[pure-silver] Re: Slightly OT: Large format telephoto
- From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:34:31 -0600
On 2/15/2010 8:50 AM, pdesmidt tds.net wrote:
> I miss Steve Grimes. He was always incredibly helpful. If I could send
> work his way, I did. These days, though, it often isn't as practical to
> mount old process lenses in shutters. Sure, if you have some decent
> shutters sitting around, the price isn't too bad, but new shutters have
> gotten very expensive. One can buy a Sinar behind the lens shutter for
> the cost of one new Copal 3 shutter. The Sinar shutter will allow you
> to use as many barrel lenses as you like, assuming you really need a
> shutter in the first place. With 8x10 at least one can often do
> without. In any case, while you can get some very high focal length
> process lenses, I doubt that many of them are telephoto.
I believe the S.K. Grimes continues as a business even after the
passing of Steve.
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