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Hi Pete
The Aviar is a 4-glass dialyt type lens, 4 elements in 4 groups. The Tessar is 4 elements in 3 groups. I have a postwar Aviar, I have yet to try it with portraits but other pictures I have...

HI, he was a rev, you had to be to teach at Oxford then. Alex

Hi hmvmanuk, The advice I was given by Gandolfi to lubricate focusing racks was to use a 2B pencil. The problem with using other lubricants is you have to clean them out when they get dirty and re...

Hi, I have a Wista DX 'Rosewood', I don't know if it's a II, what's the difference? It has 'WISTA FIELD' badge stuck to the front of the baseboard. On the back of the baseboard it has another badge...

Hi Bob, My Wista doesn't do what the ebay Wista is doing - I tried. Base tilts are usually considered to be the pivot point where the standard joins the baseboard aren't they? Rather than the base of...

Hi, I have just checked my Wista DX and it only has base tilts. The pictures on your link show, I think, a camera that has been customised. The other way of showing that could be that they have just...

Hi, I have a 5 1/4” ƒ6 Dallmeyer No 2 Stigmatic Ser II, in a Volute shutter. Fits a modern No 0 lens panel which is nice. The lens is a triple convertible with the three aperture scales on the...

Thank you for your replies. There is no 'click' at the beginning and end of the exposure like modern Copals, it's a continuous noise. The sound card idea wouldn't work in this instance. Counting...

I have a Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter which fits onto the front of the lens. The slowest speed doesn't work but the others do. I have no way of telling what those speeds really are. Is there...

Hi Dan
thanks for that. I have a Derogy Petzval so a useful page.
Alex

Thanks Dan
I was in the right ball park for my estimates, it's very helpful to have them narrowed down. As you say the LVM is very general. I've not come across Per P-H Pont's chronology, is that...

Hi
I have four Dallmeyer lenses of varying types all from the 20C. I have an idea which decades they are from, does any one have more precise dating methods.
Here is a list with serial numbers.
5...

Hi Steven
This is the Gandolfi website address http://www.gandolficameras.com/. Edward Hill the owner should be able to supply you if there is one.
Alex

Hi Keith
The camera is a 10x8 Gandolfi Precision, now called Traditional. Not shown in the pic is the front swing attachment which makes it a bit more versatile, but not with wide angles. It also...

"At last a camera to match my braces!" Gandolfi 10x8

Hi Stefan
Very enjoyable bokeh. Is your Aviar in a shutter or do you have fast hands.
regards
Alex

Hi Robert
Using a wide angle lens on a tailboard camera, the generic name for Universal types, is a bit awkward. It is not because of the shape of the bellows but because of the short focal length...

Hi Robert
You have a Gandolfi Universal, I have the same camera. Rise & fall and shift on the front, and a small amount of tilt and swing on the back. I thought mine had been made in the 50s but I...

Hi Bob
Can you date a Copal shutter by the serial number. I have a number 3 shutter sn 7724xx. The lens is a Komura, difficult to date. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Alex

Hi, Ihave a Wista DX and use a Cambo 6x9 RFH, it slides behind the ground glass like a darkslide. I am including a picture. I stuck two strips of card to the back so that the GG frame pressed flat on...

Hi, Where can you buy original 30s/40s prints?
Alex

Steve
The numbers on mine do match, I'm not sure of the significance, if any, if they don't.
Ole
They certainly are "odballs". I have another Compur from the same era which has a 49mm mounting...

Hi
I have a 1920s 150mm ƒ4.5 Heliar in a No 2 Compur dial set shutter, of course no flash synch. I tried to fit the front element into a rimset 1970s Compur shutter and it wouldn't fit - very...

Hi Scott
The underexposure you experienced on the beach may not be the fault of the filter but the because you were taking reflected light readings from sand. I don't know where your beach was but...

Hi Patrik
I have a 'quote' Xenar Typ.D.f:3.5 F - 15cm, mounted in a dial set Compur shutter. The lens dates from 1926. The LVM describes it as a reverse Tessar, 2 cemented elements in front and 2...

Hi, If you go to the website www.gandolfi-film.co.uk there is all the information on the film. I purchased a VHS video of it, there was no DVD available at the time but that may have changed. Good...