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Thanks.

I have Rodinal (original) at hand so I'll pour that onto the two 8x10 shots I want to develop and see where it gets me.
Usually I have the 1:100 dilution for 60min stand development but...

Close to 14 years later, how has the Epson F3200 held up? Anyone still using it, and are your results satisfactory?

picked up a box of this in Berlin last week, in 4x5 size.

I'll take all the advice at heart and see what I can come up with, using it in a home made 4x5" sliding box camera with an old ±180mm...

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On FireFox now.

Seems the certificate is the issue. Safari won't let me use the site at all, FireFox warns that the certificate is not valid and as such the data sent over the net aren't...

Unable to access the forum from my iMac with Safari 11.0.2.

It claims URLs are non-existent. Sometimes I get rerouted to a simple logon page for 3mail, from the vegetable company or something like...

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Thanks all for your answers! Ian, Doremus, I'll get back to both of you on the possible focus issue and on the inspiring photographs!

Question: when I tilt the lens on my Graflex Speed Graphic 4x5, will it influence sharpness, or just shift focus? Or neither of those two?

I gave it a try with a Kodak Aero-Ektar 2.5/178mm...

Doug, Lukas, thank you!

I've been eyeballing the Falcon Eyes 1024-LED panels, like these:...

For my professional reportage video assignments I own two smaller LED panels (144 or something LEDs, on Sony 3400MaW batteries, very cheap on eBay), but these do not illuminate sufficiently for LF...

Pete, thank you for pointing out the Cokin X system to me.

Previously I had been looking into the Z system and found it nice but expensive. Today I looked into the X system on eBay and found an...

Anyone have any experience with the cheaper, Cokin X-Pro sized, Chinese filters?

I'd prefer the X-Pro (thanks Pete!) but those are pricy to invest in just now, I'm still 'developing' my potential...

Hello all,

I'm planning to shoot some city scapes and land scapes with my Aero Ektar and I feel I should look into using graduated ND filters to balance sky and surface. I'm aware that the...

Found this and thought it pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-V3Qqx4Qpk

Jose,

interested in the scanning quality you can get without the computer going to sleep? If it is enough for my needs I might just get one whenever I bump into it. These scanners still are around...

Very nice, you should shoot the wife more often.

I like the lighting, contrast, focus etc.

But, (possibly needless advice here): if here eyes really are different-sized, it's best to seat her...

On loading film, I found a heap of Youtube clips but this <2mins clip told me what I needed to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdWK8varqDo

Hi,

I'm about to set up 4x5 developing (printing will be after scanning only so no wet printing) and I'm suspecting there's a whole slew of Frequently Asked Questions that some forum members have...

Fast forward one decade.


Wondering if anyone is using this scanner to scan 4x5" negatives?

I used to have one (must be 5, 6 years ago now) and while I still was in my small-format box-speed...

Impressive stuff, gallery quality indeed.

Terrible, the devastation on that whole poor city and those poor people.

I was going to write I'm proud of my fellow countrymen aiding to the...

Two rounds and nothing to show for it yet!

First attempt was under nightly lamp light (while the paper doesn't pick up on red light...) and today I took the kit outside, even measured for bellows...

Yesterday my new to me Graflex 4x5" Speed Graphic Anniversary with Aero-Ektar 2.5/178mm arrived. I got lucky and obtained the set for far too little money.

There were some boxes of paper that I...

This thread has given me enough confidence to finally have a try at LF.

Before, I was at a loss over all the things that could go wrong, and the Vageeswari 5x7 I bought wasn't that usable either...

That'll teach me! Should have smelled it before nuking it into oblivion with acetone:D

Jim,

I think you nailed it.

both optical groups have a hollow inner side, but the one element (with the engraving) has a far more hollow inner side than the other. Also, that element had some...

No, I do not. Unless the elements and the barrel were a mix-and-match. But, the engravings are very similar.:confused:

Both elements have the same thread and can be switched. I tried that and it...

Added some pictures.

Observation: with a flash light close to the rear element, I can see a fairly sharp edged image cirle on the wall at approx. 80 cms distance. In that image circle, a 13x18...

Must be a dud then, there's no way the lens can cover 13x18 at all and an image that could remotely be considered 'sharp' only forms at approx. 3 inches from the wall.

Grmpf.

It's a nice small...

Hello,

last week i bought a small brass lens of unknown focal length. It arrived today with the mail. Glass was dirty, aperture was stuck. Took me two hours to get it neat and tidy and I started...

That is one great tip, Math. Thanks a bundle!

For reference on how to fix one, I found this pictorial on the internet.

Off to the Houten Camera Fair, I guess...!?

Thanks guys, I was beginning to feel a bit lonely here...

Found that this post gets me going in the right direction. The lens I have is 62mm front diameter so fixing an existing shutter to that...

Eighty-eight people watching, nobody telling...

What's the secret handshake?

HP newbie-to-be is wondering how to go shutterless.

Recently my Indian-made Vageeswari Half Plate checked in. I had two shutterless lenses that I recently sold but while doing so, I got interested...

True, I just had a good look-over on them but the sizes I'm looking for seem off-standard.

The Vageeswari HP holders externally measure: 16.1 x 21.3 x 2.4 cms, and grooves are 4mm. So, in inches...

Right, I took another swing at measuring and apparently put the ruler along the wrong bit of the bookform holder, it is half plate after all.

Now, if I only could locate some more holders, I'd...

Hi all!

I got my Vageeswari Plate camera today and am very excited about it.

But, the film size is throwing me off.

I measured inside edges of the book plate holder and they are 11.2 x...

funny: that lens on eBay had the same markings as mine, but the seller did not know what those markings are... I'm lucky to have asked you guys!

At the moment money is tight so I'd prefer EUR 100...

hello guys,

thanks for helping me so far. I've spent some time online trying to find a match to either one of my lenses but have had no luck so far.

Although I am interested in shooting with...