Need some help with a shutter release issue

captbrs · Feb 1, 2015

I recently acquired a 65mm Schneider super-angulon it is not the 4x5 version. Some say it has large enough image circle for 4x5 but I doubt it doesn't vignette.
my problem is that the shutter doesn't have T setting or an open shutter lever so I would have to use B with a cable release to hold the shutter open but this shutter has no where to attach a cable release. I need something I could mount on the lens board to trigger the release lever on the shutter any Ideas out there?
Thanks
Brian

Dan Fromm · Feb 1, 2015

Interesting. Which shutter is it in?

Sounds like it is in a #00. I have a number of #00s, various vintages of Compur and several Prontor Press. Each has a cable release socket. I've seen US-made shutters with cable release sockets and a plug, usually a screw, in the socket. Might yours be like that?

heespharm · Feb 1, 2015

Pics of the lens dial may help

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summicron1 · Feb 1, 2015

look around, there may be a lever you push in after the shutter is cocked that opens the blades.

They can be quite clever in this. The "focus" mode on one of the lenses/shutters for my Graflex XL is a little spring clip that catches the cocking lever and holds it halfway after yu cocked the lens. When you fire the shutter, this holds the blades open. Then you focus/frame, re-cock and fire.

John Koehrer · Feb 1, 2015

The 58 for the Graflex XL doesn't have one either. It uses an L shaped bracket that mounts to the lens board.

It's in a Seiko 00 shutter.

Dan Fromm · Feb 1, 2015

John, we're both mistaken. I have a 58/5.6 Grandagon ex-Graflex XL. Its shutter, as you said, has no cable release socket. It shutter isn't a Seiko #00, it is a Syncro Compur #00. I'd completely forgotten about it when I wrote that all of my #00s have cable releases. That one doesn't.

John Koehrer · Feb 3, 2015

That'll teach me to take a moment to look won't it?

Dan Fromm · Feb 3, 2015

John Koehrer said:
That'll teach me to take a moment to look won't it?

Me too.

Need some help with a shutter release issue

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