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Sausage100uk
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Username: Sausage100uk
Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 07:51 am: | 
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I managed to pick up an isolette I with Solinar lens and compur rapid shutter for £4, the diaphragm wasnt opening fully so I have stripped it down and found that one of the blades only has one little pin in it, there is a hole at the other end but no pin. Is this normal or will I need to scavenge another shutter blade from somewhere?
It would be a shame to not ba able to use this classic lens....(i suppose I could put it onto my isolette 3)
Dave |
Nickon51
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Username: Nickon51
Post Number: 37
Registered: 05-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 11:32 pm: |
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G'day Dave
Are you looking at the shutter blades or the aperture blades and how many blades do you have?
Cheers
Greg |
Sausage100uk
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Username: Sausage100uk
Post Number: 3
Registered: 10-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 12:52 am: |
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Greg,
Its appeture blades and I have 10, nine have little (?)brass lugs/pins at both ends, one has a lug/pin at one end only and a hole at the other. After a closer examination there are 10 slots in the body of the shutter and 10 holes for pins in the plate that holds the appeture in place so I am assuming that there is a lug/pin missing. If this is so then the shutter is junk. do you know if other agfa diaphragm blades will fit? i only bought the camera as it had the famed Solinar lens and would be a shame for it to go to waste...
Dave |
Sevo
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Username: Sevo
Post Number: 11
Registered: 09-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 07:18 am: |
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From memory, I'd expect it to have a pin each, so there'd be one missing - but I don't have a Compur open right now.
Other Compur blades for the same aperture diameter should fit - but it would be easier to remount the lens in another shutter than locate a suitable Compur. All Isolette shutters and lenses are interchangeable.
You can't put the lens on your Isolette III unless you have a (rare) 85mm Solinar - most are 75mm.
If you want to make a Solinar Isolette III out your I+III, it would be much easier to transplant the top plate, finder and shutter to the Isolette I (where you'd only have to replace two uncritical rivets that merely hold the top plate assembly in place) than to transplate the entire fold-out part to the Isolette III (where you'd have to reengineer the entire focus-critical riveting of the flap and lens guides). |
Sausage100uk
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Username: Sausage100uk
Post Number: 4
Registered: 10-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 10:12 am: |
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Ok, I have a spare Isolette I with the vario/agnar combo, i'll have a look at doing a swap  |
Nickon51
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Username: Nickon51
Post Number: 38
Registered: 05-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 06:24 pm: |
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G'Day Dave
I think you and Sevo are correct. I have seen some cases where an unpinned blade sits on top of the first blade, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
Cheers
Greg |
