I found some original quickrelease clamps at a photo store and made a bracket out of a 1.5 inch chrome drain pipe with washers top and bottome with a 1/4inch allthread going through it and attached...
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I found some original quickrelease clamps at a photo store and made a bracket out of a 1.5 inch chrome drain pipe with washers top and bottome with a 1/4inch allthread going through it and attached...
When I purchased my first Speed Graphic on ebay I thought I was getting a grafloc back but ended up with one like in the picture. I was dissappointed and only recieved a portion of money back because...
A well exposed negative can scan well enough (have only scanned 6x9 neg.) but a well exposed 4x5 chrome beats them altogether. I think that a scanner (especially cheaper flatbed) has to increase the...
Annual lighting of flags on Memorial day weekend at local cemetary. Old Speed Graphic with 90 Optar. Large prints looks great with no grain and sharp stars on flags.
I'm trying to sell a Caltar f6.8 if you're interested. I love mine but just don't use the camera like a used to. I was in the same predicament as you on the Ektar vs the Caltar and decided on the...
You just need to add some sharpening in photoshop. Flatbed scanners show very blurry without any sharpening. Here's a slight redo on your crop. The extra grain won't be noticable on enlargening to at...
I absolutely love my 135 lens with my 6x7 back. Great for portraits like Seniors. I do have a coupled rangefinder which makes handheld usage fast and easy. The 135 lens will do tighter head and...
One of my first pictures from the Speedgraphic with 90 Optar. A little lonely church with cemetary about 15 miles from my place. Beautiful summer evening.
I don't even focus on my Speed with 90 Optar. I marked my bed for infinity, 8 ft. and 4 ft. If I step down to f22 or f32 I put the focus on 8 ft. and everything from 4ft to infinity will be in focus....
I've been shooting print film for most of my life but in 4x5 mode I have only done tranparency film. I do know that my scanner (epson 2450) does a better job of scanning slides than print film if...
I ended up buying a modern (looked like new) Rodenstock Geronar 210 in copal shutter for less than what the 203 Ektar was bringing on ebay, otherwise I would have bought an Ektar 203.
Rory, no cloning out of branches. Staight shot.
Both my boys. Speed Graphic. 135 Optar. Handheld. Fuji Astia. Normally I will always use a reflector or flash to get some light in the eyes but I was alone and I needed to move the boys into the...
Sunrise, Kansas pond. Kodak E100G. 90 Optar lens at F32 or Rodenstock 210. Speed Graphic.
The latest Pop Photography mag has an article on TS lenses and how to make photos look like large format documentary and sports photos. The big downfall I see on this is the Canon lenses are over $1k...
I've used Calypso the last yr or so. So much less expensive than the local lab. The lab I use to make the prints don't do E6. I scan them on an Epson scanner and output to Epson printer for 8x10...
I had 48 quickloads to ship so I had to put them in a flat rate box for around $8.90 shipping. Probably could have gotten another 20-30 in there if I had to.
I just got back from RMNP and saw some flowers but nothing spectacular. On the hike to Emerald Lake I only saw a few Columbines. I always try to put something in the foreground of my wide angle shots...
I had some outdated 100G (2yrs out), a box of Astia 100F (1yr out of date) and some current 100VS in date. I ended up taking the Kodak 100G and VS. I will save the Astia for more portrait type work....
I plan on shipping to Calypso via priority mail Monday. I just pop the quickloads in a flat rate express mail envelope, seal it, ship it. I'll see if 33 quickoads fit in one envelope!
Thanks for the info. I just found out there's all kinds of photography videos on youtube. My filter had blocked all youtube activity so I didn't know what I was missing. A lot of stuff on Ansel...
Can anyone off the top of their head come up with a dollar amt for the equipment for E6 4x5 and and chemical cost and break that down to per 4x5 cost? Maybe I need to get into developing my own if...
The lab is Miller's out of Pittsburg, KS. Wonderful lab that specializes in portrait work and not commercial at all. They don't do any E6 work which I wish they did. I sent in pictures on a Saturday...
Donald, would you suggest f16 on bulb? What speed film? Tomorrow night I'm going to see an exhibit at a local library/museum that has the August National Geographic pictures on the Flinthills in...
Ok, so neg. film can handle 11 stops. Can your scanner pull that much detail out? I wrote in another post on how my Epson seems to scan transparencies better than neg material. I think it's because...
I don't bother with the fridge at all but stick everything in the freezer in the basement. I take it out a few hrs before use. Just stick the unused quickloads back in the foil packet in the box and...
I have to admit I don't use a polarizer much but it makes more sense to open up 2 stops even though I have only noticed about a 1.5 stop difference. The reason it works is because the foreground is...
I accomplish front tilt with my Speed by either mounting the tripod head on the side panel and flipping it 90 degrees effectively putting it upside down or just flipping my Bogen 3028 head over (have...
I do have to say that perhaps the biggest problem with grain in the 6x9's is that the neg. was underexposed and my auto settings in the scanner software or photoshop were increasing contrast and...
I had a couple of Uncles from Washington. Lived in the wheat country. I'm from Peabody, Ks. Where did you live? Love your pictures. I've tried lately to get more local pictures and am waiting for my...
2001 Fuji NHG11 800 speed ran as 400 speed. On Speed Graphic, 135 Optar and 6x9 back. Scanned with my Epson 2450.
I think I paid under $25 for my old Polaroid 545 holder on ebay a yr ago. It's kind of big and heavy though. I don't understand why people say it doesn't hold the film flat. It's got springs on top...
I was having trouble with the shadows turning magenta and always adjusted them out in photoshop but was having trouble with streaks in some 6x9 negatives. I decided that the calibration part of the...
Local cemetary. Memorial day weekend. Speed Graphic. Forget whether it was the 135 Optar or 90 Optar lens. Metered for the light on the flags.
I tried to adjust perspective with a 6x6 TMax 100 with an Epson 2450 scanner. The picture was of an older church with wood siding. I couldn't get the siding on the church to have a smooth look. I...
If using just a mic maybe the thing to do is stick a high frequency tweeter in front of the shutter and hit it with some sine waves or white noise but not too high of volume as most tweeters can only...
The phototransistor I used was the only one Radio Shack had in stock. They call it an infrared phototransistor. I used a 4.7kohm resistor and a 1.5 volt battery that was probably getting weak....
Just made a shutter tester out of a $1.50 infrared photocell from RadioShack and my computer's sound card. Tested my Speed Graphic lenses. My 90 Optar measures too fast in most settings (.736 at 1...
There's a set of 3 wide angle ones going off ebay later today. Search for Graflex scales. I may have gotten the tele scales from a completed auction. If you want a picture of them just send me your...
I was wanting a 210 to go along with my 135 and 90 Optars and was beaten out a couple of times for an Ektar 203 on ebay. I was the high bidder until the last few seconds. Finally called up KEH and...