tito sobrinho

This is what I know:

 

Copal 0=34.8mm, Copal 1=41.8mm, Copal 3=65.8mm.

 

I think they are right in publishing just the mount size as they sell lenses in a variety of shutters. I have my old Dagors mounted in shutters like...Goerz Dagor 8 1/4 on a B&J Perle Rapid shutter=39mm. Wollensak Velostigmat Wide Angle Series III 8x10 f9,5 on a Betax 3=50mm. So on and so forth.

I bought a CF, didn't like it for my landscape usage. Traded it for a CF-FLE, and I never looked back. Happy ever since!

Q.G.

 

Please, just try it.

Timo:

 

Your Wista does not have front swing as well as my 18 years old black metal 45 that I bought used as a SP.

 

My VX was bought brand new in 1995 direct from the distributor (FIELDS & VIEW- Herbert Kleber) has front swings. The best accessories to buy are the Compendium Hood and the Bag Bellows. The reflex housing is good for a studio setting but for field use, it's too volumous to drag around.

 

For the metal 4x5 Wistas that have front swing; if you look at the left of the front standard (U) you will find a lever that when depressed will free the U for the horizontal rotation (swing).

 

Bob, I've always thought that the Yaw free swing was a Sinar invention.

I've always thought that Salamanca (Spain) was the oldest european University.

My black SP does not have front swing as opposed to my black VX that does.

 

My SP, which I bought 18 years ago, also made me a little upset with its absence of front swing (horizontal rotation). I showed it to an older local photographer. He looked at me and said: "Come on Tito! For 75 years, View Cameras have not had front swing and perfect pictures were taken with them".

 

I believe, the first View Camera with this feature, was the 1952 Deardorff. Am I correct?

Q.G.

 

I beg to differ. My experience with the floating element (s) started in the late '70s when I got the Nikkor 28/2 CRC ( launched in 1971). The floating elements are "automatic". Since those days, I've used the method which I've described above. Nikkon literature. Superb results.

 

Previously, I had a 50 CF Distagon but the closer objects (05-1 metre) where out of focus, while the ones at medium plane and infinity were in focus.

 

I sold the 50 and bought the FLE. Upon getting it, I called Hasselblad and asked them if I could apply the system I was using with the Nikkor. Yes, was the answer! I focus on a subject 0.5-1 metre, adjust the FLE ring to that distance, and use the hyperfocussing. Superb chromes as well as B&W pictures.

 

Like the late Fred Picker used to tell us..."Try it.. you'll like it"

 

I don't do weddings or street photography with my Hassy, only landscapes, as I became tired of hauling my 8x10 around. The 50 FLE + 3 backs, are what come closest to what I could accomplish by using a view camera's movements.

 

...and Bruno, try the method I've described, you would like it too.

 

BTW, the F scale matches perfectly the hyperfocussing on the Zeiss & Nikkor i.e. perfect photos. I don't have any luck whatsoever with my M Elmarit 28/2.

Great pictures Frederick. I've always wanted to go to Prague...older than Paris.

From the historical point of view, the japanese didn't sink any of the submarines stationed at Pearl Harbour.

Excellent pictures and I doubt taken with a Brownie but I think from a 4x5 Speed Graphic. They show clarity, great overall contrast as well as local contrast.

 

I saw the same pictures a year ago sent to me by email. Didn't mention a Brownie.

What Lance said. The FLE is ideal for the near-far relationship.

 

Focus on the near, mark the distance. Adjust the FLE ring for that distance. Rotate the main focus ring for the given F stop at infinity.

Pre-release and with the use of a cable release...expose. Of course, a tripod is a must.

 

Wide angle usage shows a lot of empty foreground space. With this method, I've always included a near subject, and everything else will be in focus showing a beautiful depth to the photograph i.e. from up close to infinity!

 

I love my 50 FLE for landscape photography :~)

Thanks Q.G. for the clarification.

