Originally Posted by
Ari
I just bought an Ilex #5 shutter, which included a Caltar 375mm lens; co-incidentally, the shutter fits my Protar convertible, though that lens does not screw all the way down into the shutter.
But close enough to hold the lens securely in place.
Anyway, once I saw the multi-use potential of the Ilex shutter, I had to find a way to mount it to a Technika board, since I use only those boards.
The usual retaining ring/flange method would not have worked, since the Ilex's flange would have made for a precarious fit on the TK board.
I had my local machine shop make a threaded "flange" that was bolted to a Technika board, just making it with enough clearance to still mount the board onto either of my cameras.
I just screw the shutter into this flange, and voila! I can change the orientation of the shutter by removing the silver flange, and turning it 90˚ or 180˚ and replacing the screws holding it.
The silver flange also acts a spacer.
It worked beautifully, and the photos tell the story better than do I.
I know it looks kind of unwieldy, but the lens, with both elements attached, mounts smoothly and painlessly to the camera.
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