Tan.: Process cameras. Was [LargeFormat] apo ronar

[Ronald Schilling]

My dad had a process camera. A Brown, if I recall correctly. He used it 
for making printed circuit board artworks and other drafting and copying 
work (1967 through 1994). My earliest memories of photography are of 
placing Kodalith Ortho film on the vacuum back in the little room with 
the red safelight and the smell of rapid fixer. I was about six or 
seven. Later, I worked with him and learned how to use the camera for 
enlarging and reducing. There was a book with settings to crank the 
lensboard and copyboard to. He also had some color separation filters 
(red and blue) but we didn't use them all that much.

When he sold his equipment to the company he went to work for, the 
camera went to. Dad works somewhere else now, so I guess the camera is 
just wasting away in storage somewhere. If I had the money and room, I'd 
buy it back in a heartbeat. I guess there aren't too many people who've 
grown up with a process camera.

Ron

Joseph O'Neil wrote:
> Hi everyway;
>     I picked up an60mm apo-ronar yesterday - I litterally tore apart the 
> process camera by hand - sad to see these things going away - give it 
> ten years, nobody will remember what they looked like.  :(
> 
>     Lens is in excellent shape, and i still harbour dreams of jumping 
> from 4x5 to 8x10, so I jumped at the chance for the lens.  No shutter of 
> course (anybody got a spare Ilex #5?  :), but can anone tell me how to 
> date a lens form the serial number for Rodestock?  I know how to for 
> Kodak and I have the list for Schneider, but not Rodenstock.  The serial 
> number on this one is 10231544.
> 
>     On a bit of a tangent, is anyone else sad to see these process 
> cameras bign shut down everywhere?  I mean, i fully understand business 
> wise it is happening,a nd every time a local one shuts down and I hear 
> aobut it, my lenses collection grows - for example, I have a wonderful 
> red dot artar 8.24" I use all the time with splended results.  I even 
> get used ot focusing at F9, becuase i backpack a lot and th elens is 
> small and light.
> 
>     But still, I thkk all the technique and technology and even the art 
> of using these process cameras will sooon be a hting of the past, 
> something just sad about that.
> joe
> 
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