Hi Kelton,
I have started using an Exakta around 66, and still keep it. The changeable
screens and finder served me well, and there is a neat little feature that I
never
again saw : Instead of the Film spool you can put in a second cannister,
transport
the film into this and after some exposures you can cut the film with the built
in
knife (look for the screw
left bottom) and just develop this short piece..works fine! By the way, my
normal
lens is a Schneider Xenon 1,9/ 50,
tacksharp to the edge even wide open (tested with starfield shots)
I had one bad experience: since this thing leaves the mirror locked up after
shooting, dont leave it in the sun! I had a hole burnt in the shutter curtain...
Rainer
Kelton Rhoads schrieb:
> 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
> .....
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