Could someone explain how lenses are mounted into copal shutters? If you have a lens and the shutter goes out, can you buy a new or used copal and with relatively little difficulty re-mount your lens? I've sort of imagined that LF lenses are like two assemblies (front and back) and that you just have to mount them into the shutter.
Is this about right? Or is it much more difficult than I'm imagining? I'm fairly mechanically inclined but of course I don't have precision equipment to make alignments of lens elements if that kind of thing is needed.
This is relevant to me, because it will affect my decision making when looking for bargain lenses for my first LF setup.
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