From: Charlie Francis (charlie.francis@virgin.net)
Date: 08/16/02-02:28:28 PM Z
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From: "Carl Weese" <cweese@earthlink.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: a good lens dealer?
> 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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