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Great service from Arca Swiss! They turned around the Orbix conversion in just a couple days, and now the whole setup is on its way back to me. Really helpful and friendly service from everyone...

That’s great to hear. I wouldn’t have worried if I hadn’t seen one quite new model for sale with a broken retaining clip. But I have no idea how that happened.

Looks like I’ll need to give the...

Thanks for the help Rod. I managed to ring Arca Swiss using the number posted by Emmanuel, and spoke to a very friendly and helpful person there.

I then sent the front standard and function...

Tried ringing again this afternoon and the phone was answered by a very charming and friendly person who was extremely helpful and informative. Totally transformed my opinion of the company.

Will...

Thank you again Emmanuel! I wish all my google-searching gave results as good as those I get from you!

Thanks Emmanuel. I appreciate the information.

Maybe this is seen as charmingly old-fashioned in the internet age, and I've heard that Arca-Swiss is a family business, but I'm pretty amazed if...

What are the options for Arca-Swiss in Europe? I'm a newcomer to the system, and wanted to get hold of a spare couple of the small board-retaining clips (the grey half-circle parts that click into...

That’s great - thanks for the information and the ground glass link, Emmanuel

Thanks Oren. I really enjoy using the Cambo - it’s given me a totally different and meditative experience shooting, and even these ‘failed’ images are lovely, if I can reconcile myself to looking at...

Hi Oren - I know about circle-of-confusion and how depth-of-field should be calculated on that basis. My point in the section you quoted was that for a larger format, and a lens made for that larger...

Yes, unfortunately every time I see a ground-glass recommendation, it seems to be for a manufacturer that's been out of business for a while.

There are a lot of new ground-glass sellers on eBay,...

Indeed - that's what I thought was my mistake, as described in my first post.
But if my initial assumption about how focussing works with a helicoid on large-format was actually correct, then the...

Thanks for all the replies. I think I may have a go at calibrating the lens myself, based on this blog-post that I found:
https://jakehornphotography.com/blog/2016/2/19/fotoman-helical-calibration

Thanks Richard - this feels like a ‘good news/bad news’ situation: apparently I’m not a complete idiot, but on the other hand I now need to find someone who can fix the lens.
I really appreciate...

Apologies for beginning my first post with some very newbie questions and mistakes - I hope I can learn something useful and return the favor in the future. I should also add that I've googled and...