All my lenses are on Technica boards. They all fit just fine on my Ritter, Toyo, and Rittreck cameras and work very well.
Last fall I picked up a gorgeous 5x7 Sinar Norma from Will Whitaker (thank you Will!). To use it I purchased a nicely made Chinese Sinar to Technica lens board adapter on Ebay. It looks very much like the SK Grimes version:https://skgrimes.com/whats-new/2006-...hnika-adapters. Given the similarity in design I was confident my adapter would work just fine.
Sadly, all of my shots taken using this adapter are flawed with light leakage.
It turns out that the slot at the center of the bottom (top?) of the Technica lens board lets light through. The lens board adapters for my other three cameras all cover up this little slot and have no problem with light leaks.
This leaves me wondering what this slot is for? Have others had this problem?
I have ideas for a fix. The best I think would be to make the plate wider that engages the lens board edge with the slot to cover it up. It should be easy I hope and better than resorting to gaffers tape.
Thank you for listening,
-Harlan
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