d_daine

There are Bay1 to 46mm converters. 46mm filters

are cheap and easy to find. I think Goodwins

(on the web) has the converters. As for hoods,

they seem to be few and far between. The hoods

are quite small, and with some creativity you

could make one yourself.

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cheers,

Any flash with a synch. cord will do. The 124G has a

standard synch. terminal, and since it's a leaf shutter,

it will synch. at any speed. There is a "cold shoe" on

the 124G (a flash mount with no electrical connections).

I use an old L-shaped grip with a flash mount, it makes

the camera easier to carry and gets the flash up and out

of the way (as opposed to mounting the flash to the body).

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Cheers and best,

Any 4x5 view camera with a "grafloc" type back will take

a Polaroid 405 holder. Perhaps something like a 4x5 Crown

Graphic (more of a "press" camera than a view camera) and a

405 holder would fit the bill. Adding a Polaroid 545 holder

would allow you to shoot Polaroid 4x5 sheet as well.

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Cheers,

How can you be sure that the replacement viewing lens is

the exact same focal length of your existing taking lens?

When a lens is made, I would assume that there is a variance

in focal length + or -, and the lens set on a TLR is indeed

a "matched" set (or are there lens/WLF shims?).

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Cheers,

Try the web page below for info on the Yashica TLR.

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http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~jalbro/impact/yashica66.guide.html

Anybody know who converts the Medallist II to 120

and an approximate cost?

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Cheers and best regards,

DV = distance bed moves between sharp focus of "near" object and sharp focus of "far" object

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- focus on exact midpoint between near and far focus extremes

- Optimum f:stop = square root of (375 * dv)

- works for any lens

- all you really need is a little metric ruler and a chart or calculator

- method does not work where the focus extremes have very different magnifications (where one is close to 1), as in extreme close ups

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The Mar/Apr. Photo Techniques has two great articles on focussing the view camera using this method.

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Cheers,