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Motorcycle hydraulic lift bench from Harbor Freight or Canadian equivalent. Pick up a used one from 50 dollars upwards.

I just use an old black t-shirt.
The cost has been amortised over a long time already, and its next stop would have been for workshop use, so gets diverted to the camera department.
Reminds me, I...

Just to add to the pot, here's a couple of mine.
My first Linhof was what I came to believe is a Standard, but may well have been a Press, as it's pretty tough and has a no-nonsense front standard...

Incredible parallel to the British motorcycle industry.

That's exactly what I'll be doing. A bench vice, a file, and some nous. Well, 40 years of manufacturing engineering should do it. :)
Before I do that, I'll acquire another old cam for practice,...

Just to throw a bone into the pot, years afterwards...
I found my 1953 Tech III has three infinity notches for different 150mm lenses on the top rail, and four dots punched underneath the scale...

I'd not be surprised if the reflex attachment had a video camera on it, the bottom providing a hard copy.

If it's the real TechIII (157mm square) and not the immediate post-war Press variant (149mm square), then yes, the proper Tech III rotating back will fit, just clip-off, clip-on.
I've done exactly...

Nice bit of kit, indeed.
I've come across ex-college /government cameras where one was put aside and simply never used. Kept as a spare or for dept head's use and then forgotten about, more than...

One of my old Linhofs, the immediate post-war Technika III (although it's really a pre-war body akin to Tech2) is the Press variant. Totally stripped as standard, with no RF, not much in the way of...

Cheers, Bob. Much appreciated.

It would also double as a composition aid - slide in the back of the 4x5 and you get a masked 6x7 or 6x6 (hard to tell) view.
I just took delivery today of a Tech III with a similar device for 6x9...

Bob, would I be right in thinking a Tech III, number 31976, is about 1953?

The art is in going cheap without getting caught out (too much).

Seems like it's not unique to film holders, either.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24741832

I was amazed just how many google queries led me to the downed site - totally frustrating, knowing the info was here but inaccessible. Welcome back on line and you've been sorely missed this past...

Haven't the boundaries shifted over the past century anyway?
I have a 100 year old pocket camera (nothing special) that uses 4x5 and back then I don't suppose it was considered LF, just fairly...

What works in a smelly microwave oven is to put a saucer of sodium bicarb in it.

That's a VERY interesting thing to do.
Now I'm eyeing up a View II and a Canon 10D, both doing nothing.
Actually, since there's no permanent mods to either, the K20D would be better for end detail.

Damn. Now that's clever. Only goes to show, it's all been done before.

I picked up an old CPP with a couple of print drums for €20. The CPP isn't as good as the later models, but it does have sufficient basic funtionality to do what I need it for. For 4x5 and 9x12 I...

I've heard good things about this one from a fellow member over on mflenses forum...
http://shop.ebay.com/vfmoto/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=
I will buy one of these soon, and I'm not in the...

I used a quick and dirty method of pinhole (actually, lines of them) filling by mixing 50/50 black acrylic paint and PVA, then brushing the FP shutter of my Ihagee Zwieverschluss. This has been...

I have both, and yes, it will fit. There's a bit of wasted space inside so it might be worth looking at making a space-filler of some sort - or maybe not, diluted B&W chems are cheap enough.