Looking for a carry-around camera

Andrew Price wrote:


Thanks Stacey - I knew about that workaround, but strange as it may
seem, I never had a problem with film spacing with any of my P-6s.

Where some of them *really* had me foaming at the mouth was the actual
film counter indicator itself, which would either:

- not show anything at all (reset itself with an unmarked zone of the
disk showing, then not advance with the film)

or

- reset itself to around "8" (rather than zero).



Should be easy to fix that. I bet they just need a splash of lube on the
counter wheel. It's fairly easy to get the top plate off to deal with that.

But yes these are flakey cameras that seem to always need some "special
treatment" to continue working...
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Stacey

William Mutch wrote:

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says...
William Mutch wrote:


It is *possible* ( but a monumnetal pain in the ass) to use the
camera by sacrificing a roll of film to determine by experiment a table
of degrees of film advance knob winding for each frame of 12.

Or just use the red window on the back of the camera. This will -not- fog
film like some people believe. I have several old folders that have dead
counters that have been converted to red window counters.


The prewar model of Ikonta B that I (still) have does not have a
red window.

Neither did my Iskra but when the counter blew up, it got one installed. Now
the counter works perfect! :-)
--

Stacey

In article ,
says...
William Mutch wrote:


It is *possible* ( but a monumnetal pain in the ass) to use the
camera by sacrificing a roll of film to determine by experiment a table
of degrees of film advance knob winding for each frame of 12.

Or just use the red window on the back of the camera. This will -not- fog
film like some people believe. I have several old folders that have dead
counters that have been converted to red window counters.


The prewar model of Ikonta B that I (still) have does not have a
red window. You lined up arrows on the film backing paper with ones
inside the camera body, and started the frame counter, which then
stopped when you reached where frame one should be.

In article ,
says...

"William Mutch" wrote in message
ell.edu...

Do you have a lead on pictures and dimensions of this gear?



I still have about four of them, damaged beyond servicability,
omewhere in my junker repair parts box. The gear is ripsaw toothed, a
ratchet, rather than symmetrical; about 15mm in diameter, 1.7 mm thick
and mounted by a swage fit to a plate also mounting the pawl and fits
under the frame counter dial inside the rangefinder assembly housing.
[...]

Gosh, if you could make an exact description of that part, possibly scan it
as well (or ideally have a CAD rendering made of it), maybe some saint will
make some replacement parts. Not me.



A company called "Photography on Bald Mountain" used to advert
that they would custom make repair parts like this, but they have to
charge so much for it that you are better off looking for some other
options...Try looking around for an Agfa Ventura 6x6 or similar folders
made under Ansco name, or older Welta, Perko or Mamiya folder...some of
these appear in the $45 to $80 range in very good to excellent *user*
(not collector) condition.

On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 19:55:44 +0000, Stacey wrote:

[P-6]

But yes these are flakey cameras that seem to always need some "special
treatment" to continue working...

Yep, they're cuter and lighter, but when I know that I need results I
can count on every time, out comes the old K-60.