Linhof "Comfort" recessed board assembly

[Michael R]

Anyone know how the pieces go together with a lens install? It doesn't come with instructions. At the same time, if I don't really need the "comfort", can I just install a lens in this board the regular way without the comfort hardware?

Thanks

[Bob Salomon]

The mounting is very easy and really doesn't need much in the way of instructions.
First, this is a recessed board so the shutter's PC contact and cable release socket has to be replaced with the ones that come with the board.
Then you place the proper F stop scale into the recess on the board.
Then put the control rings in place on the back of the shutter and loosely mount the shutter to the board so you can rotate to align the flexible cable release into the QR Cable Release Socket and attach the bottom end to the cable release socket on the shutter. Then attach a cable release to the board and cock and fire the shutter a couple of times to ensure that the shutter is in the proper position on the board.
Now tighten the shutter to the board and remount the front and rear groups of your lens.

Now all operating functions and controls of your shutter are controlled directly from the flat part of the recessed board: press focus, aperture selection, cable release/shutter release, viewing lens aperture, attaching the synch cord, etc. no reaching into the recess to set them.

Or, let any camera repair technician do the installation, it is far less complicated then writing this all down.

[Jac@stafford.net]

The comfort board seems so enticing. I've yet to see one! Would it help with my difficulties with the 135mm Planar in recessed board, and more important, would it allow the Super Technika to close?
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[Bob Salomon]

The comfort board seems so enticing. I've yet to see one! Would it help with my difficulties with the 135mm Planar in recessed board, and more important, would it allow the Super Technika to close?
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I don't know how well it would work with old lenses. Bob Watkins may be able to tell you.

[Michael R]

Jac, if you're interested I can try to post some pictures of the board and pieces later tonight as I try to figure it out using Bob's instructions. I may have to do that anyway - still not 100% sure I'm going to get it installed correctly on the first try. :)

[Bob Salomon]

Jac, if you're interested I can try to post some pictures of the board and pieces later tonight as I try to figure it out using Bob's instructions. I may have to do that anyway - still not 100% sure I'm going to get it installed correctly on the first try. :)

Michael, it is really easy. Look at the two black rings. See one has a fork on the end? That fork goes over the press focus on the shutter. The other one goes over the aperture control lever pointer. Easy once you see where they go. The hardest part is unmounting the PC contact and the cable release socket and installing the new ones. Just have a proper size screw driver and magnetize the blade to help hold the tiny screws.
Put the aperture scale on the board before mounting the black rings to the shutter.

[Michael R]

Ok I think I'm getting it now. There's a third, very thin silver ring. Does that go first on the back of the shutter? It seems to fit there.

If I didn't want to use the special cable release mechanism and don't need access to the x socket, can I omit swapping the x socket and shutter release socket?

Thanks for the help

[Bob Salomon]

Ok I think I'm getting it now. There's a third, very thin silver ring. Does that go first on the back of the shutter? It seems to fit there.

If I didn't want to use the special cable release mechanism and don't need access to the x socket, can I omit swapping the x socket and shutter release socket?

Thanks for the help
The silver ring is for the 72mm lens only on that board.
You will need those sockets so mount them properly.

[Michael R]

Coincidentally I'm mounting a 72mm Schneider SA XL. But why would the silver ring only be required for that lens? Isn't a 0 Copal a 0 Copal?

Sorry for all these questions. I don't know much about boards and shutters.

[Bob Salomon]

Coincidentally I'm mounting a 72mm Schneider SA XL. But why would the silver ring only be required for that lens? Isn't a 0 Copal a 0 Copal?

Sorry for all these questions. I don't know much about boards and shutters.

Spacing

[Michael R]

So it goes on the back of the shutter first, before the black rings?

Again thanks for taking the time to answer. I'm always very nervous about lens mounting.

This is an interesting case. I'm planning on mounting the comfort board into a recessed Kardan->Technika adapter board.

[Bob Salomon]

So it goes on the back of the shutter first, before the black rings?

Again thanks for taking the time to answer. I'm always very nervous about lens mounting.

This is an interesting case. I'm planning on mounting the comfort board into a recessed Kardan->Technika adapter board.

It goes between the back of the shutter and the from of the board.

[Michael R]

Right, so is the order: back of shutter, thin silver ring, black rings, front of board?

[Bob Salomon]

Right, so is the order: back of shutter, thin silver ring, black rings, front of board?

Just put the black rings on first then the silver. It isn't critical. Just do it.

[Michael R]

Now I'm confused. I don't understand the placement of the silver ring.

[Bob Salomon]

Now I'm confused. I don't understand the placement of the silver ring.

It goes between the shutter and the board.

[Jac@stafford.net]

It goes between the shutter and the board.

Thanks for helping a customer, Bob.

I am dearly tempted to get a comfort board to use with the 135mm Planar. Would the board change the infinity stop?
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[Bob Salomon]

Thanks for helping a customer, Bob.

I am dearly tempted to get a comfort board to use with the 135mm Planar. Would the board change the infinity stop?
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Not if you lens is already in a recessed board.

[Michael R]

Re comfort board/lens assembly - thought I'd post this (from the factory) to clarify for anyone interested.

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[Bob Salomon]

Hello and sorry for reviving an old thread. I am mounting an 80mm Super Symmar XL on the Comfort Board. I have figured out the order of the parts, no problem. However, I am still struggling. The lens includes one tiny protruding screw in the space where the silver ring would logically fit (from what Bob wrote above, it would seem that I should not be using the silver ring, though - right?). Now, the problem with the protruding screw is that it seems to be keeping some distance between the lens and the board, perhaps to allow the aperture lever to move freely. If I tighten the retaining ring just enough for the extended levers to move freely, then the extended (black) lever that closes/opens the shutter keeps slipping out of its place on the lens. If, on the other hand, I tighten the retaining ring very firmly, I can't operate the levers. I even tried to remove that little screw from the lens but then I could not move the aperture lever at all, once I tightened the retaining ring. So, what am I doing wrong? Is the trick just to tighten the retaining ring enough but not too much? I am even considering using a bit of a thin double sided sticky tape just to keep that lever in place, but I don't think that is the way Linhof intended.

Take the screw out.

[baudolino]

Thank you!
Take the screw out.

[diversey]

I have this recessed board setup with the cable release socket. I bough an authentic linhof nipple from BH as linhof instructed, but the nipple is too small and very loose when it is inserted in the socket, the nipple jumps out when cable release is clicked. What do I do wrong? Thanks!
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[Bob Salomon]

I have this recessed board setup with the cable release socket. I bough an authentic linhof nipple from BH as linhof instructed, but the nipple is too small and very loose when it is inserted in the socket, the nipple jumps out when cable release is clicked. What do I do wrong? Thanks!
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You need to attach the nipple to a LInhof cable release.

[diversey]

Does only a linhof cable release work on this setup? Thanks!


You need to attach the nipple to a LInhof cable release.

[Bob Salomon]

Does only a linhof cable release work on this setup? Thanks!

No, but you need one with a similar nipple design. That means most Gepe Pro ones should, should, work with the nipple.

[diversey]

Thanks for your information!


No, but you need one with a similar nipple design. That means most Gepe Pro ones should, should, work with the nipple.