This thread on Exakta takes me back. My first SLR was a VXiib, new, with a
zeiss lens. I had it from the late 60s until I sold it to buy my OM-1n. I
even had a Travemat TTL meter head that replaced the normal finder. Back
then, there was even a store in NYC that dealt only with Exaktas --
Seymour's Exakta near Penn Station (in the old photo shop district). I
think they are now part of Cambridge Camera (of poor repute) in NYC.
Bulb -- shutter stays open as long as you depress shutter release.
Timne -- shutter stays open until you press shutter release AGAIN.
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Regards
Bruce Appelbaum
Yorktown Heights, New York
----- Original Message -----
From: "Skip Williams" <skipwilliams@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <krho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Zuik Discovers Exakta
> 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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> >Los Angeles, CA
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