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This was back in the days, common practice on a camera. Without a proper optical alignment, you can have the best CanoNikoLeica lens in the world, if the lens mount is not straight and aligned, you...

Well, even If I thank you for your nice thoughts and support, I do not want to fall in the usual fashionable storytelling. Beyond the historical importance of these beautiful objects, I have to say...

Thanks ! I got lucky to have useful advices from a master camere technician, now retired. :) Thanks to him !

Please feel free to enter my small work shop, for a virtual tour. :cool:

On the left, the washing, rinsing and ultrasonic cleaning place. There is a also fire proof and ventilated closet for...

Hello Patrick.

Advance mechanism has been repaired too, viewing mirror has been custom cut, and most significant optical alignment was re-set.

About 9 upon 10 TLR cameras I receive have...

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Hello. I am proud to announce the workshop opened today, and has already cameras to repair. :cool:

If you look for some nice cameras, you can have a look at some that are available for sale here :...

Thank you !

The workshop is mostly dedicated to :

-TLR cameras all brands (I have a Rolleiflex autocollimator from the factory)
-Leaf shutter all brands from very old ones (Unicum, etc.) to...

Typical kind of work I like :cool:

It fits tightly but it fits. :rolleyes: Beautiful image on the ground glass :o

I need to slightly modify the camera front bed in order to have sufficient room...

Thanks for the info !

You can try

https://www.focale22.com/main7.html

Located in France

The only guy I know that stlll has repair parts and knowledge for these cameras, and a great mamiya trained specialist. He...

Hello.

I am proud to announce the opening of a camera repair and restoration service specialized in vintage and classic cameras, that includes custom machining for lenses and large format camera...

Sanderson Tropical Quarter Plate, Goerz Dagor 120mm f/6.8 @f/22 (1905) J.Lane "Speed" dry plate in DK50, B/W print on Foma 312 grade 4
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:cool:These are Cleco fasteners. http://clecofasteners.info

Hello this is a Hugo Meyer Aristotigmat Weitwinkel 80mm f/6.8 postwar coated 4 elements in 4 groups. It is a prewar formula that you would find on early linhof 9X12 cameras. It is good at f/16 best...

All parts has been cut first with an electric saw, then with a hand saw and then the angles were made with files for the thickest parts. Other parts with thin aluminium sheets were cut with a shear....

Front plate glued with structural epoxy in order to get the best alignment (checked on a marble and a micrometer)

https://i.ibb.co/bFpMP67/IMG-20221128-114408.jpg

One piece front corner
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Then the side parts

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Looks good :cool:

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Then...

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I started with a Fotoman 80mm helical, a 4X5 Horseman ground glass, and a Hugo Meyer coated 80mm f/6.8 (4E/4G).

Prototyping : :o I chose maximum difficulty with the shape, a truncated...

Sanderson quarter plate 9X12 modified, Meyer Aristotigmat 80mm f/6.3 @f/22, Foma 100 Rodinal

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early celtic cross reused to make a calvary in the XIXth century.

Sanderson hand and stand 9X12, CZJ Tessar T 135mm f/6.3 Foma 100 Rodinal
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One of the first shots of my newly restored Zeiss Ikon Miroflex B 9X12 :), Tessar 16,5cm f/3.5 at full aperture, Foma 100 Rodinal
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Modern Copal and prewar Compur have usually the same threading except for non standard lenses. Spacing is measured with a micrometer and eventually shimed. But I was unable to mount the lens and...

I finally bought a 135mm f/6.3 CZJ Tessar T from 1951 (70°angle, image circle 189mm @ f/22) and made a lens board. :)

Lightweight camera, 1,1kg and 16X15X8cm:cool:
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Very subtle tones, great fineness in this picture Mr Slavatokar

Thanks ! I think I'll do a simple print on Foma 132 with a preflashing.

Don't throw stones at me but I'm not a very big fan of alternative processes. I think alt techniques tends to overtake the...

KW Patent Etui 9X12, CZJ Tessar 13,5cm f/4.5, Foma 100

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Zeiss Ikon Maximar 9X12, CZJ Tessar 13,5cm f/4.5, FP4+

https://www.hebergeur-image.com/upload/86.219.2.216-62ebeb19d9786.jpg

Sanderson tropical 3X4 Dagor 120mm Shangai GP3 Rodinal

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Morning light in the old family house

Sanderson Tropical 3X4 Dagor 120mm Shangai GP3

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France, Gartempe river, summer 2022

Praktisix II, Flektogon 50mm f/4 @f/11, FP4+

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Thanks rfesk I am really surprised by the quality of this old Celor Dialyte lens.

Hello.

I am proud to present my new toy, a beautiful mahogany Sanderson quarter plate camera that I have converted to 9X12cm trying to let the camera as much original as I could. :) Circa 1902
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Same configuration, full upward front rise, 1/2s f/45

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Same place, different weather and light, and different toy. :)

Sanderson "Hand and stand" Goerz 120mm f/4.5 Serie Ib (Celor) 4E/4G B&L Unicum Shutter (1895 camera all original except modified for...

Discoidal cross, circa AD 1200, Maybe Templars origin, Creuse, France

Sanderson Tropical "Deluxe" 3,25X4,25 Goerz Dagor 120mm f/6.8 f/32 Shangai GP3 Rodinal 1+50
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Sanderson Tropical "Deluxe" 3,25X4,25 Goerz Dagor 120mm f/6.8 (here with front cell removed 240mm eq.) f/32 1/30s Shangai GP3 Rodinal 1+50
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Door, Limoges, France.

KW patent Etui 9X12 1928, Tessar 13,5cm f/4.5 @f/22 Foma 100 Rodinal

https://www.hebergeur-image.com/upload/86.209.72.50-62ab1fb5a9d5c.jpg

Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 531/2 Opton Tessar 105mm f/3.5 @f/16 Tmax 400 orange filter

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