The only thing nicer than a Cooke lens is a Cooke lens in a shutter!
Here is an 8X10" Series IV Cooke of 13.1 inch focal length in a venerated Ilex 5 shutter. Cooke always gravitated to Ilex when their customers begged for a shutter. The Brits felt that shutters were mostly unnecessary. Thus you almost never see one of these in shutter.
The shutter is running great. It's missing the aperture scale, but I will provide a scale for you on a piece of tape. I do not have a flange for this but they are somewhat common. Or if you have wooden lens boards just make one with a nice tight press to fit on the rear element area. That's what I did.
Don't expect snappy 1/125th exposures with these old shutters. It claims 1/50th but tested you would find it more like 1/30th at best. If you're going to use antique lenses, you learn to work within the same parameters as the folks who made a legacy of fantastic images with these 90 years ago.
Go make Ansel proud with this one! I'll need $595 for this, and even that seems too cheap, but the market isn't what it was 3 years ago. Feel free to discuss this with me off line. I'll listen to offers on this.
Here is an 8X10" Series IV Cooke of 13.1 inch focal length in a venerated Ilex 5 shutter. Cooke always gravitated to Ilex when their customers begged for a shutter. The Brits felt that shutters were mostly unnecessary. Thus you almost never see one of these in shutter.
The shutter is running great. It's missing the aperture scale, but I will provide a scale for you on a piece of tape. I do not have a flange for this but they are somewhat common. Or if you have wooden lens boards just make one with a nice tight press to fit on the rear element area. That's what I did.
Don't expect snappy 1/125th exposures with these old shutters. It claims 1/50th but tested you would find it more like 1/30th at best. If you're going to use antique lenses, you learn to work within the same parameters as the folks who made a legacy of fantastic images with these 90 years ago.
Go make Ansel proud with this one! I'll need $595 for this, and even that seems too cheap, but the market isn't what it was 3 years ago. Feel free to discuss this with me off line. I'll listen to offers on this.
