[LargeFormat] Shutterless lens usage

[Jim Brick]

At 05:55 PM 10/20/2003 -0400, Vincent Dobson wrote:

>Jim,
>
>How do hey keep from jarring the camera with so many re-cockings of the
>shutter.  Is there a special lens?
>
>
>Vince Dobson


Any camera, properly locked down (tripod head locks, view camera rise, 
fall, swing, tilt, focus, etc, all locked down) will always settle back to 
the exact same place (although I have some doubts about some of the old 
sloppy wooden field cameras!) This is why double exposures are possible 
with nearly all cameras (some shutters cannot be re-cocked, however).

When you cock the shutter, you let things settle before making another 
exposure.

Jim