Float Flyr
Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 2704
Location: Campbellton, Newfoundland
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 Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:44 am Post subject: OFF TOPIC: Cameras |
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I trained on a 4x5 Calumet. The technical school had a whole array of
lenses for it. We also had a heavier monorail with bags the whole works.
The extra movements were always put to good use.
When I started my own business ... Some 35 years ago I picked up a used
monorail 4X5 which I still have. I also cannibalized the largest Kodak
Bellows camera I could find for the lens.... I had to make the lens board
out of sheet aluminium. I could do some minor corrections without getting
into the edge of the lens.
The last jobs I did with it was to make line copy plates for an I.D. card
printer.
I've used; 70 mm perf, 70 mm, 35 non perf, 35 perf, 4x5, 5x7,6x6, 6x7 and I
used to do a certain amount of copy work onto 16 mm film through a modified
enlarger.
I also have a beautiful cherry wood folding 8X10 portrait camera. The
tracks were routed into the wood and it eventually cracked, before I ever
saw it. I re routed the tracks and was trying to get someone with a shaper
to make brass tracks for me. I have a nice lens 9" I think and a working
Packard shutter. Movements aren't much to write home about but it is a
beautiful camera for portraits.
A couple of 8X10 slides and a couple of 5X7 slides&back round out that set
up.
If a fellow wanted a hobby to take up all his time a technical camera should
do it!!
Wind here close to 20 Kt again today...no fun for a little plane on floats!
Noel
Oh yes...
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