Oddo

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• Analog film photography and cameras

  in Photography • 6 days, 20 hours

  

  Thank you 🙏,
  The Voigtländer is ready to test and I took it out yesterday. Not yet finished the roll.

  I’ve always been a tinkerer and at times it's even therapeutic to me. What makes it easier is that most of the cameras I took apart so far where super cheap flea market finds and partly broken. So nothing to loose here only wins.
  I recently picked up an Olympus Pen FT and the film advance is very rough but I am much more hesitant taking it apart as it works otherwise and was much more expensive. Maybe some day.

• Fairlight cycles - any opinions?

  in General • 6 days, 20 hours

  

  They are Schwalbe G One Allround in 2.25 but size up wider on my rims.
  Handling is great. On road and off road. I did ride quite some single track stuff on it. On a sporty drop bar bike like this I wouldn’t want 700c x 50mm(+). Feels wrong to me. I got my hart tail for that. I don’t know if there is scientific evidence for that but the 650b wheels feel more agile to me. I used to have a second wheel set to be able to swap to 700c but in the end I didn’t really do that. No need.

• Fairlight cycles - any opinions?

  in General • 1 week, 1 day

  

  I am running 650b x 2.3" on my Secan 2.5 with very comfortable clearance.

• Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 week, 3 days

  

  My lock-up klunker. Single-speed, coaster brake. A cheap 26" mtb frame where someone brazed in some crude horizontal dropouts. I paid more for the cockpit than for the whole rest of the bike.

• Oddos Raleigh Ronniewagon, Brexit Crust Wanker Hybrid, Gravel Bieks and anodized aluminum

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• Oddos Raleigh Ronniewagon, Brexit Crust Wanker Hybrid, Gravel Bieks and anodized aluminum

  in Current Projects • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Haha, sorry not sorry. Make sure to share how you build yours!

• Analog film photography and cameras

  in Photography • 1 week, 3 days

  

  I am in the process of fixing up another Voigtländer. A VF135 which is basically identical to the Rollei XF35. I've seen these Rolleis pop up a lot recently at flea markets etc. with people asking insane prices. They are quite cheaply made shutter and aperture automatic compact rangefinders. And most of them are somewhat broken. One issue I saw with almost all of them is the rangefinder being off at infinity. My VF135 is in absolute mint condition and still had that issue but I fixed it by now. It was also missing the battery cap. A replacement battery cap is 20 euros but I managed to get a broken XF35 for 10 euros, including the battery cap and now I am in a rabbit hole trying to repair that whole camera...
  The VF135 is almost ready to test now. To adjust the rangefinder you have to peel back the leatherette and I need to glue it back in place.

• MAJs gay bikes [she’s in her fitness era]

  in Current Projects • 1 week, 3 days

  

  I am still lost for words. Thank you, Hayley, for touching our lives, for inspiring and witty essays about bike pop culture, and for teaching me a lot about social and structural injustice.
  I am lucky I got the chance to meet you.

• Analog film photography and cameras

  in Photography • 1 week, 4 days

  

  Just your regular Kodak Gold 200

• Analog film photography and cameras

  in Photography • 1 week, 5 days

  

  A few weeks back I picked up a Voigtländer Vitoret DR on the flea market for next to nothing. The lens seemed super nice and it's a fully mechanical camera with a decoupled selenium light meter that was still reactive. It's at least 54 years old.
  After I cleaned it inside out and roughly checked if the light meter readings made any sense I took it with me on a walk through Vienna and on a trip to my sister. I just got the scans back and I gotta say I am very positively impressed by the image quality. Amazing camera for the money.