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    Re: Show off your camera!

    Quote Originally Posted by Richard M. Coda View Post
    Maybe not Zorro, but possibly a matador!

    (P.S. There's an anvil behind the dark cloth, a la Bugs Bunny)

    With expression on your face, I would guess that your subject's glasses were reflecting the tripod legs and you're using the cloth to cover them. I've used a cloth like that many times...

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    Re: Show off your camera!

    Quote Originally Posted by mandoman7 View Post
    With expression on your face, I would guess that your subject's glasses were reflecting the tripod legs and you're using the cloth to cover them. I've used a cloth like that many times...

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    Re: Show off your camera!

    This is a Mentor reflex camera that was completely updated for using standard 9x12 cm and 4x5" film holders. Very nice and comfortable to work with. Allows maximum comfort while shooting portraits !


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    Re: Show off your camera!

    Quote Originally Posted by Nana Sousa Dias View Post
    My Kodak 2D 8x10, it took me about 50 hours to restore it. Shown with a Nikon W 210/5.6 and home made wooden lens board to take Linhof boards.


    My current 4x5 camera (I sold my Wista 45 DX and Linhof Technika IV) a Shen Hao HZX 45 IIA, with Schneider Symmar S 150.

    Nana,
    Nice 2D! What did you do to the finish to restore it? My 2D is in fine shape but I want to buff\polish the wood to bring it back to like new.

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    Re: Show off your camera!

    This is my 8x10 Kodak Century No.1



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    Re: Show off your camera!

    Quote Originally Posted by Paul Coy View Post
    Nana,
    Nice 2D! What did you do to the finish to restore it? My 2D is in fine shape but I want to buff\polish the wood to bring it back to like new.
    Well, I just did some very thin sand paper job on the wooden parts and varnished it again. The most complicated was to disassemble it and take away all the dirt from the brass parts, again with very thin sand paper. I believe this camera must be, at least, 70 years old. The brass parts were completely black. This camera was used as an enlarger for many years.
    I did not varnished the brass parts, because I like the natural look of it, even if it is a bit oxyded but, often, I have to clean it again with a soft polish liquid.

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    Now, this is a tremendous, beautiful, restoration work, did it yourself?

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    Re: Show off your camera!

    Quote Originally Posted by emileway View Post
    Many thanks Nana

    Yes I do it my self (exept the bellow, I'll make a new one next summer)
    So, My first job was Cabinet Maker French varnish maker and Violin and bow maker).
    Varnish is french varnish (Vernis au tampon, in french).
    For the Brass I used a Ultrasonic engin and after a polish engin (find in a special shop for gunner and bullets).
    Like you I do not make varnish on brass parts
    I made too the replica case, like Air Force case in 1930.
    In french, you can fin more information at this link:
    http://www.collection-appareils.fr/p...php?f=37&t=341

    And more pics on my www page:
    http://www.speedgraphic.fr/Kodak%202D.html

    Have a good day.
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    Laurent,

    Encore une fois, mes felicitations pour votre travail, c'est magifique, votre camera!

    NSD

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    Re: Show off your camera!

    Quote Originally Posted by Nana Sousa Dias View Post
    Laurent,

    Encore une fois, mes felicitations pour votre travail, c'est magifique, votre camera!

    NSD
    Je voudrais dire "magnifique", bien sur!

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    Re: Show off your camera!

    I spent some time with a tape measure and made a crude scale to use my MPP Mk8 hand-held with my 90mm Super Angulon by focussing on the ground glass and double checking the distances..

    The wire frame finder is originally from an MPP made for the military.

    Can anyone recommend a lens hood?

    Matt

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