On the rear standart of my Cambo Master the locking mechanism (on top of the standart) for attaching the bellows and the back gets in the way when I try to insert my horseman roll film holder in portrait mode. In landscape mode it fits.
On my film holders and the roll film holder there are two protruding edges on the side of the holder closest to the dark slide. On the horseman back the one of these edges (the closest to the darkslide) protrudes a little extra and interferes with the locking mechanism on top of the standart and hence cannot be inserted in portrait mode. No problem in landscape mode however since the locking mechanism that is in the way is on the top of the standart.
Similarly but the other way around (landscape mode instead of portrait mode) with the spring held part of the ground glass holder, the upper edge of the frame (what is right edge in portrait mode) interferes slightly with the locking mechanism making the upper part of the spring held part of the ground glass holder not to settle completely against the rest of the back (1-2mm).
Is this a supposed to be feature of these cameras/holders? I cannot imagine this to be true since other parts of the camera seem to have very high precision.
Would it be stupid to fix this by removing part of those edges that interferes carefully with a dremmel tool?
Finally, I bought the camera used including
* Cambo master camera with bellows, international holder and ground glass
* Rodenstock Sironar-N MC 150mm f/5.6 (what is the difference with APO-Sironar-N?)
* Rodenstock Sironar-N MC 210mm f/5.6
* Two horseman 6x9 rollfilm backs
* Five double sided film holders (turned out to be 9x12cm instead of 4x5" which I was told)
* Cambo focusing loupe
* bellows lens shade
I paid 6000 SEK (corresponding to approx 666, or $850). Everything else really seems in mint condition. Was I ripped off?
What would be reasonable prices to pay for 4x5" holders (both new and used)?
Sorry for my bad English.
Richard (new to Large Format in practice)
On my film holders and the roll film holder there are two protruding edges on the side of the holder closest to the dark slide. On the horseman back the one of these edges (the closest to the darkslide) protrudes a little extra and interferes with the locking mechanism on top of the standart and hence cannot be inserted in portrait mode. No problem in landscape mode however since the locking mechanism that is in the way is on the top of the standart.
Similarly but the other way around (landscape mode instead of portrait mode) with the spring held part of the ground glass holder, the upper edge of the frame (what is right edge in portrait mode) interferes slightly with the locking mechanism making the upper part of the spring held part of the ground glass holder not to settle completely against the rest of the back (1-2mm).
Is this a supposed to be feature of these cameras/holders? I cannot imagine this to be true since other parts of the camera seem to have very high precision.
Would it be stupid to fix this by removing part of those edges that interferes carefully with a dremmel tool?
Finally, I bought the camera used including
* Cambo master camera with bellows, international holder and ground glass
* Rodenstock Sironar-N MC 150mm f/5.6 (what is the difference with APO-Sironar-N?)
* Rodenstock Sironar-N MC 210mm f/5.6
* Two horseman 6x9 rollfilm backs
* Five double sided film holders (turned out to be 9x12cm instead of 4x5" which I was told)
* Cambo focusing loupe
* bellows lens shade
I paid 6000 SEK (corresponding to approx 666, or $850). Everything else really seems in mint condition. Was I ripped off?
What would be reasonable prices to pay for 4x5" holders (both new and used)?
Sorry for my bad English.
Richard (new to Large Format in practice)
.... Bob.