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Thanks for your advice on this one Paul.

Its interesting, the supposed seller has not had any feedback for around a year.

Barry

I have regularly attended over the last ten years. However the show now has nothing of interest to me. If anyone does not have a free ticket and would like to avoid the £6 entrance fee, just pm me with your address. It does have my name on it but you don't have to display it. It will cost you £8 to ...

Thanks Paul and all the very best to you and all for the coming year.

Barry

David,

Joanna's offer sounds like a good idea. The lens does cover 5x7 but ONLY at 1:1.


Barry

David, I suspect that there are others here who are more knowledgeable and will give you more acurate answers to your questions? However I believe all of your assumptions are correct At 1:1 a non -telephoto lens requires a bellows draw of twice the focal length. For a 1:1 image, this will also be th...

The Nikkor macro lens is the 120mm f5.6 AM*ED. As Andrew said, B&H in New York had a 'special' on them a while back. Unfortunately they were all sold some time ago, but they do come up from time to time on the auction site.

Barry

Welcome Paul.

I guess you are near Burnham Beeches? Great for the Autumn colours.

Barry

David, New lenses are fitted with a very small screw in the back of the shutter to stop the lens from turning on the lens board. A small hole has to be drilled in the lens board to locate this screw head. Unfortunately most people throw the screw away as it is usually easy to tightened the lens reta...

And a Happy New Year to you Frankie, and of course all others here.

Barry

North wales or Cornwall sound good to me.

Barry

Welcome Bob,

You must be getting great pleasure seeing the images you have created with your own handmade camera? There is at least one other person here who makes camera's. Now to get the processing right!

Have fun

Barry

As I understand it, Retro are 'Photoimpex' in the UK. For that reason Photoimpex Germany will not generally supply UK orders. They refer you to Retro. This is a real pain on two fronts... 1. Retro's stock is only a sub-set of Photoimpex. Mirko at Photoimpex suggests you ask Retro for any non-stocked...

Welcome Chris,

You won't look back!

Have fun

Barry

For shutters and maybe lenses try...

http://www.flutotscamerarepair.com/


They are in the USA but...

I have a UK based colleague who says they do a superb job. He has had no problems getting a quick turn around back to the UK.

Barry

Joanna Carter wrote: Consider it sold please

You beat me to it Joanna



Barry