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mjkerpan
Joined: 15 Mar 2008
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Location: Boston, USA
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 Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: Spotless Spotmatic... |
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When I found someone local giving away a Spotmatic (albeit with no lenses, just a microscope adapter and some extension tubes, I was pretty sure that the camera was either really beat up or had something screwy. I was wrong. The thing is SPOTLESS (aka in mint condition) and the shutter fires properly at all speeds from 1 second to 1/1000. Even the self-timer works still. All I need to test is the PC sync port (Model Night at camera club should do the trick for that) and find a way to test the meter (darn them for banning mercury!!!) and get some glass to run a test roll (darn all 3 local used camera places I know about for having NO M-42 lenses in stock today) and I should know if I got the steal of the decade or a pretty-but-broken shelf piece.
For those who care. a bit of camera pr0n follows:
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Farside
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Location: Ireland
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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Nice catch.
Out of curiousity, could you measure the microscope adapter threads at the mic end for me? Is it about 30mm across with a fine thread? I ask because I suspect a gizmo of mine has a mic thread, but I'm not sure of it.
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Laurence
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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Location: Western Washington State
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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I love camera pRoN! The Spotmatic series is so beautiful, and then you show this one with its pristine attributes! A REALLY nice piece of machinery!
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ChrisLilley
Joined: 01 Jan 2008
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Location: Nice, France
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:22 am Post subject: |
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| Farside wrote: | Nice catch.
Out of curiousity, could you measure the microscope adapter threads at the mic end for me? Is it about 30mm across with a fine thread? I ask because I suspect a gizmo of mine has a mic thread, but I'm not sure of it. |
| Quote: | The first to succeed in persuading microscope manufacturers to use the same threads on their objectives was the Microscopal Society of London, known after 1866 as the Royal Microscopal Society (RMS), which is the origin of the term "society thread," by which the standard is known. The society thread has 36 threads per inch of the 55° Whitworth form. The male thread has an outer diameter of 0.7965 inch (between 0.7952 inch and 0.7982 inch). The female thread, in the nosepiece, has a top-of-thread diameter between 0.8030 inch and 0.8000 inch.
http://www.sizes.com/tools/microscope.htm |
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mjkerpan
Joined: 15 Mar 2008
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Location: Boston, USA
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Laurence wrote: | | I love camera pRoN! The Spotmatic series is so beautiful, and then you show this one with its pristine attributes! A REALLY nice piece of machinery! |
Yeah, it really is. I just need lenses. PM me if you want to donate some  |
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Richard_D
Joined: 21 Oct 2007
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Location: Faversham Kent UK
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Congratulations - almost as beautiful as the pre-Spotmatics 
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The interesting bit:
Nikkors: 20mm f2.8 AIS, 24mm f2.8 AIS, 28mm f2.8 AIS, 35mm f2 AIS, 50mm f1.4 AI, 50mm f1.48AI, 50m f2 AI,
55mm f3.5 AI'd, 105mm f4 AI, 135mm f2.8 AI'd, 135mm f3.5 AI'd, 200mm f4 AI'd .
Nikon E Series: 100mm f2.8 .
Soviet Nikon Mount: Zenitar 16mm f2.8, Arsat/arax/photex 85mm T&S f2.8 .
Other: Asahi Super Takumar 55 mm f2 (M42) ,Tamron 300mm f5.6 SP, Tamron 500mm f8 SP.
DSLR: Nikon D700. 35mm SLRsNikon FE, Pentax S1a.
TLR: Rolliecord II.
Sub-Minature: Pentax Auto 110, 18mm f2.8, 24mm f2.8, 50mm f2.8.
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Farside
Joined: 01 Sep 2007
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Location: Ireland
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| ChrisLilley wrote: | | Farside wrote: | Nice catch.
Out of curiousity, could you measure the microscope adapter threads at the mic end for me? Is it about 30mm across with a fine thread? I ask because I suspect a gizmo of mine has a mic thread, but I'm not sure of it. |
| Quote: | The first to succeed in persuading microscope manufacturers to use the same threads on their objectives was the Microscopal Society of London, known after 1866 as the Royal Microscopal Society (RMS), which is the origin of the term "society thread," by which the standard is known. The society thread has 36 threads per inch of the 55° Whitworth form. The male thread has an outer diameter of 0.7965 inch (between 0.7952 inch and 0.7982 inch). The female thread, in the nosepiece, has a top-of-thread diameter between 0.8030 inch and 0.8000 inch.
http://www.sizes.com/tools/microscope.htm |
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Ah well, it's obviously not that then. Thanks for the link.
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The Lenses of Farside
"The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and
prosperity is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious,
arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism."
-- Czech President Vaclav Klaus |
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