Tan.: Process cameras. Was [LargeFormat] apo ronar
Jim Hemenway
largeformat@f32.net
Sat Feb 21 15:18:30 2004
Ron:
Begin looking around now! Some shops are still offering them free for
hauling them away. You might find that your father's pld company will
do the same.
Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
Ronald Schilling wrote:
> 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
>>