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Anthony
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Hi Alan,
The large knobs at the side of the front standard are the tilt knobs (axis tilts). Front rise and fall is controlled by a spring loaded, geared knobs on the right (as you stand behind it - operator's position). This movement locks with a knob on the front of the standard. The front also swings and shifts, as does the back. In fact, except for the lock knob for the front rise and fall, the controls almost exactly mirror those of the 4x5. I use one of those too.
These cameras were originally built by Kodak here in Rochester, and called the "Master View." They were made to sell film - like all the cameras Kodak made - but these also reflected the best of American manufacturing: tough, durable, simple, functional. It's hard to imagine nowadays the scientific and technical know-how that Eastman Kodak embodied back then.
At RIT there were dozens of these view cameras in "the cage." If undergraduates needed something for a class, they could check equipment out of the cage. I never went near it. I felt like they kept us all in a cage. If it hadn't been for Alan Ross, I'd have left that brick gulag after a few months . . .
Anyway, to their credit, when Kodak designed and engineered products, they also overbuilt them. Year after year, ham-handed students just couldn't kill these things.
Trivia time: who invented the first digital camera - in 1975? (It was a large as a toaster, and took 1.5 minutes to download an image onto magnetic tape).
The large knobs at the side of the front standard are the tilt knobs (axis tilts). Front rise and fall is controlled by a spring loaded, geared knobs on the right (as you stand behind it - operator's position). This movement locks with a knob on the front of the standard. The front also swings and shifts, as does the back. In fact, except for the lock knob for the front rise and fall, the controls almost exactly mirror those of the 4x5. I use one of those too.
These cameras were originally built by Kodak here in Rochester, and called the "Master View." They were made to sell film - like all the cameras Kodak made - but these also reflected the best of American manufacturing: tough, durable, simple, functional. It's hard to imagine nowadays the scientific and technical know-how that Eastman Kodak embodied back then.
At RIT there were dozens of these view cameras in "the cage." If undergraduates needed something for a class, they could check equipment out of the cage. I never went near it. I felt like they kept us all in a cage. If it hadn't been for Alan Ross, I'd have left that brick gulag after a few months . . .
Anyway, to their credit, when Kodak designed and engineered products, they also overbuilt them. Year after year, ham-handed students just couldn't kill these things.
Trivia time: who invented the first digital camera - in 1975? (It was a large as a toaster, and took 1.5 minutes to download an image onto magnetic tape).