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Anyone know about the FDK 18x24?
On 10/15/2010 9:02 PM, Cheesehead wrote:
Are these the same as 8x10? Th epics don't show a ground glass back. Do they have one? These are designed use glass plate film, not sheet film. I own one and converted it to use standard 8X10 sheet film holders. http://atlantaracing.tripod.com/FKD8X10 Honestly, the build quality of these isn't that great. I ended up replacing even the screws they were such poor quality. I'd never seen badly made wood screws before! Also almost every glue joint had to be redone as the glue had dried up and cracked. Not sure what kinda glue they used. Typical ex-soviet build quality. The bellows was still in good shape which was a bonus and I later adapted a packard shutter into the front standard so I could use barrel lenses like is came with. It comes with a multicoated 300 f4.5 tessar clone of decent quality so that is a bonus. All that said, not sure it was worth the effort rebuilding it to make it usable but was a fun project. But to answer your question, it does have a ground glass but you can't use sheet film in the holders and they are an oddball size. So even if you tried to make use of the supplied holders, if it comes with any, you'd have to cut film to fit in them, put a spacer behind the film, figure out how to make it stay in place etc. Steph |
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