HELP, how to open shutter to focus???

[IanG]

Welcome to the Compur #00 users club, unfortunately this is the least practical of all the Compur shutters for LF use but there's no real alternative. You can get Chinese adaptor rings on ebay to fit #00 lens cells in a #0 shutter but you'd need to use a micrometer and shims to ensure th cell spacing's the same.

Someone posted recently that RK Photographic were a good source of locking cable releases, I get mine at Camera fairs for about £1 each sometimes less

After a while you get used to the quirkyness of these #00 shutters and their lack of preview or T settings. If it's an MPP they use a cone lens board to place the front standard on the inner rail for focussing with a 90mm lens.

Ian

[marclegalle]

Wow I'm in a club, cool


After a while you get used to the quirkyness of these #00 shutters and their lack of preview or T settings. If it's an MPP they use a cone lens board to place the front standard on the inner rail for focussing with a 90mm lens.

Sorry Ian I'm a bit confused with this, not sure what you mean.

[IanG]

With some cameras with a 90mm lens the focus at infinity means that the front standard is positioned around the point where the focus rails split/change from the inner to outer tracks, you need to drop the front bed of the camera to avoid it being in shot. MPP get around this by using a coned lens board allowing the standard to be on the inner rails. Graflex with the Pacemaker Graphics do the opposite letting the standard sit on the front rails while the bed's dropped and then rear tilt on the standard to re-align the lens board (if required).

A third option used by other manufacturers is a recessed lens board. It sounds more complex than it is in practice and depends on the make/model of the camera.

Ian

[marclegalle]

I suppose I better just have a play with it all. I have a lot to learn. Thanks very much for all your help.

[rdenney]

With an Arca, the issues of inner and outer focusing rails are not really relevant. It is probably intended to be a recessed lens board, but you won't need it for your 90mm lens. If it were a 65 or a 47, the more common lenses to use a #00 shutter, you might need the recessed board to get the lens and film close enough to focus at infinity, especially when using the standard bellows.

The Chinese adapters I've seen are for mounting a #00 shutter, which needs a 26mm hole in the lens board, into a board for a #0 shutter, which requires a 34mm hole. I don't think it's possible to mount a lens threaded for a #00 shutter in a larger shutter, at least without machining things. I would not give this another thought, at least not for a long time. Take care of that shutter.

Rick "keeping it simple" Denney

[marclegalle]

Thanks Rick

I think if the cable release holds the shutter open then there is no problem hey, I am very much looking forward to start taking some test shots. I plan to set it up and compose, then shoot the same shot over again playing with the different angles of the camera documenting them and marking the film. Hopefully when I get the developed film back it should start making sense.

Thanks again

[premortho]

Waiting for the developed film to come back? Do people actually do this? One of the best reasons for large format is developing b/w film yourself.

[WootSK]

Hi

So I have finally got around to looking at my new purchase, an arca swiss 5 4, the thing is I cannot work out how to open the lens shutter, tried everything and looked at other lens which have a little lever that open and close it but this one as far as I can see only has the following.

Lever to coc the shutter
lever to fire
apature lever
shutter speed lever
the one lever which has M X and V,Which I believe to be M bold flash/ manual, X electronic flash and V is a timer.

Please help if you can as if I cant open to focus its not much use to anyone.

Marc
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I have the same lens and shutter. I have to inform you that the only way to open this shutter to focus is by setting shutter speed to bulb and use a cable release to keep it in bulb mode. There is no t mode or anything of such on the shutter to help.

[marclegalle]

Thanks, do you find it a problem at all? seems straight forward enough for me now I know, I'm waiting for a cable release to be deliverd then I'll give it a go.

As for developing, I like to shoot in colour transpancy so can't develop that myself. Black and white is ok but I love colour.

[WootSK]

Thanks, do you find it a problem at all? seems straight forward enough for me now I know, I'm waiting for a cable release to be deliverd then I'll give it a go.

As for developing, I like to shoot in colour transpancy so can't develop that myself. Black and white is ok but I love colour.

Just make sure the cable release is screwed in properly.

I shoot both color slides and b&w. While i do the 6 bath e6 process, i did tried the tetenal 3 bath e6 process. While they are more expensive, they are easier and give people who starts developing their own color slides a confidence boost. You should be able to find them in the internet without much problem.