Nice video. Mine doesn't have double exposure prevention either. I just bought one of these. Mine came with a take up spool. Sort of the inner part you showed but with a helix at the bottom. I need to CLA (light seals mainly) it a bit as the shutter button looks up from time to time. The shutter seems tp be working 100% though. My only concern is if the advance register roller is too stiff to actually register the advancement of the film. Will see when I have brushed it up and tried a roll.
Have one of these, got it dirt cheap because it "didn't work". Double exposure prevention was working so shutter appeared to be locked. The missing lens ring would say 5cm f3.5 Skopar. Snapshot focussing is done using one of 2 marks, a triangle at 3.3m/11ft and a circle at 10m/30ft with the aperture set at f5.6. This gives a depth of field of 2.5m to 5m or 5m to infinity. For smaller or larger apertures you can use the scale on the front of the shutter. The lever with the red dot is a self timer, approx 10 seconds and only available on the Prontor shutter. Set speed, cock shutter and push the red lever downwards at about 45 degrees towards the camera door. As far as I know the lever on the back of the top plate is only there to expose a wheel that allows you to set the film counter to F. Turn the wheel in the direction of the arrow. The pivot screw on the lever can work loose, tightened mine up with some fine nosed pliers. Oops forgot to mention it also lets you rewind the film! Haven't found a way to override the double exposure lock. However there is a lever on the door strut, just to the left of the cable release, that will lock the shutter open in B mode, effectively a T setting. The lever on your camera looks different to mine so may do more. I think the Vito I had it's own take up spool, removable as per lots of the Russian cameras so it's not unusual to find them missing. Will try your solution, take one out of an old Fed or Zorki or build a new one from an old cassette. Thanks for another great video.
Hi Andrew and thanks for all the useful information, I really like Voigtlander cameras, and a 35mm folder is so compact, mine also needs a little work, will be interesting to see how she performs......
Nice, just got one of these guys...... thanks for clearing things up for me!
Hi, thanks, great cameras, have fun and come back if any issues....
Nice video. Mine doesn't have double exposure prevention either. I just bought one of these. Mine came with a take up spool. Sort of the inner part you showed but with a helix at the bottom. I need to CLA (light seals mainly) it a bit as the shutter button looks up from time to time. The shutter seems tp be working 100% though. My only concern is if the advance register roller is too stiff to actually register the advancement of the film. Will see when I have brushed it up and tried a roll.
Have one of these, got it dirt cheap because it "didn't work". Double exposure prevention was working so shutter appeared to be locked.
The missing lens ring would say 5cm f3.5 Skopar.
Snapshot focussing is done using one of 2 marks, a triangle at 3.3m/11ft and a circle at 10m/30ft with the aperture set at f5.6. This gives a depth of field of 2.5m to 5m or 5m to infinity. For smaller or larger apertures you can use the scale on the front of the shutter.
The lever with the red dot is a self timer, approx 10 seconds and only available on the Prontor shutter. Set speed, cock shutter and push the red lever downwards at about 45 degrees towards the camera door.
As far as I know the lever on the back of the top plate is only there to expose a wheel that allows you to set the film counter to F. Turn the wheel in the direction of the arrow. The pivot screw on the lever can work loose, tightened mine up with some fine nosed pliers. Oops forgot to mention it also lets you rewind the film!
Haven't found a way to override the double exposure lock. However there is a lever on the door strut, just to the left of the cable release, that will lock the shutter open in B mode, effectively a T setting. The lever on your camera looks different to mine so may do more.
I think the Vito I had it's own take up spool, removable as per lots of the Russian cameras so it's not unusual to find them missing. Will try your solution, take one out of an old Fed or Zorki or build a new one from an old cassette.
Thanks for another great video.
Hi Andrew and thanks for all the useful information, I really like Voigtlander cameras, and a 35mm folder is so compact, mine also needs a little work, will be interesting to see how she performs......
Great video, as usual.
Hi Ian, thanks for your kind words, much appreciated....
So what are the chances of getting something like this repaired?