avid1, beautiful picture! You’re really showing the Vesta’s characteristics to great advantage.
It couldn’t be simpler to put the 7” Vesta in an Alphax or Betax #3, just unscrew the cells from the old shutter and screw them into the new shutter. No machining, adapting or anything else required. Here’s the before and after about 30 seconds apart.
You have a few options in this family of shutters (pictured), but none faster than 1/100. You may need to resort to ND filters to shoot wide open. The regular and heavy duty Alphax #3 go up to 1/100 with synchronization optional. The older Betax and newer Pi Alphax have top speeds of 1/50. All will accept your Vesta cells while maintaining correct spacing (plus or minus a fraction of a millimeter).
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