[pure-silver] Re: The Quest
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 15:38:44 -0800
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From: "Bogdan Karasek" <bkarasek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 2:28 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: The Quest
Hi,
Richard Knoppow wrote:
snip substantially:
I've only ever seen one. This is a monorail camera. The
B&J 8x10's have a reputation for being floppy. That can
be cured by tightening up the clamps.
How do you go about doing this? I want to buy a B&J 8x10
and will want to do it but I also have a B&J 5x7 that
could use a bit of tightening up????
Cheers,
Bogdan
The clamps get stretched. If one squeezes them down a
little it can tighten up the camera a lot. There are
probably other sources of floppiness than the clamps. My
Agfa/Ansco cameras had glue joints that got loose. I reglued
them. The B&J cameras are reasonably strongly made. Some
other cameras, like the Korona, were too light to begin with
so they tend to have problems with stability. B&J cameras,
especially the 8x10, were widely used by photographers who
had to make 8x10 transparencies for commercial purposes but
usually shot other formats. The cameras were relatively
inexpensive but had all the movements one would need.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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