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  Sunday  December 9  2007    01: 43 AM

hunka hunka burning glass

Don's lens arrived and it is a beauty. That's a picture of another Schneider Apo-Symmar 210/5.6. Don's is currently mounted on a Cambo lens board but otherwise it looks the same. I made a new lens board for it to fit my Burke & James Press. I'm waiting for some lens spanners to arrive to undo the retaining ring and remount it. This is the first modern view camera lens I've had to use. It's a sharp one. I just hope Don doesn't need it back for a while. On the antique camera front I have the Graflex 4x5 SLR almost ready to go. I had planned on replacing the mirror thinking it was a very dirty front surface mirror. I took off the ground glass to get at the mirror then went running to Google to see how best to remove it. It was then I discovered what I should have noticed - it's not a front surface mirror. So I cleaned the mirror glass and ground glass up and it's ready to go. There is still a little schmutz left on the lens, a Carl Zeiss Jenna Tessar 210/3.5, around the edges. I need to clean it with some cold cream and it will be ready to load film. I'm running out of excuses to not take pictures. (On a 4x5 camera a 210mm lens is equivalent to a 59mm lens on a 35mm camera.)