[LargeFormat] How do you transport lenses in the field?

[Les Newcomer]

You can buy lens wraps from Calumet that will help cushion them,  You could
add two pieces of wood with slots to both sides of the tool box so the
lenses would be stationary.

> From: "Marco Milazzo" <mmilazz1@elp.rr.com>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:48:21 -0700
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Subject: [LargeFormat] How do you transport lenses in the field?
> 
> From the sublime (Michael's article on Aero Ektars) to the trivial, (a
> practical question):
> 
> I have four lenses and want to pack them all in my kit when I go out to
> photograph, but I don't have cases for them.  I attach them to lensboards,
> put on their caps and stick them in my $16.00 tool chest from Home Depot.
> Am I asking for trouble?
> 
> How do you carry lenses in the field -- attached to lensboards, in cases,
> with or without lenscaps, in some special gizmo, or how?
> 
> Marco
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Briggs" <MichaelBriggs@Earthlink.net>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:12 PM
> Subject: [LargeFormat] Re: Aero-Ektars
> 
> 
>> 
>> On 26-Jan-02 Clive Warren wrote:
>> 
>>> How are you getting on with your document on the old Aero Ektars? I
>>> threw up some photos of one in an Alphax shutter recently on the f32
>>> Discussion Forum.
>> 
>> I have posted some information on my webpage:
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~michaelbriggs/aeroektar/aeroektar.html
>> I update this about monthly as I have time or new information.
>> 
>> Could you (and anyone else on the list) send me the rim data (esp. the
> serial
>> number) from your Aero-Ektars?   I suggest sending rim data privately by
> email
>> so as not to bore the other list members.   I am trying to determine what
>> versions were made and an estimate of the production dates and volumes.
>> 
>> The photos of the Clive's lens in the Alphax shutter show a yellow dot on
> the
>> rim.  This is only the second yellow dot marking that I have seen.   As
> yet, I
>> don't know what it means.
>> 
>> The physics laboratory where I work is now being unpacked, so soon I
> should be
>> able to make better measurements of the radiation.
>> 
>> --Michael
>> 
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