From: Rocky Boudreaux (rocky@pdq.net)
Date: 08/16/02-09:27:45 AM Z
Professional Camera Repair
Mike Hakim
713-621-3627
4410 Richmond
Houston, TX
He has done my work for years and is very good and reasonably priced.
He can test it for you and give you a written report of the performance.
Phone him and I am sure he could give you a cost for that over then
phone.
In my opinion it doesn't matter what the exposure time actually is for a
particular setting. The important thing is that it is consistent and
repeatable. Then if you know the actual time for the dial setting it is
a simple matter to compensate for it. The dial numbers are only
representative figures that are close. Manufacturing practices must
allow for tolerances otherwise none of us could afford anything if it
were all zero tolerance. Of course new manufacturing equipment allows
for closer tolerances, in general. Some of the old stuff is still top
quality.
I also reflect many of the before stated opinions but in the end the
choice to keep or return can only be made by one person, you and
whatever the decision it will be the correct one for you.
Rocky
Houston, TX
Carl Weese wrote:
>
> 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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