WOW! Impressive talents, both IN and BEHIND the camera. While you're
tinkering, if you want to build another LIKE on a shoestring budget, let me
know!
Way cool!
-Mickey
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From: "Dizel" <webmaster@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Rod Planck Seminar, Nikon VR
> > Indeed! Those photos show remarkable sharpness and contrast. Obviously
in
> > the hands of someone who understands photography is not 'just taking
> > pictures'. So, I'll bite. What lens are you demonstrating, and on what
> > platform?
>
> :) Ohh.. I forgot to say :)
>
> Uncoated Leitz Summar from 1936 on LIKE - LeIca - zorKi camEra.
> A year ago I found a completely trashed Leica II (D) on a flea market
> for 25$ - body was bent, without baseplate, lens mout was riped
> off, rangefinder was rattling inside, top plate was scratched severely
> with sand paper.. So I put a II guts (RF and shutter assembly) into
> Zorki 1 (a type) body, made new shutter curtains from rubberized
> cloth, machined some RF parts from brass, used new imagesplitter,
> CLA-ed this thing, adjusted shutter to +/- 10% tolerance across
> whole shutter scale and across whole field.. Now this strange
> camera is silkier than any II or III I ever used and quieter than
> II/III/M3.. :) With collapsible Elmar or Industar 50 it is
> a beautiful shooter - with its silkyness, precise and crystal - clear
> rangefinder.. :)
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