Gunlach camera!

["George S. Pearl" <alps007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,
 I have one of those 8 x 10 "field cameras" . Mine has a triple conversion
lens on it. You can get telephoto, wide angle or normal focal lengths all
out of the same lens! I still get a kick out of it, but don't use it much.
George Pearl
Atlanta, Ga.

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From: James Romeo <jromeo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 12:01 AM
Subject: FW: shift


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> From: jromeo@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: kathjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: shift
> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 23:58:29 -0500
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> Jeff   This makes sense You put it well. I think in this talk some of us
misinterperted the other. A frind of mine has put togather a camera using a
Brooks with a 6x12 back he mounted off center  he than can reverse the back
for a great shift.                                         Is my fixed 135
Noblex like the 120 up?  Talking about shift I have a old 8X10 wide angle
camera made by Korona it has a shift of 4 inches. up or down. The were
called skyscraper's . I use Gundlach Rader extreme WA f16 lens on it. Its
older than I and I am in my later 60's. The lens covers for most of the
large shift. I have made some of my best platinum's from negs from it. Take
care James
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> From: kathjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: jromeo@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: shift
> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:31:05 -0800
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> James
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> The Noblex 150 (120 film) has a fixed lens that has about a 2-3 mm up
> shift that cannot be adjusted on the basic camera.  Therefore you always
> get more sky than foreground.  By inverting the camera, that 2-3mm shift
> is now down.
> You cannot compensate for that with the level camera on a tripod no
> matter how far you lower it.
> The same is true of the Roundshot 35/35S.  It has a 3mm shift upwards
> (Fixed).  I have used the Bogen horizontal arm to invert the camera, so
> when I'm up on a mountain top, I want the camera to be completely level,
> but looking down.
> I have shot the Noblex and Roundshot from the top of the Golden Gate
> Bridge towers.  The 35/35S Roundshot had to be inverted, so the 3mm
> shift was looking down.  I have some examples of shots with the camera
> inverted and right side up.  Its an extreme difference.  A difference
> that could not be made by raising or lowering the tripod, wether its
> five inches off the ground or 5 feet off the ground.
> I'm now using the Super 35 Roundshot with shift and wedge, so I no
> longer need to invert the camera.
> Jeff
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