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G9 has two way of photo taking: the analog and the digital. Use the optical viewfinder as a traditional camera. The LCD is reserved for triditional digital camera users.
I certainly didn't expect to meet my favourite writer from Norn Iron today.
I called into No Alibi's on Botanic Ave to give David the owner some of my Kinky Friedman shots that he had helped to set up. Anyways imagine my surprise to see who he was talking to.
There was nothing for it i had to TtV, of course.
If you haven't already read Cycle of Violence, do..... it's vv funny.
See the note.
Test roll through a new camera I got off of ebay. This was with the flash (if you couldn't tell).
I don't know if Minolta made lenses for the AF2. These are the only ones I've seen so far. I paid much less than original MSRP for just these than for the camera, case and lenses on eBay.
What a great surprise!
A few nights ago (three weeks actually) I found out that this picture had been selected by photographer Claire Davidson as the winner of the workshop inspired to her show Picture the Moment at the Viewfinder Gallery in Greenwich. Here are her very kind words supporting the choice: "For me the image captures a moment of lightness, energy and synchrony- the first step which flows into a beautiful dance in my mind."
I won past week this Praktina IIa body (no lenses included) with its waist viewfinder (that was my main interest in fact), on eBay France for 35€.
The speed selector was stuck but the camera was operating on the fixed time of 1/125s. The film plate (that is a high precision glass plate on the Praktina's, like on the Leica M series) is missing. With a watchmaker oil stick I added a minimum amount of watch Möbius synthetic oil 9020 between the exposure time disk and the upper deck of the camera. This soon unblocked the disk and all times are operating. The second shutter curtains (the one exposed after shutter release is not in a bad shape and even better than my other Praktina IIa.
The camera back of Praktina's could be interchanged so I could eventually use this body with my other correct back. The finder is OK but a small back piece in front of the finder lock button is missing. I used a black velvet fabric to mask the apparent steel spring and screws. Pushing through the velvet causes easily the finder opening.
The serial number is posterior to my first Praktina and the deck button of a little different size. The camera is presented here with a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar normal lens 1:2.8 f=50mm with semi-automatic diaphragm that is not operative on the IIa series but designed for the previous Praktina FX. The final version of Praktina's had double iris command for both automatic and semi-automatic diaphragm. Here it still possible to operate the diaphragm manually (no pre-selection).
March 3, 2024
69004 Lyon
France
About my other Praktina IIa camera and its accompaning two Carl Zeiss Jena normal lenses :
The Praktina IIa followed in 1958 the Praktina FX designed by the prestigious KW (Kamera Werk Niedersedlitz) German company in Dresden.
This specimen is the version 2 (code 110) produced at about 25.000 exemplars from June 1958 to Mai 1960. Praktina camera's were very high grade precision and quality machines much more sophisticated than the Praktica and the Praktiflex also produced by KW. Praktina was a "system" SLR 35 mm camera with a an impressive range of possible accessories and lenses including large capacity 17m film back and several motors.
My camera came with the mechanical 12-view motor and two Carl Zeiss normal lenses : a Tessar 1:2.8 f=50mm and a Flexon 1:2 f=50mm. This later Flexon lens was designed for the Praktina by Carl Zeiss Jena to modernize the old Biotar 1:2 f=58mm and to fulfill a more closer definition of a "normal lens" to the focal of 50mm. The lens is also much more compact. It was soon renamed "Pancolar" by Zeiss later on.
The Praktina has its own bayonet mount that ressemble a bit to the Canon FD mount with a locking ring on the camera body. The mount has a very large diameter. The IIa model has a new fully automatic diaphragm stop down system. With the Zeiss Flexon, the iris preset is indeed like with a modern camera.
Praktina is a completely different camera compared to the Praktica IV. The body is very well equilibrated and more compact not very far for the Olympus OM-1. The design looks particularly modern and the camera is particularly pleasant to manipulate.
The productiotn suddenlty stopped in May1960 after the governmental decision to drop down the imposed prices of all camera's DDR by 30%! Praktina was then likely too expensive to be produced normally. As consequence, the less expensive and less performant Praktica's continued when KW became part of the VEB Pentacon.
this is one of the things I love: viewfinder driving. my family and friends don't like being onboard though.
The Yashica 12 my father-in-law sent. It cleaned up very nicely!
I took the top off and cleaned out the viewfinder area too. Nice and bright now.
This is an old fashioned view finder. You stick certain pictures in the end and you gt to see the picture up close and it almost seems like you are in it.
This are some of the shots from the first roll of film I took with my very old Kodak Retinette 35mm Viewfinder Camera.
Focussing is done by estimating the distance to subject, then rotating the lens, and exposure also has to be set manually with readings from a seperate light-meter.
I quickly got bored of checking the light-meter, so I reverted to the Sunny 16 rule and guessed.
Film was cheap Kodak colour (maybe Ultra, I can't remember!) I got from the car boot, and processing was 1 hour Boots (Fujifilm)
Thanks, Rob.
La doña vista a través de una cámara que a su vez se vió en una cámra.
FotografÃa compuesta por la Geo y el Carlows
Allmost total rebuild of a Gallus Derlux and retrofit with a Foth Anastigmat lens
Image taken with the Nikolbia TTV812
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