When buying the flash adapter, make sure you buy the one for the C3 not the FA, C3 flash adapter has the prongs close together, the FA is further out. I used a Bryl Creem cap for the top of tube that the hot shoe sits on, fits peferctly! If you want to see a picture go to Argus camera page on Facebook, I have a picture there that is for the FA camera, but like i said the only difference is the prongs are wider on the FA.
This should help you out, follow these directions and your counter willl be accurate on all your pictures and will be equally spaced on the film itself! I have been doing it this way for years and never had a problem! Of course I had access to the original manual that told me to do it this way! The nice thing about manual cameras, you almost always get a few more pictures out of the roll!
@pheefur nice, glad I could help, next up I will show you how to make an electronic flash adapter! Buy an Argus flash adapter if you don't have one already, you can buy off ebay. Saw off the top, so you only have a tube, find a cap that you can glue to the top after you are done, solder wires to the prongs inside the tube, get a hot shoe and screw to the cap, attach one wire to center of hot shoe, other wire to understand of hotshoe. Test with flash first then glue cap on to tube!
Your film counter is not accurate because you are not advancing film correctly. After you have the film in and the door closed, you need to hold the film catch down and turn the film advance a QUARTER turn only, think it like a clock every 15 minutes if your not sure how much a quarter turn is. Then let go of the film catch and wind film advance until it stops! Do this twice when first loading! Then turn the film counter clockwise until you get to zero! Advance only once after taking a picture.
When buying the flash adapter, make sure you buy the one for the C3 not the FA, C3 flash adapter has the prongs close together, the FA is further out. I used a Bryl Creem cap for the top of tube that the hot shoe sits on, fits peferctly! If you want to see a picture go to Argus camera page on Facebook, I have a picture there that is for the FA camera, but like i said the only difference is the prongs are wider on the FA.
JENDALL714 5 months ago
This should help you out, follow these directions and your counter willl be accurate on all your pictures and will be equally spaced on the film itself! I have been doing it this way for years and never had a problem! Of course I had access to the original manual that told me to do it this way! The nice thing about manual cameras, you almost always get a few more pictures out of the roll!
JENDALL714 5 months ago
@JENDALL714 sweet! i followed the instruc and now it keeps count
pheefur 5 months ago
@pheefur nice, glad I could help, next up I will show you how to make an electronic flash adapter! Buy an Argus flash adapter if you don't have one already, you can buy off ebay. Saw off the top, so you only have a tube, find a cap that you can glue to the top after you are done, solder wires to the prongs inside the tube, get a hot shoe and screw to the cap, attach one wire to center of hot shoe, other wire to understand of hotshoe. Test with flash first then glue cap on to tube!
JENDALL714 5 months ago
Your film counter is not accurate because you are not advancing film correctly. After you have the film in and the door closed, you need to hold the film catch down and turn the film advance a QUARTER turn only, think it like a clock every 15 minutes if your not sure how much a quarter turn is. Then let go of the film catch and wind film advance until it stops! Do this twice when first loading! Then turn the film counter clockwise until you get to zero! Advance only once after taking a picture.
JENDALL714 5 months ago
I saw this camera in my local coffee shop about 5 days ago so when i saw the camera in the little picture for the video I was like gasp!!!
Shootthemoondown 6 months ago