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Can the polaroid 550 back for pack film be used with virtually any 4x5 camera?
Are the registrations pretty much always the same?
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Thanks all for the kind words and emails since the meet. I'm glad all had a good time. It was a blast meeting and visiting with everyone. Kyle had a blast as well. And, yes those images that JB &...

Has all attending been forwarded directions? I emailed directions, etc to Michael to send out a couple weeks ago. Tomorrow (Sat), I've got to japan some plates so we'll have something to shoot on. ...

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Man, I am excited about the trip out here to the house & shop. The response is humbling; as I don't see myself as very exciting nor entertaining.

Feel free to bring along any...

GPS, I can put movements into my plate cameras (rise/fall, swing on rear, tilt on rear). If asking about using sheet film, I have given that much thought a few times, yet I have been almost too...

Thanks all for the kind words.

Michael, just this sept. I got "recruited" to organize a get together of area wet plate photographers; TX, LA, OK. We did it in Sept in Arkansas. It was really...

Airing this Sunday...

Dear folks, it has been brought to my attention that I should not have posted this. Since I am the camera maker and I do this as a business, my post violates the non-commercial requirements of this...

Thanks for the clarification, and sorry Steve. The plateholder only goes on one way, but the inserts inside the holder rotate for portrait/landscape.

Trust me, the back does swing and also tilt.

"Does it include a holder?".. yes for wet plate or dry plate or dag. No film holder.

They said it will eventually end up on that u-tube thing. They have their own channel or something there.

Jon, lots of guys go by historical sizes and sizes stamped on lenses. The Dallmeyer catalog (1870s) list their lenses by size; 10x8, 12x10, 15x12, 18x16, 22x20. Also, many guys figure the size...

"Looks like a Century Studio...." Stephen, what a horrible thing to say. Mind your manners. Just joking. The locking and tilting hardware is by designs I drew up and have a machine shop do the...

For you Texas guys or who see the show on RFDTV. Sometime in Nov. a show will air about my camera-making. They were out a couple weeks ago doing the taping.

Just finished up a 12" x 15" wet plate camera to go to Germany. It has rise/fall, swing and tilt on rear standard. Also, an acrylic GG to help save on weight. More images can be seen by hunting...

I had a B&L set up just as you say, backwards. I am totally guessing here, but what I am kinda thinking is that they were made that way. Here is why. A petzval on a camera is designed to give...

Craig, you are not going to notice a difference in image from various thicknesses of glass. I have seen many thicknesses and they all work fine. What DOES matter is if the ground glass mounts in...

Alex, I like your method very much. I may try it your way. The cap I made for my "special" lens isn't as nice as I would like.

Thanks, Ty

Steven, "look through your partner's discarded wardrobe items! " That is a great idea; my wife doesn't have any leather stuff, but I bet someone else's wife does. I will go check out the used...

A few things brought up that did not cross my mind, thanks all for your thoughts. I ask not to stir up a hornet's nest; no secret, I build cameras for wet plate and dags, but for the last couple...

Do you think 8x10, etc sheet film will eventually go away forever? Will the LF cameras become door stops? Or, do you think view cameras will have a place in photography for many years to come? ...

So, wet cleaning with no acetone or lens cleaning solution. What do I use to wet clean?

By the way, hey Mike J. hope everything is well on your end. Sometimes miss shooting the bull with you.

I have dealt with that many times. Sometimes the flange just ain't flat, or the wood have a low spot. Two things that work well..... Plumbers putty; easy to use, doesn't hurt wood or metal. OR ...

I tried to copy and paste from the Vade Mecum with no luck. There are two paragraphs about Chevalier. Apparently, he supplied the lens for the very first cameras in 1839. The PVC lens (the one...

Very true Mark. So, everyone who can only afford RR's right now, hold on to them, and they may be worth gold once the Petzval craze gives out. But that Petzval craze has a lot of steam to it.

Garrett, I didn't say that one was crap. Heck, I didn't even pay that much attention to it. I saw it was a large lens. But, I was just making a tongue-in-cheek response about how guys use the...

....because they used the MAGIC word, PETZVAL!!! Guys who find and sell crap now know that is the key word to put in the heading of any ebay lens that is brass, even RR's.

Shoot, SK G requires your first born. I think I got a quote of roughly $185 for a flange for a small full plate lens. I have seen the flanges made by the various "local" machinists around the...

Hey Garrett, I decided to just build a half plate camera around it. Unless, of course, you want to get rid of your 11" HBH. "whisper," .....I know you got one.

Brook, I am not building the silver bath, Robb had someone at a plastics shop or somewhere build it.

Hey Paul, thanks for the info. I'm tickled to death I finally got an American lens and all I shoot is half plate and smaller.

I will not be able to make it up there to John's this summer. I...

Hey Paul, are you back from India? Thanks for the info. I shot some half plates today, and noticed that when viewing through the ground glass at infinity, the corners were vinetted off and black;...

For those of you who have half plate Holmes Booth Haydens lenses, what it the diameter of the barrel? And, will a half plate lens vinette or slightly cut off the corners of half plate at...

Nate, I see you are in Austin. That is where the camera is; I delivered it to Austin yesterday.

Michael, I weighed it without the bellows and ground glass and it weighed 48 pounds. I am guessing...

Well, I got this thing finished. This is not a refurbish or remake, it is a 20x24 from the ground up. It is out of cherry and has rise/fall lensboard, swing and axis tilt on the rear standard....

Peter, cheers to you for being one of the few who value the importance of having a RR.

Butthole! Just joking, very nice lenses. I am jealous of the Gasc. C.

Are the brass lenscaps original? Or are they your make?

It all boils down to intentions; if your intentions are good and respectful, then nothing to worry about. Also, most all of the graves you will want to make images of are going to be the old ones...

Never mind, I did a search and found plenty from previous posts. Yet, I cannot figure out how to delete this entire message. If a moderator passes by, do please delete this.


Thanks