[LRFlex] Re: Wanted to buy -cheap!
- From: NATSTEK@xxxxxxx
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:22:58 EST
Jim,
I think that I can save you a lot of trouble if what you want is an ultrawide
lens on a 4X5.
A police officer friend of mine takes Mamiya 6X6 twin lens lenses and
separates the viewing lens from the lower taking lens, (just unscrew the jam
ring
from the rear of the lens and remove it from its lens board), and mounts the
lens
on a blank 4X5 lens board. This way you have the leaf shutter intact and can
use any 4X5, Crown or Speed Graphic body with all of the front standard's
tilt, shift, and rotations. There was even a 55mm f/4.5, or 5.6 lens available,
which on a 4X5 is pretty much a 15mm or so lens!! Attach a 6X9 rollfilm back
and you have something.
I have a 2 1/4X3 1/4 Century graphic wiyh a graphlock ground glass back, as
well as a 6X9 rollfilm back. The standard 101mm lens fully covers the 6X9
format with no vignetting!!
The nice thing about the Mamiya twin lens, lenses, is that they can often be
found cheaply, because oftentimes the viewing lens is FUBAR, but thye taking
lens is OK, and that is the lens that you are really after.
I told you guy's that I'm an incurable gadget freak.
Art Tafil
natstek@xxxxxxx
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