Chamonix camera 45N-1 focusing error

[Michael Gordon]

Easy fix, guys. Just quit shooting so damn wide

[gregvds]

Haha Michael Gordon,

That's so true.

Anyway, mine is ordered, and Hugo will put the fresnel on top of the GG, so for me, they have a tech solution they can implement readily, and will for mine, so no prob. I'll see with time and living with if a Beattie or Maxwell could be interesting. We'll see.

Greg

[Darin Boville]

You own a closet full of Charmin? How many rolls is that? 200? 300?

Inquiring minds want to know

--Darin

[GPS]

Hmm. Seems that religious feelings run high in this thread. But none of them answers the OP's final question...

[Marko]

Hmm. Seems that religious feelings run high in this thread. But none of them answers the OP's final question...

The only question I remember was: do YOU own a Chamonix?

Well, do you?

[Jason Greenberg Motamedi]

Focus errors on a Fresnel lens are an easy fix; just replace it. For what it is worth, the Fresnel on my 5x7 Canham, which was a very early issue, had focus errors. I replaced it with a BosScreen and have never regretted it.

[gregvds]

Jason,

Do you know if bosscreen are still available these days?

Thanks,

[GPS]

Focus errors on a Fresnel lens are an easy fix; just replace it. For what it is worth, the Fresnel on my 5x7 Canham, which was a very early issue, had focus errors. I replaced it with a BosScreen and have never regretted it.

Agreed - fixing the Fresnel lens focus error is not so difficult technically as I already said in Greg's "Leave Wista for Chamonix..." thread. But business-wise it's a different thing as we can see in this specific case.
Also, the Bosscreen would need to have the appropriate Chamonix glass thickness to be error-free in itself...

[Brian Ellis]

Jason,

Do you know if bosscreen are still available these days?

Thanks,

I'm not Jason but I've been told they aren't. However, I haven't searched for one myself lately. If he's still in business a call or email to Ted Bromwell of Bromwell Marketing would tell you for sure if nobody here knows for sure. If they're gone that's too bad, IMHO they were the best screen out there except for the Maxwell. I used them on four or five different cameras including an 8x10 Deardorff.

[Brian Ellis]

Hmm. Seems that religious feelings run high in this thread. But none of them answers the OP's final question...

Speaking for myself, the answer is that the Chamonix I owned was the best combination of camera/value-for-the money of any of the 11 LF cameras I've owned and in absolute terms it was the best wooden camera at any price of any of the 8 wooden cameras I've owned, which includes two Ebonys that cost three times as much as the Chamnonix. So to me the focus error with which the OP appears to be obsessed is IMHO insignificant. As someone else pointed out, you could spend another $300 on a Maxwell screen if you didn't like any other solution and for $1,100 you'd have a great camera with the best screen available at what to me would still be a bargain price.