Ash
9-Jun-2007, 14:45
Thanks to Don Qualls, I received a Polaroid Prontor Press #1 shutter in the post yesterday. I've been playing with it after work, during my evenings, and I have some success!!
That Doppel-Anastigmat Series III/2 180/6,8 from my grandfather, the one in the sunken barrel that I could never really be bothered to use because of its stiff aperture, near-impossibility mounting to a camera etc etc...
Turns out the laziest method works great!
Here's the lens on the camera in its original barrel... http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/DSC00124.jpg
Here's the lens:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/DSC00039.jpg (before i managed to strip the white lettering :eek: )
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/DSC00913.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/DSC00916.jpg
And here's the prototype pressure-fitting, rubbish photo.
I folded masking tape (3-fold, so it is adhesive on both sides, in a slither) and ran it around either element, so that the lens is held by pressure, surprisingly secure, in the shutter.
It's now dark outside so I can't take a nice photo of the camera (with its nasty fibreboard lens panel) nor can I take a couple test photo's
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/dagpolo-1.jpg
That Doppel-Anastigmat Series III/2 180/6,8 from my grandfather, the one in the sunken barrel that I could never really be bothered to use because of its stiff aperture, near-impossibility mounting to a camera etc etc...
Turns out the laziest method works great!
Here's the lens on the camera in its original barrel... http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/DSC00124.jpg
Here's the lens:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/DSC00039.jpg (before i managed to strip the white lettering :eek: )
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/DSC00913.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/DSC00916.jpg
And here's the prototype pressure-fitting, rubbish photo.
I folded masking tape (3-fold, so it is adhesive on both sides, in a slither) and ran it around either element, so that the lens is held by pressure, surprisingly secure, in the shutter.
It's now dark outside so I can't take a nice photo of the camera (with its nasty fibreboard lens panel) nor can I take a couple test photo's
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/dagpolo-1.jpg