Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/02

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Subject: [Leica] Moskva-5 (Was: It's a film camera)
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sat Feb 2 12:21:11 2008
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Handling?

I am not sure you can handle it. It is the most awkward piece of
equipment I have ever used (I've never tried to shoot a basketball
game using the ground glass of Jim's 11x14 view camera, but I suspect
it might be slightly less convenient to handle).

Reliability. If you get one that works, it will keep working. The
shutter sounds so strong you could probably use it to crop off the end
of a cuban cigar before lighting it. It carries a strong chop.

If the rangefinder works (mine does) it is perfect. If it doesn't
work, it is probably almost impossible to adjust. There are a lot of
little gears that need to be matched. Dante Stella has a write up on
this somewhere.

Light-tight? It suffers the same fate as all folders with bellows, no
matter who makes them. The bellows can crack and leak out darkness.
Mine works just fine.

The big negative is wonderful.

Here's one at a very slow shutter speed. It's in the Bessa album, but
it is taken with the Moskva-5

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/Bessa-I/05v47_0009.jpg.html

Some more ...

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/album08/05v49_0018.jpg.html

Another slow shutter speed shot (almost all my pictures are taken with
slow shutter speeds, come to think of it)

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/album08/05v47_0008.jpg.html

If you search the archives for Moskva-5 and Slobodan, you will find
some of his revealing comments about the beast.

Daniel


On Feb 2, 2008 9:00 PM, Didier Ludwig <leica@screengang.com> wrote:
> Daniel
> Do you have experiences with the Moskva-5? Handling, reliability of 
> rangefinder, light-tightness? Just curious, because this camera always 
> lusted me.
> TIA
> Didier
>
>
> >Not really, Jerry. I mentioned the Moskva-5 and the Zeiss Ikon it was
> >a knock-off of:
> >http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/mosc_e.htm
> >Daniel
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Moskva-5 (Was: It's a film camera))
 In reply to: Message from richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Moskva-5 (Was: It's a film camera))