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  • Members: 890
  • Category: Medium Format
  • Founded: Jun 9, 1999
  • Language: English
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510 jocelinv Send Email May 3, 2001
8:29 am
Hello,<br>I've just bought a Lubitel 166B camera. I haven't the slightest idea of it's history. I just bumped into it on the Queens-day free-market, fell for...
511 funsky1 Send Email May 7, 2001
3:54 pm
Found a Lubitel 2 in Wichita, KS at a Disabled Veterans Thrift shop for $19.95 -pictures to come...<br>He also found a Mamiya 35 Cartridge (1957) rangefinder ...
512 lulupup1 Send Email May 9, 2001
4:46 am
Can anyone give me some tips on loading film for the first time (ugh) in the 166B?<br>I have only instructions for the 166U i think....
513 rolandgivan Send Email May 9, 2001
10:39 pm
I've got quite a large section of the full range of Lubitel cameras at:<br><br><a href=http://www.cix.co.uk/~rgivan/...
514 rolandgivan Send Email May 9, 2001
10:43 pm
The 166U and 166B are pretty silmilar and you should be able to figure out how to load the 166B with the 166U instructions.<br><br>The 166B has silly little...
515 iggers Send Email May 14, 2001
10:55 pm
My Lubitel 166B just arrived from the UK. <br><br>Unfortunately the black plastic ring - the one with the ridged edge and the letters and numbers around the...
516 iggers Send Email May 20, 2001
2:18 am
I'll answer my own question, with help from someone in an egroups forum:<br><br>My first roll was not in focus.<br><br>I had it all wrong. I should have ...
517 chickenboy_kfc Send Email May 21, 2001
2:14 am
Hello,<br>I stumbled across this by accident....some coincidence,I've owned a Lubi for nearly 10 years.<br>I was overly impressed with the 'quality&#39; of the ...
518 funsky1 Send Email May 21, 2001
10:35 pm
Am seeing a lot now - usually from former Soviet bloc countries.<br><br>Wish Lubi had a bona fide distributor in the US......
519 lionenzion Send Email Jun 4, 2001
10:36 pm
Can anybody point me to a site where I might be able to get a User Manual for a Lubitel 166. I just got one online, but it didn't come with any specifics, and...
520 jocelinv Send Email Jun 5, 2001
8:57 am
There is a manual on:<br><br><a href=http://lubitel-resource.tripod.com/ target=new>http://lubitel-resource.tripod.com/</a><br><br>Greetz,<br><br>Jocelin...
521 mellifluous1 Send Email Jun 5, 2001
11:29 pm
i've had my 166u for about a year now, and i've been missing my spool release knob for about as long. i think it came of in an austrian tram or something. but...
522 lionenzion Send Email Jun 7, 2001
5:27 pm
If anybody can point me to a site that I could find some spare parts, or a list of different accessories for the Lubitel 166, it would be much appreciated. I...
523 pusang_puti Send Email Jun 8, 2001
7:29 pm
In consideration of its value, it is often more cost effective to replace a Lubitel rather than have it fixed. Any broken part could be substituted with an...
524 guynotgirl Send Email Jun 17, 2001
5:54 am
i just got my lubi 166-u. i started my first roll of film, which is incidentally my first attempt with using 120/medium format film. i have the camera set to ...
525 bullitt46 Send Email Jun 18, 2001
4:03 am
If you are not seeing numbers, that means you haven't got to the film, yet.<br><br>When you load the film, advance it until the double arrows (one pointing ...
526 il_postino_pat Send Email Jun 18, 2001
3:05 pm
The film paper is printed with numbers. You must advance the film until the long arrows, and the dots, have passed the small circular window in the back of the...
527 dkaufman.rm Send Email Jun 19, 2001
12:47 pm
A word of caution... if you are using Ilford film the numbers are very faint. I the light isn;t bright (or is too bright and hitting the viewer window wrong)...
528 angelus1981 Send Email Jun 24, 2001
10:10 am
<a href=http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/thekiev88club target=new>http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/thekiev88club</a><br>For all the lovers of the slr medium format...
529 angelus1981 Send Email Jun 24, 2001
10:11 am
<a href=http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/thekiev88club target=new>http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/thekiev88club</a><br>for all the lover of the slr medium format...
530 pusang_puti Send Email Jun 25, 2001
8:48 pm
There is<br><a href=http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/fotoapparat target=new>http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/fotoapparat</a><br>for posting photographs made with...
531 pusang_puti Send Email Jun 25, 2001
8:51 pm
correction for previous message:<br><br><a href=http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/kiev88 target=new>http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/kiev88<;/a><br><br><a...
532 jksnoopy Send Email Jul 6, 2001
5:43 pm
My father gave me a Lubitel 166U for my birthday a couple of years ago. But it didn't come with any instructions. So I tried it out and I couldn't figure it...
533 rolandgivan Send Email Jul 6, 2001
10:30 pm
Hi,<br><br>At the risk of boring regular readers - I have some information at:<br><br><a href=http://www.cix.co.uk/~rgivan/...
534 johfoley2000 Send Email Jul 7, 2001
8:39 am
Roland,<br><br>Nice to see that you are still around, and I assume doing well. I was thinking of you last week...one of my neighbours gave me an Argus Seventy...
535 jbuhler Send Email Jul 9, 2001
9:14 am
What can't you figure out? The camera is rather simple. <br><br>You have to cock the shutter manually every time you advance the film (the lever for this is in...
536 angerkl Send Email Jul 9, 2001
10:32 pm
I just got a 166 U and failed to notice that there is a choice for 6x6 and 4.5x6 on the back of the camera. The roll of film I shot had about 1/2 of the ...
537 angerkl Send Email Jul 9, 2001
10:47 pm
As I had mentioned in the previous posting I didn't notice that I had the camera set for 4.5 format pictures. I posted a couple of new photos the one of my ...
538 mellifluous1 Send Email Jul 10, 2001
3:12 am
if you didn't get one with the camera, i don't know where you will find one now, but most lubi's come with a washer of sorts (looks like a square piece of ...
539 angerkl Send Email Jul 10, 2001
5:16 pm
Joey,<br><br>Thanks for the offer, I will compare the inside to yours when I finish the roll I just put in.<br><br>Kim...
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