Exacta

I got an OLD Exacta Jhagaa, I belive this might have been made before WW22,
it's ser.# 541102, I got it for $50.00
Now I've owned other exactas before, but this one has me stumped, this one
was made before you could change the viewfinder. The trouble is, I can't
figure out how to advance the film, I can get it so the shuttle is 1/2 the
way back across and it stays there.And the mirror doesn't come down again
when I try to advace the film either.
Do you know of a camera repair shop that might be able to look at it and
tell me "IF" it's fixable?
My old Topcon super D is showing it's age too.
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Starlord napsal(a):
The camera Exacta is very precise instrument. I own two cameras Exacta
Warex Ihaage and I photograph with them. Super optics.
rene


Maark

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Thanks, I didn't know about the no I, so this is a J. This one has theold
style flash holes (3 of them) on the front right side, not the moden but
probe holes which I've seen on older ones, this has the flat shutter
curtains. The top is the viewer that when you open it the top pops up two
sides go out and there's a mag lens that folds down over the fouces screen.
I know somewhere there was a listing of ser/numbers that told age, so I've
got to hunt for that and get a true age to this one.
Wow, I was just looking at it and I not sure what the numbers on the right
side top knob ment I move it to the #3 setting and found I can now cock the
film all the way arocss and fire the shutter as it should and the mirror
resets back down too. The other exactas I owned where late 40's or early
50's and had the USSR stamp on them, this one doesn't have that.
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The non-inchangeable viewfinder indicates a pre-war (or at least
pre-Varex) model.
It's probably fixable, unless some gears are actually broken, in which
case it might not be worth it.
You could check for any materials (film fragments) in the curtain runs
causing the jambing. Try advancing it while *gently* pulling the mirror
down.
While you're at it, with the back open & the lens off, try holding the
camera up to a bright light and see if there are any small holes
(pinholes) in the shutter curtain material.


Chris Loffredo

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There was no I in German. The letter J was used instead. Ihagee was
spelled Jhagee. This was confusing to non Germans as the letter J also
was used as the English letter Y. After the second world war, the letter
I became commonplace, the J is still used as the English Y.
If the camera is 35mm look up "kine exacta" or "kine exakta". For
exacta that takes movie film, the original Exacta (which I think
was spelled with a K, but it's been a long time) took 127 film.
The cameras were made in Dresden from the 1930's until they were stopped
in the 1970s. I don't remember the exact wording, but the 1950's and 1960's
were also stamped "made in USSR occupied Germany", or
"made in occupied Germany" or "made in Germany (East)".
There was also a model made in the 1970's called the Exacta 500, which
had a fixed prism. If there are no markings on it, you can tell them
from the other exactas because it looks relatively modern and has a
vertical tubular shutter instead of the usual horizontal curtain.
Geoff.
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Gsm@mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson

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Part of the front place is gone, all I see is (or lookes like it) J(odd I
maybe)hagee with Dresden under it and it was made before they made them to
interchange the viewfrinder from wastlevel to eyelevel. And the back comes
off totaly for film changing.
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Starlord

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I live in a small town out in the High Mojave desert, and don't do to the
bigger one but once a month, so it'll be after the 1st before I can pick up
a shutterbug magazine.
I wanted to find a show that could give me an estament and then I could pick
to have it fixed or just keep it as a display model.
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...
Are you certain that it is not Ihagee? That would be the manufacturer.
Jim


Jim

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...
Have you conntacted any of the repairers of old cameras who advertise in
Shutterbug?
AFIK the postwar models were Exacta V, Exacta Varex, and the Exacta Varex
II. Note that for copyright reasons, the models sold in the US were Exacta
VX and Exacta VXII.
I would suspect a problem with the shutter winding mechanism, and this might
not be economical to repair.
Jim


Jim

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