camera tripod

[dallen]

I was given this tripod by a friend that figured I could fix it. it is one of those really heavy ones like the news guy's get to pack around. Anyway it had one leg with a broken hinge and was missing the camera shoe (plate that goes on the camera that locks into the tripod)

So I got a friend with the ability to weld aluminum to weld the leg hinge back together.

weld is bright shiny spot.


Then I made a new shoe. the screw that holds the camera on, I threaded it then cut the 1/4" of thread that are up against the head off so that once you screw it thru the plate it can't fall out and get lost.


top side of the shoe, covered it with some 1/8" thick red rubber I had laying around.


If I had enough stuff, I could anodize it.

In all I think I made out pretty good on the thing, got it for free and didn't have to pay anything to fix it.
DA

[TomG]

Good find dallen! That's a Bogen tripod and they are rock solid. I used to have one for my view camera, but replaced it with a lighter Leitz model.

Tom

[PixMan]

I also have a Manfrotto (sold as Bogen here in the US) tripod, mine is a #3030A. That one is probably a #3052. The stock hex plates are relatively cheap, so I would probably buy one rather than make it.

Tom, what view camera do you have? I have an old 4x5 Burke & James press camera with two lenses. One is a Schneider Angulon 90/6.8 in Synchro-Compur P shutter, the other a Wollensak 135/4.5. I haven't used it since I disassembled my fully equipped 10x16 darkroom. I had a Beseler 23XL and Omega D2XL enlargers on drop-table benches I made myself, and a 28" x 84" stainless steel sink I made. It was really well equipped to do everything from 20x24 archival black & white prints to 16x20 Cibachrome color prints and 20x24 C prints. I do miss it every now and then.

[EdK]

(10-30-2013, 06:29 PM)PixMan Wrote: I also have a Manfrotto (sold as Bogen here in the US) tripod, mine is a #3030A. That one is probably a #3052. The stock hex plates are relatively cheap, so I would probably buy one rather than make it.

Tom, what view camera do you have? I have an old 4x5 Burke & James press camera with two lenses. One is a Schneider Angulon 90/6.8 in Synchro-Compur P shutter, the other a Wollensak 135/4.5. I haven't used it since I disassembled my fully equipped 10x16 darkroom. I had a Beseler 23XL and Omega D2XL enlargers on drop-table benches I made myself, and a 28" x 84" stainless steel sink I made. It was really well equipped to do everything from 20x24 archival black & white prints to 16x20 Cibachrome color prints and 20x24 C prints. I do miss it every now and then.

Ken,

You have some really nice photography equipment. I use to have a Beseler 23XL also. That had to have been back in the 80's. Ah yes, fond memories.

Ed

[PixMan]

I used to have a LOT more. Most of it's gone now Ed. All the darkroom stuff (Jobo CPP-2, Ilford CAP40 processors, electric motor-driven print dryer, Nikon El-Nikkor 50/2.8, Schneider Componon-S 80/5/.6, Schneider Componon 135/5.6, multiple sizes of Nikor SS developing tanks and reels for 35mm and 120, top of the line Saunders 11x14 and 20x24 4-blade easels, Thomas Duplex sodium safelight and so much more. I sold it all about 10 years ago when it still retained some value.

My film cameras are also all gone. Nikon F4S, N8008, Mamiya RB67, C330F, and M645, multiple lenses from 20/3.5AIS to 300/2.8 AF-I. I'm left with an old D200, AF18-35 3.5/4.5 zoom, AF50/1.4, Micro-Nikkor AF60/2.8, AF85/1.8 and AF70-200/2.8. And I rarely use them. :(

[TomG]

I actually have a functioning darkroom still set up, but I haven't used it in several years. It's turned into more of a storage area now. There is a 50's vintage 23C with a motorized head that I use for the 4X5 and a 23C II with a color head that my son uses on occasion. The stainless sink still gets used quite a bit, just not for washing prints. The view camera is a 4X5 Graphic View with an assortment of Schneider lenses.

Tom