According to the Grimes website, the largest board listed is 171mm - 6.7" (Arca Swiss).
Some of you folks use really massive cameras, so the question:
? What's the largest board you use (or have used)?
Thanks
Reinhold
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According to the Grimes website, the largest board listed is 171mm - 6.7" (Arca Swiss).
Some of you folks use really massive cameras, so the question:
? What's the largest board you use (or have used)?
Thanks
Reinhold
My Burke & James uses 5 3/8 boards. It's a 5x7. That's the biggest I have right now. Since I'm getting back to shooting, though, I can't say that it'll be the biggest I'll have in a year from now. :D
This image is probably here somewhere, but I can't remember. Here it is with the 300mm Tessar-type:
Attachment 58980
I have kodak studio cameras that use a 9" board which seems quite common (relatively speaking) but one lens that I bought came on a 10" board so bigger things are lurking out there.
My 8x10 uses a 9" board as well.
Century studio cameras use 9 inch lens boards, and deardorff studios use 8 inches.
My Agfa Ansco uses a 7.5 inch lensboard.
10" square boards on my 20x24" Chamonix
Probably not necessary to comment, but also 9inch board on my century master 8x10.
8" round corner boards for my deardorff studio camera and my other 11x14 cameras--noname and homebuilt--I standardized on that board size for the larger lenses. Are you going to offer lensboard manufacture now--I know the 6" round corner one you made for the 500mm meniscus I bought was quality goods.....hard to find non-screwed up or non-worn 8" rc boards these days
I have a whopper lens on the drawing board and need some idea of the market potential for it.
Lensboard size is one of the parameters that I need to take into consideration.
So far, it looks like the 171mm (6.7") Arca-Swiss is the smallest size I can fit without modification to the lens mount.
I'm hoping I can come up with an special adaptation to fit the 158mm (6.22") Toyo/Cambo/Omega size board.
żż Am I going into lensboard manufacture??. Not really. I make lensboards to support my Meniscus lens sales, but that's about the extent of it. The Grimes site lists a bazillion different boards, it's too easy to bump into "incompatabilities" with all those variations.
Reinhold
