3 Nov
2009
3 Nov
'09
12:04 p.m.
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Tony Duell wrote:
I haev quite a collection of sub-miniature Minoltas already :-). And I
have one Minox, which is a beautiful piece of engineering. Alas a Tessina
is way out of my price range...
The only Minoltas I've seriously been inside
are 16mm sub-miniature ones.
Need one? Or Minox? or Tessina? And they seem
pretty well put together.
Some of the EARLIEST Minoltas were imitation Leicas. I stumbled on one yesterday when I was looking through
M39 (Leica screw
mount) and C-mount lenses to use on my soon to arrive Micro Four Thirds.
I am actively looking for 1/2" and 1" QUALITY C-mount lenses (the Goerz
and Leitz C-mount lenses seem to be out of my price reach)
I've always found Kern-Paillard lenses to be very good. But not cheap.
Some eyars ago I bought a portable Sony reel-to-reel video recorder. It
came with camera mains adapter, and 2 Kern-Paillard lenses (the camera
has a C=mount). I am sure the lenses alone are worth a lot more than I
paid for the whole thing.
[Useless tip... I repaired the head beam in that unit using the heads
taken from a Betamx head disk. And there's a nasty design fault in that
the nut holding the head beam mounting flange to the motor spindle is a
normal right-hand thread. If it works loose (and the direction of
rotation is tending to loosen it), the heads bang into the fixed upper
and lower drums and get wrecked. Don't ask how I found that out...)
Any needs for a Leica lens mount Minolta? (Should I get it out and check
its condition?)
I don;t have one...
-tony