Calamity,
I am sure you will continue to be active, but on behalf of all of us:
Thank you for your contributions to the photographic community.
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Calamity,
I am sure you will continue to be active, but on behalf of all of us:
Thank you for your contributions to the photographic community.
If you decide not to use calypso, try West Coast Imaging. Great service, and they are a pleasure to deal with.
"At this rate, it won't be long before Schneider can start promoting the XXLs as "the affordable modern alternative"."
GO SCHNEIDER!
check out:
mt. everest, mt. rainer, mt. st. helens, yosemite.
dont forget to use the camera tilt.
dont bother: pyramids, hawaii, mexico.
What a great collection of photographs!
Thank you for sharing them. Lovely detail in them BTW.
I just exposed my first two sheets of 8x10. Portraits of my wife and kids.
I will be developing...
Any good darkroom session requires good coffee. I use distilled water in my espresso machine. It does not leave mineral deposits in the machine like tapwater, and it boils at a hotter temperature.
...
Any of them 12 feet long or larger?
Most lens testing is at 10x enlargements.. so a normal lens on an 8x10 is 12 inches.. x 10 is 12 feet.
It seems that using a mirror on the test target is the best blend of affordability and accuracy.
There were some suggestions of using an animation stand, but I would think they are too small for...
I have a 135mm componon in a old tempor (copal/compur/prontor size #0).
I've only used it a few times, but I was very surprised by the results. I have a 4x5 neg of a womans legs that are...
Dan Fromm has good things to say about a similar lens, the leitz elcan. Maybee he will chime in.
since you are using a multicontrast paper, how bout trying one of the contrast filters to lower the contrast?
or you could also try a standing developer technique.
another option is...
"That is also possible. Although one solution is the Linhof Aero Roll Film Back for 5" film."
Cool! Where can I get a 5" roll of velvia?
"The problem with servos or solenoids is that they can't recock the shutter.
The electronic shutters are always ready to fire at the press of a switch."
The problem with the electronic shutters...
Speaking of self-portraits..
I've been having a serious technical issue with my self-portraits. I was hoping one of you creative problem-solving types could help me out... I think I have...
It makes me laugh when people talk about truisms in photography. Discussions like this seem to polarize people and instill arguments about hair-counters vs. holgas, digital vs. darkroom, this vs....
I have a [non-rd] apo-artar, and it appears to be coated. I thought the red-dot artars were actually multi-coated?
Thanks for the advice so far.
The first suggestion I am going to follow is to go back over my work and objectively find what works. The key point here is to aknowlege the good traits of a print,...
This document is HUGE. it is 17 megs, I would not reccomend posting this on a website. It is much better to just use HTML.
When it finally opened, it was very big in size, spilling outside the...
In my opinion the photographs I have taken are absolutely horrible.
I dont know if I am suffering from low photographers self-esteem or maybee im just being too self-critical. But when I look at...
Robert: I made my own dark cloth similar to what you have said. Though I used an iron-on adhesive called 'stichery'. Advantage is that I made it fit perfectly around the Busch Pressman I owned at the...
For those of you who have the 'breathable' version... how well does it breathe?
I rarely use a thick dark cloth, mainly due to problems with overheating, but I've also shot in the snow before and...
Probably this shutter is for use on a microscope adapter. these are usually prontors, but I guess Copals could have been used as well.
Just a warning: I would not reccomend doing this with a wooden camera (which is what I have).
It's easy to split the wood doing something like this.
the problem is that even if you apply a large amount of force when attaching the qick-release plate, it only takes a small amount of force levered force from the camera to losen it.
I mount the...
Way to go Kirk!
They couldnt have picked a better person.
I just received a 15" f5.6 Wollensak Telephoto Raptar. The Yellow-dot version. What a beast it is. I paid only $35, being advertised as an enlarging lens. (whoever heard of a telephoto enlarging...
so is this a BIG-CAMERA gathering, or a big CAMERA-GATHERING?
Dont forget that paypal and ebay will NEVER email you a request for verifacation info.
Thanks Leonard!
Hello all.
I am going to start testing some of my lenses, but my geometry is a bit rusty, it's been in an old cardboard box in the garage for 15 years, and I didnt pack it with a silicone beads.
...
I havent used one in the field, but I did get a chance to handle one at a store.
I was very impressed with how comfortable it was in my hands. The rangefinder is bright. And the lenses performed...
The besseler/unicolor 8x10 print drums will do the job nicely. I use a cibachrchrome/chromega tube.
Either of these will are daylight safe filling and inexpensive.
The one thing you will have...
Back to the topic of seiko shutters, I allways thought that they were a copy of compur shutters, and I dont remember the vibration from my SA in a Seiko to be any more than that of a compur. I will...
so what was this lens?
I just noticed that Big-5 has a 'self-erecting' tent for a reasonable price. It is built with the flexible rings that photo-reflectors and dashboard sun protectors are made with. Hmmm this has...
Note that some of them were mounted in compur shutters. I am not sure if they were in size 0 or 1 shutters, but they would fit right into a modern shutter without any modifacations.
Justin, If you check the properties of that image, it is about 500 by 600 pixels. That is a dpi of only about 100, and less information than in a 1-megapixel digital camera.
Web images do not...
I think the colorgetter pulled out more info in the dark areas though. I wouldnt say there is an overall best, as they have different stregnths and weaknesses. Also note that a flatbed scanner is...
I noticed that the Peak Omega/ Micromega grain magnifiers are way more expensive that most other models on ebay. Can anyone explain to me why??
Darinwc
I use the l-228 for my LF.
Upsides: Cheap, no more than $50 for a working model. Compact, small compared to the pentax 1-degree or minolta auto-spot, etc.
Downsides: Smallest area of metering...