Check your Chamonix

[pocketfulladoubles]

I think I just heard Augustin-Jean Fresnel yawning.

[Bill_1856]

Excuse my ignorance, but does this mean that the Fresnel is between the lens and the ground glass, ala old Pacemaker Speed Graphics and Technika IV?

[pocketfulladoubles]

Yes, it is between the lens and ground glass. It sits, or at least is supposed to be, on a recessed area so as not to interfere with the position of the ground glass. In other words, you can remove the fresnel and not affect the position of the ground glass since it rests on the "non-recessed" area.

[gevalia]

You're surely right, Jeffrey, in you assumption about how the camera back should be made. The fact that it isn't is the sad fact, already known (as said in the long and winding thread... ) - i.e. Chamonix "corrected" one mistake with yet another one...
That there are cameras with even worse manufacturing quality and a constructional concept is hardly any consolation, is it?

Hmmm,

I've never actually seen an image posted by this guy - GPS. Wouldn't it be funny if he was someone that "read" about photography yet never practiced it? Gotta get him on ignore.

[Jay Wolfe]

You're surely right, Jeffrey, in you assumption about how the camera back should be made. The fact that it isn't is the sad fact, already known (as said in the long and winding thread... ) - i.e. Chamonix "corrected" one mistake with yet another one...
That there are cameras with even worse manufacturing quality and a constructional concept is hardly any consolation, is it?

The one-dimensional mind is a curious thing to watch!

[bobwysiwyg]

These Chamonix cams must be something else, if not that, they are certainly something of a conversation piece these days.