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Subject: [Leica] IMGs - camera problems
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 01:49:04 +0100
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Thanks Lluis, but I don't need it. I think I will add it to the place I 
normally put lenses with fungus :-)

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Oddments/Cat_HanimarTank.jpg.html

Douglas

On 05/08/2018 23:18, Lluis Ripoll via LUG wrote:
> 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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