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 Originally Posted by jp498
When you get whatever you're going to use together, go the rehearsal and try some stuff.
NO, NO, NO.
Get a working kit together ASAP and shoot Yesterday. Waiting until a couple of days before the Wedding is cutting it wayyy too close. You need to make sure that everything will work prior to the day and just try to get replacements or deal with mechanical issues at the last minute is a really bad idea. Lens/shutters found on the auction site will generally need CLA or tune-up and that can take time or buy from a photographer who has actually used the equipment. Some of this stuff is really old and will have issues such as flash synch not working.
Dave
"She's always out making pictures, She's always out making scenes.
She's always out the window, When it comes to making Dreams.
It's all mixed up, It's all mixed up, It's all mixed up."
From It's All Mixed Up by The Cars
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If you need to work on the Rangefinder: You can go to Graflex.org and do a search for "beam splitter" or "beamsplitter" or "Rangefinder Repair".
Source for beam splitter material: http://www.scientificsonline.com/mir...msplitter.html
Dave
"She's always out making pictures, She's always out making scenes.
She's always out the window, When it comes to making Dreams.
It's all mixed up, It's all mixed up, It's all mixed up."
From It's All Mixed Up by The Cars
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Originally Posted by mopar_guy
NO, NO, NO.
Get a working kit together ASAP and shoot Yesterday. Waiting until a couple of days before the Wedding is cutting it wayyy too close. You need to make sure that everything will work prior to the day and just try to get replacements or deal with mechanical issues at the last minute is a really bad idea. Lens/shutters found on the auction site will generally need CLA or tune-up and that can take time or buy from a photographer who has actually used the equipment. Some of this stuff is really old and will have issues such as flash synch not working.
No disagreement there. I should have been more specific about trying techniques and compositions rather than equipment when I said stuff.
I'd shoot all iso 400-ish B&W. It's got the detail for everything and will allow you some shots you wouldn't get due to motion blur. Iso 25-100 will be pretty useless except for landscape; it could work for group photos with lots of detail if everyone knows to be still if you're looking to not have to buy new film.
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Originally Posted by mopar_guy
Yes, I found the instructions last night and this morning I found this very link doing my own detective sleuthing. (Google, haahah) I have me one of those on the way to my mailbox however, I do not trust myself to cut it down to size. The size needed is 10x20 mm. The blank is 50x50 mm. So I'm going to look around town for a glass person who will do a small job like take that 50x50 blank and give me 12 pieces of 10x20 out of it, then I will be able to repair 11 more rangefinders! 
All my shooters: Zero Image 4x5, Crown Graphic 4x5, Linhof Technika 4x5, Cambo SC 4x5, Korona 4x5, Voigtlander Avus 9x12, Mamiya RB67 Pro S, Bronica ETRS, Kodak Tourist, Voigtlander Avus 6x9, Voigtlander Vitessa, Canon A1, Zeiss Ikon Contessa... and now my new Fuji GA645 point and shooter which receives most of my focus, ha ha!
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I just finished fixing my rangefinder. Works very well, so well in fact that I can focus on contrasting things, indoors without much light.
Awesomeness! I'm stoked!
Still need to find a lens though. Wouldn't it be nice, to get my hands on a 135mm Xenotar f3.5!
Does anyone know what 135mm lens is the fastest 4x5 lens?
All my shooters: Zero Image 4x5, Crown Graphic 4x5, Linhof Technika 4x5, Cambo SC 4x5, Korona 4x5, Voigtlander Avus 9x12, Mamiya RB67 Pro S, Bronica ETRS, Kodak Tourist, Voigtlander Avus 6x9, Voigtlander Vitessa, Canon A1, Zeiss Ikon Contessa... and now my new Fuji GA645 point and shooter which receives most of my focus, ha ha!
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You could use the 210 if you found a cam. The viewfinder isn't an issue, use the wire finder. It's automatically compensating (neat, that).
I highly recommend pushing a film that you're comfortable with. It's 4x5, you're not going to have much more grain grain for all practical purposes.
"Hit 'em with a Speed Graphic"
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
— Dorothea Lange
"Film is to digital as a symphony orchestra is to a kazoo" - Brian C. Miller
http://www.flickr.com/photos/easmithv/
RIP Kodachrome
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I think somebody really needs to do a Holga/Lomo wedding.
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Originally Posted by keithwms
I think somebody really needs to do a Holga/Lomo wedding.
Whatcha waitin' for?
Mark Barendt, Ignacio, CO
My aspiration of late is to become more Bohemian; "a person with artistic or intellectual tendencies, who lives and acts with no regard for conventional rules of behavior."
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Imagine, you arrange the ceremony on a beach and give everybody a holga and let 'em go to town. One spectacular orgy of unpretentious analogue photography. The anti-wedding.
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I've thought about disposables along the same lines.
Mark Barendt, Ignacio, CO
My aspiration of late is to become more Bohemian; "a person with artistic or intellectual tendencies, who lives and acts with no regard for conventional rules of behavior."
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