Gear update

jhotopf said:
What a great alternative to a dark cloth!
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It's normally fitted with wood screws to the back ... but I've fitted studs and mini wingnuts so it's easily removable if you want to use a dark cloth.
 
I've got a half plate Kodak Specialist 2 police kit, it came in a box with both a half plate and sliding quarter plate bail backs and the proper tripod, a particularly hefty thing. The lens that came with it was the 8" Kodak Ektar. There were no film holders with the camera but I managed to get three 5x7 holders for less than expected (after having mistakenly bought a couple of holders from a dealer who replaced them after I discovered they were actually half plate). I bought two quarter plate holders for the sliding back but they didn't engage properly so I gave them away. The quarter plate capability isn't particularly important to me as the film is disproportionately expensive compared to 5x4, for example.

The only things I had to do to the camera were replace a couple of tiny wood screws and clean and lubricate the gears, for which I used a light silicon grease, and have the shutter serviced to correct the sluggishness.

It's an epically heavy beast and very tricky to support when fitting it to the very substantial tripod. However the results from using it are excellent. I took my first photographs with a box of FP4 which came with the camera. The next lot is Fomapan 200.

Camera on its Kodak tripod compared to my Brand 5x4 on a Berlebach.

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The strange diffraction patterns are coming from a glass panel over the front door!

A photograph taken using the camera, you can't really appreciate the capability from this upload but at least I hope it shows that I have used it and will continue to do so.

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