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    Re: Loooooong exposures (at night)

    If, as in my example, the subject is not at infinity, then focusing exactly is just as important at night as any time. In this instance, I waded out and put a flashlight on a rock. Shining a light or...
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    Re: Loooooong exposures (at night)

    I developed a simple spreadsheet with column A a list of shutter speeds at iso 3200 & f/4. the next column shows an equivalent shutter speed at iso 100 & f/11. So at 3200 and f/4 you can find the...
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    Re: retired Epson 4000 for b&w?

    Kirk,

    In reading over the Cone site, it looks like you have to decide before hand which b&w tone and surface you want. Ain't cheap either. Don't know how much longer my aged 4000 will last. It...
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    retired Epson 4000 for b&w?

    I have just now retired my Epson 4000. It has an over heating problem which is not worth fixing. (I replaced it with a 4900 the price for which just dropped about
    one-third.)

    I have many years'...
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    Re: Making Panoramas using Lens Shifts

    I have done that with a Technikardan which, due to the way it folds up, has perhaps more shift than many cameras and its bellows is accommodating as well. But I have never seen any advantage to...
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    Re: Mono Lake Area early November

    Gil,

    All my favorite places have been mentioned (e.g., Navy Beach, Lundy Creek), but one obvious and one less visited are the Forest Service Visitors' Center and the Mono County park on the...
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    Pencils for signing photographs

    The thread about pens is useful and it raises this question: For signing a surface other than matte, what pencil works for you? I have tried a Stabilo Aquarellable 8008, but it is only fair. It's...
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    Re: Northern California

    Viewpoint Photographic Arts Center was mostly LF in the beginning and still is to a large extent. But we don't discriminate!

    https://www.viewpointgallery.org/

    Always two shows in our galleries...
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    Re: What's in your 4x5 Lens kit?

    If I am hiking: XL110, Fujinon 150 maybe, M200, M300, C450

    Rolling case: XL90. Fujinon 150, Schneider 210, M300, M450
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    Re: What 4x5 camera for long lenses?

    No one has mentioned the Technikardan probably because it is not too light. But it is sturdy and will use a 450mm (especially the Fujinon) well. Mine was in the USD2000's but now there way too...
  11. Vista 64 bit and CS4 and color management

    This is a question about Vista 64 bit and CS4 and color management. I scan 4x5 film and sometimes end up with up to, or even bigger than, 1 GB files. Obviously that needs as much memory as possible....
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    Re: insurance

    It seems the prior posts cover every thing, but I'll offer this summary. I used to be involved in homeowners' insurance years ago and have been a policy holder all along too.

    Except the groups...
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    Re: Humbling Experiences

    This observation is more along the lines of great(?) minds thinking alike. Many times making landscapes I have set up my camera on a worthy scene and then noticed trampled vegetation all around...
  14. Re: How good is Silverfast's printer profiling

    On my Epson 4000 I was trying to use some of the new papers like Moab Colorado Satine, but with Moab's profiles, but there was a strong color cast.

    I already had Silverfast to run my scanner so I...
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    Re: Why NotGalvin 2 X 3 meets DSLR

    Gustavo, as to your original post: I love your camera and I have wondered about the same question and your solution. Galvins are rather rare these days I assume and of course Jim Galvin is gone and...
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    Re: Best Road into Chaco Canyon

    Ed,

    My RV is a Itasca Navion (a Winnebago by another name) and it gets 15 to 20 miles/gal of diesel. Sprinter-based class B RVs can do somewhat better than that. There is plenty of headroom but I...
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    Re: Focusing / metering bellows

    That is a gadget to replace the dark cloth. It has two loupes, one 2x permanently attached and another 2x which screws into it for focusing.

    The link describes one for a small Linhof and there is...
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    Re: Best Road into Chaco Canyon

    Thanks Kirk
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    Best Road into Chaco Canyon

    It has been years since I have been to Chaco Canyon, Then I came in from US 550 in an rental RV and remember a washboard road that was not too bad. I just checked the NP website for Chaco and,...
  20. Re: Scheimpflug Rule when near is higher than far

    can I use front tilt, except tilting the front standard backwards?

