With an adapted Linhof grip and a better focus hood made with a Hasselblad bellows shade and some close-up filters.
With an adapted Linhof grip and a better focus hood made with a Hasselblad bellows shade and some close-up filters.
My two TLRs: on the left is (I think) the earliest type without parallax correction while on the right it has manual correction via a scale and a set screw.
Does your TLR on the left have the sliding finder on the viewing ground glass? I have one that looks very similar though has that approach to the viewing GG.Originally Posted by Paul Ewins
My two TLRs: on the left is (I think) the earliest type without parallax correction while on the right it has manual correction via a scale and a set screw.
Yes, although I'm not sure whether it is working correctly. The camera came without lenses but had Copal 2 size mounts installed. I've cobbled together a pair of 180 Xenars for display, but the viewing lens has the mounting threads at a different position to the taking lens. A pair of 240 Symmars is another option but finding one in barrel is proving difficult. Annoyingly the 240 Componon has a smaller mount, so using that (or even swapping Symmar cells into the barrel) is out.
Can you put a ground glass at the film plane to check focus?
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Paul,
Here's a Symmar-S in barrel
https://www.ebay.com/itm/20434520499...Bk9SR-Dm996IYg
I see they ship worldwide.
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Mine uses standard Graflex 4X5 GG assembly and has an adjustable front surface mirror
That assembly is visble in the pic I posted to start this thread
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By the time the Symmar-S was released the Copal 2 was already defunct, so the 240 moved up to a number 3 shutter. I really only know the Schneider lenses, but I assume maybe the 180 Tessar was in a Copal 2 at some stage? Failing all that I guess I can just buy something in a broken shutter and swap cells as required.
I want to buy one!
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Me to. But I have already too much photo projects (2 tricolor cameras to restore) and too much cameras that never get used.
But I keep love looking at that wonderful fancy stuff...
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