I recently acquired a Cooke 12-3/4" f4.5 Series IIE lens and looking to mount it onto a lensboard for my Deardorff V8. The Cooke is a massive brass and glass structure, and the centre of the weight does sit some distance from the front of the lensboard.
I have a Deardorff style three piece lensboard in good condition conditon that I can hog the hole some more and mount the retaining ring onto it. I also have a metal Calumet C1 lensboard with a much smaller hole.
I would like to use the wood board, but certainly do not want to test the Cooke's ability to sustain impact damage while remaining functional.
On another note, if using wood should one use self tapping screws, or use through drilled holes with nuts on the back of the lensboard.
If anyone else has a similar lens, I would be interested on how they did it.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts and information,
Len
P.S. Did do a quick search, but the one thread on wood versus metal lensboards was somewhat generic.
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