May I make a suggestion that some LF users may find useful? Instead of a loupe I use off-the-shelf reading spectacles, the strongest I can find (usually +3.5 diopter but you can get +4.00) with all...
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May I make a suggestion that some LF users may find useful? Instead of a loupe I use off-the-shelf reading spectacles, the strongest I can find (usually +3.5 diopter but you can get +4.00) with all...
A quick update. Using the info from the the large format forum, I have e-mailed Polaroid about the current problem with type 55 and got this reply back very quickly. I quote:
"Dear Mr. Hamilton
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I've just opened a box of February 2005 dated film and that has the V-notch problem on the first two sheets. I wonder when this batch was made? Is it as long ago as 2003 - which is when the problems...
If you need a good independent Linhof repair person in Britain, Bill Orford is very good.
One cheap and cheerful, but surprising good quality alternative route is to make paper negatives from an enlarged positive print. Single weight paper (if you can find any) is best, but I have had...
I have also found this clearing problem with both recent but old-style boxes of 55PN, and the new ones too. My solution is to agitate the film vigorously in sodium sulfite, leave it a few hours in...
The best source I can recommend is SRB in Luton, England. They provided me with a nice and cheap push-on fit adapter for my Ektar 203 7.7 that takes the 52mm filters and shades which I tend to use...
Good to see the LF forum back in a more user-friendly form. Congratulations, Tuan, and keep up the good work. LF seems to be under some threat at the moment, though personally I am convinced that it...
See my answer on the 240mm enlarger lens thread - but I too have a couple of these (150 and 210, both f9) and they are really very sharp - despite a rather cloudy look to the glass. The 210 seems...
I too have a Repromaster 210mm f9 (given to me by a friend and it too came from an Agfa process system of the early 1970s). It works fine on my De Vere 5108, and seems to cover 10x8 without a...