Shooting Outdoors With a Barrel Lens.

**William Whitaker** · 13-Jan-2016, 10:50

A Packard shutter can be front mounted. Reinhold Schable (http://re-inventedphotoequip.com/Shutters.html) did a marvelous job mounting a big Packard to the front of my 16-18 Graf Anastigmat. That lens has a front light 5" across. Finding a shutter big enough for your Cooke should be no problem.

**Emil Schildt** · 13-Jan-2016, 11:03

I have this Norka barn dorr shutter - rather big...

and then a student of mine looked at it and made him self a MUCH bigger version which worked as a charm...

**8x10 user** · 13-Jan-2016, 11:04

Your cooke will fit rear mounted in a no 5 shutter. The adapter that I had to adapt mine was about half an inch thick (all around) so the no 5 shutter is about an inch wider then what is required.

The 10.5 might also fit a no 4, and can be used with the sinar behind the lens shutter as mentioned.

My 5x7 is set up with an internal packard and I use a ND filter and processing to tame the surplus of light at large apertures.

**8x10 user** · 13-Jan-2016, 11:05

You guys ever see those eyelid shutters... Those a very fun looking.

**IanG** · 13-Jan-2016, 12:10

Originally Posted by gandolfi

I have this Norka barn dorr shutter - rather big...

and then a student of mine looked at it and made him self a MUCH bigger version which worked as a charm...

I have one as well, interesting shutters. Another shutter sold by Kodak Ltd in the UK.

Ian

**Smitty** · 13-Jan-2016, 13:37

Oh wow, didn't know about the Packard company. Thought one would need to fine an old shutter and go with it.

Steve

**seezee** · 13-Jan-2016, 14:25

Originally Posted by Smitty

Oh wow, didn't know about the Packard company. Thought one would need to fine an old shutter and go with it.

Steve

I bought an used 80s vintage one from a company in Canada and mounted it to the front of my no-name Petzval using this method. They are also plentiful on fleaBay. Just make sure you get the #6 with the "Instant" function (actuated by pushing in a pin), not the #5.

In constructing my mount, I used 2mm thick PVC instead of thin plywood for the part that slides into the holder. I might try masonite next time as the PVC is a little flimsy. I'd avoid plywood because it will tend to swell or warp as humidity & temperature change & could affect the fit. Ideally the whole thing should be constructed of man-made materials to keep things fitting as the weather changes.