8banners Dragon 2 6x18 tips?

Greg_E2

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My old name may be unrecoverable, working on that now (Greg_E from the APUG days), so I made the new version you see today. Why come back after so many years away? Because I need to, part of life has been missing. I've taking pictures as a hobby since the late 1970's, 35mm, medium format, digital, and some pinhole film. I need to gather my developing stuff, by some coffee for Caffenol, and get cracking with the old Yashica 635, and my pinhole stuff. On that note, I just bought a used 8banners Dragon 2 6x18 with the turret shutter, it will ship out on Monday. I've wanted one of these since they came out, wish they weren't "forced" to close (there's some lore to this part, maybe we can discuss it).

Any tips and tricks for this camera would be great.

I wish f295 was still around.

In addition I have a 50mm wooden DIY Dirkon that I built, an 80mm that takes Mamiya 645 backs, a Zero Image multi format 6x45 to 6x9, and another Zero that I don't really remember. I do have a cardstock Dirkon too, did that before building the wooden version just to try it out.
 
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Greg_E2

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I did reply to the automated welcome message with some details about the old account and why I can't recover the password. Old email is no longer available.
 
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