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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Josef_Meier on January 01, 2011, 07:49:31 am

Title: old Cambonar Caltar mot. IRIS anybody ?
Post by: Josef_Meier on January 01, 2011, 07:49:31 am

Hello,

I got 2 old Cambonar Mot Iris "monster" lens housings and am willing to hack them for my Cambo with DSLR on the back.

Has anyone already done so ?

Or has anyone some more lying around with or without glas ?

Need to get more for a usefull setup.

They are rather old and were sold together with digital backs from Megavision

Title: Re: old Cambonar Caltar mot. IRIS anybody ?
Post by: GregShapps on January 01, 2011, 06:32:44 pm

I have 3 or 4 of these left siting in a box.   I've opened them up and number of times and monkeyed with them a few times - even caused a couple to smoke and pop after loading them too much.   I was able to get them to rotate back and forth but that was just one end to the other based on polarity.

I have always been interested in making these useful for something which is why I never tossed them out.

Title: Re: old Cambonar Caltar mot. IRIS anybody ?
Post by: Peter Devos on January 02, 2011, 06:24:32 am

I had one with a 60mm apo componon HM inside that still had it's original aperture and could be used as a normal lens. My 90mm macro i mounted in a copal 0 shutter and works just fine.

Title: Re: old Cambonar Caltar mot. IRIS anybody ?
Post by: Blueray on January 24, 2011, 05:57:45 pm

Hello Josef,
I`m from Germany and I have 3 Schneider Motor Iris for you. Please contact me with PM.

Best regards,
daniel