Hello from France!
Here is an article by Hervé Ellena, in French, published in 2008
https://www.galerie-photo.com/construire-viseur-chambre-arca.html
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Hello from France!
Here is an article by Hervé Ellena, in French, published in 2008
https://www.galerie-photo.com/construire-viseur-chambre-arca.html
An automated translation into English by...
Welcome on board!
You are not the only Frenchman here ;-)
Hello from France!
This European company was mentioned on the French LF forum for drum scanning services.
castorscan Milano Italy
https://www.castorscan.com/
In Paris, France you have PICTO...
Hello from France!
I've been to Köln (Cologne) a few times to visit the Photokina, a world famous photo fair (no longer exists)
If you are interested in photo books, you could be interested in...
More about this exhibition on the gallery's web page
https://www.galerieclementinedelaferonniere.fr/exhibitions/48-no-end-in-sight-guillaume-zuili/
Hello from France!
In Germany I am aware of those camera repair services.
I know them for the service they provide for Rollei TLR cameras but I'm pretty sure that they know LF lens shutters...
Hello from France, and congratulations for the purchase of a lens equipped with a Prontor Professional shutter.
In my opinion, this is the most beautiful mechanical shutter for large format lenses...
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The problem is solved, good news, so here is some additional info for those who would like to use a 360 mm 5.6 Symmar,
I have found this other vintage brochure...
Hello from Besançon, France!
To the best of my knowledge, to date (2023-01) the 4x5" Arca Swiss misura is no longer listed on the catalog.
Since it shares many parts with the F-line system, it...
PRIOX was a French company based in Chinon (in the Loire Valley).
Established in 1900, the company went out of business in 1984,
then restarted in 1986, and definitely closed in 1995.
From...
Hi and welcome on board!
(your are not the only Frenchman here)
(Low voice: in English, our Marseille is spelled Marseilles.
This is the privilige of major cities in this world to get a...
For the 300 mm Nikon M the flange-focal distance is about 294mm.
You'll be able to focus at infinity, but not at one metre of distance ,)
Hi!
I have been using this camera for many years.
If you go for a telephoto lens, you can focus telephoto lenses with focal lengths over 300 mm with the universal leather bellows of the 4x5"...
I have eventually found another tutorial (in French) on precisely measuring threads.
See also
https://amesweb.info/Screws/metric-thread-profile-form-formula.aspx
Summary, valid for ISO...
Hello from France!
Measuring an unknown thread accurately is a tricky business. As you say, you can't use the diameter at the top of the thread. With the tools you have, you can identify a...
Hello from France !
Leslie StroebeL is perfectly correct, at least as far as you want to get a sharp image of a far-distant object i.e. an object located several focal lengths ahead. (see below...
Other pictures of the same shooting session, dated Nov. 18, 1966, are available here
...
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The images posted above clearly identify pre-1984 Arca Swiss parts.
The following A3-size catalog in pdf (text is in German, sorry) allows us to identify and put a part# on...
Hi!
The requested distances are very easy to compute.
Knowing the focal length f, 120, 135 or 150 mm, and the enlarging magnification M, 6 or 8, the following formulae apply
lens to image...
Hello from Besançon, France!
As you can see on this old Arca Swiss catalog (~ 1990s) there existed two models of wide-angle bellows for F-line 171-171 camera like your Discovery.
See page 11/21...
Hello from Besançon, France !
Some additional information regarding weights of 6x9cm and 4x5" Arca Swiss F-classic and F-metric cameras.
About weights:
Some information can be found here in...
Could this be done on an Arca Swiss ...
Of course, within the Arca Swiss system, be it a pre-1982 Oschwald system or the current F-line system, you can connect as many rails together as you wish,...
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Would a step-ring add sufficient depth for the filter to clear the lens? Do step-rings come in various depths as well as diameter?
I faced this problem once in the past and...
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The answers to your questions can be found in the official technilcal brochure of the SS-XL-110, it can be dowloaded from here
Super-Symmar XL Aspheric 5.6/110mm (PDF)...
I have plotted a schematic layout for a theoretical f/2.8 200 mm Petzval lens, thanks to the free software "oslo-edu" which is supplied with a Petzval demonstration model file.
oslo-edu can be...
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The answer is easy: the Rapid Rectilinear with an overall diameter of about one inch (the US quarter dollar has a diameter of about 24 mm, according to wikipedia, since I do...
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I have uploaded (see below) a diagram explaining how a telephoto works, not a Nikon but a Schneider-Kreuznach "360 mm" (actually f = 353 mm) Tele-Arton.
For this lens, the...
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The present f-number system was not standardized when manufacturers started to sell photographic optics.
See this comparative chart of old f-stop systems
And after the...
from Mark Sawyer
At my age, I'm wondering whether a balsa wood tripod would work...
Why not? ;-) The legendary WW-II fighter/bomber De Havilland Mosquito was made of balsa wood!
(ahem ... and...
Anyone made their own wooden tripod for 4x5 camera? Best options for economy of work, strength and stability.
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A friend of mine has built for himself a variety of wooden...
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Before the official disclosure of the daguerréotype process in 1839, Nicéphore Niépce had experimented with the bitumen process in the 1820s. Dates are not precisely known since...
Hello from good ol' Europe!
Three informations, in short, confirmations of what has already been said here:
1/ I hereby confirm that the 600 mm Apo Ronat has been sold in the past, mounted on a...
from Sal Santanamura
Rodenstock provided MTF graphs for ...
... M=1/20 for the N and M = 1/10 for the S and W, at least in the docs I have in my archives. But the objection is unchanged,...
Hi!
You'll find here a comparative plot of MTF curves @f/22 and @20 cy/mm for the Apo Sironar N / S / W. Re-plotted from the official manufacturer's data sheet.
At the center of the field,...
Hello from good ol' Europe, Luigi!!
As strange as it may seem, Exposure Values (EV) are not at all photometric units!
They are simply a numerical index qualifying all couples (shutter speed -...
Otherwise, is it the case that arca-shop.de are the default dealer in Europe?
Of course not, there are several Arca Swiss authorized dealers in Europe!
But being a European, you know what the...
Hello from Besançon, France !
I'm living at about 6km / 3.7 miles from Arca Swiss International ;)
You should contact them directly here by phone and explain your problem.
People at Arca Swiss...
Hello from France!
I have always found, for this kind of "photographic" calculations where a 4-digit precision is useless, that a good ol' dedicated analogue slide rule is more useful than any...
Hi!
If we are speaking about mechanical leaf shutters, Packard shutters do exist!
https://packardshutter.com/
Sure if you need speeds up to 1/60-th, Packard shutters are not what you need....
Good point, Bob, this howerer does not change at all my previous analysys, a cemented doublet is of course much better than a single lens element, since red, green and blue foci of an achromat are...