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  Friday  June 10  2005    02: 10 PM

all together now

The Schneider G-Claron 210 that Marja-Leena sent me is finally in a lens board and ready to use!

I epoxied 3 layers of hardboard. All precisely cut with a jig saw. Ha! Close enough, anyway.

If you look closely you can see what a fine circle I cut. The paint job was with a Sharpie pen. The lens came with a mounting ring that I just epoxied onto the board. The barrel screws into the mounting ring.

Then I cut out an adapter that bolts onto the Packard shutter and slides onto the lens.

This is the back side of the adapter that faces the lensboard. I used a hole saw and the hole just needed a small piece of gaffer's tape to give a nice tight fit. The small corner holes are for bolting onto the shutter and the other two holes are clearance holes for the pin.

The arrow shows where the pin goes for the instantaneous exposure.

The Burke and James with the G-Claron installed.

The Packard shutter just slides onto the lens.

A press of the bulb and the shutter opens. The arrow shows where the pin goes to hold the leaves open for longer exposures. Saves the hand from cramping up squeezing the bulb. I'm running out of excuses for not taking pictures with this camera. Actually, I've been using it for product photography with the 120 roll film back and the Ektar 127. It really needs to have some 4x5 sheet film exposed in it. It told me so.