Re: 220VR NOTICE! IMPORTANT!

[Bill Glickman <bglick@xxxxxxxx>]

George

        Can you tell us how you adjusted the viewing screen?  What criteria
did you use?  Was this a mechanical adjustment you made or the factory made?

Bill G


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Glickman" <bglick@xxxxxxxx>
To: <panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: 220VR NOTICE! IMPORTANT!


> Fabulous post... I will call you George, so we can discuss this...
>
> I would think the ground glass would always be positioned at the exact
same
> distance as the film is placed from the lens... so in theory, the film and
> the grain side of the gg would be seeing the exact same image?   Thats the
> way it works on LF cameras?
>
> Thank you for sharing....  It stops us all from trying to reinvent the
> wheel!
>
> Regards
> Bill
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George S. Pearl" <alps007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 10:43 AM
> Subject: 220VR NOTICE! IMPORTANT!
>
>
> > Dear Bill & all 220VR users....
> >     let me share with you something that happened to me with my new
220VR
> > camera which sounds very similar to what you guys are yacking about! The
> > problem of sharpness from that camera is maybe not your lens at all, but
> > YOUR VIEWFINDER! It seems that Werner simply looks through the
viewfinder
> > and sets it to his own eyesight. So, unless you have the same vision as
> > Werner, you will need to adjust your viewfinder screen to be sharp with
> your
> > own eyes (not Werner's eyes).
> >    I wasted lots of film and time shooting and testing LENSES until I
> > figured out that it wasn't the lens that was the problem. After my
> adjusting
> > the viewing screen correctly, it was a whole new ball game! So there!
> > My best
> > George S. Pearl, BCQDE, BCEP, FEPIC, QPP
> > ALPS - Evidence & Photo
> > 2139 Liddell Drive, NE
> > Atlanta, GA 30324-4132
> >
> > Tel: 404/872-2577
> > National: 1-800-USE-ALPS
> > Fax: 404/872-0548
> > Home: 404/634-1139
> > Cell: 404/771-9121
> > ALPS Website: "http://www.ALPSLABS.com"
> > Atlanta Panorama is a division of ALPS...
> > "http://www.AtlantaPanorama.com"
> >
> >
> >
> > 4.  The test images I shot all appear soft on film.  I was a
disappointed
> > > > with the image quality.  It did not come close to what a MF camera
can
> > > > produce.  Do other people experience this also?  I was told by a few
> > users
> > > > that rotational cameras are not that sharp for the obvious reasons.
> Mr.
> > > > Seitz said a MF lens will never be as sharp on a rotational camera
vs.
> a
> > > > still camera?  I am wondering how much worse the image really gets.
> > Does
> > > > using smaller slits help?  Any input on this would be helpful...  I
> was
> > > > planning on big enlargements, and now am doubting the possibility of
> > doing
> > > > such
> >
>