Re: [Largeformat] 100mm WF Ektar

[Douglas Cooper <douglas@metaversalstudios.com>]

At 06:43 PM 9/12/00 -0700, you wrote:
>. I remove the rear cell(if its larger than 1.5"dia), put the
>shutter in from the front,thread the lock ring down, adjust the board
>until the lock ring drops into the hole (not through it!), then tighten
>it up with a lens wrench if i can find it. Thread the rear element back
>on, and voy la!


That's sort of what I figured out.  Problem is, the extruding portion of 
the flange is longer than the lens board is thick, so the flange required a 
spacer to hold the shutter tight against the board.  I used a rubber washer 
-- only thing I could find with a 1.5" hole -- between the flat part of the 
flange and the back of the lens board.  Tightened down well; I suppose 
rubber's as good as anything...

By the way, got my first images back.  Most worked out well, in terms of 
perspective control and focus.  The exposures were a bit wonky -- not 
surprising, given that I haven't tested these shutters.  Worst thing was a 
bit of a double image on some, which I suspect was caused by my tripod 
blowing a bit in the wind.  I was in New Orleans this weekend, and I didn't 
feel like dragging my heavy Bogen, so I took the lighter one.  And for some 
peculiar reason almost all of these pictures were shot in a strong wind, 
both in New York and New Orleans.

That first shot -- the one taken immediately after being hit in the head 
with a lens -- looks very much like a Manhattan landscape shot by a guy who 
was just hit in the head by a lens.


Douglas Cooper