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    Re: Buddhist PM Spam

    Yes, THANKS for looking out for members' interests in this way. I got a notification, too, and was just wondering where the message went. Good on ya, Tom!
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    Re: Kodak Master View Lens Boards

    Yup, that's the kind I have, John -- except mine isn't all twisted like that one! ;) :D

    And yes, that keeps happening to me, I click on one of the "related threads" at the bottom of the page and...
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    Re: Kodak Master View Lens Boards

    Michael, I have a KMV 4x5 that I picked up relatively inexpensively last year. It seems mechanically excellent, has a little bit of unimportant wear rubbing on the front and rear standard green...
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    Re: Noob question... scanner for 4 x 5...

    And yet, the main problem with the V750M Pro appeared to be (judging from the reviews) not so much the potential variability stemming from manufacturing tolerances, but the fact that there was no way...
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    Re: shooting paper instead of film?

    Eastman Kodak used to make a "Direct Positive" paper. Of course it required a chemistry similar to that for colour transparencies, though simpler because no colour developer involved. If I recall...
  6. Re: Another Soft Focus Lens Blog. The ShitPipe Lens.

    "This would be a stellar lens for full plate work."

    Agreed! Particularly if provided with an iris diaphragm to exert that little bit of extra control over the light flow and clear the . . . crap ....
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    Re: Noob question... scanner for 4 x 5...

    Sandy, it is precisely because there is no such animal, nor even anything particularly close, that objective standards of image fidelity would be so nice, so that one machine might be systematically...
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    Re: Noob question... scanner for 4 x 5...

    Guys, just "Jeffrey" will do fine; I only put my full name in my sig because I'm one of those who insist on using my usual web-handle. (I do that in memory of a beloved dog who tasked me with my...
  9. Re: Oh dear, I had a sudden realisation...

    Oh dear . . . you, too, huh? I thought I was the only one telling myself that sort of thing. "Maybe by the end of the year." I got moved, rather harrowingly, in the late late fall; I've spent the...
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    Re: Noob question... scanner for 4 x 5...

    Well, I've waded through this entire thread. And I must say it does not increase my respect for anyone involved, apart from the OP who had the guts to ask the question. The title clearly categorises...
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    Re: 5x7 gg spring back for orphan Ansco?

    Lee, could I let you know a bit later on this one? I'd like to see if any native 5x7 backs show up first. Yours could probably be cut down to fit, but at the moment I don't possess the woodworking...
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    Re: 5x7 gg spring back for orphan Ansco?

    I'm bumping this thread up, because I haven't found a back or otherwise solved the problem. Now I'm finally moved, I can address this more seriously. I REALLY want to get this camera into use again;...
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    Re: Decimated sheet film makers

    That was forty years ago! Now ALL the photo shops are staffed by teenage idiots who don't even know that much about the digital stuff they are pushing, but who aggressively and confidently tell you...
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    Re: Decimated sheet film makers

    Well, this thread has yielded some information that is useful to me, at least. I'm encouraged enough to give the Arista EDU and the Efke emulsions a serious try. Also it's good news to hear that...
  15. Re: Cost of sheet film & quantity per box thereof

    I'm sorry to have to disagree with more experienced heads here, but simple arithmetic is beyond argument. In the course of surveying the cost and availability of various b&w brands and emulsions, the...
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    Re: Decimated sheet film makers

    Well, I've worked my way through Badger and Freestyle (having done Adorama earlier), will check B&H next. My heart sank when I saw how little Badger had to offer. Freestyle had a LOT more.

    I'm...
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    Decimated sheet film makers

    Trying to get back into LF photography after a 40-year hiatus has its traumatic moments. Surveying the sheet film scene is one example. How many soldiers will be left standing after the...
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    Re: Uh-oh! Century 2 (WP) bellows problem

    'Tis pity, as I don't think they are leaking light anywhere. Just old and tired, like me. :p They seem a bit floppy on the right side near the camera back. I've done a couple of quick digis to...
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    Uh-oh! Century 2 (WP) bellows problem

    Fiddling around tonight with the Century 2 whole-plate camera I acquired last summer, trying to decide which lenses I would mount on the three (only) lensboards I have for it, and how I would go...
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    Re: Verito DF Versar question!

    I expect Jim's correct and someone just did a swap of mounts. The back focus seems about right.

    Yep, I guess this isn't the only shutter job I have for Carol Miller, either. There are several...
  21. Re: Voigtlaender Collinear Ser. II No. 8 question

    Trying it out the window today (well, the wind chill outside was about -35 C so I wasn't going to fool around with fiddly stuff in that weather), it looks like the flange focal distance is on the...
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    Whole plate cutfilm sources? ? ?

