Marco Frigerio
16-Feb-2005, 10:59
Hi everybody
I need some advices from this wonderful community!
I have to replace the ground glass of a Calumet C1 8x10".
At the moment I have 3 options and my main doubts are about thickness, I mean, I don't want to have out of focus images because of the ground glass:
- an ebay item ( http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3874735157 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3874735157) ), it looks quite promising but I wrote to the seller and he told me that he doesn't know if it is an original C1 groundglass, maybe yes or maybe no, so I fear about the thickness issue.
- ordering it at Satin Snow Ground Glass, I think that they can't make mistake about thickness. The only problem is that they have a backorder of 4 week.
- Calumet has new and original ground glass for the C1, so with Calumet I can't go wrong, but they're quite expensive (129$)...the pro in this case is that I have to purchase from Calumet a Copal 1 lensboard too, so I might save on the shipping costs.
Any comments, suggestions, especially on points 1 and 2 and my thickness paranoia ;))))))), will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Marco
I need some advices from this wonderful community!
I have to replace the ground glass of a Calumet C1 8x10".
At the moment I have 3 options and my main doubts are about thickness, I mean, I don't want to have out of focus images because of the ground glass:
- an ebay item ( http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3874735157 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3874735157) ), it looks quite promising but I wrote to the seller and he told me that he doesn't know if it is an original C1 groundglass, maybe yes or maybe no, so I fear about the thickness issue.
- ordering it at Satin Snow Ground Glass, I think that they can't make mistake about thickness. The only problem is that they have a backorder of 4 week.
- Calumet has new and original ground glass for the C1, so with Calumet I can't go wrong, but they're quite expensive (129$)...the pro in this case is that I have to purchase from Calumet a Copal 1 lensboard too, so I might save on the shipping costs.
Any comments, suggestions, especially on points 1 and 2 and my thickness paranoia ;))))))), will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Marco