After two extensions and a very successful 14 month run, the House Calls with my Camera exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto is closing on July 3. This exhibit of 36 large format 4x5 B&W...
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After two extensions and a very successful 14 month run, the House Calls with my Camera exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto is closing on July 3. This exhibit of 36 large format 4x5 B&W...
The term "forefathers" is not quite the right term as it includes giants such as Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, Walker Evans, and Lewis Hine (among others).
Bill raises a very good point about...
Thanks to all for your warm welcome and kind words.
A special thanks to my friends Patricia in Ontario and Hans in Calgary for their interest and support.
I posted this notice here because this...
I am a physician and large format photographer based in Toronto, Canada.
I take care of house-bound frail elderly patients, and I have been documenting their plight with my 4X5 camera. I use a...
There is insufficient information about the lens in this particular eBay listing. "S U P E R!" and "The lens is in GREAT shape!" are vague and general descriptors which fail to give relevant and...
I have shot razor sharp portraits with my 135mm Apo Sironar S at f8 with my Technika using only the rangefinder to focus. When using the rangefinder one does not use any movements, so one is using...
Thanks for the suggestions. I will try exposing some HP5 @ 1600 and some @ 3200 and see how they compare.
I was raised to overexpose and undedevelop B&W film, developed in PYRO. The results are...
I shoot a hand held 4X5 camera, and there are times when one simply needs a higher film speed than 400.
I have had good results pushing HP5 to 800 and developing it in microphen. Does anyone have...
Gnass actually does make a high quality 4X5 camera case, specifically for the Linhof Technicardan. My Master Technika fits into the space very well with a little room to spare. This camera case...
What is the best way to clean them?
Thanks for the ongoing input.
Regards,
I recently aquired some 4 X 5 Grafmatic holders.
They are in good condition but could use a good cleaning and some lubrication. I have wiped all the surfaces with medical alcohol pads and then...
Many Thanks to all who responded. I now have a more complete understanding of yet another obscure and arcane area of photography. Long live hand-held large format photography!
Regards,
I saw the following statement on a vendor's website:
"4X5 GRAFMATICS There are 2 versions of Grafmatic filmholders, although they are not differentiated by model number, but by features and...
The RRS B40 plate may be the correct choice as it uses two 3/8" screws. This would give excellent rigidity and protect against twisting. As described on the RRS website:
"B40 Special style...
I have likewise ordered SK Grimes lenscaps from specs alone for my five LF lenses. All ten caps also fit like a glove. This proves that you can trust the specs of German lenses as well as the...
Its good to see a 4X5 Technika user talk about the hand-held use of these wonderful cameras. Linhof is the only company in the world that still manufactures a 4X5 rangefinder camera that can be used...
Eight Elm Photo in Toronto imports and distributes Forte products. Their web site has a lot of info: http://www.eightelmphoto.com/paper.htm
The link that they provide for Forte takes you to a...
According to 'The Linhof Camera Story'the most recent 5X7 Technika was the Super Technika V 13x18cm/5x7", with coupled rangefinder, made from 1964 to 1986.
When I first started making platinum prints it was January in Toronto and the indoor air was extremely dry. My prints suffered from a similar graining problem. Two months later I moved into a...
Apparently this lens has recently been revamped by Schneider, as one can see its cosmetic changes on their German website.
I use a Broncolor Mobil system with two Mobilite heads for 4X5 location work. It is a high quality compact 1200 ws battery powered system. The heads are the size of pop cans, and everything is ...
It has also been pointed out to me that the 250 Tele-Arton is the longest lens offered for the 4X5 Aero-Technika, a system used for very exacting outcomes...
It has been pointed out to me that the 250 Tele-Arton S is a new offering for the Linhof 617 Technorama. This implies that it is a decent lens, or Linhof would not mate it to one of their top...
Though an old design for press cameras (just big enough image circle for 4X5), t his lens is still available new with multicoating. Ignoring the issue of limite d movements, how good is this lens?
Which is the best and widest cammable lens on the Master Technika- 75 mm or 72mm (75mm f4.5 Grandagon-N vs. 72mm XL)? Will the bed be visible in the image when used hand held with rangefinder...
Not to mention the Technar!
Bravo! A most imaginative hallucination indeed. May I suggest that you take a few of my tablets of risperidone, or as a traditionalist would you prefer a hand-coated sheet impregnated with...
The assertion that all LF photography takes place on a tripod with an image carefully composed on the ground-glass ignores the magnificent tradition of hand-held large format photography (press...
"Chance favors the prepared mind" is a statement attributed to the great French scientist Louis Pasteur on the process leading to scientific breakthroughs. It is not a St-Ansel original, but his...
The current discussion on the 'Lost Art of Hand-held LF' photography (Feb. 2002) would be enriched by perusing some of the above points...
Don't be so negative- Ilford is strongly commited to large format B& W film. In fact they have expanded the availability of extra large film sizes for ultra large format users. They commonly...
From further correspondence it is my understanding that Linhof WILL produce a small number of Technars in the coming months.
My posting is not aimed at organizing another nine buyers. I am ...
The Linhof Technar (see www.linhof.de)is a 4X5 hand-holdable wide angle camera w hich takes lenses in helical focusing mounts from 45/47/58/65/75/90 mm to 135 mm . It comes with an anatomical hand...
Is it possible to cam a 72mm SA XL for a Linhof MT, or is 75mm (Grandagon-N f/4. 5 of course) the widest one can cam? Is there really any significant difference (ignoring price, size, and...
My widest lens is 90mm. Sometimes this is not wide enough for interior shooting . Is 75mm sufficiently wider than 90mm (i.e. is it really that much wider?) or should I consider one of the...
Linhof users past and present: Charles Sheeler, Eliot Porter, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Michel Comte, Shelby Lee Adams, Mary Ellen Mark, etc.
The very best lens caps I have ever seen are machined from acetal (Delrin) by S.K. Grimes. For complete details see his website:
www.skgrimes.com/caps/index.htm
He machines these custom lens...
For full details see:
www.skgrimes.com/caps/index.htm
These are the Linhofs of lens caps.
For the record let me state that the three wonderful Rodenstock lenses (90mm f4.5 Grandagon, 135mm f5.6 Sironar-S, 210mm Sironar-S) that I bought new last year came with flimsy, thin, and...
According to the 2000 edition of "The Linhof Camera Story" (pg. 139) the 'Technikaflex Attachement' was made for the Super Technika V 4X5 from 1961 to 1966.