Joseph

Oldie But Goodie

Black And White Photography, Joseph, Photography

Image was taken with a Fujifilm X-E5 and XF 50mm f/2.0 R WR lens. Exposure was 1/90 th of a second at f/2.8.

What’s not to love ? A small pocketable rangefinder camera with a fast, sharp 40mm f/1.7 Canon lens. This is a recent acquisition and I have been working on for a while. Like most totally mechanical vintage cameras equipped with leaf shutters the lubricant dries up and becomes a sticky mess preventing the shutter blades from firing at the correct speeds, or even firing at all. I have already removed the front lens group and thoroughly cleaned the shutter and aperture blades, re-assembled and re-lubricated all the parts and everything is now working as it should. Unfortunately the internal light meter does not work which is fairly common on these cameras. Now I am waiting for the new light seal kit I ordered to be delivered so I can finish up with this camera.

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Nikon F Circa 1969

Black And White Photography, Joseph, Photography

Image was taken with a Fujifilm X-E5 and XF 50mm f/2.0 lens

This is a vintage Nikon F camera equipped with a Photomic FTN viewfinder. Base model Nikon F cameras were usually equipped with an eye level pentaprism viewfinder without a light meter. The Photomic FTN viewfinder incorporated a light meter and a shutter speed readout. The approximate manufacture date of this particular camera is May – July 1969. The F was Nikons first SLR camera and it had a very long production run (1959 – 1973). It was well regarded for its extreme reliability and many Vietnam war photojournalists used them in the field. Hasselblad cameras along with modified Nikon F’s also accompanied NASA astronauts to the moon starting with Apollo 15 in 1971 and SkyLab missions in 1973. A total of 862,000 Nikon F cameras were manufactured during its long 14 year production.