kodak k-100 ergonomic kirks

Hi all

I have to admit my K100 is as good as someone like me (a total amateur)
can want (specially at the price paid...)

The most ennoying thing about this camera, beside its clear
technological limitation, is its ergonomics.
Filming hand held is a pain!

Does someone know of a pistol grip going on it?

OTOH, I was thinking to make my own grip but then, how the heck am I
suppose to connect to the trigger??

Is there a cable trigger connector that I missed?

last thing: does someone knows what are the three little crosses in the
finder?

Thanks

On Jan 21, 12:57 am, Michael.Hass... RemoveThis @gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have to admit my K100 is as good as someone like me (a total amateur)
> can want (specially at the price paid...)
>
> The most ennoying thing about this camera, beside its clear
> technological limitation, is its ergonomics.
> Filming hand held is a pain!
>
> Does someone know of a pistol grip going on it?
>
> OTOH, I was thinking to make my own grip but then, how the heck am I
> suppose to connect to the trigger??
>
> Is there a cable trigger connector that I missed?
>
> last thing: does someone knows what are the three little crosses in the
> finder?
>
> Thanks


Used a K100 extensively to make commercials at a local TV station in
1960's. Always on an animation stand. The K100 really wasn't
suitable for field use, no matter what the users' manual showed.
(Several of Disney's true-life adventure wildlife movies were shot
with K100s...on Kodachrome Commercial...despite this opinion.) There
was a very extensive list of accessories for the K100, including
several styles of cable releases and what we would now call "shoulder
rests". I had a little box containing about 50 different matte slides
(hearts, split by 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, circle, etc.). There was, I think, a
lapse-dissolve device for the variable shutter functionally similar to
the Bolex H-16/H-8 version. I always thought the K100 and its
accessories were made in (the former) W-Germany simply because of how
they felt. You are simply going to have to work to find all this
stuff.

The 3 crosses you mention indicate the center of the FOV at
successively closer focusing distances for specific lenses, IIRC.

If you're intersted in buying a well-broken-in Bolex H-16 (non-reflex
body), with an Angenxeau 8:1 zoom lens with reflex finder, let me
know. Filter slot and a dozen (or so) gel filter holders. Pistol grip
and on-camera filter holder included. Will solve all usability
problems built into the K100.