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Alignment method and arrangement for use with a view camera

  • US 4,733,257 A
  • Filed: 05/13/1987
  • Issued: 03/22/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/13/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An alignment arrangement for use with a view camera assembly having a lens standard for containing a lensboard which carries the camera'"'"'s lens and defines the camera'"'"'s lens plane, a film standard in spaced-apart confronting relationship with said lens standard and configured to receive a film holder containing film, a camera housing connected with and extending between said lens and film standards, and means for supporting the lens standard, film standard and camera housing such that the standards can be adjustably moved with respect to one another to maintain a confronting, parallel relationship, said alignment arrangement comprising:

  • (a) a first mirror member having a mirror body including a mirrored surface, said first mirror member being configured to fit within said film standard in lieu of a film holder so that said mirrored surface faces said lens standard;

    (b) a second mirror member having a mirror body including a mirrored surface and a view hole through said mirror body and mirrored surface, said second mirror member being adapted to replace temporarily said lens and its lensboard within said lens standard so that said second mirrored surface faces said film standard and first mirrored surface and so that the mirrored surfaces can be viewed through said view hole from outside said lens standard; and

    (c) indicia on at least one of said mirrored surfaces such that, when said mirrored surfaces are viewed through said view hole from outside said lens standard, said indicia will take only one of many different forms if the two mirrored surfaces are parallel, whereby the lens and film standards can be adjusted to provide said one form in another to insure that the lens plane of the camera is parallel with the camera film.

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