[LargeFormat] packard shutter (was Horsman or Gandolfi?)
Les Newcomer
largeformat@f32.net
Sun Jun 1 01:00:01 2003
On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 11:53 PM, Stuart Phillips wrote:
> Reading
> an article in the present View Camera has reignited my interest in
> Packard
> shutters - why exclude barrel lenses, or pay a lot of money to have
> them
> installed in "modern" :) shutters? Today, I took a 210mm Luettke &
> Arndt
> Extra Rapid Aplanat lens (with a barely functioning shutter) and
> disabled
> the shutter leaving it open so that I can use the lens with a
> hat-shutter.
>
>
For years my interior shooting was either 4x5 or a Hassy with strobes,
flashmeter, color meter, every wratten kodak makes and at least one
assistant.
Exposures were bracketed to a 1/3 of a stop and the 'creative' part was
color balancing a retail store interior that had metal halide,
flourescent and incandescent lights whose controls were, no kidding,
two states and one Great Lake away.
When I went on vacation to Idaho, I took a 5x7 2D with a packard(my
favorite LF camera for under $200) and a Protar C set. This gave me 6
focal lenghts. The light meter was an old Luna Pro. After the second
day, it stayed in the car. I actually had Steve Grimes set up an
Alphax shutter so I could slip it in front of the lens, if I needed to.
I used it once just to say I did.