Perhaps it's the luddite in me, but I obtained an Exakta II recently.
After cleaning it up (a clean camera is a mint camera, I recently learned
while reading this list, so now it's a mint exacta, ahem!), I find it's a
pretty cool piece of germanic engineering. It's got a prewar Zeiss f/2
Biotar 58mm lens, which is pretty quirky, and winder and shutter release
for the left hand, but even more mystifying is the rightmost knob on the
deck, which has an odd sequence of numbers on it: 1/5, 1/2, then 1
through 12, then more fractions (1/5, 3/4, 1 1/2), then 2-6 again. I was
going to guess that these are the slow speeds, but I'm far from certain.
And what's with the crazy sequence? And how do I get that rightmost knob
to "work", anyway? It just sits there. My suspicion is that, if these are
slow speeds, they aren't working on this camera. Any Exakta fanciers out
there who can enlighten me? Sorry to post this to the OM list, but you
folks are my only line to the photographic world. Perhaps you can refer
me to another list or web resource. Thanks.
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Kelton Rhoads, PhD
Los Angeles, CA
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