Kodak portrait 305mm fit Canham board ?

skwal4 · Feb 3, 2015

Hello everybody,

Maybe somone know if I could use a Kodak portrait lens 305mm with #5 shutter fixed on a canham board ? I owned a canham 4x7 and the board mesure 110mm ? MAybe the lens is too big?

I suppose that natively the hole of the canham board is too small, so where to get a board that fit ?

Sorry for my poor english.

Christophe

TheFlyingCamera · Feb 3, 2015

It depends on which Canham. The 4x5/5x7 with the Toyo-sized (110x110) lens board probably won't fit an Ilex #5. The 8x10 and larger that take the Sinar size (158x158) should take it.

djdister · Mar 31, 2015

I've got a Kodak Portrait 305mm mounted on a standard Canham lens board. Had it mounted by S.K. Grimes.

TheFlyingCamera · Mar 31, 2015

djdister-
which size Canham? The 4x5/5x7 takes a 110x110mm lensboard, aka a Toyo lensboard, and the 8x10 and ULF cameras (11x14-20x24) use a Sinar 140mmx140mm lensboard. Older ULF cameras took a Toyo 158mm x 158mm lens board, like my Canham 14x17.

resummerfield · Mar 31, 2015

S.K. Grimes mounted my Kodak 305mm Portrait on an Arca 141mm lens board, and theyve mounted even larger lenses on these small 141mm boards by using a secondary board mounted to the smaller board. So I believe S.K. Grimes (or another skilled machinist) could mount the Kodak 305mm lens to a 110mm board.

djdister · Mar 31, 2015

TheFlyingCamera said:
djdister-
which size Canham? The 4x5/5x7 takes a 110x110mm lensboard, aka a Toyo lensboard, and the 8x10 and ULF cameras (11x14-20x24) use a Sinar 140mmx140mm lensboard. Older ULF cameras took a Toyo 158mm x 158mm lens board, like my Canham 14x17.

Its mounted on the 110x110mm lensboard, which I can use on my Canham Traditional 4x5/5x7 or Canham MQC 5x7.

TheFlyingCamera · Mar 31, 2015

djdister said:
Its mounted on the 110x110mm lensboard, which I can use on my Canham Traditional 4x5/5x7 or Canham MQC 5x7.

I'm impressed. I have a Commercial Ektar 12" in an Ilex #4 which just barely fits on the Technica board I used to use on my Canham (When I bought mine it was set up to use Linhof Technica boards, but I recently had the front lens panel replaced to take Canham boards). I didn't think the flange for an Ilex #5 would fit on a Canham board.

djdister · Mar 31, 2015

TheFlyingCamera said:
I'm impressed. I have a Commercial Ektar 12" in an Ilex #4 which just barely fits on the Technica board I used to use on my Canham (When I bought mine it was set up to use Linhof Technica boards, but I recently had the front lens panel replaced to take Canham boards). I didn't think the flange for an Ilex #5 would fit on a Canham board.

I'll try to post a pic of it tonight.

TheFlyingCamera · Mar 31, 2015

Now if I could only fit my 16" f4.5 Kodak Portrait on something smaller than a 9" lensboard ....

djdister · Mar 31, 2015

So here you are - the Kodak Portrait 305mm mounted on a standard Canham lens board. Front view - the lens board is just barely visible behind the #5 shutter. Rear view, you can see how the lens element dwarfs the lensboard. Mounted on the Canham 4x5/5x7 camera - it just fits! S.K. Grimes added a spacer on the front side of the lens board which pushes the shutter out just enough from the lensboard so that nothing interferes with the front standard.

resummerfield · Apr 1, 2015

Nice job!

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