There is part of the problem.
Weather may have played a part. If it was sprayed in heat over 85 degrees the surface flash drys. Leading the person to put a second and third coat on before the...
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There is part of the problem.
Weather may have played a part. If it was sprayed in heat over 85 degrees the surface flash drys. Leading the person to put a second and third coat on before the...
When I calibrate modified meters I check the filters, they sometimes fail due to age and the conditions they are used in.
Before Calumet bought Zone VI we would buy the whole production run of the paper all grades. When Calumet took over they went to R. Guilleminot and told then they wanted a lower price and smaller...
A friend of mine worked for the USGS. He started in the sixty's when the USGS was in Washington DC. He found the plates in the basement and they were wrapped in newspaper. It was at the time the USGS...
That is a production number. It is used to match parts up after finishing. It is stamped on all 3 rail parts.
If it was a serial number there is more then two with the same number.
Do I count cameras that work?
Do I also count cameras that are in pieces and can be made into cameras?
Find someone who has a working darkroom or send the negatives to a service that dose darkroom printing.
Have contact prints made and have one or two enlargements made.
Compare to the scams and...
When you made the negatives did you close down the lens?
If you did there should be a sharp area on the negative. Even if the focusing screen is out of adjustments you will get a shape image on the...
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/articles/ZoneDial.pdf
It does over time. You just don't notice it.
The camera made down south had parts made with stainless steel. Deardorffs made in Chicago had no stainless steel. Part were nickel plated.
Your camera is from the first run of 8 x 10 cameras. Around 1988.
A few Wisner camera he did it as a custom charge,
Deadorff with an adapter board.
Zone VI 8 x 10 cameras
Ritter 8 x 10
I did not do the second board.
I have a lathe, a milling machine, a drill press and fly cutters.
The person that made image number2 said he read about doing that way on this forum.
How not to drill a lens board
Image 1 is a lens boards properly sized and drilled.
Image 2 is one where connect the holes was done.
Image 3 is the first lens board on top of the second.
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Top part get screwed to the body of the camera.
Second part slides in the part screwed fast to the body. The right hand hole goes to the bottom of the camera. It gets a 3 /16 shaft thru both sides....
Pentax stopped supplying parts for this meter in 2007
If you want it repaired once and right I would send it to someone who knows what they are doing.
I have done more repairs to camera that were repaired by someone who did not know what they were...
Yes send me an e mail off line.
Richard
Your problem could be one of two reasons.
1 the front was not milled to the proper size I have seem this.
2 the lens boards is a little over sized and did fit in a different Deardorff but not your...
You are missing a very important part. It is the base of the front standard. It is an "L" shape part with two "T"post that connect to the metal base.
No
Different front frames
OH yes One of Fred's bright ideas.
It was not made by Wisner. The rails of the Wisner were thicker and the mane plate had Made By Wisner.
The name plate on the camera shown said made by Zone VI.
I have most of the parts for the Zone VI in stock or the parts can be made. Bellows wear out and are available. The springs if they loss there holding power take them off and reform the springs.
...
Walk into a fabric store and ask for satin ribbon in black.
Wisner did make a few camera that took a Sinar lens board.
Right on
The true area of what will show up on the negative is related to the area of the exposed area of the film holder.
Paul Strand used a 5 x 7 camera. He masted off about 3/8 to 1/2 on each...
Is there a phone app that meters light and lets you set the light range you want to meter? Say there is one setting for film and a setting for wet plate.
Along with a setting for the lens you are...
E mailed then last week. They are up and running. The only delays is shipping to and from.
How much is it off?
Yes Zone VI used Treadlite foot switches.
No that was 20 some years ago. I do remember we soldered the wires to the foot switch.
When Zone VI sold the time both types of foot switches were used. It just depended on what was in stock. They both work with the timer.
You need a new foot switch. McMaster Carr has the foot switch.
If he is, there is nothing he can do.
When Calumet they took over Zone VI they thru out all the research material for the times and meter. It also included how to do the test to make sure the...
The timer was calibrated to film developers not film.