As strange as it may seem, I'm looking for a Sputnik camera
body with working film advance and operational doors. I
don't need lenses, shutters or view finder. It doesn't need
to be painted or flocked. I could probably even use a
chipped or cracked body if that's what you have available.

Drop me a note off-list if you have one to spare.
--
John Thurston
Juneau Alaska
http://stereo.thurstons.us

--- In MF3D-group@yahoogroups.com, John Thurston wrote:

>
> As strange as it may seem, I'm looking for a Sputnik camera
> body with working film advance and operational doors. I
> don't need lenses, shutters or view finder. It doesn't need
> to be painted or flocked. I could probably even use a
> chipped or cracked body if that's what you have available.
>
> Drop me a note off-list if you have one to spare.
> --
> John Thurston
> Juneau Alaska
> http://stereo.thurstons.us
>

Are you planning to make a mold of it for a scratch-built MF camera ?

Francois

Interesting idea!

depthcam wrote:

--- In MF3D-group@yahoogro ups.com, John Thurston wrote:
>
> As strange as it may seem, I'm looking for a Sputnik camera
> body with working film advance and operational doors. I
> don't need lenses, shutters or view finder. It doesn't need
> to be painted or flocked. I could probably even use a
> chipped or cracked body if that's what you have available.
>
> Drop me a note off-list if you have one to spare.
> --
> John Thurston
> Juneau Alaska
> http://stereo. thurstons. us
>

Are you planning to make a mold of it for a scratch-built MF camera ?

Francois

> depthcam wrote:
>>
>> --- In MF3D-group@yahoogroups.com
>> , John Thurston
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> As strange as it may seem, I'm looking for a Sputnik camera body
>>> with working film advance and operational doors. I don't need
>>> lenses, shutters or view finder. It doesn't need to be painted or
>>> flocked. I could probably even use a chipped or cracked body if
>>> that's what you have available.

>> Are you planning to make a mold of it for a scratch-built MF camera
>> ?

No, but I am looking for a working film advance for a one-off camera
experiment.

As much as I love my TL120-55, it failed to make the weight budget for a
recent backpacking trip. I really wanted it but it was just too heavy.
So I'm looking for a way to make the dead-simplist point and shoot 55mm
camera. No finder, no meter, no focus . . . i thought a Sputnik might be
a place to start.

John Thurston
Juneau, Alaska

--- In MF3D-group@yahoogroups.com, John Thurston wrote:

>
> As much as I love my TL120-55, it failed to make the weight budget

for a

> recent backpacking trip. I really wanted it but it was just too

heavy.

> So I'm looking for a way to make the dead-simplist point and shoot

55mm

> camera. No finder, no meter, no focus . . . i thought a Sputnik

might be

> a place to start.

The one regret I have about the 3D World MF camera is that they did
not follow through with their non-reflex prototype, which appeared to
be smaller and lighter. Reflex is nice to have, but the extra weigth
and mass on an MF camera can be a serious shortcoming.

Francois