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Thank you all! I guess I'll give Peak Imaging a try; I feel like it might be a bit late for the DIY-C41-party. I've got a stock of about 60 sheets left, and until that's finished, maybe maybe I might...

This drum: https://www.jobo.com/analog/3063-jobo-multi-drum-50x60cm-20x24 ? "For paper prcesses", it says, but ---
Btw looking at the JOBO website makes me worry; suspicious that they are the next...

oh well, that just cut the costs to ~400€, cool! I can develop only one sheet at a time this way, correct? Another half hour of meditation per photograph isn't a bad thing.

Thanks Richard! Information on the JOBO website is sparse... So I'd need the drum, the pump and - the three thousand euro processor? Or will the roller base do just fine? (I hardly ever expose more...

It used to be simple, but these days it is pretty hard to find a lab that will develop my 8x10 color negatives properly. Labs in Vienna (Austria) have always been a joke, and I had to send my films...

They moved to France in 1999 - strange move, given their name, isn't it? Probably wanted to be in the EU, and probably wages are lower there. But mine was made before that, in the land of precision...

Great AllRoundCAmera indeed, also that is where the name comes from, I believe.
Foam: Thanks, but I found a supplier in Germany, and as soon as I have the stuff I'm set to gooooooo (it's exciting!)

Well Bernice, "hell" might have been a slight exaggeration, but to work with a camera that I do actually understand, and to have perspective control at my fingertips and never more to have to worry...

Thank you, Peter!

So, after ten years in digital hell, I'm back where I belong. Got me an 8x10 Arca Swiss Model B and it's so gorgeous! A monorail camera with more movements than I'm ever going to need, yaw free, made...

Hi Rahul,

Wolf tripods, allegedly equal in quality to the Berlebachs, may be a bit cheaper and are available with quick/flip (or however you may call them) locks. Check:...

I chose the Kenko KFM-2100. Unlike other meters that combine incident and spot metering, it shows the EVs in the finder. I liked that. Quality is the same as a Minolta meter. Not so cheap, though.

Only yesterday when I opened the trunk of my car I saw I had left the big Gitzo at home... and I mounted my 8 kilo 8x10 Linhof on a 1 kilo Feisol plastic travel-tripod you would consider too flimsy...

me too!

Mark,
I have heard before that those older Arcas are relatively light - but if you could tell us the precise weight of the camera, that might help. Sure I am not the only one who wants a smooth and...

Reviving that old thread because I found the answer: HSL in Düsseldorf, Germany. (http://www.hsldigital.de/) Never before did I get such flawlessly processed negatives. Price is o.k., too. (Once...

Rick, that´s just a shopping cart of the kind old ladies use (with a thermo insulated compartment in the front into which my holders fit precisely!), with the wheels of an old pram.

Robert Adams, 4x5" Nagaoka (what is a Nagaoka?)

8x10" Linhof Bi-Kardan with 150mm SSXL, and how I haul it.

Burtynsky - 4x5 Technika

Dear Colleagues,

I think it would make it easier for everyone who has a hard time deciding which camera to get if they knew what The Great Masters were using. Let´s make a list!
Here are a few...

Sounds interesting, and even more so as Portra seems gone and there´s nothing to replace it with. I´ll search the APUG forum. Thanks!

Dear Colleagues,

Last time I was making analog prints I was using Kodak Endura Portra and Supra. Probably those papers had other names in the U.S., but what it boiled down to was: normal/hard....

Dario,

this is super cool! A digital camera with - how many gigapixels? - for a few hundred Euros! I do wish you a lot of success!
One thing I´d like to know though, will it be possible to use...

Dear Colleagues,

while I love Ilfoflex for it´s surface, sharpness and the illusion of threedimensionality (does that word exist?), my prints often look strange under incandescent lighting (it´s...

Thank you all!
ic-racer, that´s a good idea with the offset adaptor, even more so as my lenses are on technika boards and I intend to keep my Linhof.

Dear colleagues,

the Shen Hao TFC810-A looks like the camera that suits my needs - almost. A little extra shift and fall would not be bad. As it uses those big Sinar lensboards, I think I could...

Here´s what Mr. Becker told me in his prompt and friendly response: He says he knows the problem all too well, and so far he has not found any lab that was able to solve it. "Bribing them won´t help...

I hardly have the space for an ATL - and not the right kind of hot water supply.
I sent Mr. Becker an e-mail asking him for his advice, thank you for the idea Gudmundur.

Well Gudmundur, if it was only the sheets - but I had quite a few pictures ruined by those Vienna labs; if any of you should ever happen to be in Vienna: BEWARE! PixelGrain was better, while not...

Dear Colleagues,

I guess I will have to develop my film myself. That´s about one or two hundred 8x10" color negatives per year. Can you please recommend me the right type of equipment and...

Hi,

could anyone please tell me the weight of that older 8x10" Arca Swiss model that is sometimes referred to as the "C-Model"? (That´s the one with the silverish hardware & black plastic.) And...

Well I do. I level the base of the tripod, put the Linhof on it and I know the back is the way I always want it: Strictly upright. When I took pictures of buildings with the W. (mine was a 2007...

Yes really. Maybe mine was the special model for overseas shipping.

Must be joking.
I had one, but not for long. Carelessly built. Impossible to get standards aywhere near parallel. Poorly designed, too. Beware unless you don´t like precision at all.

If only I was able to find that number on my 8x10 Bi-Kardan...
Do you happen to know how many of them were made?
Thanks!
M

Walter,

and while you´re at it, could you please check the maximum extension with that bag bellows?

Thanks!

Super Symmar XL of course.

Thank you all for your contributions, especially the idea with the "super bellows" sounds very promising. I make practically all my pictures with a 150 or 240mm lens and I don´t think that I would...

And is it possible to fold the camera with the bag bellows?