mounting a compur series 3 in front of 28mm f2.8 Elmarit-M Asph

[geotrupede]

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Hi all,

looking for some digital / analogue multi exposure with an M11.

After considering a number of options I settled in having a shutter for large format in front of a leica lens.

I would like to use the 28mm.

SO now, the challenge is how to fix the shutter to the lens, or better, to the camera body.

One of the options is to use a lens board and then modify and mount an L profile to fit to the tripod socket. Is that the way?

Alternatively I was looking at some filter threaded rings and hoping to go from 39mm to something that connects to the shutter (and live with vignetting)

Does anyone have any experience to share or some advice for such a thing?

Thank you!

G>

 

Edited July 29, 2024 by geotrupede

[Jean-Michel]

Hey!

Why bother with all of this

After all, This is the Age of Digital.

Let the sunshine (exposure 1)

Let the sunshine in (exposure 2)

The sunshine in (exposure 3)

Let the sunshine in (exposure 4)

Let the sunshine in (exposure 5)

When the files are in Photoshop (When the moon is in the Seventh House)
And Layer one aligns with Layer five (And Jupiter aligns with Mars)
The Layers will guide the images (Then peace will guide the planets)
And your Mouse will adjust the borders (And love will steer the stars)

This is the, well-past, dawning of the Age of Digital (This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius)
Age of Digital Age of Aquarius
Digital Aquarius
Digital Aquarius

 

With thanks to the Fifth Dimension

[geotrupede]

You are totally right, in the age of digital one wonders with to bother...

I guess I could also use an iphone with the latest app for the same purpose 😉 

And going to the extreme, why not asking AI to make a picture altogether? 

BUT

this is not what I wish to do, so for once, is there anyone with some ideas

G.

PS in the meantime I am going to try a step up / step down rings approach but the FOV will be clamped making more of a 35 (hoping) setup than a 28.

[geotrupede]

ok to the world out there, the solution was a step up ring from the lens filter thread to 62mm

works perfectly, there is of course a smaller FOV so corners good bye and 35mm is really so so

a 50 would be better but happy like this

G.

 

[geotrupede]

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[Jean-Michel]

Hi,

Well done. I see, from your image, that you have some project in mind, have fun working on it. 

[CP93]

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No criticism, just unsure what you’re looking to do with this?

[pippy]

13 minutes ago, CP93 said:

No criticism, just unsure what you’re looking to do with this?

I have been wondering the same thing but were I to make a guess - (possibly madly off-track?) - I would say that having re-read this bit in the OP;

On 7/29/2024 at 9:51 PM, geotrupede said:

...looking for some digital / analogue multi exposure with an M11...

Using the maximum 'B' setting on the M11 and the Compur Shutter (no optics involved) in front of the lens it will be possible to make several exposures - panning through the intended picture area if desired - using the short shutter-speeds of the Compur to create an image which is a montage of several different shutter actuations.

I'm sure there must be more to the OP's plan than that but it's just a thought for starters..

Philip.

[Jean-Michel]

The OP seems to have some multiple exposures projects in mind and his or her's solution will definitely work. With an M11, the maximum length of exposure is 60 minutes, so that should give him or her plenty of time to make whatever number of desires exposures on a single frame.  I do not know how much additional noise may be created if the length of the 'camera exposure' goes into minutes. It will be an interesting experiment and perhaps make for very interesting works.

Quite a few people have made multiple exposure body of works in the past, for example: — in camera by Harry Callahan, or in the darkroom by Jerry Uelsmann  — worth seeing their works.

As a student in the late 1960s I tried the in-camera technique for some assignments. At the time the equipment I used, a Mamiyaflex, allowed for the shutter to be cocked without advancing the film. I later, still a student, did a two exposures project with my first Leica, an M4. For that project I exposed some objects in studio of entire rolls, rewound, and re-loaded and taken on walks for the second exposures. It was interesting but it sure was not that worthy, I gave up on that idea.

[pippy]

It would have been very useful for the OP to have added some additional information to this - possibly interesting - thread.

Bye.