I went to Albuquerque's Botanic Garden intending to make some pinhole images. However, the Vario shutter on the camera would not work on the Bulb setting. Luckily, there was still half a roll of Arista 200 in the Retina II in my pocket.
The Kodak Retina II is a transitional design that bridged the pre- and post-war eras. The six-element Xenon lens is coated, but the camera still retains the manual shutter cocking. On the plus side, the viewfinder has auto parallax correction, something lacking in later Retina models.
I haven't shot a lot of film in the Retina II, but it has always performed marvelously after fixing a string of minor age-related issues. Before I loaded film into the camera this time I had to first figure out why the shutter release was returning very slowly after an exposure. I first opened and cleaned the shutter to no effect. Finally, I figured out there was a film of dust on a rod in the release linkage, and brushing on a little Ronsonal got the release moving freely again.
2 comments:
What a nice series of photos! I enjoyed these!
Definitely a lemons to lemonade day.
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