Mamiya RB67 Film Winding Issue

[Big Mike]

I'm keeping the cords.

[TPF Sponsor]

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I'm keeping the cords.

You'll have no use for them with the RB67...

Unless you just want an extra USB cord for your webcam or something...

[christian.rudman]

A USB cable release gerry-rigging!

[Big Mike]

Are there any digital backs that would fit? I might need cords for that.

[christian.rudman]

Actually, I do believe reading that the RB67 doesn't have the ability to support digital backs, being that there are no electronics in the camera. Might wanna double check on that. Picking up mine in an hour, super-stoked!

[Paul Ron]

Oh yes there are digital backs for the RBs, they just cost as much as a nice car.

but with such a nice camera, why spoil it?

I was once thiinking about adapting a scanner over the back of a LF camera before digital hit the market and maybe even making an adaptor for my RB. Think it can be done?

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[Big Mike]

Actually, I do believe reading that the RB67 doesn't have the ability to support digital backs, being that there are no electronics in the camera. Might wanna double check on that. Picking up mine in an hour, super-stoked!

No reason it shouldn't work....you're just swapping out the film back for a digital back.

Oh yes there are digital backs for the RBs, they just cost as much as a nice car.

That's what I thought.

I was once thiinking about adapting a scanner over the back of a LF camera before digital hit the market and maybe even making an adaptor for my RB. Think it can be done?

I've read about a few scanners turned into cameras. If I'm not mistaken, that was actually how the digital camera was invented...so to speak.

[Paul Ron]

A friend of mine did scans of flowers on his scanner back in the day when scanners just started coming on the streets. He built a 4 sided rim about 2" high that sat on the glass bed. The flower sat on the glass then he covered the scanner with black material that served as the background for the flower. They were amazingly sharp and came out really beautiful in the prints. That is what gave me the diea to just place the scanner over the back of a View camera but never got around to try it.

Now these days with lap top PCs, hooking a USB powered scanner in the field would be no problem for landscapes n satic situations.

The question I have is do you think it will need a plane to focus on like a ground glass, or will the scanner be able to scan the projected image directly without anything before it? (of course the image was pre focused to the same plane as the scanner bed as if it were film)

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