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Linhof used to make ballheads with a very convenient top plate that could be inverted to give 3/8" or 1/4" camera screw as desired. Most heads with quick change plates can be fitted with plates with...

Does that mean that one would likely be able to weaken any similar spring with heat if needed to adjust it to the task?

Good to see that others have found sense in using instrument strings for...

(It should be a "Gutiar STRING", of course! Sorry!)

I tried to repair an old Supermatic no 2 shutter the other day. One small spring was broken. It was one of those made of thin wire. Spare...

My 2-D 8x10 has the type of rise/fall mechanism that Jim C has (on his camera, that is..). The knob has a short axle, and acts on a rack on the rear side of the front frame.

Svein

It sounds like someone has tried to lubricate the shutter blades. That is never a good idea, as it makes them adhere to each other. I would think it is difficult to clean them properly without...

Don't worry. The shutter body overlaps the hole in the lensboard enough to block the light. If you are not completely shure, cover the hole on the back of the board with dark tape or even better...

For some time an old rusty lens/shutter has been collecting dust on my shelf. I took it down today to give it a closer look, and perhaps it is more interesting than I thought.

The lens is marked...

This is a case where a light meter with analog readout comes in handy. Shutter speed of 1/5 sek obviously is just a little faster than 1/4, so closer to 1/4 than to 1/8. You just read from your...

Condensors for LF enlargers are big, heavy and expensive. Fresnel lenses are used for many applications to cut size, weight and costs. I have never seen Fresnel condensors in enlargers, for good...

My old Wild Heerbrugg tripod is made of wood, but probably not possible to obtain new any more, unless one can find one that was forgotten in some storage for some decades. It is very yellow, as...

I have at least two lenses that seem to have this kind of shutter. One is a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 4,5/135 (serial number 922 303, so a bit older than your lens), the other a Voigtländer Skopar...

Are you shure the shutter is beyond repair? A replacement may not be very easy to find, so a repair seems like a good idea if possible. If the aperture mechanism is good (or could be made...

I have one of the older (non -S) Symmar 135s. I find it very good. It is small, light and capable of very good images. To some it may also count that if you intend to use it for macro purposes, it...

This picture shows the specs for my Wild Heerbrugg surveyor tripod :-)

I could even hold a camera weighing 2 or 20 kilos, and it wouldn't matter much...

Svein Lindberg

The "Standard" was Linhofs entry level monorail (in the seventies or eighties, I think). I once bought one because I needed the back for my Kardan Super Color ST. The "Standard" is simple, but...

Does anybody recognize this one? I suppose it is a graphic lens, possibly from eastern Europe, but I really do not know. I can not see the name of the manufacturer or any logo. Around the front...

Vapour condenses on cold(er) surfaces. I often keep my loupe in my pocket in cold weather, and it helps. I haven't tried that with my ground glass, though...

Svein Lindberg, Lofoten, Northern...

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The back seems to be reversed in the upper picture. Turn it around, and see what it looks like. I think some older Plaubel backs had no way to conveniently remove the ground glass frame,...

I have made several lensboards of aluminium plate. The material is fairly easy to cut, bore and file with simple tools. I cut lensholes with an electric jigsaw with blade for metal plates. The...

Thank you for the suggestions so far! I looked around in the graflex.org earlier, but didn't discover the shared questions and solutions from users. Very good! I will browse it furter in serarch...

I have a Speed Graphic with a bad bellows. It is an Anniverary model and has a bellows made of some leatherlook material, not the more obvious plastic that is used in my Crown Graphic, and which...

I have two Copal shutters in need of new shutter blades. Both have one torn blade.

One is a Copal no.1 with a flat front and chrome shutter speed ring, serial number 73006308. The other is a...

I wrote to Badger and had a couple of e-mails crossing the Atlantic (or did they go the somewhat longer route over the Pacific?). Jeff .... wrote:

"The current version of the HXZ has the exact...

I have no experience with the Grafmatic holders, but my Fuji Quick Change doesn't lock properly to the back, either. The sliders seem to not enter the grooves along the film holder sides properly....

I own and use a Shen Hao HZX45-IIA. I like the camera, but using a roll film back is a little annoying. Removing and refitting the ground glass and it's frame is cumbersome and risky. I once lost...

Hello, Ash

All the Polaroid 600 SE's I've seen are black. This seems to have chrome finish. To me it looks like a Mamiya Universal Press or one of the other family members, which I am not able...

Wagner Lungov posted a very nice tutorial about making leather lenscaps.

http://www.lungov.com/wagner/DIYLensCap.html

Sometimes one may find caps on things like pill boxes or food containers...

I was looking at information about the Wollensak Voltas lenses. I was at this webpage:

http://www.cameraeccentric.com/html/info/wollensak_1.html

See the picture of page 20 from the old...

Much is similar in the way Paterson and Jobo plastic reels for 120 and 135 film work, but there is one major difference: The Paterson reels have small steel balls that lock the film and prevents it...

I once had big problems removing a lens from a shutter. A tiny drop of very thin oil (565 style) helped a lot.

Svein

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I have one, too (the disc, not the II meter). Just a hole in a piece of plastic.

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Thank you, Walter. Can you tell me the diameter of the hole? Do you...

I have aquired a second hand Minolta Flash Meter II. It is some 20 years old, but seems to be OK.

The manual states that several types of discs and domes can be used. It seems that these were...

The Kardan Super Color ST has a fixed bellows (glued to the standards), so it is not designed to have a format change possibility (not for bigger formats, that is!). That said, it would be possible...

[QUOTE=Gary Beasley;398687]You are right, seawater was used to wash negs and prints, this is where the notion of a hypo clearing agent came about, as seawater would clear up the fixer a good bit...

What are Pledge and Lexol? In Norway (and most other countries, I suppose) they don't necessraily sell the same products as in the USA. A breif explanation about basic contents would help in...

It is kind of strange: The original question has had 19 responses so far, but not one answer.. :-) Still, many of you have pointed to useful sites and shared valuable information regarding bellows...

The firm Kuggteknik of Swiden can supply racks and pinions among other things. They have a selection of standard items, but also make racks etc. according to customer's specifications. ...

I have a Contessa Nettel Deckrullo camera, film format 13x18 cm. It is a German strut machanism camera and came with an uncoated Tessar with a pneumatic shutter on it's tail. I read somewhere that...

I saw a flea-bay auction for prited instructions called "Make Bellows For Folding Camera Photography Antique" (Item number 190241927817) available from Canada. Do any of you have experience with...

Did you actually try it? How did the result(s) come out?

Svein L