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Cosina Co., Ltd. (株式会社コシナ) is a designer and manufacturer based in Nakano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Cosina is the successor to Nikō (or "Nikoh"), a company set up as a manufacturer of lenses in 1959. In 1966, it started to manufacture 35 mm compact cameras and 8 mm cine cameras, in 1968 it started a glassworks, and a year later started the manufacture of 35 mm film SLR cameras. Cosina SLR cameras used either the M42 (Praktica/Pentax) lens mount or the Pentax K (bayonet) lens mount.
The CSM was introduced in 1978.
Lens Mount: M=42¢ P=1.0 screw mount, Flange back focus distance 45.45mm. Shutter: Magnetically controlled Cloth Curtain Focal Plane shutter with the speed from 4 sec. to 1/1000 sec. plus B and Mechanical 1/50 sec. Flash synchronization at X (1/60 sec.) Electrically controlled Self timer of 10 sec. with winking Warning Signal lamp. Viewfinder: Fixed Pentaprism type, Magnification 1x (with f=55mm lens), Dioptry 0.9, field of view 93% for both vertical and horizontal, Focusing to be made by horizontal split image and surrounding Micro-prism, Indications of Optimum, Over and Under exposures. Metering System: Matching system by stop-down metering. Film Speed Range: ASA 25 - 3200. Auto-exposure range: EV 3 (F1.4 1/4 sec.}--EV 18 (F16 1/1000 sec.) Film advance: 180° rotation with Stand-off angle 30°. Shutter Release: Equipped with built-in Lock dial and Stop-down release button. Half pressure stops down the lens shooting aperture and Full pressure activates the shutter. Exposure Counter: Progressive type from S (start) and automatically resets to S. Size (Body}: 136.5 x 83.2 x 51 (mm) Weight: 540gm.
One of the so called Queens of the 6x9 format, the Bessa line of camera was second to none. It closely followed Zeiss stratetgy with the Ikonta family, a model for every pocket. This one is the top of the range Bessa I equipped with the Color Skopar 105/3,5 just like the top of all Bessa cameras, the II. It lacks a rangefinder, but the viewfinder is curious because you can choose between 2 formats 6x9 or 6x4,5 and it has the refinement of correcting parallax for both formats. A bit pointless since the viewfinder is so small, but a Voigtlander is always original. The change of format is made by means of a mask, so you have to make the format choice before you insert the film.
There is a double exposure prevention system, with a neat little arrow that changes positionaccording to the film winding or not.
I am really curious about the quality of the Skopar, the Heliar on my Bessa II is really great. Contact sheets from the Bessa II are freighteneing sharp, the advantage of being 7 times bigger than 35 mm.
A Werra Matic with the 35mm f2.8 lens fitted and the 50mm f2.8 and 100mm f4 lenses along side.
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A while back I bought on eBay a complete Carl Zeiss Jena Werra outfit consisting of a Werra III rangefinder camera together with a complete set of 35mm, 50mm and 100mm lenses, all in a beautiful set of cases. The only problem was that the camera itself didn't work. Rather than send it back I decided to keep it as a complete outfit like this isn't something you see very often, and I thought that buying a replacement camera wouldn't take long or be very expensive.
Well it took me longer than I thought to find a really nice Werra camera to allow me to actually try out these lenses, but I have finally found one!
My original camera was a 'flat-top' Werra from the original series of cameras. I've always thought these original cameras are the purest of the Werras, and the III is most minimal of all without the light meter to sploil the top plate.
This Werra Matic is from the last series of camera. Not only does it have the slightly fussy striped details on the front, it also had an accessory shoe and the various windows for the light meter. But it is still a very attractive camera.
By modern standards these Werras are rather fiddly and fussy cameras to operate, but all Werras have some thoughful and very unusual design touches. The most famous one is the wind-on mechanism: see that wide band around the base of the lens? A quick twist of this band with advance the film and automatically cock the shutter ready for the next shot.
Almost as famous is the combined lens cap and lens hood which cover up all the dials when the camera is put into storage/carry mode.
The Werra Matic is the most advanced of all the Werras. It has a cross coupled light meter with a read out in the viewfinder. And a clever mirror in the viewfinder reflects a view of both the shutter speed and aperture setting into the viewfinder. Like all interchangeable lens Werras the viewfinder also features frame lines for the 50mm and 100mm lenses (with the whole viewfinder serving the 35mm lens).
I particularly like the range finder on these Werras... it is very bright and clear and easy to use.
It looks like the camera was right in front of my mouth.
Actually it was quite far,
I was looking at the LCD screen,
framing the shot.
I've gotten used to this camera. It's very comfortable to me now.
Charleston, WV. June 2016.
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The technic works very well after all this years! We heard radio messages from all over the world there...That made real fun!
Die Technik funktioniert noch hervorragend nach all den Jahren! Wir haben dort Funksprüche aus der ganzen Welt empfangen...Das hat richtig spass gemacht...
Dr Evil and Mini Me! My Yashica 44 came to me with a blue-grey original colour and beige skin. I'd have left it original but the paintwork wasn't in great condition so figured it would make sense to tidy it up. I've got a black VH leather skin coming.
A computer circuit board.
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I was delighted to find a fast 50mm prime mounted on my flea market purchase of a Maxxum 9000. During my normal post-buy cleaning routine (OK, sometimes it feels like I'm disinfecting them, too) I noted that the MAXXUM letters on the lens had the early overlapped X's. Bonus. That would make this lens one of the very, very early types before copyright pressure from EXXON forced Minolta to print the X's separately. Makes an inexpensive camera acquisition an even greater find for an old camera collector like me. Strike that; makes a greater find for a collector of old cameras such as myself. Got to be careful there. I'm not THAT old.
Believe it or not, I've never had one of these before. I found this one, cosmetically mint and with a very sluggish but not jammed shutter, for $6 (body only, the lens is from my dad's Nikkormat) at an antique shop in Nacogdoches, Texas on the way home from Houston.
The Nikkorex F was made by Mamiya with a Nikon lens mount, and sold as a Ricoh as well.
Some day I'll open it up, clean up the shutter, and add it to the sketches on my Tech Notes CD.... but that's some time off, I have a lot of projects ahead of it.
La mia nuova compatta, anzi, compattona, che non va a sostituire la reflex, ma la affianca, specie nelle situazioni in cui il peso diventi un ostacolo. Gran compatta: un sensore di dimensioni pari a quello della Eos 600 D !!, un nuovo software, un peso che le dà un aspetto serio e capace
Happy soon to be easter everyone, and for the first time tomorrow I have decided to only shoot analog. Not that this is a paying client or anything but I feel like I want to detach myself from the comfort digital brings. On that note I also decided to post a photo record of all of the my current analog gear to document my progression throughout my shooting career.
Strobist:
Canon 50D w/ Canon 24-70L
Canon 430EXII in Westcott 43" Shoot Through Umbrella @ 1/4
LumoPro LP160 bare full zoom @ 1/2
Makeshift light tent made with two pieces of foamcore
Batavia, NY. August 2015.
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Palmer, MA. October 2016.
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Just received a package from Amazon with a new Lumix 45-150 zoom lens. I am impressed with the lens' light weight and decent build. It feels right and balances well on the E-M5 body.
Interestingly I took this picture of the E-M5 and lens with my GX1 and 20mm and like the GX1's JPEG output better than the other picture I posted of the GX1 and 45-150 lens taken with the E-M5.