what camera is this

[Lostlabours]

Bruce, I have a few Kodak Professional catalogues with the camera in, I think I've scanned all the adverts so you can have copies. I remember sending files to someone in CAnada with a Clinical camera last year.

Kodak UK made these cameras for a few years, theey always sold them with the 203mm f7.7 dialyte lens, initially an uncoated Kodak Anastigmat, which was renamed an Ektar when coated. My experience with dialytes is they are quite low contrast when un-coated due to the 8 air/glass surfaces 6 of which are internal). It's the only LF lens Kodak made in the UK.

Ian

[Brock]

Originally Posted by Lostlabours

Bruce, I have a few Kodak Professional catalogues with the camera in, I think I've scanned all the adverts so you can have copies. I remember sending files to someone in CAnada with a Clinical camera last year.

Kodak UK made these cameras for a few years, theey always sold them with the 203mm f7.7 dialyte lens, initially an uncoated Kodak Anastigmat, which was renamed an Ektar when coated. My experience with dialytes is they are quite low contrast when un-coated due to the 8 air/glass surfaces 6 of which are internal). It's the only LF lens Kodak made in the UK.

Ian

I'd be interested in seeing the catalogues if it's not too much trouble Ian. I'll maybe put up a Kodak Specialist page on my website as it seems to come up first when you do a search for the camera. It makes sense to pull the information I have into one post.

[Phil]

Originally Posted by Lostlabours

Bruce, the downside to the British made 203mm f7.7 Ektars is they are usually in an Epsilon or Prontor SVS shutter neither of which has a preview function. Very late ones were in a Comur (last version of the shutter) but they seem quite rare.

I had one in an Epsilon but acquired a second in a Rontor SVS in a job lot of shutters - 3 for £20, it's in mint condition. I let the first go when I sold a monorail camerabut acquired another in a stick shutter (quickly fixed) last year, this one is a rare late US version in a Compur #1 so has a preview lever. Usually US versions are in old Supermatic shutters.

You'll need to test the 90mm f6.8 Angulon, some are excellent others, usually early ones SN below 5,000,000, can be quite variable in quality. They just cover 5x4 with no room for movements. At f22 they are capable of excellent results.

Both lenses are in my light-weight LF kit that I use in Turkey/Greece and the image quality is on a par bwith my modern lenses.


IAn

Float like a butterfly . . buzz like a Prontor-SVS - no sound quite like it . . . when they're sticky, just keep cocking and firing and they come back to life.
The Mount 370 Ektar is a fantastic lens and seems just about as sharp wide open as stopped down, and the 90 Angulon as you say can be an excellent lens too when stopped down - I've still got mine and still use them. They take up little or no room.