At the time I was thinking about the new camera and wasn’t really listening, then once he had left and I had time to wander some more and ponder some more. Anyway, he mentioned the lens had a peculiarity. He gave me another camera which I will not take apart and will write about on another day. The bloke who gave me the second 12XP lived nearby and met me at the priory. So I attached the 44-2 lens to my Zenit 11 and went for a trundle to Monk Bretton Priory to make myself feel better…it was closed, it really wasn’t my day.Īnyway, here are some shots from the walk around the fence and the park next door using that set up.Īnd if you have reached this part, then here is where the story takes a bit of an upturn. The new one could not be put back together without the part from the other one 😦 Idiot. Yeap, I sold it with the job lot by mistake 😦 Hence there are no photos of the XP12. This is the stupid part, have you guessed what I had done? Where was it? I looked everywhere…oh crap. Never mind, I will take parts I needed from the other 12XP. Once the top was off I found the damage from the ding was worse than I expected, the spring attached to the lever had snapped for one. I took the top off the one with the working light meter, it wasn’t so tricky. I advertised a job lot of brownies and other pieces I didn’t use on Facebook Marketplace and quickly sold them.
Sooooo, the next day I needed to sell some cameras to pay for something, times are tight now I am furloughed. That’s ok thought I, I could swap the tops and make one good one out of the two examples. The new 12XP had a working light meter, but there was a ding next to the film counter that stopped the winder working correctly. So we met up, exchanged cameras and a new friendship was made. The topic got on the the 12XP, low and behold he had one and would be willing to swap it for the Ensign…see…weirdo. As I had no intention of ever using that again I said he could have it gratis. Anyway, he was interested in my Ensign Ful-Vue…weirdo. He has since started his own blog which you can find here.
I was chatting with a new friend who contacted me through this blog. Now, here is where the “stupid” part of the story comes in. These Covid times seem to be exacerbating my slight compulsion for everything to be perfect. So back to the camera, the XP12, it bugged me that the light meter didn’t work. Nice and sharp, no evidence of the swirls, but still a very nice bokeh.
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