Prime slr lens on a crown graphic??!

[Brian C. Miller]

This is a forum of large format cameras. The brave, the bold, the adaptable. So far nobody has posted what their camera can do. Instead there is now a debate over a fictional medieval argument.

So:

Super freak dance this:


See what some cardboard and tape gives you? An SLR lens on a view camera. Yeah, the front standard is almost all of the way in there.


And this is what the ground glass looks like.


(The film hasn't dried completely, but that's basically it.)
I don't have an internal shutter on my Super Graphic, so I tried doing the two-holders trick. Anyways, that's what I got. Yes, it can be done, and that's the proof. If you want some quality to it, then go build a better shutter.

The end.

[jnantz]

thanks brian

you did exactly what i suggested the original poster to do back on page 4 ..

john

[Leigh]

And this is what the ground glass looks like.

If you set your standards low enough, anything can be claimed to "work".

- Leigh

[ic-racer]

So, to clarify this thread; the answer to the question posed in the original post is actually : 'a piece of cardboard' and not '2,665,866,746,664 angels'

[denverjims]

So, to clarify this thread; the answer to the question posed in the original post is actually : 'a piece of cardboard' and not '2,665,866,746,664 angels'

DISCLAIMER: I have already personally apologized for bringing the subject of Church Scholars, Angels & Pins into this highly technical discussion. I refuse to be held responsible for any further posts in this thread which mention any of the above either directly or through innuendo. Do so at your own risk!

[Leigh]

Anyways, that's what I got. Yes, it can be done, and that's the proof.

In my first post in this thread I said the lens would not cover the format.

Your experiment has proven that statement to be correct.

Thank you.

- Leigh

[el french]

In my first post in this thread I said the lens would not cover the format.

Your experiment has proven that statement to be correct.

Thank you.

- Leigh

Actually, it doesn't prove the statement to be correct. It simply shows it will not cover the format at extension used.

[Jim Jones]

This is a forum of large format cameras. The brave, the bold, the adaptable. So far nobody has posted what their camera can do. Instead there is now a debate over a fictional medieval argument. . . .

My posts are about reverse mounted lenses from 35mm and smaller cameras that I have actually tried and found capable of full frame images on large format. I have no images thus photographed on my computer, and don't want to waste time and film proving to nonbelievers what I know to be true. Anyone who has made enlargements from small negatives should realize that they were doing much the same thing, but with a lens that was designed to mount on an enlarger without reversing rather than on a small camera.

[genotypewriter]

and don't want to waste time and film proving to nonbelievers what I know to be true.

That's one ugly thing about human beings... you tell them something new that is also in their interest, instead of investigating things by themselves, all they want to do is challenge you and criticise you and make it your obligation to demonstrate it to them. A sad bunch...

[TheDeardorffGuy]

Bump.......I just had to see this at the top one LAST time!!