A handheld Deardorff 5X10 camera??

[TheDeardorffGuy]

Here's some pics showing two different shutters. A full face and a closeup crop with and without the adjustment pin. image 9023 shows two screws. The one to the right of the speed dial is the adjustment pin

[TheDeardorffGuy]

Here's the Deardorff 4x10 back. This one was made in '72.
Sorry I could not find the holders. I have 2 Plastic Rightways and 2 wood Lisco's
These were off the shelf Xray holders.

[Jason Greenberg Motamedi]

Thank you Ken!

[TheDeardorffGuy]

Well I am about to say a big "I GOOFED UP". A large portion of my Deardorff knowlege
comes from working at the factory as their refinisher and company historian. There are a few blank spots in the history of produced cameras as I know it and one camera just came to light. Having studied and aquired for my collection a 12x20 camera and a 4x10 back that were used in the Colorama program I thought I knew it all. Wrong. Here's a pic of one of two 5x10 Hand held Deardorffs. Thanks to the George Eastman House and Todd Gustafson for the pics.

[TheDeardorffGuy]

In my haste to post these pics...Thiese were built as tripod cameras and this one was adapted for hand held use.
Ken

[Jim Galli]

Wow! How cool is that! Maybe the Eastman house can loan it too me so I can finish up a few rolls of their Aerial Recon film

[Daniel Stone]

here's a short video on the making of the 1st underwater Colorama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b99OE3pc0rc

-Dan

[TheDeardorffGuy]

Jim
These cameras JUST came to light after many years living in the dark. As I get more info I'll pass it on.

BTW Great video on the underwater camera. Deardorff helped convert a standard V8
for Cousteau. It had a buoyancy compensator tank. making it a mini sub. it took standard CFHs too.

[Nicholas F. Jones]

Aperture did a little book "Colorama. The World's Largest Photographs. From Kodak and the George Eastman House Collection" (2004). It has a small selection of the 565 murals, plus two essays (by Alison Nordstroem and Peggy Roalf). ISBN 1-931788-44-8. Used copies on the web for under $5.00.

Wouldn't it be great if some publisher put out a complete edition of all 565? For one thing, we might get to see the missing left hand panel of Ansel Adams' triptych "Redwoods" (August 1955), if the "unprintable" (but surviving) negative could be restored. Details from the website.