Zak Smith

Here are the results of my first attempt to take some halfway decent photographs of pistols.

The subject is my CZ-75B-SA in 9x19. It has the following modifications:

1. a set of CZ rubber grips,[/*:m:3hw06dyq]
2. a set of "PT" Night Sights, installed by CZ-USA,[/*:m:3hw06dyq]
3. a "Champion" steel trigger, and trigger job, installed by Mike at CZ-USA, and[/*:m:3hw06dyq]
4. strips of 3M "skateboard tape" around the frontstrap. The discrete thin strips bubble less than one big piece of tape.[/*:m:3hw06dyq]

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There were a few more pictures in this series. Here's a link to the entire sequence.

Pictures were taken with an Olympus Stylus Epic (no zoom), with the flash off, at about 10-16" distance from subject. The main light source was 4:30pm sunlight streaming into my office window, along with a halogen lamp. The results aren't too bad considering I'm using a $70 camera, and I've never "practiced" nor studied photography.

I clearly need to work on lighting and composition, and get a camera which has an adjustable aperture, and a tripod, to fix the field-of-focus problems.

Enjoy.

Zak

Stephen A. Camp

Hello, sir and thanks for the pictures. They are appreciated, especially on such a nice pistol.

Best.

Metallik

Pics look good...like the top one especially. Kinda moody and artsy 8)

If you've got a dark area like the backstrap in the top pic, where you want to see more detail, you can use a white card or aluminum foil to "bounce" light into that spot.

Have yet to see a 75B SA in person - what's the SA trigger like compared to the standard 75B in cocked and locked?

Excellent looking pistol and looking forward to more pics...

Zak Smith

From the factory, the triggers on all the SAs I've handled have been better than 90% of the other CZ's I've handled: much lighter and reduced creep.

The only "stock" CZ triggers I've tried that were better than my SA were: a Champion (9mm), a "Standard IPSC" (.40), and one rare 97B that just happened to have a good trigger. It beats the rest no contest. It was about equal in quality to (but still lighter than) the pull on a well-broken in "85 Combat" a friend of mine owns.

I sent it in to Mike at CZ for a trigger job, and it is now excellent. No creep whatsoever; no rearward hammer movement during the trigger pull. I'd say it's about as good as a "B" model CZ75/85 can get. Weight is set at around 4lbs. The take-up is not completely smooth, however, because the firing pin block does have to be disengaged.

The trigger on these is configured so the reach is a little longer than the SA pull on a regular DA/SA CZ, though. It's about perfect for pressing with the pad of the finger, but might pose a problem for people with very small hands.

-z