I am getting familiar with my new Tachihara and would like to ask what might see m to be the obvious, but want to make sure I'm not missing something. After open ing zeroing the front standard I will then need to use the two "toggle" style lo cks to free and slide the front standard to accomodate the bollows extension to the lens focal length. On my old Graphic, this was somewhat simple using the in finity stops. To date I've approximated "infinity" for my lens and then used th e ground glass for finer tuning.
Is it a common practice to mark infinity stops on the focus rail to expedite thi ngs or is another method for this? Also, it would seem that it is fairly easy t o not have the from standard parallel to the film plane. There is some room for play one side to the other. I have eye-balled this from the top of the camera to adjust it parallel to the camera body. Again, are there any common tricks ex pedite this using markings or is the eye-ball technique as good as anything.
Hopefully I've described this well enough for some advice. Thanks. Roger
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