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Post by John Farrell on Feb 17, 2024 2:42:31 GMT
 This is an Agfa Colorflex II - a fixed lens camera with a diaphragm shutter. This particular example has poxy chrome, a sticky film door, and a non cocking shutter and mirror. I'm starting to wonder why I bothered to buy it... |
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Post by spinno on Feb 17, 2024 9:58:34 GMT
This is an Agfa Colorflex II - a fixed lens camera with a diaphragm shutter. This particular example has poxy chrome, a sticky film door, and a non cocking shutter and mirror. I'm starting to wonder why I bothered to buy it... You love a challenge? |
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Post by gray1720 on Feb 17, 2024 10:13:29 GMT
This is an Agfa Colorflex II - a fixed lens camera with a diaphragm shutter. This particular example has poxy chrome, a sticky film door, and a non cocking shutter and mirror. I'm starting to wonder why I bothered to buy it... You have a need of a paperweight? |
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Post by petrochemist on Feb 17, 2024 13:21:27 GMT
This is an Agfa Colorflex II - a fixed lens camera with a diaphragm shutter. This particular example has poxy chrome, a sticky film door, and a non cocking shutter and mirror. I'm starting to wonder why I bothered to buy it... The film mechanism does sound tired, but it's normally not hard to remove the lens & shutter combination (just undo the retaining ring), so you can use it on other cameras. Mounting it on a M42 body cap, then connecting to mirrorless via a helicoid can give it a new lease of life. I ve done this with several old unusable cameras, and could reverse the process in about 5 minutes most of the time. |
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Post by John Farrell on Feb 17, 2024 18:16:00 GMT
This is an Agfa Colorflex II - a fixed lens camera with a diaphragm shutter. This particular example has poxy chrome, a sticky film door, and a non cocking shutter and mirror. I'm starting to wonder why I bothered to buy it... The film mechanism does sound tired, but it's normally not hard to remove the lens & shutter combination (just undo the retaining ring), so you can use it on other cameras. Mounting it on a M42 body cap, then connecting to mirrorless via a helicoid can give it a new lease of life. I ve done this with several old unusable cameras, and could reverse the process in about 5 minutes most of the time. The lens and shutter are on a plate held to the camera front by screws. |
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Post by petrochemist on Feb 17, 2024 21:36:31 GMT
The lens and shutter are on a plate held to the camera front by screws. That might make adapting it slightly more challenging, but I think I've had one like that which had a retaining ring fixing it to that plate. I just might be getting confused as a couple of lenses I've extracted had metering linkages to the camera (making the extraction much harder to reverse). |
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Post by beatnik69 on Feb 20, 2024 22:55:42 GMT
At first, I thought you meant "epoxy", then I realised you did actually mean "poxy"  |
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Post by spinno on Feb 20, 2024 23:03:57 GMT
At first, I thought you meant "epoxy", then I realised you did actually mean "poxy" Either or ...delete as (in)appropriate... |
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