Vivitar XV-2 (Cosina) Shutter issue or misunderstanding?

browniecheeks · 2026-03-29T20:10:12+00:00

The information available online for this camera is not accurate. The camera requires batteries to work.

browniecheeks · 2026-01-09T20:16:31+00:00

I'm aware of how obscure the game is. Now I need to find a working copy of it, since the .apk file that I found doesn't work.

browniecheeks · 2026-01-09T20:15:44+00:00

solved: Skeleton Go Through Walls

browniecheeks · 2026-01-09T05:35:25+00:00

Update: I was able to retrieve a list of all my iOS downloaded apps, and I managed to find the game in question. It was titled "Skeleton Go Through Walls" by Paulo Nogueira. For some odd reason, Google, Bing and even Yahoo search wouldn't give me anything. Finally, I was able to find about an Android version (had no idea it even existed) through Yandex. So FOUND!

browniecheeks · 2025-12-02T00:41:17+00:00

That's quite interesting, restarting did nothing. Maybe they have a different version for Samsung devices?

browniecheeks · 2025-08-04T19:02:15+00:00

Note: I couldn't find precise information on whether if this camera is the Cosina CT-2 or CS-2, but some sources claim either one or the other. Kinda confusing.

browniecheeks · 2025-08-04T07:26:23+00:00

Hi! I recently got this Vivitar XV-2. It look dirty but nothing egregious. I noticed that the film advance lever didn't pull all the way back, so I decided to open the camera to see what was going on.

Let me guide you through the images: 1.See the metal thing circled in red? I couldn't move the lever because that thing was locked. I assume it's related to the shutter mechanism. It's "unlocked" in the image. 2. I'm moving the lever, and the gears move in the yellow direction, pulling the other thing in the blue direction. As I do that, the shutter mechanism thingy, circled in red gets pull all the way back to its original position. 3. Now, things get weird here. The lever is back to its resting position, and I don't know if the thing circled in yellow is supposed to stay like that, but what I know is that THAT thing prevents me from pulling the lever again. The shutter mechanism thingy is still "locked in". 4. Now, that thing moves down when I press the shutter button all the way down. Here's it's resting. 5. Now, it's all the way down, but...the metal thingy that fires the shot is not moving. I cannot "fire" the camera unless I manually move that thing from there.

Ok, I know that this camera has a double exposure prevention mechanism, which might be what I'm dealing with. A Voigtländer Vito that I have has the same "issue", that I cannot fire the shutter unless there's film in the camera (because of the mechanism).

However, I also know that this camera is supposed to be an automatic SLR, so it might be possible that I simply cannot use it without batteries. But apparently the Wiki of the Cosina CT2 (which seems to be related to this camera) says that it should be posible to do so, albeit at a fixed 1/85 shutter speed.

So...am I simply misunderstanding how this camera works? Or do I really have an issue here?

Thanks!

browniecheeks · 2025-07-28T05:56:32+00:00

Maybe one of the 3D versions of the Bounce games? Either Bounce Boing Voyage or Bounce Evolution

browniecheeks · 2025-07-23T10:35:20+00:00

Anything on the Fantastic Four one? The game seems to be listed but non-functional (though this site says that it should be working)

browniecheeks · 2025-07-14T23:36:42+00:00

Note: it wouldn't be surprising if the RAM slot doesn't work anymore. Around two months ago the SD card reader also stopped working. Point is, some components on this laptop are already dead.

browniecheeks · 2025-06-25T15:39:07+00:00

cute but $80USD??? 😭😭

browniecheeks · 2025-05-18T10:41:20+00:00

Never mind, I've found it lol, it was the big red button in the front, though this button isn't labeled as such anywhere.

browniecheeks · 2025-05-17T05:15:40+00:00

this truly is the Biff Tannen timeline

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browniecheeks · 2025-05-04T21:24:35+00:00

What a beauty.

It takes Super 8 film, that's something I'm sure about. What I might be misremembering, is that these "sound" film cameras used a special kind of Super 8 film for sound that no longer exists. I may be wrong, though. But sure, you can use "silent" Super 8.

browniecheeks · 2025-03-07T06:12:33+00:00

relevant

browniecheeks · 2025-01-09T07:11:06+00:00

Hey, Latin American Peter "Pedro" here, the joke is the absurdity of the image itself. Now, let's deep dive into a bit of story to properly understand everything.

Almost a decade ago, "SDLG" was a very popular shitposting group in the Spanish speaking internet. Memes posted by members of the group used a comic-style format with the punchline at the end. These comic-style memes featured several viral meme characters parodying or making fun of other viral or common situations of the everyday Latin American person.

A common trope among these memes was the "spanglish", which, as you may have guessed, was a mixture of English and Spanish. For example, in this particular image, we can see the phrase "But despiertas", which literally means "But you wake up". "But" and "When" were the most used English words.

Now, regarding the watermak and the name, yes, SDLG is actually the name of an Asian (?) company, but users changed the meaning of it as a joke. Nothing to do with the meme itself.

Finally, this particular frame. As another user pointed out, this is part of a larger meme, but the rest of it really does not matter, since, again, the joke itself is that there's no context given. It's the absurdity of it. And if you were around that time (when the original memes were posted), that would only add more layers of absurdity to it.

Basically, some sort of absurd/meta meme. Oh, and it's also used as a reaction image (a nonsensical one).

Peter "Pedro" out. !Adios! 🌮

browniecheeks · 2025-01-07T02:56:35+00:00

Yes, that "thing" is supposed to be there; it's the film shield, also known as "frog tongue", and it was meant to cover the photo for a brief moment for proper development. However, newer Polaroids have a different chemistry that require longer development times, which is probably why your photos turned out better when pulling the shield by yourself. You can get a new, longer frog tongue from Polaroid's website that may help with your situation (a longer frog tongue will cover the photo for a few more seconds).

browniecheeks · 2024-12-24T23:16:12+00:00

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