Hi All,

I got a Deardorff 5x7 and I'm looking forward to starting to use it (waiting for new bellows to arrive and I sent the back off to be calibrated).

Anyway, I'm confused about the front standard. There doesn't seem to be any sort of zero position as far as how high or low the standard should go. There also doesn't seem to be any definitive way of making sure the front standard is level (I assume you just line up the metal thing on the standard with the support structure, but it seems pretty loosy goosy). And then there is the vertical shift on the front standard itself...I'm not sure what that's for...fine tuning after you've done a gross adjustment on the front standard?

I was looking around for a Deardorff Manual online but couldn't find anything (the thing on cameraeccentric is more like a sales flyer).

Any advice?

Thanks
Paul