Tan.: Process cameras. Was [LargeFormat] apo ronar

[Jim Hemenway]

Ron:

Begin looking around now! Some shops are still offering them free for 
hauling them away.  You might find that your father's pld company will 
do the same.

Jim - http://www.hemenway.com




Ronald Schilling wrote:

> My dad had a process camera. A Brown, if I recall correctly. He used it 
> for making printed circuit board artworks and other drafting and copying 
> work (1967 through 1994). My earliest memories of photography are of 
> placing Kodalith Ortho film on the vacuum back in the little room with 
> the red safelight and the smell of rapid fixer. I was about six or 
> seven. Later, I worked with him and learned how to use the camera for 
> enlarging and reducing. There was a book with settings to crank the 
> lensboard and copyboard to. He also had some color separation filters 
> (red and blue) but we didn't use them all that much.
> 
> When he sold his equipment to the company he went to work for, the 
> camera went to. Dad works somewhere else now, so I guess the camera is 
> just wasting away in storage somewhere. If I had the money and room, I'd 
> buy it back in a heartbeat. I guess there aren't too many people who've 
> grown up with a process camera.
> 
> Ron
> 
> Joseph O'Neil wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyway;
>>     I picked up an60mm apo-ronar yesterday - I litterally tore apart 
>> the process camera by hand - sad to see these things going away - give 
>> it ten years, nobody will remember what they looked like.  :(
>>
>>     Lens is in excellent shape, and i still harbour dreams of jumping 
>> from 4x5 to 8x10, so I jumped at the chance for the lens.  No shutter 
>> of course (anybody got a spare Ilex #5?  :), but can anone tell me how 
>> to date a lens form the serial number for Rodestock?  I know how to 
>> for Kodak and I have the list for Schneider, but not Rodenstock.  The 
>> serial number on this one is 10231544.
>>
>>     On a bit of a tangent, is anyone else sad to see these process 
>> cameras bign shut down everywhere?  I mean, i fully understand 
>> business wise it is happening,a nd every time a local one shuts down 
>> and I hear aobut it, my lenses collection grows - for example, I have 
>> a wonderful red dot artar 8.24" I use all the time with splended 
>> results.  I even get used ot focusing at F9, becuase i backpack a lot 
>> and th elens is small and light.
>>
>>     But still, I thkk all the technique and technology and even the 
>> art of using these process cameras will sooon be a hting of the past, 
>> something just sad about that.
>> joe
>>