Rob_the_waste Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 <p>Hi all. It's been a while since I've done anything photographically, even more since I've done anything worthwhile. However, something that I've come across in my travels has me stumped. It's not a camera. It has a number of both male and female tripod mounts, but I haven't the slightest idea what it is used for. Perhaps somebody enlightened can give me an idea?</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_the_waste Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 <p>Another look.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_the_waste Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 <p>Last try. The knob on the side is a clamping bolt, and the table on it rotates, but the purpose still eludes me.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john tonai Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 <p>It allows a camera to be moved from horizontal to vertical</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochen_S Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 <p>I agree with John and assume its meant for a rather heavy camera on a maybe not too solid tripod where a head allowing the usal 90° flip to a side would mean stability hazard + reftraming / recomposing hassle. - Imagine you'd be shooting table top flowers with a 4x5" without a rotating back</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 <p>You don't have to go all that far back to find the usual tripods having no horizontal flip or adjustment at all. Something like this would be the only way to get a vertical shot, in addition to making horizontal fine tuning much easier than fiddling with the legs.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 <p>Adding to the above, remember how many old cameras such as folding Kodaks, box cameras and the like had tripod sockets on the side. 35 mm. cameras lost this, but when tripods were less articulated it was pretty common.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henryp Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 <p>I used one with a Camerz 70mm long-roll camera. The camera took 100 ft of 70mm film and (depending on configuration -- mine was 6x7) you could shoot a full day of high school senior portraits on one roll. I started with a twin-lens Camera Classic and graduated to their SLR which had a mirror slap like the Grand Canyon.</p> <p>Henry Posner<br /><strong>B&H Photo-Video</strong></p> Henry Posner B&H Photo-Video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_the_waste Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 <p>Thanks for the insight folks. It's much appreciated. I picked it up from a friend's place after his wife passed away. I worked with the both of them for years and I never knew she was into photography until she passed away and I was offered her stuff to clean out the house. Beside a ton of developing stuff, there was a Bushnell 2.8/135mm lens in screwmount</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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