    Now I've finally got myself moved and semi-settled in, I'm thinking about finding some fodder for that sweet little old Century 2 I snagged last summer. Some questions...

    (1) I understand that the...
  23. Re: Voigtlaender Collinear Ser. II No. 8 question

    Boy, it would take a LO-O-O-ONG bellows to use that baby in convertible mode, if it is the 17 inch model, which I suspect it must be! Might have to hitch a couple of cameras together for that...
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    Re: Verito DF Versar question!

    Back focus appears to be in the neighbourhood of 11 1/2 inches, give or take. And, as I said, there seems to be a credible amount of groundglass image detail. So I guess it's a question of testing...
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    Re: Verito DF Versar question!

    I just tried it again, at night, on my Century WP using an enlarger lens as a loupe and I can confirm that there IS a very nice detailed image there after all! :o So part of the problem was my old...
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    Yes, obviously that will give a rough approximation, but this lens is about four inches deep so I measure the back focus from the rear element and not from the nodal point; also the light bulb I...
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    Verito DF Versar question!

    OK all ye Verito enthusiasts out there, I have a dumb question for you! Last summer I acquired a Wollensak "Verito Diffused Focus 11 1/2 in. f/4" portrait lens (from the usual source :D), or so it...
  28. Voigtlaender Collinear Ser. II No. 8 question

    Last year I bought a Voigtlaender Collinear Series II No. 8 off eBay; it was billed as a No. 5 and represented as 250mm focal length. Its maximum aperture is f/6.3. The brass was pretty dark, and...
  29. Re: As the economy goes down, the prices of lenses go up!

    I think most of us probably have a little bit of difficulty getting our heads around the *variability* of prices on the 'Bay. I got my Verito 11 1/2" Diffused Versar in early July for $245 (in a...
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    Re: Whole Plate View Camera website ;)

    Great pic, Jim -- gave me quite a laugh when I saw it, just something about the cocky attitude of your two white-hatted subjects! And yep, lucky guy to have that handy English WP reducing back.
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    Re: 270mm. general purpose lenses???

    John, I saw the Konica Hexanon listing too and was considerably tempted, but for a day-in, day-out lens I really do like to have it in a shutter. Granted photos can be made successfully without it,...
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    Re: 270mm. general purpose lenses???

    Well, John, I have great faith that *if* you continue to search diligently and regularly, virtually anything you ever heard of in terms of photographic equipment will eventually turn up as an eBay...
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    Re: 270mm. general purpose lenses???

    Rob, you do give me quite a giggle sometimes! :p If you can't pick up on the difference between a $192.50 300/6,8 Dagor and a $3000 Cooke exercise in nostalgia for the plutocracy, you must've been...
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    Re: 270mm. general purpose lenses???

    'Tisn't that it didn't make my list, Jim. I sure wouldn't turn down the Golden Dagor. Just like you say, scarce and expensive. I keep my eyes peeled, but without much hope. The 270mm G-Claron is of...
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    270mm. general purpose lenses???

    A question for the encyclopaedic minds out there . . .

    Other than the CP Goerz Dagor, has any major lens maker ever carried a 270mm lens with enough angular coverage to serve as a normal, general...
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    Re: 5x7 gg spring back for orphan Ansco?

    Well thanks a lot, Glenn. Those were the two that had occurred to me might be strong possibilities. This little old Ansco reminds me quite strongly of the Burke & James 4x5 I had when I was a kid in...
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    Re: Whole Plate View Camera website ;)

    Well, yay you, Diane! :D Gonna USE it all, I hope?

    BTW, exactly WHEN is Ilford's special-order window of opportunity? I'm very new both to WP and the LF forum and haven't yet run across that...
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    Re: 5x7 gg spring back for orphan Ansco?

    Thanks, Glenn. Knowing exactly what one's dealing with is always a help. Interesting that the *entire* 8.5"x8.5" back assembly, all of it presumably Graflex (all the same colour and look), is a...
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    5x7 gg spring back for orphan Ansco?

    Couple weeks ago on eBay I won an elderly CP Goerz Dagor Ser. III 210/6.8 in an Ilex No. 3 Universal shutter. It was rather a bargain, possibly because of what it happened to be attached to: a 5x7...
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    Re: Whole Plate View Camera website ;)

    Music to my ears, Rob. Life is too short for flame wars. :p

    I've solved my own film holder problem for WP, by the by, at a certain cost. (I hope it wasn't you bidding against me ;) ) I managed...
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