    Yes absolutely! That seems to be solultion here.
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    Re: just purcahsed a wisner technical 4x5 ?

    I had that camera years ago and I remember it would not focus at infinity with my Fujinon 90mm in place and with the standards neutral. I had to tilt the front standard back (from the base) and then...
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    Re: Moonrise Hernandez 2007

    It is a little-known fact that Moonrise Hernandez was Ansel's lover in the early 40's. Sadly, she died not long ago and is buried in that very cemetery. Notice the extra headstone on the far left?
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    Re: HP5, PMK reciprocity

    It has been years since I have used PMK and HP5 but when I did, I could go from -3 to +4 (or at least +3 1/2. For -3 my exposure compensation was + 2 stops. Time in trays was 5.5 minutes.
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    Re: New Weston film

    What college is that? Times have changed since I was in an art department in the 70's. one could only distinguish the students from the faculty by slightly different states of undress. The Age of...
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    Misremembered Trail

    About six years ago I thought I hiked to Cape Flattery on the Makah reservation but was unable to bring my view camera. I remember seeing the boardwalks, the rocky headlands and one or more examples...
  26. Re: Schneider SA 90mm XL removable rear flange? Serial Numbers ->

    Mine has the removable rear flange and its number is 14790xxx. So that is a bit lower number then the prior post

    By the way I had SK Grimes make a rear lens cap so that I would not need to replace...
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    Re: Fine control over tilt and swing

    The detents on a Technikardan are cylinder-in-a-hole sort of things rather than the more typical trapped-ball bearing-in-a-socket. So you're either in or out of the detent, there is no in between in...
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    Re: Time Savers in the Field

    My tripod legs are covered with tables of information such as the 1) maximum rise without vignetting for each lens (if I end up inside the maximum, there is no need to check vignetting visually); 2)...
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    Superior Archival Materials, Inc.

    Does anyone know the status of Superior Archival Materials, Inc? It is (or has been and I hope, continues to be) an excellent source of Bainbridge Artcare mount board. But their voice mail says...
  30. Stitching scans of ULF negatives. Advice?

    It would seem that stitching parts of what was one piece of film is light work for any software. After all, the usual chore faced by a panorama program is to find, recognize and stitch edges of...
  31. Do you cut your own mats or order precut mats?

    Evidently what I do is a compromise: I buy precut standard size boards such as 16x20, 20x24 and 22x28 and then cut matts from them with a Logan Compact mattt cutter that is about 20 years old....
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    Technikardan "bag" compendium shade

    If you look at Tim's B&H photo you'll see four screws which hold the back of the frame together. There are the same screws in the front. On two of my hoods, several of these screws (including the...
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    Technikardan "bag" compendium shade

    My 2¢: bar changing is a pain; the piece that attaches to the shoe comes loose and falls off; the screws that hold it together are wood screws seated in plastic and fall out; (the first one I had had...
  34. Silverfast SE vs. Full ...and again the Epson 4990

    David,

    Does the Silverfast SE version allow making a profile of the scanner? Does the native Epson driver? Do either allow for the Silverfast multisampling option?

    I think the answer is no for...
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    4x5 camera lens

    Start with this one, i.e., http://www.largeformatphotography.info/

    and there's http://www.thalmann.com/largeformat/
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    Joseph Holmes Ekta Space P5

    Kirk,

    I use Ekta Space P5 as a working color space but not as a scanning profile. For scanning, I use a profile made with the profile-creating capabilities of Silverfast which uses a target...
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    international photo festival listing

    There was an article within the last 12 months in either View Camera or Camera Arts which would help you find some of them.
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    Icon for lfphoto.info: finalists

    1 too
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    Arca Swiss C1 Cube

    OK I admit if someone gave me one I'd sleep with it under my pillow just because its so fine. But until then I'll just tap my camera mounted on a AS B1 a few times in each axis.
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    Arca Swiss C1 Cube

    I played with one at the VC magazine hoedown in Monterey a few years ago. It's fine machine work like any Arca Swiss piece but only a rich person with an obsessive-compulsive disorder would buy one...
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