I bought one NOS Copal 1, but have never needed it. Mine have always been able to be restored with a CLA or repair. I've not been so fortunate with some of my Compur 1s.
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I bought one NOS Copal 1, but have never needed it. Mine have always been able to be restored with a CLA or repair. I've not been so fortunate with some of my Compur 1s.
The shutters are generally extremely uniform -- the customization is done to a particular lens to optimize it.
The hardest part may be finding a new Copal shutter. Yours is absolutely beyond...
Well, "I suppose it might help in some situations" and "the lens is probably going to work well anyway" do not, in my opinion, suggest that it would "necessarily" have no impact. I was assuming...
I haven't tried oil, though I suppose it might help in some situations. But, again, if the issue is some relatively minor separation on the edge, the lens is probably going to work well anyway...
I won't claim I'm an expert, but I have separated and reglued at least 20 lenses. They all worked after I was done and I didn't break any of them. I'll just share my thoughts and conclusions based...
The difference between a 65 and 75mm is not great, and I find 75 much more useful. It is hard to go wrong with a 90, but I very rarely use the 65. It depends on lots of things, of course.
"Say cheese!"
I think you nailed "the decisive moment" there.
Next time develop them in Rodentnol.
I had a friend who was a newspaper staff photographer, going back into the early 60's. He told me he was covering another photographer's wedding once, using a speed graphic with the big Star Wars...
Yeah, but they aren't very reliable. Usually the first flash goes then --- nothing.
I use a Honeywell Model HPA8350 HEPA filter. The filters will last years with occasional use. The non Honeywell filters available on Amazon are quite inexpensive. I clean the prefilter...
What he said, it works great.
Carrying a small rectangle of dry mounting board is useful. Just stick it sideways between bed and bellows and it will straighten out.
I really don't think it will matter at all. An image forming "before" or "after" doesn't make a practical difference because the light is moving at....the speed of light. For all intents and...
Fungus loves moist darkness, so no need to pack things away in camera bags, etc. According to Zeiss, humidity should be kept below 70%, which seems pretty high to me. I keep the darkroom below 50%,...
I thought I'd add a little more information. As above, some of the new HC-110 did partially break down with some large cup-like chunks coming out of solution when stored just above freezing. Even...
That could apply to so much of this forum.
Yikes. This is more complicated than I thought. Thank you.
One plus is that you can actually read the stop markings off a G Claron barrel, compared with an older chrome Schneider barrel.
I came up with a Plan B. I remembered I had a box of G Claron barrel mounts left over from my taking barrel mounted lenses and putting them in shutters. One of them, from a 240mm G Claron, fits...
I bought a decent older 210mm Componon lens. It came in a USPS box, with a bit of bubble wrap, and then some crumpled newspaper. Not a good way to pack something heavy like that.
The glass is...
I ordered a box of 4x5. It came with no notches whatsoever. In the dark you can (kind of) tell which side is which by feel, but it didn't leave me totally confident about emulsion facing out. They...
I think lens choice is going to have much more impact than changes in processing. I had a cheap 35mm Russian camera with a coated lens that could deliver than glow on highlights reliably with its...
The Beseler column model with the 8x10 head.
It isn't an issue of the filters being big enough in acreage. The swing out holder can accommodate a lens just so tall with hitting the lens when you try to swing it over. I have the big sheet...
Is this really sharp edge to edge when enlarging 5x7? (It is listed as a 5x7 lens in old Schneider catalogues.)
I normally use a 210mm Nikkor, but that one is huge and below lens VC filters won't...
Picking up film out of the fixer tray was like handling film with a good coating of dishwasher soap on your hands. That's what I mean by slippery.
Well, Photographer's Formulary says the TF-5 stock solution can be stored for a year. The official Kodak information for Rapid Fixer is/was "indefinitely." Since I have three more bottles of the...
I'll try again. But according to the manufacturer of the TF-5, it doesn't have a particularly long shelf life unopened. Whereas the Kodak product (when manufactured correctly and not cooked in...
Just to give it context, I've been using Kodak Rapid Fixer for at least 50 years. I mix up a gallon, use it and use it with no regard to capacities. At some point after about 6 to 9 months it goes...
I simply take more than I think I'll ever need. Usually that turns out to be more than I need, but every once in awhile I use them all.
Can't tell from your sign up where you are. But CL can be focused to search within a radius that isn't onerous for going to pick something up.
If you watch CL I'll bet you'll see 4x5 Beselers for under $200. (Often well under.) Avoid the early model where the support rods go outward where they interfere with the easel.
I have three big bottles of the old stuff and tried the new for comparison. They seem to work the same. But from what I hear the shelf life of the new version might be more like a year than...
Does that camera have an eye level prism finder? Seems that would work much better than a chimney finder. I know my SL66 has one, not sure about your model though.
Silver (as present in used fixer) is a powerful antibacterial element. I don't think used fixer going into the septic is a good idea, even in small quantities.
I always look very carefully at the ad, and if there is any rim damage that would prevent me from disassembling it front or back (normally easy with the SK Grimes wrench) I avoid it. Even if the...
I may be wrong on this, but I always thought cocking the shutter with the shutter open on preview was an improper way to do it. I don't like the strained sound it makes. Nearly all of mine will...
My first "real" camera -- and it almost doesn't qualify as that -- was an Exa Jr. of my father's which I found in the front hall closet. It is hard to say anything good about it, but it got me...