What you have is a transition model from the C to the CM. It has the removable screen which is absent in the C but has retained the rear curtain flash contact.

Sorry, Laurence instead of Lawrence.

Russ:

 

The Tessar designed by Dr. Paul Rudolph (Zeiss employee) in 1902, has 4 elements in 3 groups. It was such a good lens that it earned him the Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society in 1905. The lens was called "Eagle's Eye". His design was (is) immitated by several lens designers including Max Berek...Elmar(1925).

 

Lawrence:

 

Yes, the Ikoflex II has the same uncoated Tessar and it would perform the same way as the Rolleiflex "Old" Standard presented here.

 

Interesting is that the Ikoflex had a price range in order to compete with the Rolleicord with its Triotar...a 3 element lens.

Great Tessar pictures. My Rolleiflex Original takes the 620 film.

 

I think, it was the norm to engrave the name of the city where the product was manufactured.

 

Exakta, Dresden

 

Graflex, Inc. Rochester, N.Y.

 

Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester, N.Y.

 

B&L Rochester, N.Y.

 

Ernst Leitz, Wetzlar

 

Carl Zeiss Jena (J as pronounced like It and not like Jenny)

 

C.P. Goerz, Berlin.

 

Carl Zeiss Opton

 

Franke & Heidecke - Braunschweig.

 

Nippon Kogaku Tokio

 

WaffenFabrik MAUSER Oberndorf an Neckar (Here, they even mention the river Neckar that bathes the city...Oberndorf).

 

Any others?

Excellent B&W pictures!

If you have to push a small central button in order to rotate the "ring", it would mean that it's not a 2.8C introduced in 1953. The 2.8C didn't have the EVS system a feature introduced in the 2.8D and followed also with the 2.8E, 2.8E2 and 2.8E3.

 

The 2.8C "speed" system follows the old style i.e. 1, 2, 5, 10, 25 etc. What you have to do in order to release the 2.8C "rings" is to press a small semi circular metal ring around both wheels when turning them.

Sorry, I've made a mistake. Looking at my 8 1/4/f5 Celor Series 1b #3, I can see that it was made by C.P. Goerz which later became the Artar. The Dogmar follows the same design.

The Dogmar lens was C.P. Goerz answer to Zeiss' Celor and later the Artar i.e. a 4 element Dialyte.

 

I have a 120 6x9 Goerz Tenax with a 100/4.5 Dogmar mounted on a dial set Compur. Nice picture taker at f8.

 

Your camera looks like an european 9x12 press camera.

Yeah! That M3 was built especially for DDD. It was black with a Leicavit...Leica MP (Press). The serial numbers were especial too. DDD MP was #1.They (Leitz) manufactured in limited quantities. A small fortune if you can find one.

Russ, excellent photo! The overall and local contrast are superb as well as the composition. The uncoated Tessar rocks!

Very nice pictures Mark!

 

Esko, Paul Rudolph's Tessar design was (is) immitated by several lens designers including Max Berek...Elmar.

 

Mark camera has an uncoated Tessar. Is your Ikoflex Tessar lens coated?

 

Several of my cameras sport an uncoated Tessars and they are great for color too as well as the uncoated Dagor, uncoated convertible Protar Series VIIa and the uncoated convertible Turner Reich.

 

Cheers.

Raoul:

 

Excellent presentation. Beautiful camera. I have several EXAs 0 (zero) or just plain EXA i.e. the first ones to be manufactured. One year ago, my friend J. Jimenez (Photo neter) gave me a mint Exa (O) type 4 in its box with instructions.

 

Two things I wish to mention:

 

1- The ASA (ISO) dial is just a film speed reminder as it does not affect the camera function.

 

2- When using the waist level finder, the loupe can be pushed down in order to frame the picture. The loupe is raised thereafter for critical focusing.

My new 480/9 Apo-Ronar bought years ago, came mounted on a Copal 3. Perfect!