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Re: [OM] Focusing stage question

Subject: Re: [OM] Focusing stage question
From: Jim Couch <JamesBCouch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 20:30:05 -0700
If no one else answers you tonight I will check for you tomorrow. My
focusing stage/rail set is at the shop and I am at home. Based on memory I
don't think it will work, it seems like the stage is a bit higher, but I
will double check and confirm this information for you.

Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> What's the height of the camera base plate above the focusing rail when
> the camera is mounted on the focusing stage?
>
> Reason for the question:  I'd like to use my Vivitar 90mm f/2.5 macro
> with 1:1 adapter to make slide copies.  Since no bellows extension is
> desirable, the arrangement with the 90mm Vivitar and 1:1 adapter would
> seem to want the bellows removed from the focusing rail and the camera
> installed on the focusing stage. I have a bellows and slide copier but
> no focusing stage.  The question is; when the camera is on the focusing
> stage, does the center of the lens line up with the center of the slide
> copier as it does when using the bellows?
>
> When the camera is attached to the bellows the base plate is 24-25mm
> above the focusing rail (depending on the body).  For the focusing rail
> to bring the camera vertically in position relative to the slide copier
> the focusing stage would have to position the camera at the same height
> above the focusing rail.
>
> Will it work?  Anybody got a focusing stage for sale?
>
> Chuck Norcutt
> Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
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