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Farside
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 Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject: Agifold v.3 |
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Farside wrote:
Just scored this, very clean going by the auction pics and has a better shutter than my v.2.
 
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| Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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scsambrook wrote:
Looks nice - but does it win a prize for having the most inconvenient viewfinder eyepiece?
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Farside
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| Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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Farside wrote:
| scsambrook wrote: |
| Looks nice - but does it win a prize for having the most inconvenient viewfinder eyepiece? |
Heh. I just noticed that myself. The v.2 has a normally positioned eyepiece, flush with the rear of the body. I can see this one being a bit of a challenge.
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martinsmith99
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martinsmith99 wrote:
Is that camera new? It looks as though it's fresh out of the box!
I see the issue with the eye piece. Spectacle wearers would really have an issue. I'm expecting to see you with calluses on the right side of you nose very soon. 
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Nesster wrote:
Interesting camera, looks like they were trading on the Zeiss look. Re the viewfinder, I wonder if someone confused a 35mm camera part, and they decided to use it anyway.
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Farside
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Farside wrote:
It arrived a few days ago and I'm impressed with the condition of it. Honestly, it's as if it just came out of a camera dealer, having been traded in for something else, but only a year old, if you see what I mean. A couple of tiny scratches and marks, but nothing else.
Without specs, the VF is perfect - but with specs it's a bit more problematical for access, but no biggie. Unfortunately the extinction meter, which I really like on the v.2, is quite black to the point of uselessness. The bellows are properly self-erecting, for a change they actually work.
Shutter speeds are mostly somewhere close to indicated, but 1/5 and 1/10 are more like 1sec - who knows why.
The previous user was an Old Spice man, by the smell of the bellows. 
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scsambrook
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scsambrook wrote:
Glad you can manage the v/f and a shame about the extinction meter. I think the Agifold 3 is probably quite rare today, so you've really got a little treasure there.
Is the shutter their own or a Prontor? I'm not sure if they actually put Gauthier shutters in them, but something in my mind says they did. Or maybe I'm mixing it up with the Ross Autorange and the Epsilon shutter . . . old age and cold weather may be slowing down my brain 
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scsambrook
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scsambrook wrote:
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The previous user was an Old Spice man, by the smell of the bellows. |
Maybe it's a good treatment to keep leather supple?
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