Can the TW calibration screen be retextured with 600 grit paper or some other suitable abrasive?
Has no one tried to modify a film holder as a frame for a true GG? The dark slides would protect it.
What about modifying a glass plate holder?
The effective ececution of the righ tdesignee could be a successful Kick-Starter project in its own right.
Drew Bedo
www.quietlightphoto.com
http://www.artsyhome.com/author/drew-bedo
There are only three types of mounting flanges; too big, too small and wrong thread!
Roger, If you're set on getting the 405 back into use, I have had really good luck by removing the spring back and ball bungee-ing the 405 holder in place. Initially I was worried about the three screws holding the spring back on as I thought they were just tapped in the plastic, but they have brass inserts so removal and replacement are a breeze (Good work Wanderlust). The only way to not waste a piece of film is to load a new pack so the pack's dark slide paper is still intact and put the 405 holder in without its dark slide. Then you're pretty committed to using the whole pack before changing. Its not the cleanest solution, but I didn't have any problems with it and got some decent exposures. I think it is worth a try. I would advise you to make sure the ball bungees, or however you would want to secure the back, are tight enough to ensure the back doesn't move around too much.
Hope that helps.
Ben, Sounds great. Looking forward to your new GG. I think I will continue my mod effort as it is good therapy for my hand & eye coordination. Setting up Wista 4x5 with all the adjustments is eye boggling still and takes forever. I expect my TravelWide to be a life changer.
Happy trails,
SteveP
Last edited by rdenney; 22-Nov-2015 at 14:10.
Yes! When Australia changed over to the metric system instead inches, feet, yards, chains, furlongs, miles....I though I'd never adapt. Now I realise a camera focussing ring calibrated in metres is equally good at coarse and fine distance scales eg 2 m, 2.2m, 2.25m, and so on without changing units. The mental key for me was to think in decimals rather swapping to alternative units or vulgar fractions.
Photography:first utterance. Sir John Herschel, 14 March 1839 at the Royal Society. "...Photography or the application of the Chemical rays of light to the purpose of pictorial representation,..".
I wish we could offer both, but honestly, metric works best for cameras… A meter marking with one decimal place is 3X more accurate than feet, and more compact that listing feet and inches.
In any case, I love seeing these photos! Great tones on those trees, David!
Has anyone made a selfie stick for a TW? Two Meters ( or six feet six inches) would be enough.
Drew Bedo
www.quietlightphoto.com
http://www.artsyhome.com/author/drew-bedo
There are only three types of mounting flanges; too big, too small and wrong thread!
Yep. There is an eight foot LF stick PetaPixel right now. Downright silly.
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