Bernard Kaye
12-Dec-2010, 19:54
I hope "they" let me send this, I am again logged in, retyped for second try.
Purchased on ebay an ICA REICKA 505, (10 x 15cm.) folding plate camera to get ICA. AKT. - GES EXTRA RAPID APLANAT NOVAR f6.8F= 16.5cm. in ICA shutter, T & B, 1-1/100.
Lens needed a little cleaning and shutter exercising. Used an Aplanat decades ago, it is worth the climb. It is an interchangeable shutter-lens, has front rise & fall & shift and drop bed for swing back but is single extension but focuses so well.
No one was interested in this but it came with a new bellows and in remarkably good restorable condition which I did.
Some crud & rust and repairs to gg back; glass super for vintage & age and double cut ICA pop off-pop on film holder that "she or he" put in two Kodak 5 x 7" film sheaths modified to take 10 x 15cm. film; I have to modify to take 9 x 12cm. which I am going to do after I make good on the damage I caused today:
In final cleaning of lens elements, I dropped front element, now has on edge of 28cm. or so diameter lens element a 1/8th inch (3cm.) oval about 5/16th inch(5-6mm.) long chip. I have used lenses with much more front element damage that berform well but ask you to stop what you are doing and tell me any way that you think I can replace the front single glass element, the entire lens or entire shutter-lens?
The shutter has ICA tabs for interchangeable shutter-lens feature.
I messed-up a gem.
Regards,
Bernie
Purchased on ebay an ICA REICKA 505, (10 x 15cm.) folding plate camera to get ICA. AKT. - GES EXTRA RAPID APLANAT NOVAR f6.8F= 16.5cm. in ICA shutter, T & B, 1-1/100.
Lens needed a little cleaning and shutter exercising. Used an Aplanat decades ago, it is worth the climb. It is an interchangeable shutter-lens, has front rise & fall & shift and drop bed for swing back but is single extension but focuses so well.
No one was interested in this but it came with a new bellows and in remarkably good restorable condition which I did.
Some crud & rust and repairs to gg back; glass super for vintage & age and double cut ICA pop off-pop on film holder that "she or he" put in two Kodak 5 x 7" film sheaths modified to take 10 x 15cm. film; I have to modify to take 9 x 12cm. which I am going to do after I make good on the damage I caused today:
In final cleaning of lens elements, I dropped front element, now has on edge of 28cm. or so diameter lens element a 1/8th inch (3cm.) oval about 5/16th inch(5-6mm.) long chip. I have used lenses with much more front element damage that berform well but ask you to stop what you are doing and tell me any way that you think I can replace the front single glass element, the entire lens or entire shutter-lens?
The shutter has ICA tabs for interchangeable shutter-lens feature.
I messed-up a gem.
Regards,
Bernie