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  1. 24" Hermagis Eidoscope No. 0 for US$12 000 .... is this realistic ?

    This lens has been popping up on eBay for the last few months with an asking price in the US$12 000 - US$15 000 range.

    The latest auction has ended but can be found by typing 200517910072 into the...
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    Re: Inverse Square Law and window-light.

    A point source of light (eg. the sun) puts out a constant stream of photons in all directions. The intensity is light at any point in space looking back at the source is related to how closely the...
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    Re: How many 4X10 photographers are out there?

    I have an Ebony 8x10 and recently had Hiromi from Ebony make me a 4x10 back (very nice).

    I bought 4x10 film on the Ilford yearly order last year and before Fotoman went out of business I bought a...
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    Re: Estimating the distance of an object?

    If you are into the idea of a completely battery free, optical only, and reasonably accurate method of rangefinding, you could always look at what the army did before laser rangefinders became...
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    Re: Estimating the distance of an object?

    I did the research on this about a year ago.

    I found that most of the laser distance measurers for the building industry are useless outdoors in sunlight as it is very difficult to see the laser...
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    Re: Long exposure on shakey ground

    this may be out of your budget but you might want to look into using a gyro set-up.

    http://www.ken-lab.com/
  7. Re: Anyone Ever Shoot Handheld w a Kenlab Gyro?

    I too have thought about using a large format camera with a steadicam and/or gyros.

    I am keen to get some LF panning type shots of galloping horses, racing cyclists and that sort of thing.
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    Re: Wireless shutter release?

    maybe the mechanical part of the device could include this ->

    http://www.kapturegroup.com/kap_htmls/electronic_cable.html

    These are made to accept the triggering output of either a sound or...
  9. Re: macro photography: generating a plane of light?

    have a look at the web page ->

    http://www.goldstreetstudios.com.au/

    That photo of the snail shell was taken using the scanning light macrophotography technique.

    This nicely shows the...
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    Re: ha anyone more info about this Hermagis ?

    looks a bit like this one recently on ebay - search for item #200491051560.

    auction ended without bids for US$12,000.00 (ouch)

    there is an info sheet available here ->
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    Re: Blue Mountains, Australia

    I have spent a couple of days with Len Metcalf and can also vouch for him.

    Until that point, I had never seen a large format camera, but I was curious to learn.

    I found Len on the internet and...
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