Recent content by Tony Warren

Very true Gary. I have just finished my first film so I might try to see what could have happened.

In a way but they remain superimposed over whatever focal length is shown, i.e they remain unchanged whatever the finder optics zoom to. They zoomed at first but there was some unpleasant grinding noises after a few uses. I have checked the finder against a fixed 35mm finder on another camera to...

Lincolnshire does have its own kind of desolation. Not as bleak as the deserts of the south west but still a calming, freeing place that always lifted my spirits when I lived near there. Is it the wind that makes those rocks slide around ?

Came across this little known camera recently which intrigued me once I started researching it. There were so many conflicting aspects to it I thought I wouldsee if anyone here knew anything about it. I have found that:- It may be the same as the Leica Zoom Mini with restyling in places. The...

Thank you Pete. The shutter is the only moving part apart from the wind on. just one pivot for the rotary shutter so unless the spring that powere it slips.as one of mine did, there is nothing really to go wrong. Some of the old cardboard bodied examples I have seen are really tatty but still...

Thanks Gary - the camera handled the exposure but I can take credit for the development in good old Rodinal.

Welcome Gareth. I used to work in Biggleswade and Bedford, a nice part of the world.

Yes - wind and rewind.

Yet another memory jogger for me Shaun. I worked with a guy in Grimsby in the 70's who went off every weekend to work on the NYMR and I have been up there too, but before it was extended to Whitby.

That's been my reason initially ut then it tied in with the Brownies. Voigtländer were earlier proponents of large finders of course but many others took them up.

Thank you Gary and my apologies for such a late reply. My wife is continuing to make good progress I am happy to say but these thing take a long time to come right.

I gave been sampling some early Kodak Browniees for a 35mmc article which led me to this Vivitar EZ Motor Big View, which struck me as being the modern equivalent and a last gasp pitch at the popular market. It was made in China, with licensed Vivitar branding in the later 1990s. I was...

And its that reflection in the mirror that you wonder about too!

Wow - so many opinions. And a good thing too. The main thing for me is constructive, thoughtful comment. I do like to know the background to an image too. A well thought out comment can be instructive for both parties. But then again I am constantly being told I am too serious. Hey ho.

Hi Sean and welcome. I'm just over 3 years short of my 90th so you are probably a spring chicken by comparison.