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Deadly
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Username: Deadly
Post Number: 1
Registered: 02-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, February 25, 2007 - 03:00 pm: | 
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I have just purchased a Contaflex II. I am mystified by the markings on the exposure setting knob. It offers aperture and shutter speed settings, for either ASA or DIN film speed ratings, all on the same knob. However, the ASA speeds do not seem to match those for DIN. If I set the DIN index to 27, then the ASA rating shows somewhere in the region of 180 to 200.
This results in different aperture and shutter speed readings, for the same film, dependent upon whether one uses the DIN or the ASA index. It seems that this was deliberate, rather than the result of damage or wear, since these indices shown on each half of the same component.
Does anyone have any ideas about why this would be so, please? |
Rlc
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Username: Rlc
Post Number: 13
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 06:21 am: |
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My Zeiss Ikoflex is the same. I always was puzzled by this same subject. Hope someone will clarify this. Richard. |
Alex
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Username: Alex
Post Number: 18
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 03:51 pm: |
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I've offered an answer in the 'Maintenance' section of this forum, where this question has been duplicated. |
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