I've lightly scribed lines with a tungsten scribe in the past, emphasis on lightly...
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I've lightly scribed lines with a tungsten scribe in the past, emphasis on lightly...
Having used pliobond in the past, they recently reformulated for low VOC and I'm not impressed, to say the least. I've transitionee to Aileen's and E6000 adhesives, so far successfully. E6000 is...
And it’s common to find an X rear standard paired with a P2 front standard. A Sinar F allows you to use all your lenses and accessories with a much lighter and more portable camera. While the Sinar P...
Actually, waaaay back when, circa 2005 or 6, I measured the coverage of some of the RB lenses, the 90 and up cover 4x5 The 50 and 65 miss by a bit. However they do illuminate sufficiently the...
Just a thought, but I find 3.50 diopter reading glasses just about perfect for focusing. Otherwise I use a Hasselblad chimney magnifier and occasionally an actual loupe, though I can't remember who...
I ran across this and am waiting to build bellows for my 5x12 with it. https://www.seattlefabrics.com/60-19-Ounce-Polyurethane-Coated-Black-Out-Nylon-Ripstop-1250-linear-yard_p_1097.html
For gold plated contacts, I have found that deoxit gold is by far the best solution, both short term as well as long.
Also search for apple ply or euro ply, all very similar, though subtly different
If this will help…
Every tag sale and thrift store seems to have ankle weights for a quarter to a few dollars. Depending on weight required, might be an inexpensive solution
As do many of the older cine tripods with either 75mm or 100mm bowls, I use a Lisand 7jr with a baco tilt head for my Sinar, dug the tripod out of the scrap heap at school and found the tilt head...
Gee, I wonder if hey can increase the stroke length and turn an adapter to attach to a sinar shutter. Hmmmm
Randy, take a look at surplusshed.com. They have numerous longer focal length achromats for reasonable money.
Don, if you make it over here to the Berkshires, it would be great to get together with another large format shooter
and if you really want to, the small rechargeable spotwelders on amazon for ~$50 work far better than they should.
Its been my experience that a clean Sinar ground glass with the OE fresnel is extremely bright with normal to long lenses, with wider lenses it tends to exhibit a bit of directionality. It may be...
Then it starts to get bad….
Bernice, I have several Broncolor packs with Rifa madness, I’m hoping that I’ll have time to replace them this winter.
FWIW, a 180 Componon cells should screw directly into a #1 shutter
Peter,
Pretty darn well, in my experience. As long as you get an even coat, it works fantastically, if a bit fragile.
erie
The term for the masks is “splitter”.
First rule of owning a wide format printer, if you are not significantly gifted in terms of electronics and mechanics, always have a service contract. Always.
Google dzus screwdriver, common as can be if you know what to look for.
I use a Lisand 7jr video tripod with a Baco tilt head. The ball on the tripod let’s you level as desired, and the tilt head allows tilting downward. Both tend to be extremely inexpensive with a...
Visual departures used to make a tool the was in every commercial studio I knew of. The quick stick is basically a half meter ruler with a sliding marker that has bellows correction factors from 30mm...
Greg, from memory as mine is packed away at the moment, the 8x10 fresnel fits just the same way as the 4x5 version. Metal frame and clip to hold it in place.
My typical field outfit is 65/90/150/210/300, they just fit (on sinar boards) in the bottom of a large ammo box type dry box, with the F, bellows, meter and filters on top. Makes for a nice,...
Neil, a 4-40 Allen head screw is the right size for the slots on the Sinar clamp. I'd think a few brews for a local machinist would gain you two easily removed indexing pins in your Ries head. I did...
The pinned gear's sole purpose is to keep the threaded bolt from rotating.
(Going from memory...) Unscrewing the locking lever fully and extract the threaded shaft, make note of washers, shims...
I got a pile of odds and ends with my Century no.4, I'll see what I have left and get some pictures of some of the odds and ends. If I'm not mistaken, there's most of a century to 2d type back...
The 405 fits well on a Sinar back. Just press the two silver tabs and slide the ground glass back off then use the Graflok slides to hold it.
If one starts with the generally accepted ( in the art world) definition of art as the process of communicating an idea, concept or emotion through manipulation of a medium, then the means to just...
Of course, with efficient shading, most of the negative effects are easily ameliorated.
I am of the opinion that the quest for perfect glass, the perfect cameras, etc. just takes one farther and...
Jac, check your pm's..
It's ok Jac, in today's post modern aesthetic, art is whatever you say it is..(add air quotes and a bit of a sarcastic chuckle as needed)
Erie
There's a name from the past....in a past life I worked as a designer/hand letterer/pinstriper in a sign shop. Pre solvent printers, we often used Krylon on vinyl to paint fades, etc. Butch...
My understanding is that on the F, when each standard is slid past, they can both be swung 90 degrees to be packed flat, with the bellows removed, of course.
My 120/8 fujinon works quite well on 8x10, with some movements. I don't shoot chromes but I haven't ever noticed significant falloff in my negatives.
When I had my studio, I did have both flavors of F and P cameras. It is possible to use the MB back on a P, in fact my Sinar rep at the time suggested it. It's not uncommon to find either camera with...
Within the P system, there are both variants. The difference between the F and the P is the attachment method.