Dan Daniel, TLR maestro

Andrew Patteson

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I just wanted to post about my gratitude for Dan. Because of his thoughtful and patient advice, and excellent skills, these three rehabbed, reliable beauties will soon be in the hands of some of my advanced HS students. Thanks Dan. You're one of the ones who makes this community great.

-Andrew

 

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Very nice cameras. I do recall in college, one had to take the basic class first before one had access to the program's medium format TLR camera.
I think TLRs like that are great because it can be used by students interested in hand held photography and those that want to use a tripod and plan for high quality big enlargements. A good stepping stone to large format.
 

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I was going to say, try to buy one now!
 

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TLRs are a great student camera, reliable, simple, no frills, get close, understand exposure, and shoot.
 

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Kino said:
I was going to say, try to buy one now!
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Autocords are nice, when focusing works, but they have been overpriced (yes I mean it) for years, partly due to far fewer having been made than Yashicas or Rolleicords. Since I've never found lever focus to be of any advantage to knob style, in fact quite the opposite, I never bought into cult approach to this model. I remains a fine machine when it works never-the-less.

This not to take away from OP post's intent, great someone could help passing capable photographic tools up a generation, or few.
 

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I bought an Autocord - with working selenium meter! - from Dan. Lovely machine! It looks as if it'd been a demo and sat in a showroom for years. I suggested to an owner on a different forum that he contact Dan for the broken focus lever on his 'cord.
 

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Not only did Dan do an outstanding job servicing my Autocord, but he also 3d printed me a tripod adapter like the rollei adapter to keep stress off the bottom of the camera. I had already bent the back carrying the camera around on a tripod.

I think the camera is underrated. I get amazing results with the Rokkor lens and appreciate the no-curl film path since I'm slow to finish a roll.
 

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What is Dan's contact information? I have a Yashica Mat 124 which works fine, but just in case for the future....
 

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A friend of mine donated his darkroom to a Long Island college photo course. Is that something you could use if anyone's planning to dump stuff?
 
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Andrew Patteson

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Alan Edward Klein said:
A friend of mine donated his darkroom to a Long Island college photo course. Is that something you could use if anyone's planning to dump stuff?
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Sorry for the slow reply -- we are lucky to be well-supported and have received some nice donations over the years, too. We pretty much have what we need, but there are definitely public school programs out there that could use donations.
 

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Got my Zeiss Ikoflex back yesterday from Dan and took it out for a roll of Tri-X Pan. So much smoother and easier to focus. I had him install a Rick Oleson screen and a new mirror. Like a new camera.

 

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It really makes me happy that people are preserving these cameras by having them worked on. Too many get tossed, and they aren't making any more.
 
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