Tell me what this is for someone??

[Katie]

It's when I see things like this that I mourn the replacement of mechanical engineering by digital engineering as the predominent form of design and maufacturing. These sorts of ingenious little devices were just wonderful to behold.

WELL SAID!!! I feel the same way.


I'll get in line to buy it, Katie, should you change your mind...



Ken

I'll keep you guys in mind, should I decide to sell any of my wonderful treasures!

[John Hermanson]

I have been sent this picture and asked what it is. It came in an old camera bag with a Minolta XG-1, and since I shoot one, they thought I would know.

THANKS!

A wind-up-add-on self timer, screws into the cable release socket. John

[bblhed]

I have always loved the look of that type of timer, that is a nice one, in fact all the timers shown in this thread are nice. These little clockwork bits are just another reminder of how cool some old tech was.

I have looked at several of those types of timers and always go back to my old Kodak timers that only work on Kodak cable releases. My Kodak cable releases work on all my cameras that take cable releases, and the ones that don't take cables have timers or remotes, but I do have a Zeiss folder that has a timer and takes a cable.

[tomalophicon]

We used to call these M.R.M s, (Mouse Raping Mechanisms) in the trade

Bahaha that's awesome.

[Sirius Glass]

The OP reminded me that I might still have one. When I was back in Los Angeles, I found it. Now it will hang out with my Pacemaker Speed Graphic since the smaller format cameras have the self timers built in. Thanks to the OP!

[Lee L]

So the thread mount fits Hasselblad? Hmmm, I will tell them it's junk and keep it for myself!

Tell them that the requisite batteries are no longer available, and it's useless to them.

Lee