From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 08/16/02-03:21:42 AM Z
Shannon,
Agreeing with others, be careful not to throw the baby out with the
bathwater. If the lens is good, or was a good buy, the shutter may be
worth fixing rather than buying something else. Or, if the speeds are
consistent (if 1/2 sec is consistently half a stop slow, for example)
just make up a little chart of actual speeds and use it. Old lenses can
have wonderful imaging qualities and can be bargains, but old shutters
are always cranky. You pick the compromises you prefer.
One of my favorite lenses for my banquet cameras is a 16.5" dagor in an
Ilex shutter so beat that even Steve Grimes wasn't able to keep it
working except at B and T. That really doesn't matter, since I've found
that with practice I can just use a cable release on B to time 1/4, 1/2,
and full second exposures at least as well as an Ilex shutter ever did
on its own. With a banquet camera, speeds shorter than 1/4 just aren't
needed, so I'll save my money and not bother to get this wonderful piece
of glass remounted in a modern shutter.
---Carl
Shannon Stoney wrote:
>
> Where do you like to buy lenses? I am looking for one for an 8x10 camera
> that has a shutter that is reasonably accurate. The one I have is about
> twice as slow as it should be on one second, but not quite that for 1/2
> second, etc, which makes it impossible to figure out what speed to shoot the
> film at. I think I'm going to send it back.
>
> --shannon
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