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  • 03-12-2009 9:14pm
    #1
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭


    Following on from ... http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055745107
    Shiny box arrived about 5 days later from japan and after some trials and tribulations I had the camera assembled.

    Camera is 1/100 and f/11 or so. First roll was tri-x, souped it in Diafine to try and get some usable negs out of a wide variety of situations.

    4156342918_07b427c880.jpg

    Jealousy much ?
    4156331204_75f6c7b1b8.jpg

    Double exposure prevention is .. uhh .. nonexistent ...
    4156354254_95e46949eb.jpg

    exposure is a bit hit and miss ...
    4155557955_c7c1e97922.jpg


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  • #2
    artyeva
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,137 ✭✭✭artyeva


    ooh cheers for posting these, was waiting for your first results!! one question - why is double exposure unpreventable - something to do with the winding mechanism?


  • #3
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    They're great Daire. Are you still going to go for a lens conversion, do you think?


  • #4
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    artyeva wrote: »
    ooh cheers for posting these, was waiting for your first results!! one question - why is double exposure unpreventable - something to do with the winding mechanism?

    I didn't say that double exposure was unpreventable, I said that double exposure protection was non-existent :) You snap the shot and then wind on ... or not ... so you can snap as often as you want on that one wee bit of film. Other cameras have interlocks to protect you from doing this, or winding on also cocks the shutter so you have to wind on before shooting again etc etc
    Fajitas! wrote: »
    They're great Daire. Are you still going to go for a lens conversion, do you think?

    I don't know now. The helios is too big to fit one on top of another given the size of the thing, so I disassembled the one I have the other night. Taking it out of its focusing helical helped a bit but there was still no way it would fit. Only after I'd stuck the thing back together again did I realise that I wouldn't need an aperture mechanism for the viewing lens, so I could just unscrew the lens elements for the viewing lens and screw them back into some barrel of the right length, and leave the aperture mechanism on the taking lens. They'd probably fit then but I'd have to fashion some sort of focusing mechanism for them.
    Then on top of all that, because of the way the shutter mechanism is constructed the body can't really be reamed out anymore than would provide an aperture of about f/5.6 or so. The whole point of shooting with the Helios is to shoot it wide open so I've cooled on the idea a bit now :rolleyes:

    Anyhow, its a kind of neat camera. Although I can see why no-one ever really thought the idea of waist level viewfinders for a 35mm cam was a particularly good idea. Its a little ... troublesome ... focusing :)


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