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Nice to see other lovers of obselescent formats come out of the closet! I'm curious to know if those of you buying repackaged FP4 know how its shelf life compares with the stuff with the Ilford name...

I use the HC Combi Plan tank for 4x5, and although our film and developer combination is not the same, I don't see why the logic wouldn't be. When I asked a Kodak technician the same question ...

What type of camera are you using? Ron Wisner makes a compelling argument in an article on his website for placing the Fresnel, ridges towards the inside of the camera, against the smooth side of...

Provia too, bless them!

Oops, a bad sign post. That's graflex.org!

A follow-up, in case others pass this way...

Thanks to Tom for the tip on Bill Maxwell, a kind and smart man who briefly had me ready to replace all the focusing screens on all my cameras with...

I quite agree this is not a subject that can be adequately covered here, but particularly want to echo the point that, according to today's conservation standards (which are changing all the time)...

It'll work, but Azo's slower. You may want to open up!

Someone mentioned a while back the use of Heliars by Kodak for enlargement. I have an 18cm (f4.5) uncoated Voigtlander Heliar screw mounted (no flange) into a small (2 1/2") metal board that I'm ...

I've been hunting for a replacement Fresnel lens for the 4x5 Graflock back on my Deardorff, but can't seem to turn one up. Furthermore, I'm told that only one f rom another Graflock back will fit. I...

I find these lines at the end of Jack Gilbert's poem, "Poetry is a Kind of Lying":

Degas said he didn't paint what he saw, but what would enable them to see the thing he had.

Seems to me much of the preceding, with which I naturally agree, really takes up the question of the relative worth of images by photographers as disparate as Adams and Kertesz--who happened to...

An upside is less bellows flare. Apart from weight, I don't see any.

Haven't used it myself, but I understood a few years ago (from Patrick Alt, who made a lovely camera at this size) that Ilford was coating at least one of their b&w films in 4x10, though I haven't ...

I suspect the collectors and dealers who benefit most from this system would hate the idea of numbering prints from each session. Without detailed knowledge of a photographer's work, who's to say...

Now, if you're really serious about the business of editioning, it seems to me you have to be willing to "cancel" the negative at the end of the run (unless, of course, you're holding out for...

A while back someone asked for directions to Ken Hough's Deardorff website. Here it is: http://deardorffcameras.0catch.com/

He's prominently quoted on Ron Wisner's website praising his Wisner. He's still at it, by the way, unless I've missed some bad news.

Thanks for the tip, Bjorn. If anyone knows where I can find one of these, it would really make my month.

I hate to get in the way of a good idea, especially one that has me wondering whether your low volume is the film or the short wave (or was it that slow-motion phonograph)! But for developing 4x5...

Sounds like a resounding chorus of praise for the Durst, but just in case you hadn't noticed, Calumet has a slightly used Zone VI 5x7 enlarger head on their website currently. Sorry, I can't recall...

Probably not an issue on top-notch contemporary lenses like the ones you've mentioned, I agree, but those of us using some of the many fine older lenses out there wouldn't want to go too long...

Devoted as I am to my Deardorff, I've admired the Ikeda 5 x 7 I periodically see on eBay. Of the contemporary Japanese wood fields, it's the only one I'm aware of in this size, and often not...

Patrick Alt in L.A. works on Deardorffs, as Ken Hough does in the Midwest. Either could do better than a cobbler, is my hunch. Best,

SL