Dirk,
My first thought is the sliding front panel design used by Deardorff.
Pictures on the Deardorff website show this somewhat:
http://deardorffcameras.0catch.com/ If you compare pictures of the 4X5
Special you can see there is a panel which carries the removable lensboard.
This panel can slide up or down within the frame of the front standard. The
front standard with bellows attached remains stationary while this panel can
be moved up or down. If you have 1/2" of depth to play with, there should be
room for two 1/4" (or a little thinner) thick aluminum sheets to fit. The
rear sheet fixed to the camera with a hole large enough for the lens rear
element to move up and down some. The front sheet carries the lens (or holds
the lensboard from another camera if you use the lens on another). Some sort
of frame from the back sheet to act as slides for the movable front sheet
and a way to lock the front sheet in position (Deardorff uses a single screw
in the front frame that pushes back against the sliding panel). Deardorff
also uses black velvet glued to the rear sheet to prevent light leaks. If
you used this concept, but made the sheets and frame round, you could have
side shift in addition to rise and fall. I think there was a modern wide
angle camera made like this, but I can't remember which one. I doubt you
need any sort of geared rise -just slide the panel up while watching the
ground glass and lock it where you want it.
Leonard
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Subject: [Cameramakers] Geared Rise??
> Hello all,
> I managed to get my hands on a working Hasselblad SWC without the lens and
> plan to build an interiors camera. The 45mm Rodenstock when fitted with
the
> helical needs 37.5 cm to focus properly, this gives me about a half an
inch
> for the rise mechanism, which is all I want, don't really need swing or
> shift. I'm thinking about a geared front standard from a 2x3 field or
> studio camera but it needs to be small. It has to remain a lightweight
> portable alternative to the Technika.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Dirk
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