In a box in my parent’s basement I found this camera that I acquired a few years ago:
It was used to photograph readings from an oscilloscope using Polaroid film.
The unit swings open to reveal a large format lens and shutter fixed to a metal housing. Since I don’t have an oscilloscope worth photographing, I figured it was worth the effort to salvage the lens and shutter for a possible foray into large format photography. Everything came apart fairly easily with a flathead screw driver.
Everything that is, except the shutter assembly. Both the front and rear element of the lens screw off with no trouble at all, but I was hoping to get everything off at once.
The shutter seems to work well enough at the fast speeds, but the slower ones appear to be stuck. I wonder if the lens is worth taking back to Japan to possibly put on another shutter unit.
So it looks like I won’t be pricing an 8×10 camera anytime soon.
But one of the other cameras from that box will indeed be coming back to Tokyo, and simply needs new light seals to be ready to shoot with:
