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Thread: What to attach the back of a sinar shutter to?

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    What to attach the back of a sinar shutter to?

    I'm trying to convert and old French wooden plate camera to take a sinar shutter. So far I've attached the sinar shutter to a Sinar back standard that takes a Sinar board. Now the back of that Sinar shutter can take something as well (a filter holder?). Can it take anything else? What should I builld/buy so I can attach it to my camera?

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    Re: What to attach the back of a sinar shutter to?

    One way would be to get a second standard, that goes on the back, followed by a Sinar board, spacer, French camera board combination

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    Re: What to attach the back of a sinar shutter to?

    The shutter was designed to fit on to the back of the front standard, with the bellows then attaching to the shutter.
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    Re: What to attach the back of a sinar shutter to?

    Thanks, both of you. How does the thing the Sinar bellows use to attach to the shutter look like? Like the Ebay-link I posted?

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    Re: What to attach the back of a sinar shutter to?

    One way of course would be to butcher an existing bellows?

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    Re: What to attach the back of a sinar shutter to?

    Quote Originally Posted by stevence View Post
    Thanks, both of you. How does the thing the Sinar bellows use to attach to the shutter look like? Like the Ebay-link I posted?
    That's the shutter which attach to the bellows, not the opposite. Seems like a common sliding metal part, very similar to those found at the Graflex cameras for instance, to attach the lens board to the camera,

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    Re: What to attach the back of a sinar shutter to?

    Quote Originally Posted by stevence View Post
    Thanks, both of you. How does the thing the Sinar bellows use to attach to the shutter look like? Like the Ebay-link I posted?
    Google the bellows. You'll see the bellows' end plate in the images.
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    Re: What to attach the back of a sinar shutter to?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lachlan 717 View Post
    Google the bellows. You'll see the bellows' end plate in the images.
    Thanks.

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    Re: What to attach the back of a sinar shutter to?

    My solution was to remove the end of the bellows from the front standard - it is usually water soluble glue. Then fix a metal oversize plate onto the front end of the bellows (with a large hole for passage of light!). On the front of this new metal plate , I fixed a couple of grooved horizontal wooden pieces which would accept the locking metal strips of the Sinar shutter. On the rear of the front standard, I replicated these locking strips. So the bellows end plate can be attached to either the rear of the standard directly OR, with the sinar shutter in position, the rear of the shutter. It may not always be possible to do this on all cameras:

    There has to be room to mount to release cable (which has a permanent bend) and get at (and read the values!) the speed setting.

    It your camera has the "turn the bellows" switch from landscape to portrait mode, it is much more difficult to do.

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