[pure-silver] Re: Kodak to stop making Cameras
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:15:42 -0800
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From: "Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee"
<michaelandpaula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 4:47 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Kodak to stop making Cameras
The Kodak Master View lens board is 6x6 inches. Not small
at all, Richard. We have five of Kodak Master Views plus
one as a parts camera. I think the KMV is the best 8x10
view camera ever made. My first one, purchased in 1967
cost me $89.50. Those were the days.
We have had Kodak Master View lens boards made by a master
machinist. We sell them for $125. They are made from
aircraft aluminum and are better than the original boards.
Over the years, we had lens boards made by a number of
machinists, but none were ever really perfect until these.
The machinists told me they originally copied the original
board, but it wasn't quite perfect. They told me there is
something about it that is more subtle than at first
appears. They ended up making a tool to make the lens
boards.
Michael
For some reason I think of the Masterview board as
being small. This is the metal folding camera. Kodak seems
to have standardized on 6"x6" lens boards for its cameras
except for the big studio cameras.
I am having a memory tickle that there was an early
Kodak folding view camera with similar configuration to the
Masterview but can't quite pull it out.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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