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« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2010, 02:53:38 PM » |
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Filter / hood thread is 40.5 mm. Nice shots BTW.
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« Reply #16 on: March 01, 2010, 06:34:48 AM » |
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Scratches? Lagging shutter? This is unacceptable. PM sent.
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« Reply #17 on: March 01, 2010, 11:05:15 AM » |
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Pete, I recently bought a vented metal 40.5mm hood with cap (to fit the hood) from this Ebay seller: http://tinyurl.com/ykgoutl. Works nicely on my Kiev and Contax. James |
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« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2010, 10:58:13 AM » |
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Thanks, Julio!
James, I went over there, that's a nice item for a good price. Thanks for the tip!
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Pete (Corpus Christi, TX) Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. - Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995) My Website
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Wayne
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« Reply #19 on: March 07, 2010, 06:21:04 PM » |
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Nice results with the new lenses Pete. Judging by the colour pics there may be a bit of a light leak (rather than lens flare?). This is not at all uncommon with Kievs. The Kiev Survival Site has a section on light leaks and if you look about 3/4 of the way down that page it mentions a baffle that can often cause trouble.
I've found the Kiev/Contax systems to be sometimes frustrating, but on the whole very enjoyable to use. You've got to hand it to those German engineers who came up with a completely different (and incredibly complicated) shutter system in order to compete with Leica.
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« Reply #20 on: March 07, 2010, 08:07:33 PM » |
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Wayne, if it was a light leak, wouldn't I have seen it on more of the pics? As it was, the red streaks appeared only on a few of them, towards the end of the roll. That's why I thought it was lens flare. But you could be right -- lens flare in the past has shown up as white or yellow for me. I'll take a look over at the KSS. Thanks for that tip.
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« Reply #21 on: March 07, 2010, 08:21:23 PM » |
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Now that it is mentioned I had the same problem with my Kiev but it was just that I did not have the back on properly.. Bottom loaders are not always fun.
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Film photography and the Soviet Union are not dead. Just downsized.
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« Reply #22 on: March 08, 2010, 07:16:24 AM » |
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Looks like Wayne is right...I developed two rolls of b&w last nite that I shot last week, and the negs are showing black streaks across the sprocket holes into the image. So...light leak! I don't have a proper take-up spool (using a spool from a 35mm roll and I tape the leader to it), and it gives me problems when putting the back on.
I'm sure it's not a permanent thing, I just have to make sure all is secure.
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« Reply #23 on: March 25, 2010, 08:07:56 AM » |
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Hey fellers, when I was in Illinois last week, I ran a roll of Kodak CN400BW thru my Kiev and used an empty reloadable film canister for the take-up, thinking that it might help me secure the camera back a little better and prevent the aforementioned light leaks. See, what I think my problem was, the take-up spool I was using (from another 35mm can) didn't seem to fit tightly and tended to skew a little as I was putting the back on (by that I mean, the pressure of the film's feed side was pulling the bottom of the take-up spool towards the feed). The use of a canister seemed to do the trick, as there were no apparent light leaks on this roll.
I got this idea from the Kiev Survival Site, just wanted you to know about it.
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