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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2007 5:16 pm    Post subject: Lubitel II Reply with quote
I can buy a lubitel 2.
An old Russian 6x6 camera.

Is this a usable camera or good for the museum?

Guido


PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2007 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It was a low cost, low quality camera and although I've seen some reasonable pics taken with one I don't think you can expect too much from it.

Ramon


PostPosted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:20 pm    Post subject: Re: Lubitel II Reply with quote
Even if will find the serviceable chamber, it is desirable to paste over inside of the device with a black velvet or to paint with a special paint that there were no patches of light.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Lubitel II Reply with quote
Kamerer wrote:
Even if will find the serviceable chamber, it is desirable to paste over inside of the device with a black velvet or to paint with a special paint that there were no patches of light.

Thanks Kamerer, you've confirmed what I'd heard. The Lubitel has a bakelite body I think.


PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:13 am    Post subject: Re: Lubitel II Reply with quote
peterqd wrote:

Thanks Kamerer, you've confirmed what I'd heard. The Lubitel has a bakelite body I think.


Please. From the Soviet cameras 6*6 pay attention on Kiev-6, it cheaply costs and it is better Lubitel to try 6*6 it will suffice.


PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I made a wonderful portrait lens with the t-22 lens of a lubitel (wrecked one) . I don't use my other lubitel to take pictures , because I own several foldings which are largely over the lubitel (Super ikonta Zeiss, Voigtländer Bessa, Sem Reflex) .

Lomo T-22 , f/5,6




Strange bokeh , isn't it ?


PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bello portrait.

Strange bokeh, attractive and no distractive.

Please, the pic is better thant I can imagine, show us more.

Regards.


PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Lubitel II Reply with quote
Jigt wrote:
I can buy a lubitel 2.
An old Russian 6x6 camera.

Is this a usable camera or good for the museum?


As brilliantly demonstrated by Helios, the triplet lens on the Lubitel is far from bad. OK, it doesn't qualify as a first rate lens but I like the rendering of triplets and the large 6x6 format helps.

The trouble is with the camera. It's a very crude twin lens reflex in many aspects:
- The body is made of molded bakelite, which is quite sensitive to shocks.
- There are light leaks due to the poor design of the back.
- The viewfinder is a "clear finder" with a large positive lens covering only something like 75% of the format and with a small spot of ground glass in the middle. It means that one never sees the whole picture in the viewfinder and one can only focus using the small spot in the middle. With other TLR cameras, the ground glass covers more or less the whole format and allows focusing anywhere in the image.
- Film advance is fully manual with no automatic stop (one has to use the red window) and no double or blank exposure prevention.
- The taking lens is gear coupled to the viewing lens and the coupling tends to deteriorate with age.
- The shutter feels flimsy and only goes up to 1/250s.

If you want to try a TLR, I suggest you look for a better model (Yashica, Mamiya, Ricohflex). They can be bought for very little money if you shop around and are much more usable than the Lubitel.

Cheers!

Abbazz
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