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PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:31 am    Post subject: Kodak Monitor six-20 special Reply with quote

1941 Kodak Monitor Six 20 Special by Nesster, on Flickr


1941 Kodak Monitor Six 20 top deck & profile view by Nesster, on Flickr

This 1941 folder from Kodak has a frame counter / auto stop / double exposure lock mechanism (mine will need cleaning); an Anastigmat Special 101mm f/4.5 4 element lens in a Supermatic shutter with speeds to 400 (mine only works on one speed regardless of shutter setting, so the shutter needs cleaning as well)... The view finder has manual parallax compensation. 620 film.

First roll, even with the one speed shutter the performance is good.


Westminister Art Center, Bloomfield College by Nesster, on Flickr

"100%" crop of the 1200dpi Epson 4490 scan


Westminister Art Center, Bloomfield College, "100% crop" by Nesster, on Flickr

Yeah, why didn't I do the crop on the section with the girl Wink

Fomapan 100 in D-76, this shot was @f/11


PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
another "100%" crop, the lens has some resolution. The scratches on the film are because I forgot Foma is delicate and used a squeegee Crying or Very sad



PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Camera looks well made and indeed the lens is Special. This is from a
respooled roll? I keep hoping to find out about a Kodak folder where you
can 'persuade' a 120 roll to fit, but there's simply not enough real estate
to do so, like my Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash.

Nice samples.


PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A heavy duty folder. Nice results. I hope to shoot a few in a week or so with my medalist. Just got to get the time and a good subject.


PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 4:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Very nice camera and good looking results


PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Great camera, wonderful shutter. The top of the line shutter at the time.

Rather easy to fix actually, responds well to lighter fluid and a bit of poking with a dental pick to get it moving.

You don't even need to remove the front plate, just the lens cells.


PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
That Anastigmat Special is a nice lens -- Tessar type 4 element.


PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Glad to know, Luis, as looks like the 40s was a golden age for US Kodak.

Yes, I respooled to 620, I don't find it that hard... though this time the bonehead move was to leave a bit of the Foma new roll sticky (it doesn't come off as easily as with other makers) on the paper, which worked its way loose during the rewind, and ended up being featured on maybe 4 of the frames Laughing

Here's another sample, I cropped about a 6x4.5 section of the full frame (due to fame overlap and not such great framing on my part) and then forgot to downsize the damn thing. But it shows the lens at f/5.6


crop of the church tower by Nesster, on Flickr

Here's the huge original
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6209/6067187414_96f9ec3b82_o.jpg

And the last frame on the roll, our soon to be ex house, memorialized with the very last camera I buy as owner and occupier of said house. And most likely the last B&W film I'll develop in the house.

Cameras wrapped up and boxed take a lot of space Shocked as do negatives etc. I have more boxes of photo stuff than hi-fi or books, or clothes. And, I've been taking cameras etc to work too, and they are starting to pile up. I swear, I'll need to start selling them. Or giving them away.



PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
T.here is one on Ebay right now for under 50 DUS

http://www.ebay.com/itm/190540253144?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

I'm tempted but Pressman is calling.


PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes I saw that - this one has the ordinary (still 4 element) Anastigmat, and it sounds like the shutter button linkages are screwed. Except that it came with the special lens, I'd probably have gone for a Vigilant instead, as it is a simpler mechanism (no auto stop to get confused).... and the Pressman for you needs makes much more sense.


PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nesster wrote:
Yes I saw that - this one has the ordinary (still 4 element) Anastigmat, and it sounds like the shutter button linkages are screwed. Except that it came with the special lens, I'd probably have gone for a Vigilant instead, as it is a simpler mechanism (no auto stop to get confused).... and the Pressman for you needs makes much more sense.


The Pressman is still on. Waiting on several to wind down to the last day to see which I want. I'd prefer a shooter and not an ambulance case. LOL


PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Amazing camera! Nice work Jussi!


PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Shows you what fine lenses these Kodaks are.


PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
They are indeed. Once we move house I'll sort out the two mechanisms on the camera...

meanwhile, an illustration of why feature creep happens with cameras, till they are the bell-n-whistle things they are now. Focusing aids, especially coupled ones, increase reliability when shooting at the wider apertures.

Here I shot both at around f/5.6 and 10ft, but I slightly misjudged the distance for the cross and more or less nailed it for the statue.


Celtic Cross, St. John's Episcopal, Montclair NJ by Nesster, on Flickr


Fireman statue, Bloomfield NJ by Nesster, on Flickr

Obviouslyu this is a slippery slope: once I have coupled focusing, I'll want some form of metering. Once I have metering in the hand, I'll want it in the camera, and coupled to boot. And once it's there, I'll want auto exposure, and because auto exposure gets fooled easy I'll want matrix metering. By then I'll be too lazy to advance the film myself, and too lazy to focus... etc. Heck, I'll be too lazy to load and develop the film. Yeah, I'm ready for one of them Fuji x100's Laughing


PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I am a proud owner too Laughing can't wait to try it out.

My camera has 100mm f4.5 lens not 101mm and serial number has no EC pre-fix


PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Attila, are you respooling the 120 yourself or sending it to Jussi, since he seems to like it. Smile

Looking forward to your pictures!


PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Smile I think I will simple cut 120mm spool to smaller diameter, it works well and easy. I expect I will love it just same than Jussi Wink


PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Let us know how that works out for you. Wink


PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 11:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
LOL, Bill, it takes me an extra dose of ambition to get started with either respooling or reel clipping. I keep telling myself I need to, but my reels have long nails and the 620 spools cobwebs.


PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Heh, I tried clipping the spool just one time (I only have 3 different kinds of toenail clippers, maybe I should
check if Lindstrom makes a pair) and it was not a good progress.


PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I use one tool to clip bird and turtle nails I think that will be strong enough, if not works re-spool also not a big job.


PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 1:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Attila wrote:
I use one tool to clip bird and turtle nails I think that will be strong enough, if not works re-spool also not a big job.


I like your spirit, Attila, I really do. Smile I don't want to say anything more to put a cloud over this enterprise.


PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It works Smile Monitor is loaded with fomapan 100, spool has edge mark around that is 620 size exactly I did cut there with cutters 1-2 to minutes only.


PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 10:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Congrats, Attila! Show a picture of those cutters some time. Looking forward to the pictures! Smile


PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I did use similar sharp front cutter
http://www.getoptical.com/cutting-pliers/66-ac47-front-cutter.html
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