Author Topic: Camera Question  (Read 457 times)

Offline Kiwi_Roy

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • Posts: 9796
  • Location: New Westminster BC
Camera Question
« on: February 05, 2023, 11:00:26 PM »
I'm reading a book at the moment Eriv Newby's "The last Grain Race where he mentions working on his camera which he describes as a Compur
I quote from page 203, "I thought sadly and enviously of the technicians at Jena, to whom a Compur shutter was an open book. finally I managed to obtain an exposure of something like 1/25 second, and with this I had to be content"
is that a particular camera
72 Eldorado
17 V7iii Special
76 Convert
Half a V9 Roamer

Moto Guzzi - making electricians out of riders since March 15 1921

Offline Kiwi_Roy

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • Posts: 9796
  • Location: New Westminster BC
Re: Camera Question
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2023, 11:03:29 PM »
I'm reading a book at the moment Eriv Newby's "The last Grain Race where he mentions working on his camera which he describes as a Compur
I quote from page 203, "I thought sadly and enviously of the technicians at Jena, to whom a Compur shutter was an open book. finally I managed to obtain an exposure of something like 1/25 second, and with this I had to be content"
is that a particular camera
Is he talking about a lens or could it be a camera model?
if anyone wants to read a great book on sailing "The Last Grain race" is a beauty
72 Eldorado
17 V7iii Special
76 Convert
Half a V9 Roamer

Moto Guzzi - making electricians out of riders since March 15 1921

Offline jamesb

  • New Egg
  • *
  • Posts: 9
  • Location: southwest uk
Re: Camera Question
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2023, 02:17:27 AM »
here you go
https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Compur
learning all the time :boozing:

Offline chuck peterson

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 5209
  • Location: New Haven CT
Re: Camera Question
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2023, 12:40:54 PM »
Compur shutter…controls both aperture and timed exposure …i.e. f2.8 thru f128 aperture and shutter speed

He’s bemoaning his inability to fix it…can’t get anything but 1/25th of a second, instead of a range from 1/500th to 1-2secs

"I'd like to thank all my friends who have kept my Guzzi's going, but mostly...TOMB."
150k on Verts
750 Nevada
400f
R5 Yammie
BV250
4x 1976 Moto Demm Smily,, now 5, oops now 6, oops now 7
1980 SP1000 in little bits and pieces

Wildguzzi.com

Re: Camera Question
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2023, 12:40:54 PM »

Offline LowRyter

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 16685
  • Location: Edmond OK
Re: Camera Question
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2023, 05:53:06 PM »
John L 
When life gets you down remember it's one down and the rest are up.  (1-N-23456)

Online rocker59

  • Global Moderator
  • Gaggle Hero
  • *
  • *****
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 24010
  • "diplomatico di moto"
  • Location: NW Arkansas
Re: Camera Question
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2023, 07:51:55 PM »


"Compur is a long-lived series of leaf shutters that were made by the German company F. Deckel, based in München (Munich), Germany. The Compur appeared in 1912[1] and was based on the Compound, but was equipped with a geared slow speed governor instead of a piston and cylinder device."

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Compur

Michael T.
Aux Arcs de Akansea
2004 California EV Touring II
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

Online moto-uno

  • Gaggle Hero
  • *****
  • *
  • Posts: 1397
  • Location: Burnaby , B.C
Re: Camera Question
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2023, 10:49:18 PM »
  Those aren't that hard to repair , he should've tried a Kowa lens , that's a bit more of a challenge :) . Peter

***Wildguzzi Official Logo High Quality 5 Color Window Decals Back In Stock***
Shipping in USA Only. Awesome quality. Back by popular demand. All proceeds go back into the forum.
http://www.wildguzzi.com/Products/products.htm
Advertise Here
 

20 Ounce Stainless Steel Double Insulated Tumbler
Buy a quality tumbler and support the forum at the same time!
Better than a YETI! BPA and Lead free.
Advertise Here