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Subject: [Leica] IMGs - camera problems
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 13:30:55 +0200
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This is a good idea Douglas!
Lluis


> El 7 ag 2018, a les 2:49, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> va escriure:
> 
> 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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