HUGO MEYER RANGEFINDER INSTALL

Before you buy a camera, investigate why 4x5 B&J and Busch press cameras tend to sell for less than 4x5 Crown Graphics in comparable condition.Р”Р„nd remember my experience with Premo 12s. Similarly, if you can't find easily-found information for yourself you're going to have to put up with suggestions that you learn to feed yourself.Р”Р„lways remember that posts on public bulletin boards sometimes get responses that don't please. If you can't communicate clearly you're going to have to put up with queries and corrections. If you had meant a press camera you'd have written 'A Graphic. When you write 'A Graflex will or won't meet my needs,' the reasonable experienced person will understand you're talking about an SLR made by Graflex Inc.

Graflex Inc, predecessors, and successors made Graphic press cameras. Graflex Inc, and predecessors made Graflex SLRs. Graflex Inc., predecessors, and successors were companies or divisions of larger companies. GRAFLEX is a brand that manufactured a variety of cameras. What part of 'Why is the lack of a rotating back a deal-killer? Why not just put the camera on its side?' don't you understand? Rick 'who hasn't had time to pursue that project in a while' DenneyР”Вan, I don't know what you're talking about.

With a Graflex, you can mount several focus scales pretty easily, along with several sets of infinity stops. I will use 90, 127, and 8-1/2' lenses on this camera, and I'm happy scale-focusing or using the ground glass with the 90. I've looked at those cams and I don't fancy trying to fabricate one. I intend to adjust my Kalart for an 8-1/2' Ilex Paragon, for which there was no cam for the top RF even if one could be found. Then, sell the now non-RF Graflex to someone who is happy focusing with the ground glass. It's probably easier to buy two Pacemakers, one with the top RF and one with a Kalart, and move the Kalart, linkages, and focus track to the Top-RF model. I'm still looking for that follower, and the screws to attach it. You need the rangefinder, the right actuating arm (the Pacemaker-vintage arm was different than earlier arms), and the follower that attaches to the focus rail. I have not yet finished connecting up the Kalart, but the body of a Top-RF Pacemaker has all the necessary holes for the Kalart.

HUGO MEYER RANGEFINDER INSTALL

Given that the Graflex top rangefinder cams are hard to find, I have opted to install a Kalart on a top-RF Speed Graphic to support two lenses in the field. Remember that the British MPP Micropress of 1950/1 (basically a re-bodied Speed Graphic) had a top mounted range-finder long before the Graphics and MPP cameras used cams like the Linhof. You've missed Wray range-finders from your list though they are only found on a few British cameras.Р”Р‡or inter-changeable lenses you need a top mounted Speed/Crown graphic, a Super Graphic or Toyo 45a and possibly clones, a Linhof or an MPP. Once a new beam spitter mirrors added there's no reason why a range-finder won't have the same degree of adjustment as the day it was made.Р”В«ack to the OP's questions the Hugo Meyer range-finders are made for specific FL lenses there's no adjustments to re-set them for a different lens, you need a Kalart for that. The best is a pre-WWII model which I bought 10 days ago - 2 range finders for Р’Р€5 ($8), this is still bright & easy to use and quite surprisingly accurate, the downside is the scale is in feet the camera I'd want to use it with has a helical focus marked in meters. I've worked on a few range-finders before re-aligning & calibrating them and have 2 or 3 reasonably accurate external (hot shoe) ones. My experience is that some cameras come with a different FL lens to the cam, that was the case with my Crown Graphic, Hugo Meyer range0finder & 135mm Tessar, I swapped the cells to 150mm and an year later suddenly discovered the range-finder was accurate. The other two range-finders need looking at, someone had tinkered with the Super Graphic I knew that when I bought it cheap the other's just not fitted to a camera. Luckily a kind member of this forum passed on his spare half silvered mirror glass. You said wet blanket :D I half agree, I've 5 fixed range finders on LF cameras 3 work fine and are accurate but 2 of these 3 dimly, replacement beam splitter mirrors will help enormously. The mirror coating is likely to be gone or going so a new 50/50 mirror section is needed - this requires some skill to mount. Sellers are usually unable to judge the Kalart's (and probably the other's) condition and functioning. At $150 you can expect a light-tight camera etc. Sorry to be a wet blanket, but you cannot expect an elderly rangefinder to be in good order and capable of the adjustment range it had when it was new.

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