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This almost brand new Northampton registered 1980 Bedford TL was frozen in time in Hook Road Surbiton Surrey in 1981.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the best looking SLR to come from Pentacon. For me it is a beauty with plenty of Art Deco hints. It manages to desguise its bulk pretty well, The Pentax 67 seems clumsy and over the top when compared with the Six TL. As a shooter I quite like it too, the mirror isn't of the instant return type, but that makes for a very smooth shutter, if very noisy. Several top of the drawer Zeiss and Pentacon lenses were available, like the Flektogons and the Sonnars.
Yashica TL-SUPER with auto-Yashinon-DX 1.4/50
Yashica's first SLR with TTL-metering, introduced 1966, and of course you still have to stop down for metering. It is often compared to the Pentax Spotmatic from 1964 and the similarities are striking. The TL-Super looks much bulkier, but the difference is only a few millimeters. Unlike the Spotmatic the TL-Super features a built-in hot shoe and a true mirror lock-up, which was necessary to mount the 3.3/21 Yashinon, which wasn't a retrofocus design. In Germany the TL-Super started with the same price tag as the Spotmatic, but then the price was reduced and it was sold very successfully.
Some specs:
* M42 thread mount
* Shutter speeds: 1 s to 1/1000 s
* Mechanical shutter, horizontally traveling
* ISO range: 25 to 800
* Match needle in the viewfinder
* Uses zinc-oxide batteries
Some other TL cameras by Yashica:
TL (1968) reduced TL-Super.
TL Electro X (1968) milestone, first 35mm SLR with lamps (not LEDs) in the viewfinder instead of a needle, electronically shutter with blades, vertically traveling.
TL-Electro (1972) reduced Electro X, rather a TL-Super. Mechanical shutter again, but still lamps in the viewer.
My lovely new (to me) medium format film camera Pentacon Six TL with Carl Zeiss Biometar 80mm f2.8 lens.
Strobist info:
1xSB600 in softbox camera right triggered by on board flash, home made light tent
De TL-kroonluchter in de hal van het Berlijnse S-Bahnhof Gesundbrunnen had enigszins te lijden van duivenbezoek. (Foto uit 1989)
The fluorescent tube chandelier in the Berlin S-Bahn station Gesundbrunnen suffered somewhat from pigeons. (Picture from 1989)
Pentacon Six TL
PDF @ butkus:
www.butkus.org/chinon/pentacon/pentacon_sixtl/pentacon_si...
wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentacon_Six
Lens:
Carl Zeiss Jena
MC Biometar 2.8/80mm
sn.9712934
P6 mount
Angle of view 54 degrees
Closest focus 1m
Filter thread M58 × 0.75
Length 50mm, weight 240g
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Zenza Bronica EC-TL ~1975
Nikkor-H 50mm 1:3.5
Cloth focal plane shutter 4"-1/1000 and B. In aperture priority mode "A" the shutter speeds are step-less 2"-1/1000.
Waist level finder.
TTL, centre weighted, light metering, when the diaphragm is stepped down, red button on the front left.
Features Mirror lock-up and multi-exposure.
EC back for 120 or 220 film with pocket to store the dark slide.
12 or 24 exposures in the 6x6 format.
Here some pictures taken with this camera.
You can read my review in my blog Classic Cameras
Pentacon Six TL
PDF @ butkus:
www.butkus.org/chinon/pentacon/pentacon_sixtl/pentacon_si...
wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentacon_Six
Lens:
Carl Zeiss Jena
MC Biometar 2.8/80mm
sn.9712934
P6 mount
Angle of view 54 degrees
Closest focus 1m
Filter thread M58 × 0.75
Length 50mm, weight 240g
The Yashica TL, Yashica's second entert in the TL series, is a budget version of the TL Super with a top shutter speed of only 1/500. The lens shown is the Yashinon DS 50/2, which has lost the final vestiges of the chrome accents found on the earlier lenses
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An AWD TL truck. It was basically a modernized version of the Bedford TL, after the Dunstable plant was aquired by David Brown. Production apparently ended in 1995.
