1860's thru 1870's? Most likely used landscape lenses. Long focus doublets. Euryscope comes to mind.
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1860's thru 1870's? Most likely used landscape lenses. Long focus doublets. Euryscope comes to mind.
This glass is mounted in a Compound shutter? If so, S.K.Grimes has or makes flange mounts or "nuts" for Compound shutters. Until then, you can use one of the epoxy repair kits you can find in any...
Clumsy Graphlex shutters? What is clumsy about it? It works, and what is more important these days, they work with no attention for at least fifty years. I've owned five Speed Graphics, and one...
I don't know if Kodak has released the formulas for Plus-X and Verchrome, or Verichrome Pan. I heard somewhere they have published them, because they consider film to be a dead issue. Hard to...
My grand-daughter is only four, but she says she wants to be my tripod helper when she gets to be "a big girl". She thinks a big girl is about six or so.
With a Speed Graphic, I've gotten some good pics at 1/10th second. But I'd rather use 1/25th. If you can not get a sharp picture at 1/25th, something is wrong with your technique.
I had massive trouble getting back on this site until lately. I'm not that smart anyway. Probably 90% of what I know about film sensitivity is in that post. I'm an amateur photographer of 70 years...
Now that's how a tray developed negative is supposed to print! Text-book example.
Amen, brother, Amen!
If the Wollensak is the one on the left, sign me up. The picture on the left is art. The one on the right is what we wanted for newspaper pics.
I prefer the Annaversary model. Many more combinations of FP speeds, simpler lensboard, no body release problems. I like non-synch lenses, operated by an external solenoid. Operates off the flash...
Film is no problem, just cut it down from 8X10. I use Kodak Carestream backed single sided x-ray film, cut down to fit my 5X7. It is an ortho film, so much easier to handle in the darkroom.
FWIW, I cut down 8X10 Kodak Carestream Ortho x-ray film for my 5X7. $80.00 for one hundred sheets. I get two 5X7's per sheet. Should work for whole plate, except you will likely get only one film...
JUST an achromatic doublet? At the time, that lens was preferred for landscape work. Read the catalogs of the day. They were all raving about these as landscape lenses. The first photog that I...
Demise? Scovill merged with H.T. Anthony, to become Anthony-Scovill, later shortened to Ansco. Ansco was around a long time.
On the film aquisition problem, maybe I can help you. I buy Kodak Carestream film in 8X10, which I cut down to 5X7, usually. I also use it in 8X10, occasionally. It is an ortho chromatic film,...
Thanks for posting the link. Mighty interesting conversation.
The flash problem was solved eons ago by newspaper photographers. A Heiland, Kalart or Graphic flash gun mounted on the right side of the camera, with the reflector mounted above and to the right of...
I like the Anniversary Speeders best. Much more flexible FP speed vs slit combos. I actually prefer early ones that have external synchronisers hanging on the lensboard. The synchro is triggered...
I loved my Ansco Commercial view. Very rigid. 5X7. As my grandfather taught me, "4X5's look fine in a photo album, but if you want to hang a picture on a wall, 5X7 is the boss". My grandfather...
Great idea. Especially because I don't have to write it. The problem of the OP is a shortage of FP flash bulbs. FP flash bulbs hold their output for a much longer time than front shutter bulbs do....
I had a Speed Graphic with this lens in a dial-set Compur shutter. Mine was so sharp it was harsh. Shutter is one of the top three.
Probably 90% of my LF work is done on 5X7. But I use the 8X10 Rochester Commercial View occasionally. I have two lenses for it. One is a Russian version of a Zeiss which is too heavy for my...
Interesting. I must have been mighty lucky as I've had four different Unicum shutters, and they all timed close enough to make good pictures. The beauty of a pnuematically controlled shutter is...
Now I know why I buy Wollensak Raptors! They don't get no love, so I buy 'em. Hasn't got anything to do with that "Wollensak Glow", of course. Just a cheap lens. And you guys lay off of 'em. ...
I've wondered if that would work! Thanks for the confirmation.
I wondered if that would work! Thanks for telling us it does.
On 8X10, a Gundlak triple convertable 12,21 28 inch
on 5x7, a Wallensak Velostigmat 8 inch
on 4X5, a Kodak Anastigmat f6.3 7 inch
I like Arista 100. Fp-4 is different than Arista 100, but very nice for certain other subjects, in my experience. I don't use Pan film much anymore since the death of Agfa APX 100. My main film...
I guess I must be the oldest, most backward guy on here. For 70 years, I've only used two different developers more than once. Rodinal and D-72. I've bought several different light meters, but...
Ektascan is orthochromatic film. The blue films used to be called "regular" by some manufacturers...blue film is the opposite of ortho film, or panchro film in that it is mono-chromatic, although...
I would expose two extra frames, and develop by inspection. Under a red lamp. That way you will learn if your developer concentration is useful to you. When I try a new to me film, I adjust the...
I don't know what certain school that would be. But for the Ortho film school (X-ray film is one) it is a very good process to start with. With Pan film, it is much more difficult to do.
That's an interesting statement. I thought every photographer knew ortho films speed changes with sun angle and latitude. Yes, the film is faster at the 50th latitude then at the 45th latitude. ...
I found the electric release even more usefull than the flash gun. I only use flash sometimes, but the electric release all the time.
Oops, I meant D-76 has too much hydro-quinol. So just add a little hydro-quinol to D-23. Or try reducing developer temperature.
For me, the problem with D-76 is too much Metol. I would just try adding a little Metol to D-23. D-23 has a fantastic tonal range. I wouldn't want to give up that tonal range to get an easier...
A little bit of hydro-quinol will stretch out your development. Metol alone is a slow, very much nothing, then suddenly, bingo developer. That is why they developed a M-Q developer.
If I didn't say that Ektascan BR/A is the only Orthchromatic film on the market with an anti-halation backing that I know of - - I should have.