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[Xipho]

I wrote you a PN in german for some repair ideas...

Maybe the Little side screw on the cocking wheel is not fixed?

[Nodda Duma]

A Rochester Optical Company Cycle Poco #5 which I have been using for homemade photographic emulsion making / dry plate photography.

[Tin Can]

A Rochester Optical Company Cycle Poco #5 which I have been using for homemade photographic emulsion making / dry plate photography.

Those are such nice cameras. I have a non Poco, but it looks just like that. So light, and they seem to last forever if folded up in the original case.

[ndavidson27]

Posted this in my introduction post.


Zone VI 4x5 by Nathan Davidson, on Flickr

[David Schaller]

That's a beauty, in great shape. I have a more recent Wisner that is starting to show its age.

Posted this in my introduction


Zone VI 4x5 by Nathan Davidson, on Flickr

[Paddy McKay]

This is my unrestored 8x10 Agfa-Ansco "Ground, Type C-1", which I assume means that it was military property when new, with a Voigtländer-Heliar 30cm f4.5 lens.

[Paddy McKay]

And for 4x5, this is my mid 60's vintage Linhof Super Technika V, with a Germinar W 240mm. It has a factory replaced bellows, a nice bright Bosscreen. You can see the knob that I had fabbed, to replace a broken rise lever. Sort of a throwback to the earlier Tech's, but now it's much easier to use from behind the camera, and totally bullet proof.

[charlesholland]

not much to show for now as pictures have to come: yesterday my recently bought Linhof Kardan Color arrived. What a completely underrated camera this is!!! The front and rear stand are built like a tank, You can use the monorail to chase criminals although it might be too light for that. In practice I expect this set to fill up the gap between my Ebony SW45 and my Cambo 45SF: the Ebony is resticted in focal length, the Cambo due to it's weight.

[mdarnton]

This is my unrestored 8x10 Agfa-Ansco "Ground, Type C-1", which I assume means that it was military property when new, with a Voigtländer-Heliar 30cm f4.5 lens.

Sweet! That's the scarcer Commercial View model, with extra bellows extension. Are you lucky enough to have the front track, too? I'm jealous.

[IanG]

Sweet! That's the scarcer Commercial View model, with extra bellows extension. Are you lucky enough to have the front track, too? I'm jealous.

It's not the original Commercial View, this one is made after production switched from Bingham when the company was taken over by the US Government in 1941, the fitting differ slightly. It's the first time I've seen that version, it's probably quite rare perhaps very early production at the new workshop, it was made for the military and they simplified and cheapened manufacture later.

Ian