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Subject: [Leica] IMGs - camera problems
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 00:18:51 +0200
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Douglas,

I can give my opinion about the Industar, you can find another one for a 
price very much lower than it will cost CLA

LLuis


> El 5 ag 2018, a les 0:42, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> va escriure:
> 
> Baseplate for Pentax MX taking a dip in vinegar with a bit of help waiting 
> from Italy and Hungary. Fuji X100S.
> 
> My son wanted to use a film camera when he went to Berlin last weekend, 
> but my two Pentax ME Supers turned out to have wind on issues and needed 
> attention. They're not going to get any until the cooler shorter evenings 
> draw in over the winter, so I dug out a Pentax MX which used to work fine 
> the last time I used it. Sadly the battery cover was stuck - hence the 
> vinegar bath. I freed it after a good soak, and ran a film through it, but 
> discovered the shutter curtains were capping at the higher speeds. It's 
> another job for the winter. I gave him one of my Spotmatics which 
> thankfully worked. On the MX shutter capping, does anyone have a link to 
> photos of the brake lube point?
> 
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Oddments/Camera+Stuff/Acid+Test+MX.jpg.html
> 
> Industar 50 - Given this lens along with a few old film cameras and lenses 
> by a friend of mine a few weeks ago. The lens had been picked up by him in 
> Dresden in 1990 a few months after the Berlin wall fell and has a rough 
> (badly hand made) leather case with the initials VP in Cyrillic on it. 
> However, when the lens is held up to the light, it tells a sad story of 
> living with a fungal infection for far too many years, and has reached 
> paperweight status. Sony A7ii with a 28-70 macro zoom - I think.
> 
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Oddments/Camera+Stuff/In+Dust+Ar+Bogies.jpg.html
> 
> Playing with the Industar and a pen. Sony A7ii with 28-70 macro - I think
> 
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Oddments/Camera+Stuff/Industar+on+pen.jpg.html
> 
> Douglas
> 
> 
> 
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