lance_blakeslee

Here's mine. Very rough condition.

Bought it from a Japanese vendor on ebay:

There used to be a couple very accomplished Olympus bird shooters here.

Wonder where they migrated to...?

Some of my old dejanews/yahoo groups migrated to groups-io.

You may start a new group there: Search

A couple years ago I searched high and low to find someone to build a bellows for a wooden Japanese 5X7.

Couldn't find a soul so ended up sending it to Custom Bellows in the UK. Very fast turnaround at a reasonable price.

Not mine:

You'll want to exchange the viewing lens as well since it is matched to the actual focal length of the Novar.

The viewing lens block screws in (iirc) and once you adjust to coincide with the taking image at the focal plane, tighten the set screw and you are done.

You could buy the Rolleiflex panorama attachment which features a bubble level.

Asking prices seem to have ballooned since I got mine years ago.

rolleiflex panorama head - Google Search

I made some from brass rod available at Lowes.

Other hardware stores carry it as well.

I used a small lathe but the conical end could be formed with a file.

^^ Excellent link ^^

Rolleiflex 3.5 series - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopedia

Beautiful work.

Thank you for sharing.

Is this whats know as the DKL mount?

What is a DKL mount?

Always enjoyed Gene M's posts as well.

There was always a wistfully sly humor to his photo captions.

You could cut a viewfinder mask out of construction paper.

I made one for 645 on Bronica S2a 6X6 body.

Not an elegant solution but it works.

I at one time had a copy of a ltm Leica made by Shanghai.

It was very well put together and actually quite impressive.

Don't recall the lens but it was equally good.

My kidneys hurt just looking at that canned solvent.

The cork looks like an excellent fix, like what's on a Gitzo or Manfrotto head.

I wouldn't take the green dot as gospel until you've verified it at various settings with a known good handheld meter.

I have three various SQ metered finders and all three give different exposure times.

Fortunately, print film has a fairly wide latitude and my favorite finder is pretty close to accurate...

You don't care for the 105mm 2.4?

Considered by many as the very creamy bokeh lens.

I like those arrow on the locks.

If I don't use mine for awhile, it gets confusing figuring which knob is which.

My copy is made by Leitz.

The wayback machine has some of these pages archived.

Here's an example: Mamiya Universal Medium Format Rangefinder Camera

Quite a lot of medium format info from the ancient monaghan super site can be found there.

That's very nice.

Congratulations!

Wow, that's a great link.

Thanks for posting.

Very nice video.

Thanks for posting.