Originally Posted by
William Whitaker
I'm sorry Richard. I didn't mean to speak out of turn. If anyone should know, it's you. And, too, in conversation at one time, Ron Wisner explained to me that his choice of a 5 1/4" lensboard size was based on the assumption that the largest shutter size anyone would use would be an Ilex 5 or a Copal 3. As it turns out, that assumption was misguided with the result that I have had to have one of my cameras, a Wisner, modified to accept larger lensboards that can accommodate both the lenses I want to use for that format and to allow the use of an appropriately-sized Packard shutter.
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