Re: Show off your camera!
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Originally Posted by
Richard M. Coda
With expression on your face, I would guess that your subject's glasses were reflecting the tripod legs and you're using the cloth to cover them. I've used a cloth like that many times...
JY
Re: Show off your camera!
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Originally Posted by
mandoman7
With expression on your face, I would guess that your subject's glasses were reflecting the tripod legs and you're using the cloth to cover them. I've used a cloth like that many times...
JY
Nope... just having fun.
Re: Show off your camera!
This is a Mentor reflex camera that was completely updated for using standard 9x12 cm and 4x5" film holders. Very nice and comfortable to work with. Allows maximum comfort while shooting portraits !
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/M...Finder/009.jpg
Re: Show off your camera!
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Nana Sousa Dias
Nana,
Nice 2D! What did you do to the finish to restore it? My 2D is in fine shape but I want to buff\polish the wood to bring it back to like new. :)
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Re: Show off your camera!
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Originally Posted by
Paul Coy
Nana,
Nice 2D! What did you do to the finish to restore it? My 2D is in fine shape but I want to buff\polish the wood to bring it back to like new. :)
Well, I just did some very thin sand paper job on the wooden parts and varnished it again. The most complicated was to disassemble it and take away all the dirt from the brass parts, again with very thin sand paper. I believe this camera must be, at least, 70 years old. The brass parts were completely black. This camera was used as an enlarger for many years.
I did not varnished the brass parts, because I like the natural look of it, even if it is a bit oxyded but, often, I have to clean it again with a soft polish liquid.
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Now, this is a tremendous, beautiful, restoration work, did it yourself?
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emileway
Many thanks Nana
Yes I do it my self (exept the bellow, I'll make a new one next summer)
So, My first job was Cabinet Maker French varnish maker and Violin and bow maker).
Varnish is french varnish (Vernis au tampon, in french).
For the Brass I used a Ultrasonic engin and after a polish engin (find in a special shop for gunner and bullets).
Like you I do not make varnish on brass parts
I made too the replica case, like Air Force case in 1930.
In french, you can fin more information at this link:
http://www.collection-appareils.fr/p...php?f=37&t=341
And more pics on my www page:
http://www.speedgraphic.fr/Kodak%202D.html
Have a good day.
Laurent
Laurent,
Encore une fois, mes felicitations pour votre travail, c'est magifique, votre camera!
NSD
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Nana Sousa Dias
Laurent,
Encore une fois, mes felicitations pour votre travail, c'est magifique, votre camera!
NSD
Je voudrais dire "magnifique", bien sur! ;)
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I spent some time with a tape measure and made a crude scale to use my MPP Mk8 hand-held with my 90mm Super Angulon by focussing on the ground glass and double checking the distances..
The wire frame finder is originally from an MPP made for the military.
Can anyone recommend a lens hood?
Matt