Ilex Shutter or Luc type Shutter for my 19" Apo Artar

[John Fink Jr.]

Dan, Thank you very much for the link. How I didn't find this is strange:-) Much appreciated.
Charley, So true!!!! And thank you for that difference of size tidbit.

John

[Carsten Wolff]

Actually, I put mine into a #4 Alphax, not a #5. Here is a photo I took of it (in 2006, just before I sold it on):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37082363@N08/7361710320/
Apologies for the lapse in memory

[John Fink Jr.]

Thank you Carsten. That underwater checkers photo is very interesting. No floating pieces?

[Carsten Wolff]

Thank you Carsten. That underwater checkers photo is very interesting. No floating pieces?

Thanks, John, a bit off-topic now (wasn't even taken with my underwater 5x7", although perhaps I'll take it next time ); no, they obviously use well-weighted pieces and boards that are probably to be made from magnetite (fridge magnet material); there were also some chess players there...a somewhat weird, yet kinda Zen evening.....

PS The adapter I got made to stick that 19" Apo-Artar onto the Alphax #4 by a local fitter/turner was just a press-in ring made of Delrin, worked really well.

[John Fink Jr.]

Carsten, that si interesting info on the press-in ring. Is any of it threaded? I would imagine the ring's OD would be threaded?

[Carsten Wolff]

No, it wasn't threaded at all. I thought that it felt a bit dodgy when I first used it, but I had the lens for quite some time and the push-in fit on both sides was superb; I even hiked with it and hung a Lee filter system on it and in the end got used to it; i.e. never had any fear of loosing the lens; I also never had the actual need to take the lens out of that shutter once mounted. It was a very slim, recessed adapter, so image circle was preserved as well

[John Fink Jr.]

Carsten, sometimes it all just fits.

Best regards,
John