Hi everybody. I'm a newb. I have been working my way backwards through photography stuff, am an avid manual lens collector, have dabbled with folders and medium format SLR's. I recently got the bug to try large format so bid and won on a camera. It is incomplete as it lacks the front fold out that serves as the basis for locking the front of the bellows to the rest of the camera. My meager research gives me hints that it is a British camera by C S Baynton. I don't have a flickr or such but am a regular at manual forum lenses and have posted photos of it
here:
http://forum.mflenses.com/anybody-kn...as-t75467.html.
Just curious to see if anybody is familiar with this fine old camera. It is very finely crafted in dovetailed and biscuited dimensional mahogany with nearly all the fittings from brass. The lens board is clearly NOT original but the lens appears it may be. The one photo of a similar camera with the Baynton label that I found searching images of "field camera" is here :
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stor...camera-1891-19
Elements of similarity that lead me to believe it is the same company include the bellows front elevation controlled by an overlapping brass plate with a groove for a knurled knob to lock, the knurled knobs also "look" the same" but the most compelling is the knurled knobs on the top of the bellows front plate that are linked to brass plates at the bottom to lock the front plate into a rail (missing on my camera). I hope to fabricate replacements for the lost pieces and make it work. I have used the lens on my Sony A7ii and it is fine. I am not familiar with the nuances of LF. Right off though it seems I'll need film holders and a "hood" (not sure of terminology). Any help or hints would, of course, be greatly appreciated.
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