5 Nov
2009
5 Nov
'09
11:40 a.m.
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Tony Duell wrote:
I probably do. It's the standard 8-on-127 format. You get to use a red
window to see where to wind the filkm to. The VP Exakta (VP = 'Vest
Pocket' so called because the first 127-film cameras would fit in a vest
(wasitcoat in the UK) pocket) is somewhat different to the 35mm models --
it has a fixed waist-level finder and of course no film cutting knife.
The helical focussing mount is fixed ot the camera, the lens screws into
the front of it. But it is an SLR and has shutter speeds from 1/1000s to
12s. It is also flash synchonised, which is very unusual in a camera that
old.
Among the 35mm Exactas around me at the moment is
a VP exacta taking 127
roll film (6*4,5 cm frame). Yes, I like them...
I assume you mean 4x6.5cm? ;-) 120 = 6cm while 127 = 4cm
I activelly shoot 120, and need to buy a roll or two of B&W 127 as I want to
I don't really use 120 film, other than in the roll-film backs for my
large-format cmaeres. I do have a Pentacon 6 (looks like and overgrown
35mm SLR) that needs a bit of work (same story...)
see if the Yashica 44LM I have still works.
The Exactas are interesting looking camera's, I ran across a book on them
recently. I really like the results you can get with some of the really old
lenses.
The best Exakta lenses use the pre-war Carl Zeiss computations. The
Panocolar, Tessar, etc. Myers lenses, IMHO, are not as good.
-tony