Re: Lens question please_Gundlach, Turner-Reich series II No. 1

"AAvK" <notforspam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> some snipping of my stuff here...
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>>     I suspect this is a later version of the Regno than 
>> the one I was looking at. The publication this is in is 
>> dated 1917. The Optimo was another shutter also made by 
>> Wollensak. Older versions have a cocking lever at top 
>> right but later ones have a push-button and a matching 
>> button for tripping. This sounds similar.
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> It exactly does.
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>>     The hole near the tripping button is probably for a 
>> fitting for a cable release. The later version probably 
>> no longer has the air cylinder for an air release.
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> Okay, but there are no threads there.
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    The fitting may be missing. On most shutters the cable 
release socket is a separate part held in with a nut or clip 
or some other way. I've had to make****ft sockets for a 
couple of Ilex shutters were they were missing.


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Richard Knoppow
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