Eugene Robkin (erobkin@uwc.edu)
Tue, 02 Mar 1999 16:14:17 -0600
This is for the UK and N. Europe list members. I'd send this off list but
I don't think I can separate the UK and Continental members from the rest
of you.
If anyone has an interest in this please contact Mr. Bluck directly. I do
not know anything more about it than you can read below in the two quoted
messages. I'd love to be able to salvage parts from this but it is too far
away for me.
Please remember that process camera lenses are usually optimized for around
the 1:1 region and may not work well if you stray too far from that and
they usually are not designed for much depth of field although they are
very flat field. Coverage at infinity will be much reduced. They do
arouse interesting daydreams if you see one though.
This is an old piece of hardware. I can't speak for the UK or European
market but here in the US Midwest I find them on the junk piles.
List minders - is an occasional posting of this sort ok?
Eugene Robkin
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Hello.
I wonder if anyone can help. I have a large format / process
camera, and I need to find a new home for it.
It's a Hunter Penrose 20 by 24 inch, it's complete with a
Taylor Hobson 14 inch f9 lens, and Dalmayer air operated shutter,
I also have about 12 feet of trackway, and the projection screen,
(and also some film and chemistry..)
Is there likely to be any interest in this forty / fifty
year old hardware nowadays ? and if so, from where ?
Many thanks for your assistance.
the e-mail address here has now changed to
tb@planet-tharg.demon.co.uk
Tim.R.Bluck.
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Hello Eugene.
The camera, when set-up is about 12 feet long, 5 feet wide,
and 8 feet high. It's focusing screen, and the two sets of bellows are
in good condition. If packed for shipping overseas (ie not U.K. or
N.Europe.) it would be about 11 X 6 X 6 feet and weigh nearly half a
ton.
Unfortuneately you are correct about shipping it to the 'States, the
customs people would wonder what to make of it, and shipping somthing
this big would be very expensive.
There is a photographic outlet in Croydon, Surrey, called "Mr Cad" who
have a smaller process camera without the trackway or screen going for
1,700 pounds, so I'd guess that this one must be worth somthing. But I
really havn't got a clue what anyone would pay for it.
Many thanks for your e-mail.
All The Best.
Tim.R.Bluck.
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