Longshot: Does anyone here Know how to use a Synchro-Compur lens effectively?

SeanTom

SeanTom

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I've dabbled with these lenses before but all my black and white shots turned into grey pieces of shit. Can anyone help me out? I can seem to imagine this lens working with the Zone system.
So many +K's if you can help me out.
 
post a picture or one exactly like it and tell what problem your having with figuring it out
 
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not the lens i'm using but one of the same area and line. What i'm having a hard time with is the f-stop/shutter speed ring.
 
if its similiar to what i have used i believe if you spin one it changes the other to hold the exposure, and there possible might be a switch that will cause the metering to change for darker or lighter scenery so if you cant make the exposure right then flip the switch and the metering will change, then try resetting your settings after that.

also while metering these type of lenses make sure the camera is held in the most horizontal position as possible( hold it like your taking a picture but try to keep it level, hold it against your chest/stomach if it helps)

thats all i can tell you i think, synchro-compur are very hard to explain and very crazy/complicated pieces of technology
 
synchro compurs are very complicated leaf shutter system in this case everything is done inside the lense itself (metering shutter speed and aperture) the lense itself is the shutter.

its really hard to explain and im not sure how it all works but my rolleiflex is a synchro compur and its all the same stuff but the lenses arent interchangeable so they figure out a way to incorporate all the settings onto basically the same types of knobs on the actual camera to make it easier.

I possibly believe with this camera what you see in the camera viewfinder isnt the true image you get because the shutter is closed until you hit the release and since the shutter is in the lens no mirror is there so you can look through the lens to compose the picture, Hence the reason that rolleiflexs and other such cameras are TLR (twin lense reflex) technically its still SLR because only one lense actually has a reflex(shutter reflex) but in a TLR you look through one lens and the other one shoots the picture, this is built this way so you can accurately compose the image, its also built without interchangeable lenses because if you tried to change lenses then you would have to buy two of the same lense each time so they decided to keep the lense prime and uninterchangable.

i hope you can follow me on that ahhah that took a lot of deep thinking
 
Thanks a bunch man. what you're saying is making sense to me. I just need to figure out what the little switches/buttons on the lens do.
And yes, TLR's are sick. I worked with a mamiya over the summer and absolutely loved it. although you may not see the exact image they are truly spectacular cameras
 
glad i could help. also if you havent figured it out some of the switchs might pull up so you can change f-stop and shutters speed individually
 
Make sure you don't have depth of preview on all of the time. There is a rocker switch on the left side of the lens that you can lock. Push gently on the the lower portion of it and it will unlock it. Also, you should be able to adjust aperture and shutter speed independently unless you are holding the button on the aperture ring down. That locks the two rings so that exposure doesn't change.
 
I finally got the shutter/F-stops figured our, it took me a while to understand that you have to pull back on a piece of the lens.
But going to this point. There is a switch on the left side of the lens Labled V X Mi can't move the switch to V but i can swap between X and M. I'm assuming you know what these are. you seem to know your stuff
 
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