ADDED 12/9/11: Turned out the bellows are bad, see next post “I Lied”.
Well, this one should go on Graywolf Photo, but the subtitle makes it appropriate here, I guess
Today I received an Omega E View Camera from a guy on eBay.
It came as a second chance offer, because the wining bidder backed out of the deal. Now one thing about that is, I really should have got it for my minimum bid, because there were only the two of us who bid on it, but since my maximum bid was only $7 higher, I did not argue about it. At first I thought one of the riser knobs and gear was missing, but I found it in the bottom of the box; I guess it fell off in shipping.
The lens is mine, the seller included two lens boards with the camera and some out dated 4×5 film. The previous photo was done with flash, this and the rest with the overhead light.
That is how the camera was set in the previous photo. This one came out nice and sharp.
For some strange reason the Olympus C-5050z does not want to focus on the lens. Did I ever say, “I hate autofocus”? That is the old lens from my Crown Graphic, the one with the damaged syncronizer, but if I remember correctly, it still works on X sync. Just goes to show you should never toss anything out. That 135mm lens looks like it is about the shortest that will work comfortably on this camera. Since that is about the same as a 35mm lens on a 35mm camera, I can live with that. If I can find something around 200mm when I have some spare money, I would be very happy.
In the above photo you can see the partial boxes of film on top of the TV that the seller tossed in with the camera. Not bad for $107 + SSH.