Is the museum about the same as when Samy and I visited the other year? That was such a neat place.
leighton w wrote: GeorgeBo wrote:
From trash to treasure.
Restoration of the Pacemaker Speed Graphic and tripod I was given is complete. When I got it, it was corroded, mildew, spiderwebs you name it.
I tore the camera down to just about bare metal and cleaned, lubed, glued, painted and crossed fingers. I think it came out very well. It is fully functional. There are still some adjustment I need to do on the rangefinder to align the overlay image horizontally but it matches up with the ground glass focus just fine. I thought about going with a black leather dye but decided to just use saddle soap and polish and let the natural patina show through from years of use and abuse.
Same with the tripod. Disassemble and clean and replaced a few missing screws. I did replace the worn out brown felt that was on the base plate with black felt. Just because my wife had some
The vinyl hand strap on the camera was shot and I want to get a leather one made for it. In the meantime I put a dovetail mount and handle I had in my parts box. Sort of like it.
The first shot was with the Nikkor H·C 75mm f/2.8 mounted with my homemade lens plate to the Cambo Actus. Used the movements of that body to get a single shot without having to focus stack. About 4 degrees of down tilt
The two behind the scenes shots were with the Nikkor 45P
And don't make fun of my light on the right side. It works
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Really really good job. Looks brand new.
I was in the camera museum here in Staunton one day and asked the owner if he could only shoot with one camera that he had there, he said it would be the Speed Graphic.
Yes, the same place. You probably saw some old Spedd Graphics in there. But I can assure you, they didn't look like yours!
