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Kodak Super XX

When you get right down to it, I guess I miss the choices in film and paper.

Having used Graf Variable lenses, I have no noticeable barrel distortion regardless of the amount of softness or focal length.

Dave

Go to a football game! Learn the Eskimos fight song.

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Alas, I know of no N.E. Ohio source for alternative photographic process chemicals. You might find some of the more conventional bulk chemicals at Dodds Camera professional store on Carnegie in...

Just come to Cleveland and I will give you an 8X10 Elwood!
I'm tired of decorating it for Christmas.

Dave

Thanks, Steven, I'll keep trying.

Dave

Over a year ago, I tried to find information on pre-revolution Russian portrait lenses and hit a brick wall...or was that the Kremlin?

Dave

Density is a function of exposure; contrast is a function of development.

That's as simple as I can make it.

Dave

I've been reading with interest about the emerging films from Middle and Eastern Europe.

Does anybody know if any of these films are a match for the thick emulsion, characteristic curve of Kodak...

Mark me as definitely interested.

Dave

Hear! Hear!

Dave

Whenever I see a book of photographs that interests me, I buy it. I'll occasionally buy a technical book to augment my technical library.

Dave

Contrast = development
Density = exposure

That's about it.

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I never bought a new 8X10 or 11X14 lens in my life.
Early on, I read Weston's Daybooks. If he could do that with an old (even when he bought it) RR, I'd struggle with what I could find used.

Dave

I would not go to 120 as a 'transition' to 4X5.
If 4X5 is your objective, begin there. Make your mistakes there where you can learn from them. Learn how to tray develop your film...Fred Picker is a...

Yes, Steven, my Graf is the 16-18".

David

Gee...am I the only Graf Variable lover? I have two. One for my 4X5 Graflex and one for my Century portrait.

Inflation aside, believe it or not, Chauncey, they became even cheaper! By the mid-1970's when used camera shows were abundant and frequent, the old portrait lenses and large format lenses in general...

Gee, as a Ham, KD8VI, I should know about etching circuit boards. Must have been late.

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Check 'photomechanical reproduction'. Photoengraving, photolithography and gravure all do what you're mentioning.
From what I recall ( I used to work for a newspaper ) all of them required an acid...

I wish I could give you an answer regarding lenses as an investment. I bought most of my lenses back in the 1960's and 1970's. 'Doorstops' they were called and priced accordingly. I bought them...

Rear shutter on the Crown?
I think you have Crown and Speed mixed up.

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No!

Any chance the sheet was only partially under the holder's guide rail?

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Regardless, place the Zone you insist on.

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I've used a flatbed B&J 8x!0 since the mid-'70's and it's always done the job. Along the way, I picked up a 4X5 graflock back and a 5X7 back; so it's quite versatile. I've found it very stable and...

Welcome from another Clevelander. Need an 8X10 Elwood?

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This is the sort of question which can get one quickly wrapped around an axle. By that I mean there is no answer to the question. Better? A great deal depends on the eye of the beholder.
Taylor,...

I have two Graf Variables. One for 4x5, one for 8x10 bought long before the prices went crazy. My favourite lenses.

According to a 1920's Burke and James catalog, the 8x10 lens went for nearly...

Take the time, learn to load them, switch to stainless steel. You'll feel better for it.

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One of the finest cameras ever made.
I've never used a 4X5 or quarter-plate that was as easy to hand hold.

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Sorry, but I have to jump in again. I have never met anyone other than a photographer who even knows that there is such a thing as 'format' Mention 'large format' to a client and you'll get the blank...

Sheet film: large format
Roll film: medium format
Weird ribbon film with holes on the edges: mini format

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Does the location you'll be going to lend itself to processing conventional b&w film? If it does, I'd like to suggest cyanotypes. It would certainly be 'hands on' and would produce a gift unlikely to...

I look upon digital imaging/files as Orwellean 'Memory Holes'. I have B&W negatives of my family which go back a hundred years.
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Just a thought; but are you sure they're fixed sufficiently?

Mine came in yesterday's post...Cleveland.

Tri-X in D-7

The post asks the question about 'use'.

I have two Graf Variables, one for 4X5 and one for 8X10. I've been using them for better than twenty years and find them amazingly versatile.
If they fall...

The Chicago South Shore electric interurban has it's terminal in South Bend. Might be interesting to you.