> bloviating. There just is no film spacing issue
> with Super Ikontas. Our own Austin Franklin is
> one of the more experienced students of the
> breed, and we have a number of others over on the
> Zeiss Ikon Collectors' Group, and nary a
> discussion on film spacing have we had in over a
> decade of fairly intensive discussions about Super Ikontas over there.
>
> For that matter, I own two Prewar Super Ikonta
> B's which I regularly shoot with modern emulsions
> and with chromes. Never had a spacing problem of any kind.
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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