steve salmons

<p>A hole is drilled at the top of the U shaped cut out and completed with a small hacksaw. A slightly round file is then used to cut away the waste until the curve on the profile is matched.<br> At this point the cam is fixed to the camera. The lens has already had its stops set to the correct infinity position using the ground glass. The rangefinder is then used to focus on something in the far distance. The 'something' is then rechecked ion the ground glass. If it is still sharp then you have been very good. However you will usually find that the GG image is now slightly unsharp.<br> I have found that the critical thing now is the width of the cam. If you file off a little from the flat edge then retest as above you should find that the rangefinder focus has become a little more accurate. Repeat this gradually until the r/f focus on infinity coincides with GG focus.<br> Once this is achieved you can test closer distances. These should be fine too if you have matched the curve on the template correctly. <br> Once correct you can peel off the paper template and add your own identification marks. I have used a CD marker pen for this.</p><div></div>

<p>They are then cut roughly to size with tin snips</p><div></div>

<p>I have created and tested the 150mm cam against my G Claron.<br> I thought it might be useful for anyone else needing to do this to see a few pics. After printing the pics of the cams to actual size (4cm long, maintain aspect ratio) they are cut out and fixed to some 1mm thick pices of scrap aluminium.</p><div></div>

<p>Adrian and Paul, I owe you a whole lot of thanks. Those pictures are absolutely perfect for my purposes.<br> Kind Regards, Steve</p>

<p>That's the very thing Adrian. Thank you for your response. Would it be possible for you to post an image of the cam flat against a light background , shot from directly above?<br> This would give me the start I need to make the template.<br> Many thanks, Steve</p>

<p>As I have been unsuccessful in finding a reasonably priced 65mm cam for my Horseman 980 I have recently been forced to make on from sheet aluminium. This turned out to be not too difficult; a couple of hours work. Of course it doesn't look quite so neat as the genuine article but I can put up with that as no cash outlay was involved.<br> I was able to do this because I found an image of the 65mm cam photographed (or scanned) flat on a white background. It was then just a question of resizing the image to the actual length of a genuine cam and printing at actual size to create a template. From the template the aluminium is cut and filed to shape.<br> While I have cams for my 180mm and 105 mm lenses I am missing the hard to find 120mm and the 90mm versions. If anyone on the forum has either or both of these cams I wonder if they would be kind enough to post to the forum an image of each cam taken square on. This would enable me to create versions of these cam in the same way<br> Thank you, Steve</p><div></div>