Hi Everyone,
I just semi-finished my Cambo / Packard shutter for barrel lens rig & wanted to share.

I have 3 nice barrel lens with a shutter that does 1/20th & 1/8 ... and "B".

Here's how I did it.

1) a lens board (for your camera brand)
2) a frame from a standard (for your camera brand)
3) a Packard shutter as big as your lens board
4) screws, spacers, drill press, beer

I took the frame off a $18.00 evilBay standard and a Packard shutter from the same place. Mine is a #6... rare & cool because it was a bulb for "B" and a separate bulb for instant ... $100. I bet I paid too much, but didn't want to wait and shop around.

The rest is easy... Machine out the inside of the lens board , next place small spacer, making fit into camera frame easier. Now the Shutter, hole close to lensboard, now spacer big enough for the piston to travel under (1/2" or so) and tap the frame (#6 tap size) from the standard you got from you-know-where, screw the whole thing together with #6 screws. Oh, you will need to counter sink the "V" shaped screw heads.

So it fits like a Sinar shutter, in-between the bellows & front standard. That's it.

Yes I know the sides are open, if not you would not be able to see in.

So I get "B", 1/8, 1/20 ... then with the "Steve Karr Slit shutter" (Card Stock, black velvet & a Slit) 1/30, 1/60, 1/120, and 250'ish.

Sweet!

Here are the pics....

I haven't tested the flash sync yet. I bet it'll work.


Steve