Surveyor 122 Camera with Wollensak 90mm f12.5 Raptar Extreme W.A. Lens
SKU: MAK0322/12371
Availability: 1
Unable to fully test or has no guarantee for future functionality
Slow shutter speeds are sluggish or sticking
It is not often you present a camera to us that we have trouble identifying, yet we have no idea exactly what this odd camera is. It is built from a solid metal body with a Wollensak 90mm f12.5 Raptar Extreme W.A. lens mounted on the front, without any ability for focus. The camera appears to originally used 122 film to make approximately 3.25x4 inch images. The negative mask has a Rousseau plate installed with surveying marks. The camera also sits atop a rotating panoramic head with leveling adjustments.
Weird? Yes! Usable? Mostly! While the camera seems to have originally used 122 film it does come with 3D-printed 122 to 120 adapters. HOWEVER these adapters are slightly too tall and once a 120 spool is connected they do not fit into the camera. Consider them to be demonstrative of the fact that you could get adapters for this camera to use 120 film relatively easily... or you can sand the included adapters down a tad.
Also, the shutter speeds on the Wollensak lens are sluggish at the slow speeds and the 1 and 1/2 second speeds are prone to sticking.
One final note: the tripod socket is a 1/2" socket, too big for standard still photography tripods. This camera was likely meant to mount atop a surveying tripod with a larger threaded connector.
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