[LargeFormat] Linhof Color

[Les Newcomer]

Century Graphic cameras don't have a focal plane shutter.
Les

On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 09:06  AM, Jim Hemenway wrote:

> Why not leave the lens shutter open and use the focal plane shutter
> instead?
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> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
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> philip lambert wrote:
>
>> Quite so and if the lensboard can be fitted the other way up you get 
>> drop
>> front. However on the 2x3 Century Graphic the lensboard is so small 
>> that no
>> useful offset is possible and the most I could do was to make a sunken
>> lensboard out of plywood that enabled me to recess the shutter 
>> slightly into
>> the board. The limiting factor was always the cable release socket 
>> becoming
>> inaccessible.  I think some small Super Angulons have an angled cable 
>> socket
>> for this reason. Or maybe that's the flash socket.   Philip
>>
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