johnnyh4
ANGULON FOLDER SPECIAL Mk.1 - Picture 1 of 2
Having got interested in landscape and architectural photography, I wanted a relatively inexpensive, easily pocketable, 6x9 MF camera.
For the first step, I was lucky enough to get a F/6.8 65mm Schneider-Kreuznach Angulon for a relatively low price because its host Synchro-Compur shutter had had the shutter elements stripped out; only the iris remained.
This was not a serious problem, as I have a Size 00 VARIO shutter that was designed for the Kershaw 630 (unused old spare stock of these - as well as those of the 450 - have turned up on ebay-uk). The VARIO speeds B 25 75 200 were sufficient for the range I was likely to need hand-held in daylight. The positions of the aperture markings were amended to suit the different focal length (65mm, instead of the 80mm of the Kershaw).
After some research on ebay, I got a 6x9 folder with rail pull-out lens standard.
A nice refinement on this body was that it had rack focussing, and the distance scale was under the focussing lever (rather than under a pointer at the position of the lens standard), so that this could be reused directly, with superimposed new markings, with the shorter focal length lens.
(The camera was by Voigtlander - I couldn't find a model name on it, but it looks like one of the INOS models - with an f6.3 Voigtar lens in an Embezet shutter.)
(I also had a late model Ensign Carbine which would also have been a possible basis for the modification, but as it weighs ~200gm (nearly 1/2 lb) more than the Voigtlander, it is more of a strain on the pocket to carry around, and I don't need the movements offered by its lens standard. However, as it turned out, its red-window cover would have been nice to have.).
(The original shutter/lens assembly and its retaining ring - nominally 32.5mm diameter thread - were stored away so that the camera would be restorable to original condition.)
By a stroke of good fortune, the dimensions of the shutter retaining ring interface with the bellows front plate (hole diameter 34.5mm) were compatible with that of a modern Size_00/Size_0 adaptor kit (available on ebay). So no metal-bashing was required, and the modification was cleanly reversible.
Coaxial location, of the shutter assembly in the lens standard, was ensured by a plastic plumber's washer, trimmed to 25mm internal diameter , 32.5mm external diameter. This 1.5mm thick washer was augmented with 0.4mm shim made from card.
(The adaptor kit also supplied a disc with a 25mm hole designed to be placed between the Size 00 shutter and the lens standard, but at 1mm thick, it left only a short length of thread for the retaining ring. Fortunately it was found to be not necessary to use this disc.)
ANGULON FOLDER SPECIAL Mk.1 - Picture 1 of 2
Having got interested in landscape and architectural photography, I wanted a relatively inexpensive, easily pocketable, 6x9 MF camera.
For the first step, I was lucky enough to get a F/6.8 65mm Schneider-Kreuznach Angulon for a relatively low price because its host Synchro-Compur shutter had had the shutter elements stripped out; only the iris remained.
This was not a serious problem, as I have a Size 00 VARIO shutter that was designed for the Kershaw 630 (unused old spare stock of these - as well as those of the 450 - have turned up on ebay-uk). The VARIO speeds B 25 75 200 were sufficient for the range I was likely to need hand-held in daylight. The positions of the aperture markings were amended to suit the different focal length (65mm, instead of the 80mm of the Kershaw).
After some research on ebay, I got a 6x9 folder with rail pull-out lens standard.
A nice refinement on this body was that it had rack focussing, and the distance scale was under the focussing lever (rather than under a pointer at the position of the lens standard), so that this could be reused directly, with superimposed new markings, with the shorter focal length lens.
(The camera was by Voigtlander - I couldn't find a model name on it, but it looks like one of the INOS models - with an f6.3 Voigtar lens in an Embezet shutter.)
(I also had a late model Ensign Carbine which would also have been a possible basis for the modification, but as it weighs ~200gm (nearly 1/2 lb) more than the Voigtlander, it is more of a strain on the pocket to carry around, and I don't need the movements offered by its lens standard. However, as it turned out, its red-window cover would have been nice to have.).
(The original shutter/lens assembly and its retaining ring - nominally 32.5mm diameter thread - were stored away so that the camera would be restorable to original condition.)
By a stroke of good fortune, the dimensions of the shutter retaining ring interface with the bellows front plate (hole diameter 34.5mm) were compatible with that of a modern Size_00/Size_0 adaptor kit (available on ebay). So no metal-bashing was required, and the modification was cleanly reversible.
Coaxial location, of the shutter assembly in the lens standard, was ensured by a plastic plumber's washer, trimmed to 25mm internal diameter , 32.5mm external diameter. This 1.5mm thick washer was augmented with 0.4mm shim made from card.
(The adaptor kit also supplied a disc with a 25mm hole designed to be placed between the Size 00 shutter and the lens standard, but at 1mm thick, it left only a short length of thread for the retaining ring. Fortunately it was found to be not necessary to use this disc.)