Nikon still has the manual here.
The previous owner had a lot of bird images.
McPigeons in Bernalillo, NM.
Goober.
Storm over the Jemez Mountains.
Not a scene mode but it has settings for B&W, sepia, cyanotype, & vivid.
Doorbell & shadow.
Back story: I stopped drinking sweetened sodas a long time ago but I still polish off about a liter a day of plain or flavored/unsweetened fizz water. That adds up money-wise and worse, it’s a lot of plastic. Santa Fe has a decent recycling program but it’s at the mercy of the market and it only takes one lazy moron to contaminate the drop-off dumpster and divert a lot of material to the landfill. M had given me a SodaStream Jet a long time ago. I used it for a while, got lazy, and stopped using it. For the new year, I decided to find more ways to reduce my footprint and dug out the carbonator.
Compatibility matrix – I should have taken this to the store with me.
In my defense, all the packaging just says “Carbonating Bottles”.
Never shop without reading glasses.
The slim bottles are a little bit taller.
Maybe I can slip the bottle in from the bottom? Nope.
The bottle can fit, it just won’t swing in.
Measuring for the cuts.
I should have used the Dremel tool but I want my fizz NOW!
With the spill catcher, it’s not even ugly.
Mmmm, fizz.
Like the Konica Tomato/Pop-10, the brightest f-stop is the only one given in the manufacturer’s literature. Unlike the Tomato, I couldn’t find information on line so I had to do it myself.
If you don’t care how I arrived at these values and trust a random web page, here’s a table:
| ISO | Flash | F-Stop |
| 100 | yes | 4 |
| 100 | no | 8 |
| 200 | yes | 5.6 |
| 200 | no | 11 |
| 400 | yes | 8 |
| 400 | no | 16 |
| 1000 | yes | 11 |
| 1000 | no | 22 |
These values are rounded to the nearest whole stop. YMMV. Not responsible for ruined shots, hives, divorce, or any negative outcome resulting from the use of this information.
The camera is dark gray or black but the LED lights made it look blue.
Trusting that 35mm really is the focal length and f/4 really is the brightest f-stop:
35mm / 4 = 8.75mm diameter with the lens wide open.
You only get F4 at ISO 100 and the flash popped up.
The area is what’s important for exposure. Focal length/diameter=f-stop only holds for circular apertures. For most, I treated the shapes like diamonds and used (b x h)/2 for the area. To keep things simple, I cropped in to the edge of the lens and then resized to 875 pixels so 100 pixels is one millimeter. Once I had an approximate area, I used the equivalent circle area to get a diameter. SensorsOne has a great calculator so I could just plug in the area instead of using a calculator and working backwards from area=π r² every time.
ISO 200 with the flash came out to about f5 so I rounded it to the nearest full stop at f5.6
ISO 100 w/o flash & ISO 400 with flash are ~ f8 (7.2 calc’d).
ISO 200 w/o flash & ISO 1000 with flash are ~ f11 (10.3 calc’d).
At ISO 400 & no flash, the shape got less diamond-like so 2 circles and 2 squares give f14.
ISO 1000 w/o flash is a pill shape so a circle cut in 1/2 and a small rectangle approximate the area for f18.
Snowstorm over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Gnarly tree. I think this is respooled film light leaks and not broken plastic.
With the broken rollers and pinholes in the bellows, I felt like this camera didn’t get a fair shake. This will probably make more sense if you see the original post first.
I had some unopened film in the freezer…
Here’s the film:
VERSAPAN GAFSTAR – not kidding about the heavy base. This stuff is thick.
Type 2831.
It’s only 46 years expired. Piece of cake.
I haven’t repaired the bellows so I wrapped it, similar to the job on the Kodak Six-20.
The paper that was around the film roll and black console tape.
An image!
One final note. It’s pan film, as in panchromatic, but the color sensitivities are interesting. And… never mind the cats knocked the balloons off the chair so I can’t map the colors. Any way, the colors are interesting. More testing to come.
It’s weird. I like weird.
No filters – it just came out that way.
I forgot to add it has the standard lighten/darken control around the light sensor.
Part of it is in focus but the wind was whipping the bush.
Nice colors on a gloomy day.
Hungry kitty.
It was super windy and the old 400mm definitely does not have image stabilization. I got lucky during a short lull.
Sony A7, Aperture Priority, 1/60 second, Fotodiox FD-E adapter, Prospec 400mm (FD) @ f8, Vivitar 2X Teleconverter
Museum Crush article about the camera and the great escape.
Dual format version with Rodenstock lens.
Church in Los Angeles.
A different exposure of fall corn stalks.
Pumpkin with the lights on.
Neighbor’s sheep and goats.
I’ll try some exposure stacking – bracketing gave me some good sky-dark mountains and the reverse.
It had been windy – some big trees down.
I have another version focused at infinity – I’ll try focus stacking and post results.
I had a smudge on the lens.
Another shot of Jem.
