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    Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums

    This book arrived today. If you are a Carleton Watkins fanboy this is a must have. The prints are about 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 which means they are reduced to about 2/3s the size of the original prints. It's...
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    Poll: Re: Wanderlust 4x5 P&S

    "I'd like a show of hands please on anyone who is making a profitable income on any product with a web site alone.... that's without the benefit of tons of effort on other means of reaching the...
  3. Re: 5x7 film holder bag- zipper nylon heavy duty

    How many film holders can you get in a bag?
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    I need help on Cambo shift

    I just picked up this Cambo 45SR. The gear for the shift doesn't seem to work. It just spins in place and doesn't engage the rack. It's like this on both standards. It's been sitting for some time....
  5. Re: How to straighten bunged-up threads on an old lens?

    The best, and safest way, is to send it to S.K. Grimes.
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    Re: How'd they used to do it?

    Weegee had a darkroom and office in the trunk of his car. Shoot at night and get everything in to the newspaper for the morning edition.
  7. Help! What are these tube thingys on my Eastman No. 2?

    There are these 4 tube like clips on my Eastman No. 2. What do they do? They are an after market thing. There are grooves at each end of the tube on all 4 of them. Is there some reason to put them...
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    Re: Another 8x10 Eastman View No. 2 project

    Michael,

    Thanks for the zip lock bag tip!
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    Re: Another 8x10 Eastman View No. 2 project

    Bit by bit the Eastman No. 2 is being refinished. Formby's Furniture Refinisher applied with 0000 steel wool and finished with 2 coats of Minwax Tung Oil Finish for the wood. I played around with...
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    Re: Shooting with bargains

    Alan -- This is the first time I've seen any one else with a 10" Elgeet. I have one of these. I just mounted it on my 4x5. It came on a Burke & James 5x7 Commercial View I traded for $17 worth of...
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    Re: Another 8x10 Eastman View No. 2 project

    Progress has been slow on this. Reality keeps getting in the way. I cleaned the Velostigmat as much as I could and it's now on the way to S.K. Grimes for a CLA and a repair of the dented and frozen...
  12. Re: Quest for Information on V54 lamp for Aristo D-2 cold light

    Good luck, Vernon!
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    Re: Another 8x10 Eastman View No. 2 project

    Mark - I have been following your thread on the Velostigmat. I didn't realize that is what came with my camera. I was stoked when I found out.

    ic-racer - I will be looking to buy a bellows. I...
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    Another 8x10 Eastman View No. 2 project

    So I was telling my friend Don, a retired photographer, about my new 1869 Voigtlander Petzval. (I bought the Petzval from Saint Eddie of the Wet Plate.) While I was going on about this beautiful old...
  15. Re: Your Opinion on Traditional Color Printing

    Speaking of Joel Meyerowitz, Mark Hobson had a chance to chat with Joel at a recent opening. Joel's comments on how he views his chromagenic prints versus his digitally printed prints is very...
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    Re: post your urban landscapes

    Nice. I lived in LA in the mid 1980s. I wanted to do a series called "The rivers and streams of LA" but life got in the way. Those concrete drainage ditches have so many photographic posibilites....
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    Re: Digital Velostigmat 12"

    I plan on doing this with a Panasonic G1 mounted on a lens board on the back of a Toyo View D45M and use the shift and rise on the rear standard to move the G1 for stitching. It limits camera...
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    Re: Where to get sync adapters?

    I go directly to ParamountCords.
  19. Re: yet another way to mount a Packard shutter

    Len - It doesn't take much thickness if you have a snug fit. I like the idea of a pop rivet. I was using a sawed off cotter pin. The instant return isn't working consistently yet. I need to take some...
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    Re: Making a foam lens pouch

    Capocheny,

    The thing is some people have to do photography on a very small budget. I've collected 8 lenses for my large format kit which includes a Burke & James Press and a Burke & James 5x7...
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    Making a foam lens pouch

    After mounting a bunch of lenses on lens boards I needed to protect them. I had a couple of lens wraps but they seemed pretty wimpy. So I grabbed some foam and gaffer's tape and had at it: Lens...
  22. yet another way to mount a Packard shutter

    I just mounted a barrel lens in a lensboard which meant I had to mount my Packard shutter on it. Here is a Flickr set on how I did it: Mounting a Packard shutter.
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    Re: Making lensboards

    Well, maybe it wasn't quite a god fit. I may have been exaggerating. :-) I've reduced the level of fit back to only a good fit.
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    Making lensboards

    I've been making a bunch of lensboards for a Burke & James Press that I recently acquired. I thought I would share some tips. They are in a Flickr set: Making lensboards.
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    Re: Lovely Website But...

    I don't have time to go through a treasure hunt to find the links and I hate it when the links go away and it then it also becomes a memory test because I'm over 60 and have no short term memory and...
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    Re: Kodak Updates Portra Films

    OH, NO! Another reason I switched to Portra was that I wanted to start shooting 5x7 color. I eagerly await word from Kodak.
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    Re: Kodak Updates Portra Films

    OH, NO! Not transparencies!?

    I'm a negative kind of guy, which is not a reflection on whether I'm optomistic or not. I was using Fuji NPL and then it went away with the new Fuji film. I switched...
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    Re: Kodak Updates Portra Films

    Now neither has tungsten film. That sucks.
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    Re: Your "walk around" camera

    Leica IIIc with a Jupiter 12 35/2.8 or the Zorki 3M with a Jupiter 8 50/2 or maybe the Ricoh Diacord.
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    Re: Walker Evans Exibit (digitally)

    The FSA pictures are all online and the more popular ones are high resolution scans. Check out Walker Evans. Print your own.
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    Re: a low budget view camera

    The ones without shutters are all process lenses. I plan on shooting color and black and white. The process lenses should do just fine with color. The Schneider was pulled out of an Agfa Repromaster...
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    budget lenses for a budget view camera

    I just finished adding to my assortment of budget lenses (see the picture for all of them) with a 90mm Series IIIA EX.W.A. f/12.5 Wollensak. I had read a claim that it covered 5x7 and, with a quick...
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    Re: Book of Frank Hurley's Photos

    I recommend: The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander. According to Alexander, Hurley did follow orders. He was to select a number of the glass plates. They...
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    Re: Your "walk around" camera

    Mostly it's a Leica IIIc with a collapsible Industar-50. It usually has Fuji Superia Xtra 400 color film in it.
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    Re: Advantages of 5x7 over 4x5 - flexability?

    Can 13x18 film be used in 5x7 film holders?
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    Re: a low budget view camera

    Jim -- I'm glad to be of some use here. :) Now, tell me more about this 5" rollfilm. It can be cut up into 4" or 7" lengths? Is it a thinner film stock? Will it work in cut film holders? Enquiring...
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    I checked back and it was actually $17.15 worth...

    I checked back and it was actually $17.15 worth of film but I had shipping on top of that which probably doubled it. :) It was more than a stroke of good luck. It was more like a severe blow of good...
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    The next part was not planned for but I will take...

    The next part was not planned for but I will take credit for it. I had envisioned removing the wing nuts and angles to remove the back for rotating. It turns out that I can just loosen the wing nut...
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    modifying a low budget view camera

    One problem I've been having is with the back attachment system. It uses a spring with a slot in it that receives pins in the back. Trying to get the pins in the new back to line up has been a pain....
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    a low budget view camera

    I would like to introduce myself. I'm just getting back into large format after a 25 year hiatus. This is my Burke & James Commercial View. I traded $17.50 worth of film for it. It came with a 10"...
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