Update. It arrived today. The catalog notwithstanding, the cells won't go into a #0. They're in a very fat barrel. So much for information in catalogs. I have other lenses in barrel that don't conform to catalogs' assertions that the cells will go into shutters.I just bought a 210/9 Repro-Claron. I'm not sure why I did except that the price was right and the cells will go into a #0 and Repro-Clarons have a very good reputation. I already have too many 210s, including a 210/6.8 Beryl that's in shutter.
Well, they might go in to a shutter, but only after being adapted by a machinist. Which of course isn't what saying "they go into a shutter" implies.Update. It arrived today. The catalog notwithstanding, the cells won't go into a #0. They're in a very fat barrel. So much for information in catalogs. I have other lenses in barrel that don't conform to catalogs' assertions that the cells will go into shutters.
Well, they might go in to a shutter, but only after being adapted by a machinist. Which of course isn't what saying "they go into a shutter" implies.
I didn't say it was a reasonable or practical solutionInteresting idea, but having had the cells out of their barrel I'm not sure it will work. The big snag is that the individual cells are in flanged discs so large that they won't fit an Ilex #3. I doubt that cutting them down is feasible, have no idea how much threaded bushings that will fit a larger shutter, accept the cells in their discs and give the right cell spacing will cost. And then there's the cost of the larger shutter. There are less expensive ways to get a 210 mm dialyte type process lens in shutter if I must have one.
Front-mounting the thing in a cup-shaped adapter would cost less.
I was hoping for a cheap thrill. Oh, well.
I didn't say it was a reasonable or practical solutionIt's probably something SK Grimes could solve for you at the cost of a new Copal 3 shutter and five or six hundred dollars. At which point, as you mentioned, there are much better ways to get a 210mm dialyte in shutter than to adapt this one. Probably easiest and cheapest if you want to at least try it out to front-mount a Packard shutter.
It is illustrative and educative - helps people understand where some ideas might take them.What good is an unreasonable or impractical solution to a problem?
Fair comment.It is illustrative and educative - helps people understand where some ideas might take them.
Probably good to accompany it with the warning though.
I didn't say it was a reasonable or practical solutionIt's probably something SK Grimes could solve for you at the cost of a new Copal 3 shutter and five or six hundred dollars. At which point, as you mentioned, there are much better ways to get a 210mm dialyte in shutter than to adapt this one. Probably easiest and cheapest if you want to at least try it out to front-mount a Packard shutter.
One of the things I really love about APUG is regulars' eagerness to tell posters how to spend money they don't have. As I used to tell my parents when I was away in college, send money.
What good is an unreasonable or impractical solution to a problem?
I think you meant to say impossible solutions.I am with TheFlyingCamera on this. We lay out an array of possible solutions and the OP can make his or her choices as an adult.
I wasn't telling you how to spend money. As I mentioned, it's not a practical solution, especially given the nature of the lens. I know people who have done such things because they have some rather esoteric piece of glass in a barrel that they want to use, and for whatever reason they're opposed to using Packard shutters/hats/roller-blinds/etc. I'm one of the lucky ones who got a 240 Apo-Germinar from Kerry Thalmann when he had them, and it is indeed a direct fit into a Copal 1, so all I had to do was get Grimes to make an aperture scale for it, then screw in the elements.One of the things I really love about APUG is regulars' eagerness to tell posters how to spend money they don't have. As I used to tell my parents when I was away in college, send money.
What good is an unreasonable or impractical solution to a problem?
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