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I guess it's usable if all I want to shoot is f4.5 and shallow DOF.

For anybody interested, I figured out what the aperture/iris problem was with the Polaroid lens. I used eBay (of course) and found a fore-and-aft photo of an identical lens. See attached. No idea why...

Thank you all for the information. I can now cross the Polaroid off my list of usable lenses. I didn't mention that I have had these lenses since the 1970's, the first time I started using large...

One of them is merely odd, but is apparently usable. It's a Wollensak Medium Format 75mm in-I think-an Alphax shutter. I know the usual pattern would be a (name) lens in a Wollensak shutter, but go...

Thank you all for the input. It sounds as if I'll be better off finding lenses in Copal shutters that are at least functional, and sending them to SKG for inspection and adjustment. Or putting...

Hi. I'm new to the forum, so mea culpa if this has been asked before: I keep running into lenses with good glass but faulty shutters; OTOH, I can find working shutters alone as well-so how can I tell...