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Hi, I love my KMV, and I just want to change her handle....anybody knows where I could get these particular handles from??


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Torsten

Hi, I'm trying to find out which were the "right" lenses having been used traditionally on a KMV 8x10. I have a couple of lenses (Nikkor, etc), but I would like to put an american lens on an american...

Hi, thank's for your comments. Sending the camera located in Europe to the US is not easy and very costy....unfortunately.

Aah, ok, now I understand: these rivets have to go *through* the wood and be bent on the other side. I'll check that tonight! Many thanks. Btw, what do you recommend for restoring the wooden parts?
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Hi, I got with my NFS DDorff 8x10 a new leather grip and 4 metal parts, but I'm not sure how to fix the leather grip on the wood. Probably I'll have to fill first the holes with wood mastic or epoxy,...

thank's for the info!!

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Torsten

Hi, could someone please tell me if only the marking/labeling changes between the two, or also the true inner aperture of the shutter (that's what I fear)? In other words,
what happens if I put a...

My five cents;

I owned a Technika V. Superb machinery, probably the best. Too heavy. Not "cosy" enough. Not elegant. The sturdiest field camera i owned, excellent!

Sinar P: heavy heavy, but...

Hi, I'm looking for very solid and rigid lens caps for wide angle lenses like my
apo-Grandagon 55mm. The original lens caps are too soft and might damage the
glass by touching it in the backpack....

Hi, I searched several sources, it's very difficult to get an idea about which light tight dark cloth to use for bellow building. Some sources state Porter's thinner dark cloth, but Porter doesn't...

Hi, I'm doing now the tricky job of building an asymmetric, tapered bellow.
I'm wondering right now if anyone of you has experience in building bellows.

I would love to have some answers to my...

Hi, I try to collect all kind of information on webpages concerning bellow making,
on glues, leather, and all other ingredients...

thank's
Torsten

I personally experienced the Lumigrid sheetfilm.be gg and I thought they were much brighter than the original ebony gg. I might be wrongK I'm not really satisfied, that's why I'm asking...

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Hi, I got my second hand Ebony RW45 and I'm completely thrilled with this camera. It's a stunning beauty, and it's so "direct" in use. However, I'm a little bit hesitant with respect to the original...

any idea??

Hi, i have a lens mounted on a Prontor Pro 01s, and I wonder if it would work out on an Ebony RW45? It does definitely NOT work out on a Technika Super V, the available space on the lensboard is not...

Hi, what if I want to change a lens from a Prontor pro 1S to a Copal 1 shutter. The thickness is indicated with 20mm in both cases. In fact, I have two identical lenses with slightly different...

Thanks, but I read that section already; it treats about stiffness, but it won't resolve lateral play...
The question remains open.

thank's Torsten

Hi, a nice person proposes me an Ebony RW45E to buy, brandnew, just a couple of pictures taken. The camera is 4 years old and looks totally immaculate. All movements are very satisfactory, the camera...

Hi, I'm considering purchasing a pretty old (1988) Nikkor SW 120/8, and I wonder if someone knows whether there was any evolution of this lens in the last 20 years?
Btw, do you know where I could...

Hi, could somebody please explain me how the "ebony accessory shoe" on the front standart looks like? I would like to fix an ultralight ebony lens shade to my canham, any experience?

Thanks and...

Hi, could somebody please explain which kind of lenses can be mounted on an Ilex Universal number 3? Is it compatible with any Copal or Compur size or does it just take lenses with american...

Hi, I'm in a terrible situation: I have a real gem, a beautiful Canham Traditional 8x10 Camera here at home. My lenses are all old crazy things like portrait lenses, aporonars etc, weighting a ton....

Hi, I want to have a light, but "safe" way of transporting my Canham 8x10. My goal is to put it in a backpack (either directly or first in a kind of case) and to go hiking in the mountains....any...

Hi , very interesting to read your posting!

Bill explained me that there is also a special ground glas treated with the HiLux procedure. He also told me, that this gg enhances by a coefficient 10...

Hi, I still have a basic question: do you speak about the groundglas itself or do you speak about the Fresnel? Which one delivers the big improvement?

Torsten

Yes, I'm doing that right now. There are basically two solutions:

1) the Sinar-Copal shutter turned front-to-back. In that case you fix directly the Sinar-Copal on a lensboard and you can mount...

Thank's for all the comments, but I don't want to fix the lens on a Sinar, just on a Sinar board (which then will be fixed on another camera). So it's really about finding an intermediate piece...

Hi, does anybody amongst you have mounted a big Petzval or similar on a Sinar board? I thought about building an intermediate piece of wood or aluminium.... or PVC?
Any ideas, any photos? It's not...

thank's a lot!!

Hi, could somebody please explain me how to translate the following f/stops written on the barrel of an old american Petzval:

1 2 4 8 16 22

Thank's a lot in advance

Torsten

Hi Peter, yes I know, but I just wanted to know if there's any combination with let's say a crown graphic or something like that, which would match well (hand held shot's...)

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Torsten

Hi, I try to find out which Press camera would be best suited to take a
75mm Biogon (with integrated shutter). Does anybody know of such a mounting?

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Torsten

Well, now he accepts to take it back - under the condition that I pay all shipping back and forth (80 USD in total). I'll do that, but I admit that I consider that very rude...


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Frank, sorry, but when I sell a lens I know what I'm selling, otherwise I mention something like "don't know if it's complete", or "just one piece of glass in the front, nothing in the rear" or so....

Well, bullocks for the simple reason that playing on the words "lenses" versus lens ("objective") is not fair play in my opinion. If I buy let's say a Grandagon-N 4.5/90 "LENS" than I don't expect an...

his reply:

"Hello,
Again, as per description I stated lens. Plural would be lenses.
Please reread my description. Never is it stated that I said
lenses. My offer to you was more than...

Well, sometimes things are not as easy: I just received the item, and it has just the front lens (pair). It totally misses the back pair of lenses, ie it is not usable as a photographic lens. I just...

...your Name is probably only a pseudo, am I right, or are you from the historic Petzval family? Thank's anyway for all these very interesting posts. I must find a way identifying if it was a Petzval...

thank's for your posting! What do you call in that particular situation ergonomics? The fact that the scale is not lighted? This is for sure no big fun. On the other side, I could consider process...