Talk:Kenko 35

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Left/right

The picture appears the same way in the two documents, and the probability that it is laterally reversed is low.

Uh, a camera with the shutter release on the left and a rangefinder for the left eye? It looks like a camera for left-handed, left-eyed people; and while such cameras are known, it looks very much like a reversed image to me. If the images were different, that would be a different matter, but they are of course exactly the same. -- Hoary 01:41, 12 May 2008 (EDT)

You're making a good point: the image might appear in the two documents in a reversed form, for example because the company handled reversed prints to Photo Art, the same they used for the initial advert. My initial argument is down.
However I don't see how the rangefinder is for left-eyed people: the viewfinder window (and surely the eyepiece) is straight in the middle, and the position of the second-image window is indifferent.
Now if we reverse the image in an image editing tool, the result is half-convincing (I've put an example in the article). The most dubious feature is that the speed knob is now to the left, and so should be the FP shutter's main control drum, with the spring-loaded take-up drums on the other side. This would be the reverse of all other FP shutters of the time (but for the Exakta, a left-handed camera), although I would expect Murakami (or the actual designer of the camera) to draw heavily on known focal-plane shutter designs, such as that of the Leica.
A lesser point on the reversed picture is that the focusing tab is now on the left; this would perhaps mean that the lens is at its closest focusing distance, and might actually explain the aspect of the barrel.
Another strange feature, whether on the published picture or on the reversed one: what we describe as the advance knob is very far from the speed knob. I would expect the shutter to be cocked at the same time as the film is advanced. Is there a train of gears traveling that distance? Or are we missing some important control on the other side, next to the rangefinder window? Or is the shutter wound separately? In any case, this picture raises many questions.
--Rebollo fr 07:44, 12 May 2008 (EDT)
I made according changes to the text. Feel free to cut through if you think that my guesswork is going too far. --Rebollo fr 09:51, 12 May 2008 (EDT)
You're entirely right about my ridiculous "left-eyed" claim. I was speaking out of the wrong orifice. Sorry! (I plead chronic shortage of sleep.) -- Hoary 01:28, 13 May 2008 (EDT)