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You know that feeling when you really think you should be making better use of your time but you get easily distracted by something that doesn’t really need doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well it was one of those sort of days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After deciding the Kowa 50mm lens isn’t in as good a condition as I thought it was I thought I’d take a look at what other medium format kit needs fixing, like the Kiev 88 I keep meaning to get sorted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, I pull out a rusty and mouldy Coronet<\/a> 120 folding camera out of the cabinet of lost causes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I really wish I’d taken a pic before I started. The leatherette covering has 50% missing and the two remaining pieces just came off in my hand along with a load of rust and corrosion.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now, I know from experience someone will eventually comment how I’ve ruined a piece of history and I should have fully restored it back to its original factory finish. I’ll be polite. No.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Out came the wire wool, blower brush and Renaissance Wax and within half an hour we now have this, a cleanish but naked Coronet camera. I quite like it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Someone will comment that the leatherette was what helped make it light tight etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well will it still work then? One roll of Ilford HP5 and eight frames later…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think the lens is about f6 or f7? with no other aperture settings. And today’s light was just a bit right for its Instantaneous shutter setting, which is about 1\/50th of second. There is also a T setting and with hindsight a tripod would have been a better idea.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Developed in Kodak HC110 Solution B for 5 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hand holding an unfamiliar camera and its basic shutter at 1\/50th turned out to be a big ask, I don’t think there’s one sharp frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But hey, that’s a wasted afternoon for you \ud83d\ude42 I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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