Pentacon Six Project. Step one – removing top plate and examining the shutter.
In this the first part on a series dealing with a Pentacon Six medium format camera I remove the top plate.
Blogging
Interesting Taron Vr 35 mm rangefinder camera
A quick look at the Taron Vr coupled rangefinder camera made in Japan in the late 1950s
My Pentacon Six project
This is the introductory post in a series of articles on my project to rebuild a Pentacon Six medium format camera.
Olympus Pen EE-2 half frame camera
A review of the fully automatic, half frame 35mm camera the Olympus EE-2
Kodak Instamatic 300 camera
The 300 model is slightly more sophisticated than most Instamatics because it had a light cell to measure the light level and used that information to drive the camera’s exposure system.
Chinon CE-4 35 mm SLR camera
A look at the Chinon CE-4, a popular model 35mm SLR camera from the early 1980s which was sold in large numbers by the Dixons high street chain.
Edixa Reflex D strip down
A pictorial post describing how I stripped down an Edixa Reflex D 35mm SLR camera.
Edixa Reflex D 35 mm SLR camera
This is another Edixa 35mm slr camera, the Edixa Reflex D, which is very similar in appearance to the other Edixa models in my collection.
Samples from a Steinheil Munchen Cassar S prime lens
These samples were taken on a Sony Nex 6 APS-C camera in and around Loughborough in Leicestershire on a recent family trip.
The rather flimsy Edixa-Mat Reflex B SLR camera
This is a review of the Edixa-Mat Reflex B, an early 35mm single lens reflex camera manufactured by the Wirgin company in Germany in about 1960.
Edixa flex 35 mm SLR camera
This is a review of the Edixa Flex, a nice and quite old 35mm slr camera which I acquired a few days ago from eBay uk.
The uninspiring Chinon CS 35 mm SLR camera
This is a Chinon CS 35mm film slr fitted with a Chinon 50mm f/1.7 lens which was made in Japan sometime in the 1970’s.