Possible to manufacture a Horseman 970 Rangefinder Cam?

[loccdor]

This is one of the manufactured 150mm rangefinder cams. They'll need to be sanded and deburred to work, dimensions are very close but it's a bit past infinity out of the box, and it jumps at those two burr points. They all have those two points.

So I'm going to work on sanding one and see how it goes.

If you're in the US and want one, message me your address. I'll just send it with a standard letter envelope and one stamp. You will have to sand it yourself.

 

[ags2mikon]

1000 grit paper to the rescue! PM sent.

 

[abruzzi]

This is one of the manufactured 150mm rangefinder cams. They'll need to be sanded and deburred to work, dimensions are very close but it's a bit past infinity out of the box, and it jumps at those two burr points. They all have those two points.

So I'm going to work on sanding one and see how it goes.

If you're in the US and want one, message me your address. I'll just send it with a standard letter envelope and one stamp. You will have to sand it yourself.

Cool. At $35 for 60 of them you could get 60 of each size and throw the entire Japanese used camera shop economy into recession. They ask like $60 plus $50 shipping each these days. I’d ask for one but I already have the whole set (except the fast 105.) I bought mine before the prices got crazy. Amazingly it felt overpriced buying them for $30 plus $10 shipping back then.

 

[loccdor]

Cool. At $35 for 60 of them you could get 60 of each size and throw the entire Japanese used camera shop economy into recession. They ask like $60 plus $50 shipping each these days. I’d ask for one but I already have the whole set (except the fast 105.) I bought mine before the prices got crazy. Amazingly it felt overpriced buying them for $30 plus $10 shipping back then.

Yeah! The 150mm in particular was going for a lot at the time. I actually asked a Japanese seller if he would split his lot of 4 cams and just sell me one and got no response, so this is the result.

 

[ags2mikon]

I have a Ektar 152mm, Fujinon W 150mm, symmar 150mm, symmar s 150mm and a ysarex 150mm to try it with, plus the Horseman 150mm. So I think it has a chance of matching something. I will post back my results.

 

[loccdor]

And I'm going to try it with a 1924 150mm f/4.5 Tessar, once the lens board arrives next week.

 

[ags2mikon]

@loccdor Thank you for sending it. Later next week I will try to polish those 2 warts off and try it on all of my 150mm lenses to see how it goes. I will report back. I just may do the same thing and make some for the 105mm 4.5 lens and wreck the market for them. You can place a piece of 1000 grit on a glass plate and grind off some of the 2 feet on the bottom to make it right at infinity.

 

[abruzzi]

I'm happy to provide photos of any of the others. I have all but 105mm Super (the 4.5) so if you make some of them, I'd love one.

BTW, at B&H you can get a little folding SD card wallet with space for 9 SD card. Its perfect to hold all the cams since they are a simlar size and there are 8 different standard Horseman lenses (at least of the VH/VH-R era): 65ƒ7, 75ƒ5.6, 90ƒ5.6, 105ƒ3.5, 105ƒ4.5, 120ƒ5.6, 150ƒ5.6, and 180ƒ5.6