Years ago I had a Calumet 4x5 monorail view camera and was using it at the bottom of an overgrown ravine. With the lush canopy overhead filtering out the sun, I pulled the dark cloth over my head, trying to block every photon of outside light and I still couldn't see a darn thing on the old, original Calumet ground glass. My buddy next to me didn't even need a dark cloth: he stood back a couple of feet from the back of his camera, examining every corner of the image with ease. I don't recall what brand of improved ground glass he had but I bought one as soon as I got home and have never regretted it. Beattie has been the standard for a long time: you owe it to your tired, straining, aching eyes to buy this thing now!
Here's your chance to own one of the best and brightest! Ground glass, that is: from the estate of a local collector, in original box with original packaging, I don't think it was ever used. A Beattie Intenscreen Plus marked Calumet 540 with 1/2" grid, with anti-reflective glass. Part # 85110. The glass measures 127mm (really, really close to 5") by 101mm (4", pretty darn close) and has corners clipped by about 1/2". New these things are $462: this one's only $175 plus postage. I take Paypal or USPS money orders (United States Postal Service ONLY!) It's a small box and doesn't weigh much so even packed inside another box it won't cost much to mail (might even fit into a USPS Small Flat-Rate Priority Mail) box, which I think is $4.95 these days to anywhere in the continental United States.
Thanks for looking! Thanks even more for buying!
Mike
Here's your chance to own one of the best and brightest! Ground glass, that is: from the estate of a local collector, in original box with original packaging, I don't think it was ever used. A Beattie Intenscreen Plus marked Calumet 540 with 1/2" grid, with anti-reflective glass. Part # 85110. The glass measures 127mm (really, really close to 5") by 101mm (4", pretty darn close) and has corners clipped by about 1/2". New these things are $462: this one's only $175 plus postage. I take Paypal or USPS money orders (United States Postal Service ONLY!) It's a small box and doesn't weigh much so even packed inside another box it won't cost much to mail (might even fit into a USPS Small Flat-Rate Priority Mail) box, which I think is $4.95 these days to anywhere in the continental United States.
Thanks for looking! Thanks even more for buying!
Mike
