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Yes that's the picture, no tie showing but I'm sure he's wearing one. Never thought about the case empty; that I might have managed to wrestle on to my back :)

David

I got a pair of those straps about 50 years ago. Put them on my Norma case and for the life of me couldn't get the thing up on my back. I think you'd need to have the case on some sort of a lift and...

Regarding whether or not the weight is bearable in the field, perhaps owners of the Calumet C-1 could contribute an opinion. The magnesium version weighs about 6.4 kg, the aluminum one about 8.2 kg....

Thank you Jeff for this excellent description of what I had in mind.

I have three J- series Ries heads of various ages, two bought new from Ries. I also have one of the equivalent size from Luland...

I seem to have successfully scanned my sheet on the Linhof 003667/003668. I have not been successful in posting the results. JMO and bibbt, I tried to send it to you via PM but can't see how to...

I just re-checked, mine does have a very thin film of lube. I expect this is best attended to by an authorized service center.

I'll try scanning my sheet and posting it. This will take a while.
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I bought one of these new two years ago for use with my Technikardan 45S (using the 003853 Quick Change Plate). It does have a light film of grease on the side-to-side leveling surfaces. Without a...

First of all I have no experience with this Gitzo tripod. On some tripods the stud that the head attaches to is fixed and the head is screwed on tight. Panning requires that the head has a base that...

My GOC ("A Subsidiary of Kollmorgen") price list dated August 1, 1970 shows the Blue Dot Trigor available in a mechanical shutter mount. Specifically the 6" in either a No. 1 Compur, a No. 1 Prontor...

Did your search turn up this thread: https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?23446-Mystery-Swiss-quot-Dagor-quot&p=219075#post219075

In particular see post #2 by Kerry...

Is it to La Jolla that he's moving? That's the location shown on Linhof's website: https://linhof.com/en/linhof-vertretungen/

Laflex website still shows Palm Desert.

David

I'm thinking it was Melles Griot that made the ULF lenses for Doug Busch but my memory is not to be trusted. Maybe they made the shutters? Maybe both Rodenstock and Melles Griot made the lenses?
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Yes, very very impressive work, including the test shot.
What are you using as the lens? I suppose back in the day it would have been an Apochromat Artar.

David

As an informational item, Linhof has a new price list, effective 1 March 2022: https://linhof.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022_Linhof_preise_d_e-03-01.pdf

The list shows all the film cameras on...

Thanks to Dan Fromm here is the production year by serial number for Schneider lenses: http://web.archive.org/web/20121115075344/http://www.schneiderkreuznach.com/service/serie.htm

David

What Emmanuel has introduced here is what is known as measuring a screw thread's pitch diameter using the three wire method. This looks like a good description and covers calculations for the various...

Nice.
Looks like a lens in a relatively late (circa 1970's) No. 5 Ilex Universal.

David

And of course that relationship led to Ansel's doing the photographic project for the University's centennial. Reagan's election as governor in fall of 1966 (by then I was in basic training at Ft....

To be sure. Wouldn't be surprised if the privileges included periodic letters asking for monetary contributions. And an honorary degree would have a certain cachet that my BS, 1966 (bad year to run...

Thank you Merg for confirming that Ansel Adams did receive an honorary degree.

David

A few things:

1. Thank you for posting this Bernice.
2. Thank you Mark for identifying Dr. McMillan. I knew I had a source for that somewhere but you saved me looking.
3. Drew, Ansel is not a UC...

The Kodak's 12 inch f/4.5 Ektar came in a No. 5 Ilex Universal shutter; the 12 inch f/6.3 Commercial Ektar came in the Ilex No. 4 Acme shutter. The 14 inch Commercial Ektar as well as the 10 inch...

Or as Nevil Shute rendered it on the frontispiece of Trustee From the Toolroom "An engineer is a man who can do for five bob what any bloody fool can do for a quid. Definition – origin unknown"
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Very interesting, and I don't understand German. I was struck by the number of women working at production jobs. Liked the brief vignette at about 10 minutes of the apprentice lad being instructed in...

That would have been really nice. I remember hearing that Polaroid assembled the Readyloads for Kodak (can any one confirm this?) and Fuji would have had the similar process in place for their...

Putting this weight in perspective, the Calumet C-1, when made of aluminum (vs. magnesium) was 18 pounds or 8.2 kg. Yet this Linhof was equipt with a "frame finder and rear sight." Anyone up for...

Thank you very much for this. Photographs by Jet Lowe. I was fortunate enough to get to meet him some years ago at a meeting of the Society for Industrial Archeology; got my copy his book Industrial...

I have a copy of a one page sheet under the letter head "C.P. GOERZ AMERICAN OPTICAL COMPANY." Heading is "ANNOUNCING THE GOERZ "RED-DOT" ARTAR LENS"

It proceeds with "Our untiring efforts to...

Just now found this is back on my iMac using Safari, with "High Sierra" as the most recent operating system my aging iMac can use.

David

Lovely collection of Compound and (mostly) dial-set Compur shutters!

To be clear for everyone I have two flanges from SK Grimes that would have a pitch of 0.9 mm, one for one of my dial-set...

I think you are on the right track getting a retaining ring from Phototools. Please let us know how it works out. (I gather they are more accessible to you than SK Grimes here in the US)

I did get...

If you go to this reference: http://www.tontrennung.de/assets/documents/Deckel/compur_shutter.pdf

Scroll down a bit to "Section 2 Specifications" then scroll a bit more to the specifications for...

Do do know the origins of this rather peculiar thread pitch? Many years ago I asked the late Steve Grimes if he knew; he didn't.

And how do you set-up your lathe to cut 29 1/13 threads per inch?
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Thank you very much for this information. I remember seeing this resource in the past and thought I had bookmarked it but I hadn't. Now I have.

Looks like an SK Grimes for the European Union :)
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Thank you for this, led in part to my editing my post #13.

David

Good, glad that worked out. Deckel used that style of cable release on the dial-set Compurs also.

1966 and 1970 (dates based on what I take to be date codes) Schneider brochures I have show the...

A 1966 (based on what I think is a date code) Schneider brochure I have shows both the f/4.5 and the f/4.7 135mm Xenars covering an "image area diameter" of 161mm at f/16 when focused at infinity.
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In your third picture the thingy sticking out from the circumference of the shutter as you go counter clockwise from the shutter speed dial, is that what you are referring to as the nipple? It...

And let me emphasize that I have no experience myself using a 14 inch Artar on 8 x10. The figures I've given are taken from Goerz Optical Co. literature. From what Dan has posted I would not be...

We are looking at different brochures. One I have, "Goerz Red Dot Artar In Shutter" can also be seen here: https://www.pacificrimcamera.com/rl/rlGoerzNYmisc.htm
This shows the 14 inch RD.A. covers a...