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« on: July 31, 2010, 03:48:43 PM » |
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 Kodak Retina IIIs in excellent shape! Came with a Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenar 50mm/2.8. The body few scratches, but no fungus on the lens elements. The dials are a little hard to turn, but not overly so. Only put me out $30! Looks to be a little more complicated than your usual rangefinder, but I think I can figure it out. |
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Len Robertson
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« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2010, 09:22:38 PM » |
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I probably wasn't even in my teens, looking in the Sears camera catalog, when I first saw a picture of one of these. I thought it was super cool looking then, and still feel that way. Strangely, I've never owned one. I guess I could get a dozen of them off eBay, but I think I'm waiting to find one at a yard sale or flea market. Catch one in the wild, rather than shooting fish in a barrel on eBay.
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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2010, 09:43:09 PM » |
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Nice catch! I am obviously hanging out at the wrong flea markets. I do have a nice pre-war Retina I coming from Mike Elek to go with my IIa. Like the Retinas a lot.
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LarryD
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« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2010, 06:39:12 AM » |
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Nice catch. Last flea market I went to I got fleas.
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Film photography and the Soviet Union are not dead. Just downsized.
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BurninFilm
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« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2010, 12:08:42 AM » |
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Nice find! I've been looking for one of those myself, along with a Kodak Retina Reflex S. You can use the same lenses on each camera, making it the only RF/SLR system with all lenses completely compatible (except for the 200mm, but that wouldn't be feasible on a RF anyway). It always seemed like a cool concept to me!
The closest I can get to doing that is using my 90mm Summicron on my Nikon F.
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« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2010, 03:49:57 AM » |
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Nice catch. Last flea market I went to I got fleas.
You're lucky, Larry -- the last flea market I went to, they was outta fleas and I had to settle for crabs.  Or was that the fish market? |
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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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« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2010, 08:09:08 PM » |
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Really a neat camera, as the Gandy writeup shows. Automatic framelines, and -- a shutter that's quieter than an M!
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Ronald Bishop
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« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2010, 10:31:47 PM » |
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I took my little Retina Automatic III out today for the first time {I think?} If nothing else it got a few good comments,like from a lady with a Nikon D200, 'Oh what a pretty camera, you can still buy film for them??'
I believe I own maybe 5 of this era of Kodaks and yes they are pretty little cameras and tomorrow we will see how she did.
Question-- Do you have to have matching seriel numbers on the lens? I have a Retina IIIc and was told that some lenses wern't compatiable unless the numbers matched??
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BurninFilm
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« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2010, 06:58:30 AM » |
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Ron, the Retina IIIS is a completely different setup compared to the other interchangeable lens Retina rangefinder cameras. Here, the entire lens can be interchanged, rather than simply the front lents group like with a IIIc/C. For that reason, there are so many different lenses available for the Retina IIIS/Reflex series, and they are so much easier to use! For instance, the IIIc/C has just the 35mm and 80mm lens groups, both allowing only a maximum aperture of f4.0. Now, the IIIS has a 28mm, a 35mm f2.8, a 50mm f1.9(!), a tiny 85mm f4.0, a 135mm f4.0, and even that hefty 200mm I mentioned earlier.
So... to end all the blabbering... the front elements will always match on a Retina IIIS, as its basically permanently attached to the rear element!
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Mike Kovacs
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« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2010, 12:17:27 PM » |
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It is cool and I've played with one, but its a BIG camera for a rangefinder. Absolutely dwarfs my Leica IIIA! Great optics, neat that you can also pack the matching SLR and share lenses.
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« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2010, 01:38:41 PM » |
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That's a great catch indeed. A couple of years ago these sold for around USD200.00 on evilbay. I bought one around that price 2 years ago and stopped checking the prices since. These cameras have a nice bright viewfinder and incredibly silent shutter. I used mine once and lost interest in the Retinas. I also have a IIc model and some lenses for both. The lenses for the IIIS fit the Retina SLRs but not the folding Retinas - these use the C-type component lenses.
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Captain Slack
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« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2010, 03:50:39 PM » |
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Here's the first roll of film shot with this camera. In short, I think I'm in love!! Arista Legacy 100 (aka Fuji Acros) Rodinal 1+50 Konica-Minolta DiMage Scan Dual IV Vuescan      And here's a 100% crop of the water fountain:  |
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« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2010, 04:16:16 PM » |
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I think I know what love is now.  Wonderful and I have a roll of that in a camera at the moment. |
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« Reply #14 on: August 08, 2010, 04:34:29 PM » |
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.... when you get bored with it.... let me know! :cool:
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