I support the motion, and I think there is a lot to be criticised about all those consumer's dreams. Cameras are tools, worthwhile pictures take dedication and concentration, and are more about...
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I support the motion, and I think there is a lot to be criticised about all those consumer's dreams. Cameras are tools, worthwhile pictures take dedication and concentration, and are more about...
First to Bernard's question: I really can't imagine that there will be any gain whatsoever in quality in a scanned 11x14 over a scanned 8x10, not in tonal quality, not in sharpness, whichever lens...
Interesting results. I have not shot any chromes with LF for a long time, and am not really into colour photography. One question turns up for me, however: is it really wishful in every case to get...
My initial question was perhaps a bit short: yes, my lens is a Protar Series V, f18. The original Bausch & Lomb catalogue (to be inspected at the website menioned above) states it should cover 8x10...
Hi, I recently got a Bausch & Lomb 5x7 protar lens and tried it on my 8x10 at infinity. I couldn't bring it to cover, although the catalogue ...
8x10 is my interest, Ilford HP5, Kodak, Arista.
My FAO came in a granulate. I got it from a chemical supplier; it goes into solution without any problems. If I remember correctly, when the FAO dissolves the fluiod becomes cold (entothermous...
I own both an 8x10 and a 4x5 equipment. Currently I mostly use the 8x10, though I use 4x5 film for pinholes. To compose a picture on an 8x10 screen, even in dim light, and to receive a negative which...
My advice is: throw the bottle away. I found out some time ago that such black sediments in a fixer bottle caused pinholes in film.
Aaron, sorry, for some reason I did not read your first question. About negatives: you have to try. In general, I would say, the right negatives for salt prints have to be very long scale: if I am ...
Aaron, yes, I tone in daylight, or whatever. People say the downsight of this is that there is not so much colour shift; it is, however, readily observable. I personally always give full toning (12...
Sorry, just a correction: half a teaspoon of soda to the fixer should be enough.
Salted paper is not automatically as stable as Pt/Pd. It is rather reputed to be pretty unstable if you don't process it correctly. The silver particles which form the image are much smaller than...
Just another clarification, before this thread goes into the archives: Merklinger is certainly also a very good help in case you have sleeping difficulties. I could not rehearse his math. BUT: it ...
Sorry, but I have to disagree with the other answers. Focussing a 90 mm lens may work, to a certain degree, by just fiddling around, but for really sharp negativs you first of all need a magnifier...
Thank you for all the answers. I have two follow-up questions:
First, what does MDF, presumably the material from which the Gandolfi Variants are built, stand for?
Second, I asked my question...
Does anyone know what happened to Gandolfi cameras? I cannot find any informatio n on the net. Are they still available?
Lukas
On a somewhat more optimistic note: another message below is about Banse & Grohmann, a German company: they cut film to size *in any quantity*. So much if you have film holders. If not, then the...
Banse and Grohmann phone #: (0049) 3943 544033, Fax 544030 Email: bg_Banse_und_Grohmann@t-online.de
Address: Ilsenburger Str. 40, 38855 Wernigerode, Germany
Lukas
I use the film of Banse and Grohmann, the 400 ASA variety. I develop it in PMK. I like the film; it is, I think, made by Foma; B&G only cut it, don't manufacture it. In fact I suggest it is just...
Essential details are not visible in the picture. For example, I get no clue of the size. But cameras of this style were, as far as I know, frequently made without any name label. Here in Germany,...
Doremus,
first, I don't think you will experience any image degradation within three months (nor within six months). Second, I have developed 4x5 on journeys in the combi tank (I think that is...
Better go to the alternative photography list to ask this question. I know several photographers based in the Netherlands are subscribed to it, it seems best to me if they answer themselves. The...
I have always felt that the diagonal provides the relevant comparison for my vision: the ratio is then 3.6, and a 180 mm lens equals 50 mm in 35. However, the movements vastly broaded the scope of...
I have been using PMK pyro exclusively for two years now, 4x5 in the combi tank, and 8x10 tray developing with surgical gloves. I am mostl printing alternative processes, but found it also superb...
Aaron, look at the Gandolfi Variant line. I do not own such a camera, but from what i have seen, I would buy it if I had to do it today. When I checked last, they were sold at a reasonable price,...
I was jsut told in a shop that xrays in many airports of the world are no more f ilm-save, as they used to be. As it happens, I was in South Asia rthis spring, a nd one 8x10 film got spoiled (a...
Well, I use step wedges all the time - the Stouffer 21 step, which is cheap and efficient. But then I am mostly practicing alternative processes. For gelatine silver, they can tell you what to...
Just another question to follow up: What happens if you do not use the nodal point (as I have done when making dyptichon- and tryptichon pictures)? Could people provide some information...
Thank you for your answers, they helped. The problem was indeed the bellows, but as it may have some significance for other LF users, let me shortly describe it: I used the 240 (or 250??) mm Dagor...
Recently I took an architectural picture with my 240 Dagor of my 8x10", and I ra ised the lens as much as I thought possible. I seem to have moved it out of the image circle, but not at the top of...
I found Merklinger's book "Focusing the view camera" highly instructive, and very useful for focusing: it may appear a bit difficult at the beginning to estimate where the plane of focus should ...
I am not at all sure whether this answer will be of any use for you, but I have one suggestion:
If you really like contact prints - which I do - then normal gelatine silver paper does not carry...
I own one, too; bought it in a Betax shutter for $ 150. It gives me more flare than newer lenses, but this can be used for the composition. I have taken quite some pictures I care for with it. As ...
For this, you must read "Beyond the Zone System" by Phil Davis. It explains the adaption of a light meter as a densitometer, and how to calibrate/use it. It is the best introduction into...
The image circle of a lens is not really smaller at high apertures, what you would get in the picture is more loss of light in the corners. This is why you have to shut down the aperture. Another ...
The main problem I encountered when buying a view camera is that you know the instruments only from paper, and do not normally have an opportunity of trying it out. If you get such an opportunity,...
Two questions: 1) I wonder whether anybody can tell the image circle of a 210 mm F10 Process Ni kkor, particularly whether it is suitable for 8x10.
2) The Turner Reich triple convertables: how...
I certainly agree to a large extent with he proposition in the question. The position of photography within the visual art is frequently precarious to this day. When I open books about modern art, ...
Try Harold Merklinger's book "focusing the view camera" or his website (forgot the address, but you should find it through the search engines Lukas Werth