pico_digoliardi Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Today is half shot. I had to (well, wanted to) make a filter holder for a Ikonta 6x9, and a Linhof type lens board for a 200mm Imagon and ND filter holder for the Linhof proprietary universal lens shade so I could try an Imagon wide-open outdoors. (Tip: The 60+mm Linhof universal lens hood / filter holder fits the 200mm Imagon perfectly. It also accomodates a Tiffen Series VIII screw-in filter (not the adapter). If you remove the glass and ring from the Tiffen, you can drop a Leitz Series VIII filter right into it. A little tape gasket makes up the radial difference. The Linhof front retainer and/or WA shade thing screws in perfectly.) Just wondering of others find that at least once a week they are fabricating things to make LF work, or work better and also repairing the gear? Oy, and one of the Linhof Graflex thumb slides fell out yesterday. And of course, there's the intractible power supply issue for the Chromegacontrol, and that little issue with the Biogon aperture lever ... and oh no, I'm whining! Okay, I'm out of the shop right now. Work to do. I mean photographic work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary_deal Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Hey Pico, you're willing to make custom stuff for money, right? What sorts of items and materials do you usually make and work with? What kind of shop machinery are you working with? Got photos of stuff? Got a list of things you already know how to make? (ok, that's about as big an opening as I can give you, jump on in) "And all for only $19.95? WOW!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico_digoliardi Posted June 28, 2006 Author Share Posted June 28, 2006 Gary, I make only simple things that anyone else can make. Nothing special - whatever it takes to do the job. Precision machining is outsourced. If I have any advantage it is knowing what parts can be adapted. No magic. What I would really like to learn is how to make those 'petal' type lens shades - rather how to calculate the curves and angle. I've two large wide-angles that have no shade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenr Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 I wanted to give you this link which may have been of interest - http://www.lenshoods.co.uk/ - but it appears to be dead : ( They had a variety of templates for petal hoods. Maybe try again in a few days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilander Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 The lenshoods.co.uk link is working now. Thanks for sharing that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w_t1 Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 I can relate, although I haven't made stuff for LF yet, as my LF equipment is modern. I don't have the Graphlexes and old stuff that other people have, although building a 4x5 is on my "important" to-do list. I do a bit of woodworking, and try to do make as much of my own stuff as possible, not always cost effective, but usually a lot better product than buying in the store. Pico, do you do any computer CADD work? There are places I've seen that will take your cad file and do extrusions out of various materials, thinking of your wide angle petal lens shades. For home use, I mainly use cad to print out templates of shapes impossible to draw by hand, to cut on bandsaw or scrollsaw. I also recommend checking out the camera maker forum at apug, as well as yahoo groups. And an expensive little quarterly magazine called Make. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico_digoliardi Posted June 28, 2006 Author Share Posted June 28, 2006 <i>Pico, do you do any computer CADD work? </i><p> Not really, although I was one of the first emachineshop.com customers. Some will say that's not really CADD. Dunno. To tell the truth, I am so deeply mired in digital video editing (largely with Final Cut Pro) that I don't have much spare time for learning CADD.<p> I <b>do</b> have a dream LF to build. It is completely unconventional, as nutty as I am, but I depend upon a hugely bright local machinist to Make It So. It is going much too slow for me, but so be it.<p> Anyway folks, I'm hitting the road for a few days, hoping to get lost in on Lake Superior, traveling light. I'll be thinking of you all. <p>Pax<p>Pico Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico_digoliardi Posted June 28, 2006 Author Share Posted June 28, 2006 WT: Make Magazine looks so very cool! Thanks for that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger_hicks1 Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Dear Pico, Yes. New lens boards for my Gandolfi Universal; replace the crumbling zinc septums in the bookform holders; file, drill and tap a new locking slug for the rear standard... And that's just one camera! In all fairness, it is around 100 years old. But much of yesterday was spend repairing the rear sight on my Weihrauch HW 45 (an air pistol, not a camera). Cheers, Roger (www.rogerandfrances.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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