How many 16x20 Deardorff cameras have been made and who has used it before?
How many 16x20 Deardorff cameras have been made and who has used it before?
In the mid 1970s I was a student at RIT in Rochester New York. I believe the School of Photography had four of them. 16x20 Super XX film was actually stocked in the School's store. Kodak film was sold at a deep discount and Kodak chemistry was always available for free.
Very cool!Originally Posted by diversey
Tin Can
Based on the weight of my 8x10 'Dorff, I can't even imagine how much that behemoth weighs!
I hope you kept your Mint 20X24 Deardorff
I was very impressed with it IRL
I really like my 8X10 Studio Deardoff with NOS slider and 360 rotation and 3 formats
I can even pick it up!
Tin Can
His website is: http://www.8x10.jp/
But can we talk about that lens???
Fujinon-W 30cm f/9??? Am I reading that right? I've never seen such a lens in their catalogue. It's size makes it look like an SW series?
My FUJI catalogue shows a picture of a FUJINON SW f/9 300mm, which is visually definitely the same lens, but then makes no mention of or lists it in the pages of the catalogue.
That's interesting. My catalogue says 300mm f/8 for the SW.
Either way, an incredible lens.
I have seen two of them, all in NYC stores (Photogizmo and another) in the 1990s. Massive lenses obviously. I am also puzzled a bit by the marking in cm rather than mm, but this may be a function of its age. It looks like it is in a Shanel shutter with a hand marked aperture scale.
Yeah, could be. It's either a Shanel or an old white Copal #3S. Both were common for Fujinar SC tessars.
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