I've got a couple of left-handed Exakta's. They're strange beasts indeed.
OK, here's the deal with the right hand knob. My Varex IIa has two scales,
one black from 1/5 sec to 12 sec, and then continuing from 1/5 sec to 6 sec
in red. Black numbers work normally, red numbers only trigger after a
fixed 13 second self timer delay. First you cock the shutter and lower the
mirror with the winding lever. Then put the shutter release on T or B (I
haven't figured out the difference yet). Lift up on the right-hand knob
and set your desired shutter speed from 1/5 sec to 12 sec. Then turn the
right hand knob to wind the long-shutter speed system. Trigger the shutter
and off you go. If you have an auto-diaphragm lens, don't forget to hold
the shutter release down to keep the lens stopped down; or use the lens in
a pre-set fashion.
Anybody know the difference between the T and B settings?
Skip
At 05:54 PM 12/13/00 -0800, you wrote:
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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