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They are Copal shutters, but the aperture is silk screened onto the body. Every Copal shutter I have with a Nikkor or Fujinon lens has the scale silk screened on the body.

Edit: I don’t have any...

Yes, but unless the aperture scale on the donor shutter is the same focal length, you’ll need a new scale. If the donor shutter is from some of the Japanese brands—Nikkor, Fuji—it’s a little more...

I've occasional issues where a tiny bit of anti-hlation dye doesn't wash out so there is a purple splotch left on the film. Fortunately, just holding the sheet under running water and with my thumb...

Well, by and large, you want to buy lenses already in shutter. That’s a little less necessary with newer lenses because of the Copal 0/1/3 standardization, but older lenses don’t buy shutter less...

Normal xenar lenses are essentially tessar designs (4 elements, 3 groups) but a tele-xenar is a telephoto lens. So it will have some extra elements to shorten the flange focal distance. I’d be...

I get the idea of anchoring both ends—absolutely it will provide better results, but the less elevation of the camera from the anchor point at the base equals less leverage of the camera to vibrate...

I’ve liked it in PyrocatHD, and I have a box of 4x5 that is half used, but I haven’t seen any for sale since the pandemic. I’d like to get some 5x7 or 8x10, but haven’t been able to find any. Are...

the parts are on their way, I was actually able to find the two key parts I don't have--the table clamp and the camera mount (to mount the DSLR to the P2 standard)--for cheap prices from dealers in...

I have the shell of an Omega D3 in my garage (I bought it with a D2, and scavenged the best parts from both to build my enlarger.) I consdered using that as the basis for my scanning rig, but I'm...

yeah, I've had great luck with 35mm because there is an easy turnkey solution--a macro bellows with slide copy attachment. This is a little more challenging. I get from Daniel's photos above that...

When you say copy stand rail, do you mean the 36" base rail? I've never actually seen one, plus from what I can tell, they are base rails, and the table clamp looks like it only accepts extensions:...

Is that crazy? I was looking at copy stands, and the one thing I really can't tell online is how rigid a ~$500 stand is. I like to think it would be ok, but rigidity is one of the most critical...

when I was young in Pennsylvania, we removed ticks by lighting a match, blowing out the fire then quickly touching the head of the match to the tick before it cooled. They would back right out.
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Most of us buy film that is shipped to us, so that would suggest that regular, in country parcel carriers (USPS, UPS, FedEx) are probably safe. I’ve never bought film internationally, but some in the...

the big issues at the moments seems to be that old school xray machines are being replaced by CT scanners at certain locations. The old carry-on xray machines weren't a problem, I even flew ISO 1600...

My guess is the grey pieces are special use pieces for some other industrial/scientific use. The pieces came from someone formerly employeed at Sandia National Labratories (the place where they...

interesting. Most of my pieces are tan (well..I'm very colorblind, so they might be green...) But these two pieces are battleship grey, and smooth, not with the crinkly texture of the other pieces.

I’ve always wondered about that. I have some Norma standards with the focus locks and some without. I like having them there and was wondering if they could be retrofitted to standards without the...

the zone system is usually overkill

I'm pretty sure most 4x5 cameras aren't going to be very good for vlogging.

tha main reason to shoot LF is so the people with you get frustrated at the time it takes and leave you behind, so you can spend as much time on your shots as you want without feeling rushed.

I assume you mean this head:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/31380-REG/Linhof_003668_90mm_Leveling_Pan_Tilt_Head.html

I have one--I came with an unrelated camera that someonehad adapted...

the thing I never thought about though---a LF camera that is fully geard like the P2, could make a decent macro rail for a digital camera. The cost of a used P2 isn't that far from what really nice...

A few months ago UsedPhotoPro listed about 5 4x5 P2s for about $500 each. I think they got a bunch of sinars from some university photo department. Anyway all those P2s were sold in a couple days. ...

no, I just glued the bellows material to the surface, which was how the previous bellows were attached. I didn't seen any foam material on the bellows I took off (I assume they were original given...

I don't remember changing ny foam. Where is it on the camera?

There is the early P67 55/3.5 which takes a very rare 100mm front filter (not sure it that one has a clip for rear filters.). The later 55’s are much more reasonable.

ah, so you're photographing prints, not negatives? I misunderstood. Unfortunately, that won't really work for me, since the point of this (for me) is that my dark room is currently out of...

Wow, that is a nice (and rigid looking) setup. At 18x24, do you feel the digital capture isn't evident in your end result? I don't think my setup would manage that yet (maybe when I get the kinks...

I didn’t see a general thread like this (if there is one, please merge!), but while I was trying to get away from computers, my darkroom has been unusable for a few months, so I haven’t been able to...

well, the doodad I need isn't easy to find on a used machine. I recently picked up a P2 5x7, because I wanted to try some of the newer design features like the asymetric tilts. But the camera has...

is there a source for Sinar replacement parts in the US? (i.e. for recent cameras like the P2) Or is factory support gone?

the answers here are mostly about repairing the shutter (understandable since that is the part that goes wrong the most) but the OP didn't specify, is it a lens issue (fungue, separation, etc.) or a...

I'm curious how common doing this is for others? I've never done this, I find the dark cloth in the way to insert the holder, so after framing and focusing, I remove the dark cloth, fold it and put...

I don't know, but I can say that I have several Peco Profia boards that mount on my Universal II just fine. I don't know if the reverse is true.

Thats my last name! I'm an American, but my great grandfather on my father's side was an immigrant from Campobasso back in about 1905. My understanding is that back then Campobasso was in Abruzzo...

yeah, I started with those videos, and they do help a lot.

I did mine, and its not horrible, but it is a bit of a pain, especially poking holes through the holes in the front metal plates, through the bellows material, and lining it up with the threaded...

I like having the fallback of incident metering as well, so I mostly use a Sekonic L-508. When I got it ~4 years ago they could be had for $150-$200, but they seem to have risen in price. I did...

Maybe I got lucky, but the tapered set I bought used on eBay (japanese seller) compress enough to get the front standard a little closer than parallel. I suspect that this is primarily an "old...