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PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 12:17 am    Post subject: Exa Ia Reply with quote

Bought it yesterday. Put a roll on it today, I'll post some results in a few days.













PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 6:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Congrats

The Exa Ia AKA VX 100 was built in Dresden/GDR 1964-1977. This camera was made before the integration of Ihagee into Pentacon, i.e. before 1970.
The mounted Meritar lens was built 1963-1968. It's the model 2 in version 2 ("Zebra"). It's a Cooke-Triplet 3/3 design.


PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 6:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice photos of your camera. Congrats


PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 4:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tb_a: great information, thank you. The german zebra lenses always look nice. I had a Pentacon 50 f1.8 zebra that looked like the m42 Oreston. Great lens, I miss it. I would love to get a Exacta mount Oreston 50 f1.8.

uddhava: thank you!


PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Welcome Turtle

I sincerely hope that your lens will be better than mine.
I tested my copy today and it wasn't able to produce really sharp pictures from edge to edge not even at F16, nor on APS-C (Ricoh GXR-M). Rolling Eyes
So I really have to state that I have a new "worst lens" in my collection. It's simply crap. Crying or Very sad
Although, the center of the picture is usable. Wink


PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've seen some tests and comparisons, it looks like it's not a very sharp 50mm, but I believe it's still usable at least for web size. We'll see, I'm more concerned about the quality of the exposures because I'm not using a lightmeter.


PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Congrats


PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you Attila!


PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

antico wrote:
I've seen some tests and comparisons, it looks like it's not a very sharp 50mm, but I believe it's still usable at least for web size. We'll see, I'm more concerned about the quality of the exposures because I'm not using a lightmeter.


Why not use sunny 16. I never meter and get almost 100% success. Plenty of Sunny 16 info on this forum.


PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 11:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

philslizzy: yes, I try to expose considering sunny 16, plus one stop because of how color film can handle overexposure, but I've been using cameras with lightmeter for a couple years and I've lost the habit of calculating the exposure myself. I hope it goes well