Very interesting camera, but I'm far more curious about the story you gave the wife.
For the life of me, I can't think of a single, credible explanation for bringing that thing home.
This might be the reason I'm a bachelor!
I think its best to give that thing its own four legs and teach it walk.
It might be able to carry you to the photoshoot.
And even learn some tricks and acrobatics and scare off the little brats.
I was thinking something more like mounting it on a Caterpillar or a M1 Abrams.
It would also make the perfect coffin for a photographer. Given the price coffins go for these days, you could make a LOT of money snapping these things up, mounting a few handles (http://www.leevalley.com/hardware/page.aspx?c=2&cat=3,43659&p=41993) and marketing them on APUG.
You could be the next Jim Galli of Photographer Caskets, creating a market where previously there was none. How better to bury someone with their favorite casket lens set?
All I ask is a small fee for having developed the idea . . .
Maybe the Ga tribe people of Ghana have already made a coffin like that.
I mean, they've made stranger.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/photo.day.php?ID=52081
Pandino,
You mean "it was free, couldn't let a perfectly good (insert part here) go to waste!!".
(nice Chief Illiniwick avatar, where'd you get that?)
erie
So it's a repro camera, could you show a picture of the film end. I'm assuming the cut sheet film would have been held by a clip or clips.
Presumably it was originally on a set of rails so it could be focused at a set magnification factor. Sort of a mini gallery camera.
I wonder if there was provision for a dot screen filter, for half tone reproduction?
You should be able to do some pretty wonderful 1-1 pictures with this.
Mick.
Mick, here's some pics of the back and film holder. The film holder just has a piece of glass and nothing to hold the film. I'm guessing you just tape the film to it? On the camera back frame there is some adjustable sliders with some clips/springs that look like you could attach something to but it is
not in the same alignment as the ground glass. I don't know how that would work unless there are other backs that you could fit in those sliders. If anyone knows how this works, I would be grateful for the help.
regards,
Erik
Does anyone know how to properly load film in this thing?
Erik
Erik,
all of the process cameras I have used (and own myself) have a vacuum back, which incidentally, make killer vacuum easels...
erie
Erik,
what part of the world are you in?
erie
Erik
Kodak used to make a product called Photo Flat. It was a coating which was brushed on to a surface and never really dried and was slightly sticky. A long time ago, I saw someone use it to hold film in an old photostat camera. there was a post with a formula on APUG a short while ago and I cannot remember the thread. I wanted the formula myself. When I find it I will PM you the information. It will be a few days before I can search.
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