Advice on using a century old lens

[seezee]

Once you decide you like how the lens shoots, you can buy a lensboard with just a pilot hole and have a machinist mill it to fit your lens. Or use SK Grimes, if you can't find a local machinist.

If the lens can't be adapted to a modern shutter, you might consider a roller-blind shutter as suggested above, but be aware that the older ones usually need to have the shutter cloth repaired or replaced. Or you can use a pneumatic ("Packard") shutter. They are meant to be mounted behind the lens, inside the camera, but I wound up front-mounting mine because the only one large enough for my lens diameter was too big to fit behind the front standard. Here's a link showing how I did it.

Best of luck & please post your results once you start making pictures!

[IanG]

Many thanks Ian for the offer to meet up. That would be really helpful. Where are you based at the moment?

I have thought of using ND filters, Mark, and always have a set of Lee filters in my bag. A shutter may be the way to go if I can, as I can still see some logistical issues of trying to time and exposure with an ND filter on the front of the lens.

On a different note I told my 85 year old father what I am thinking of doing and he was really touched. So that is an incentive to follow it through. Many thanks for all the comments and suggestions.

Jenny

I'm back in the UK, 30mins from Birmingham.

Ian