29 Oct
2012
29 Oct
'12
12:55 p.m.
Thanks Tony! I just ordered a copy, and I'll have
it on Wednesday.
I'm really surprised the 1999 edition has a Commodore 64 Shutter
Tester. That's pretty cool, as at that point the C64 was 17 years
old.
If the weather is as bad next weekend as it is this weekend, I might
start building it. I figure it will be 'good enough' for the antique
shutter for my 8x10 lens.
It will be. There's almost nothing to builed, just an NPN phototrasistoe
wired to 2 pins of the joyseick port (I think it's port B, but it's in
the book). Then type in the program (it has some lines of DATA that are
POKEd into memory, I assume a machien code program) , save it (!) and run
it.
I figure I'll start slowly with the Tomosy books.
Then maybe a few
specific books.
THat's what I did. I read the first 4 Tomosey books (the
non-brand-specific ones) and started workign o n'junk' cameras. I then
read the 2 brand-specific books.
But when I have an expensive, complex, cmera to work on, I try to get the
mnufacturer's manual as well.
When I bought it I didn't know any better, it was
the first lens, for
the first camera I bought, a Nikon FM2. I travelled the world with
it and an ancient 135mm f/2.8 that was converted to AI.
Coincidence! I have a non-AI 135mm that I must have a go at converting. I
have an AI one too, but when I saw the non-AI one for a really good
price, I bought it to have a go at converting. Of course you can no
logner get the conversion kit, so it's a matter ot attacking the aperture
ring with an end mill...
Zane
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