Manufactured by Kombinat VEB Pentacon, Dresden, former East Germany
Model: c. 1980, (late version of TL range)
TL range produced between 1968-90
All Praktisix / Pentacon Six TL series of cameras produced between 1957-90
Medium format SLR system film camera, film: 120/220 roll, picture size: 6x6cm
Logo on the front: Pentacon tower logo
Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Biometar 80mm f/2.8 MC, automatic diaphragm, w/ DOF preview lever, 5 elements in 4 groups, filter thread 58mm, serial no.10075268
Mount: Praktisix/Pentacon six bayonet Breach lock
Standard lens of the system and all models
In here, the total black finish MC lens produced between 1978-90
Aperture: f/2.8-f/22setting: ring and scale on the lens
Focus range: 1-30m +inf
Lens release: by black milled ring behind the lens on the lens flange, turn counter clockwise and remove the lens
Focusing: via simple matte glass screen (standard screen of the system), interchangeable, ring and scale on the lens, w/DOF scale
Shutter: focal plane rubberized cloth shutter, horizontally travelling, speeds: 1-1/1000 +B
setting : dial on the left of the top plate
Shutter release: on the front side of the camera, w/ cable release socket and safety locking milled ring
Cocking lever: also winds the film, long stroke, on the right of the top plate
Frame counter: on the cocking lever, additive type, auto-reset
Disconnecting lever: for unlocking the locked cocking lever after 12/24 frames, thus the film can be rolled to the end by short rocking movements, beneath right side of the cocking lever
Mirror: not instant return
Viewfinder: waist level finder, w/ magnifying glass and two framed sports finder, interchangeable, opens by a knob on the back side of the finder
Finder release: by a small silver knob on the left of the top-plate
Flash PC socket: on the lower right of the lens flange, X synch 1/15, w/ safety locking ring for flash plug
Memory dials : for ASA on the cocking lever, for film type on the speeds dial
Self-timer
Back cover: hinged, opens by a latch on the left side of the camera
Film loading: knobs on the bottom plate for fitting the spools
Plate on the bottom plate: Made in G.D.R
Tripod socket: 1/4'', at the bottom of the lens flange
Strap knobs
Body: metal, Weight: 1366g
serial no. 115171 (beneath the back cover opening latch)
There are large variety of Carl Zeiss Jena and Schneider lenses for the Pentacon six. Also, a large variety of viewing screens, from simple matte to grids or fresnel lens microprism screens, are available. The waist-level finder can be replaced by non-metered or metered prism finders. The metered prisms were introduced in 1968; from this point onwards, the camera was called Pentacon six TL. Nothing had changed in the camera itself; the only thing new was the availability of a metered prism allowing TTL metering.
Praktisix is the predecessor of the Pentacon Six of the same bayonet mount. Arsenal Kiev 60 is also with Pentacon six mount.
But there is no relationship between the Praktisix/Pentacon Six and the Kiev6C/60. They share a common lens mount and film size but they are in no way the same and the Kiev is not the same mechanically.
Six major models were produced. The Praktisix 1957, Praktisix II 1964, Praktisix IIA 1966 Pentacon six 1966, Pentacon Six TL (early version) 1968, and Pentacon Six TL (late version).
These cameras are a series of improvements from the first Praktisix. But, other than the name changes there are minor changes from model to model, and the bodies are the same in general appearance.
The most common problems with all of these cameras:
1. Never allow the film advance lever to snap back after winding the film. This has been the cause of breaking more of these cameras than every other problem combined.
2. Never release the self-timer when the camera is not cocked, again a common way to break the camera.
The original manufacturer of these cameras was Kamera Werkstätten in 1959 they became V E B Kamera and KinoWerke Dresden,in 1964 they became VEB Pentacon and finally in 1970 Kombinat VEB Pentacon.
VEB (Volkseigner Betrieb) roughly translates as "People owned Industry". Initially the cameras and accessories had a stylized "KW in a diamond" logo and later the "Pentacon tower" logo.
Manual in Orpahan Cameras byMikeButkus
Praktica Super TL ~1968
Made by VEB Pentacon in Dresden, former GDR
SLR 135 film camera, micro-prism focusing ring.
Focal plane shutter 1"-1/500 and B.
Flash synchronism F=1/30 and X=1/40.
TTL metering, stepped down, using the huge button, under the shutter release, that doubles as DOF check.
My parents Xmas 2009 present
Pentacon 2.8/29, wide-angle lens, M42 screw mount.
Pentacon Six TL East German medium format camera with it's standard lens, Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 2,8/80
Photo : Patrice Airoldi. Reproduction autorisée avec mention de la source.
À l'occasion d'une manifestation sponsorisée par les SIL (Services Industriels de Lausanne), l'autobus Van Hool n° 431 des TL était exposé à Ouchy. En arrière-plan, on voit le bateau M/S Léman de la CGN arrivant depuis Evian.
Pentacon Six TL
PDF @ butkus:
www.butkus.org/chinon/pentacon/pentacon_sixtl/pentacon_si...
wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentacon_Six
Lens:
Carl Zeiss Jena
MC Biometar 2.8/80mm
sn.9712934
P6 mount
Angle of view 54 degrees
Closest focus 1m
Filter thread M58 × 0.75
Length 50mm, weight 240g