For Sale: Deardorff 5×7 V5 Field Camera, serial #682.
Ken Hough – the last Deardorff employee – personally checked this serial number for me years ago and confirmed it shipped new in 1967 to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I’ve owned and shot with it for nearly 30 years. At almost 70, with not great eyesight and too much gear, it’s time to let someone else use it.
Just fully rejuvenated: varnish refreshed, metal cleaned and polished (NOT overly), NOS Deardorff leather handle with correct split-rivet brackets installed a couple years ago. Richard Ritter performed a complete CLA this year; movements are tight and smooth, bellows are supple and 100 % light-tight, knurled knobs beautifully brassed from honest use. Excellent working order throughout. I’d love to see it making photographs again.
Richard Ritter is a Vermont-based master artisan, renowned worldwide as one of the foremost experts in large format (LF) and ultra-large format (ULF) camera design, construction, restoration, and repair.
Ready-to-shoot package:
$1985.00 OBO CONUS ONLY. More photos on request. PayPal Friends and Family would be great.
55.00 Shipping USPS Priority Mail
Local Meetup in Bristol, VA/TN area also
Ken Hough – the last Deardorff employee – personally checked this serial number for me years ago and confirmed it shipped new in 1967 to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I’ve owned and shot with it for nearly 30 years. At almost 70, with not great eyesight and too much gear, it’s time to let someone else use it.
Just fully rejuvenated: varnish refreshed, metal cleaned and polished (NOT overly), NOS Deardorff leather handle with correct split-rivet brackets installed a couple years ago. Richard Ritter performed a complete CLA this year; movements are tight and smooth, bellows are supple and 100 % light-tight, knurled knobs beautifully brassed from honest use. Excellent working order throughout. I’d love to see it making photographs again.
Richard Ritter is a Vermont-based master artisan, renowned worldwide as one of the foremost experts in large format (LF) and ultra-large format (ULF) camera design, construction, restoration, and repair.
Ready-to-shoot package:
- 5×7 back with brand-new Keith Canham ground glass
- 4×5 Deardorff reducing back fitted with a legendary Bill Maxwell HI-LUX focusing screen (the brightest ever made – unobtainable today, worth $750–$1,000 when one appears)
- Two Fidelity Elite 5×7 + Two Lisco Regal 4×5 holders
- 210 mm f/6.3 Computar Symmetrigon (This lens is a real sleeper) in shutter with its original factory metal shade, on a proper wooden Deardorff-style lens board
$1985.00 OBO CONUS ONLY. More photos on request. PayPal Friends and Family would be great.
55.00 Shipping USPS Priority Mail
Local Meetup in Bristol, VA/TN area also
