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I need to fit my CC-400into a suitcase. I figured I could just take it off the rail, but the Allan key size on the end caps does not correspind to any in my tool kit.
Anyone know what size those...

Oh there are some heated debates on Rodinal and HP5.

Anyhow. Since i don't know just how much (little) film i will be developing, the Blazinol does seem to be the cheaper option. (The plan was to...

Ha, thought i had replied.

Good advice, David. Guess i am just being too impatient...
Nearly went ahead and used some developer i found in the same box as the film, only the stores being closed...

Yeah, umm, "what i am used to" - last time i developed film was 14 years ago. And back then i let hubby do the heavy lifting - he was the photographer after all. Maybe i should develop some other...

Digging out my film processing gear from storage (yay i have a patterson #4 tank i forgot about. ) i found about five rolls of 120 hp4 film we must have shot 14 years ago, plus a roll of...

Dang, I wanted to hear something else :-p whilst not looking for hand held precisely, I'd rather not be breaking my back lugging it around either. I'll just have to keep watching for a cheap-ish...

I was just looking at one of these, thinking of might be more "portable" than my calumet cc400. But at 17" bellows length (when extended) it is actually longer - and likely quite heavy?

I know...

Thanks for the advice. I have 2" book binding tape that i used to use on the sides of canvas paintings. It's rather thin and flexible, as well as acid free. Not sure the camera cares, but the glue...

hubby bought it 5 or 6 years ago for $400 (canadian) including a calumet cc400 camera. i don't think i could replace it for the same these days. so... i'm not worried i would mechanically screw it...

So i read the thread on fixing pinholes etc.

But I'm curious to know how one would fix corners specifically. My "new" kodak master view looks like someone scraped something along the corners of...

Totally get that. Well, let me know how that works out for you. I might be interested in a longer rail, though i am aware that means i would also need new bellows. - so likely i'd start looking for a...

I think i will leave it alone for now. It does seem to be working better already, i think i first tested it when it came straight from storage, which is "heated" in the sense that it doesn't freeze....

See, i was just going to stop by there but this drat lockdown means i am stuck with their website, which is rather lacking in the selection of things [old fashioned]. Though there seems to be more on...

Nice shot. I don't recall seeing the adox film anywhere. But but i will keep looking. My usual suppliers are all digitally oriented, so I'm learning about a whole bunch of "new" small photography...

Ha, if you're in the area, just grab this rail. They must've scraped something along the side of the camera and 3 corners on the bellows are shaved off. I'm not even going to look at fixing or...

Well, I'm doing this kind of backwards... already posted in the lens section etc.

But i figure i may as well introduce myself after all...

Hey, I'm Karin, and I've got a new addiction to large...

You know, that sounds even easier than what i had pictured. Wonder if i coul just remove the ground glass and 3d print a dummy film holder that connects to a dummy lens board. Mount the two in...

Haha, i tried, but after filing down a (cheap) flat screwdriver so it would fit, i still couldn't budge the cocking lever screw. Before messing it up, i figure i will look for proper tools.

Yeah i wrote to 3 watch repair places and about 5 camera shops. Maybe more. So far got 3 "no"s, one will quote after seeing it, and that 250-300 quote. I don't really want to ship it anywhere. I've...

I have two similar model cameras, the calumet cc400 and its predecessor, the kodak master view.

I am debating if it would make sense to find a way to hook the rails and bellows together for some...

Well, i just got a quote for $250 (canadian) to do a CLA. That just might buy me the tools to do it myself...
I understand it is a specialized service, but asking as much to spruce up a lens as it...

Well, for $75CAD, i got myself a lens and a camera for spare parts. Happy xmas to me :-)

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Thanks, yeah, the only place that has got back to me so far that will even look at it is a 2h drive - wouldn't even give me an idea of an estimate. Meh. I distrust that type of business.
I will put...

Reading up on the lens my calumet came with, the schneider Kreuznach xenar 210mm, f4.5, it looks like it is a decent one for portraits (too bad i am not a people person, i am horrified at the idea of...

Ah, a mystery, hybrid puzzle frankenstein shutter. Can't decide if i am put off or intrigued...

The seller says it still works. So. I'll go with intrigued...

Whoever made the point about the...

Thanks! Some further reading got me thinking it's the mechanical self cocking one too. For some reason i didn't even consider that as a possibility.

Yeah, i think i will get it. Spare parts for my...

I am pretty much a noob. Haven't shot film in 15 years, and before that nothing past 120mm. Reason i am getting into LF is that my late husband left behind a Calumet CC400 and since it isn't selling,...