Hi Ron, thanks for that feedback and link. The only reference clue I can find is the number 1 stamped on the front of the lens board.
Mine is in good condition, apart from the bellows, compared to...
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Hi Ron, thanks for that feedback and link. The only reference clue I can find is the number 1 stamped on the front of the lens board.
Mine is in good condition, apart from the bellows, compared to...
I have just noticed the number 1 has been stamped on the front of the lens board, does anyone know what significance that has? See photo below.
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Colin
Hey Steve, I mostly use shorter lenses (120mm to 180mm) for studio work so that should be ok. It is very nice as a 4x5 so nothing lost if the 5x7 idea doesn't eventuate.
Colin
The lens board is removable but there is no sign of a model number on the back that I can see. I will contact Custom Bellows and see if they can replace my crumpled version.
It was sold as a 5x7...
Thanks Willie, I will investigate that option.
Thanks everyone for responding, that is a bit to take in and work out what I actually have and if it is possible to have a 5x7 back after all.
I'll do a couple of things suggested like look for...
I have a Gandolfi 5x7 with a 4x5 back on it. It was sold as a 5x7 so I assume that is correct. Now I would like to put a 5x7 back on it if I can find one and I have posted in the Wanted to Buy...
Thanks Korak, I've probably simplified my description and I was well into the second pack of film before the colour change. What seems to be the defining issue is the change in soup.
A year or so ago I bought on spec 3 unopened boxes of expired 4x5 Ektachrome 64 quite cheap off fleabay. They have been stored in a freezer because the first 25 came out of Tetenal developer spot on...
E6 breathing to life in front of you out of the can is categorically worth the stains.
Greatly appreciated.
Thanks Steven, I was importing the files from a external hard drive, but they wouldn't merge, they were 4x5 scans. I can merge digital images ok on LR. Recently I downloaded Photomatix to see if that...
I've found a site on them internets that explains it well enough, I think anyway. It reads logically enough for a newbie to LR like me to understand so I'll try it and hope for the best.
Call me stupid, but I'm gonna persevere with training this software to do what I want it to do.
ColinD
I've just found on the Adobe discussion site that the likely cause in no f-stop, focal length and ISO. If that is the case, do I add that info when I scan or do I add it manually into the imported...
The exact message I get is:
Unable to merge the photos
One or more of the selected photos may lack metadata necessary for merging.
Ok, I'm a rank novice at using this gee whiz software. If I...
I've just joined up the Lightroom CC plan. One of the first things I tried was importing two existing scanned files off my hard drive to merge. The workflow to merge I think I've got right, open the...
Just to be clear, I don't bracket now, but was reading a book that suggested it. Not likely to do it for the reasons most of you mention. LF is a different process and because I do strictly studio...
What's the consensus on developing bracketed shots, one at .5, one at the meter reading and one at 4 X of the light meter reading. Is there a preference or advantage, for developing them all together...
Thanks ND, that makes sense of it. Now I'm interested in testing the different developing methods and conditions and their influence on the latent image being processed. Most of my work is low...
Anyone else familiar with a book by W.F. Berg, Exposure Theory & Practice. I'm reading through it and have come across a section on RF where he gets into the technical aspects of its effects on film...
Cheers for the info everyone, working in the dark again is invigorating, results ok, but a bit more practice needed to get it right. Dialling the M & Y numbers according to contrast is what I wanted....
Thanks to both of you, the addition of colours and their impact was what I was wondering. I have high and low contrast negs to think about. It's probably the Ilford instructions I was thinking of...
My laptop has chucked a wobbly so while it is getting cla'd I'm doing some b&w paper printing which I am not that familiar with but get a great buzz out of when I get something to work.
I use an...
Thanks Ken, is that in the lid or base section that needs cleaning, and do you mean pull it apart to get to the interior?
Colin
On my B&W scans a faint dark line has started to appear about 1/3 of the way up. It goes perfectly horizontally across the scan and appears in the same spot for each scan. I've changed a few settings...
Probably not the portrait purist's ideal, yet it there is something engaging here, very creative. Never seen a Leitz Hektor used on a LF camera, did it take much to fit it and get it to cover the 4x5?
I'm going to be shooting indoors, portraits and still life mostly, the dof is quite shallow with the background. I can suck and see with the 35mm equivalent lens as it will be on a digibox and I have...
Ok, I'll take it that there is a 4 stop difference b/w the formats. So when using the 35mm lens at f11, that is equivalent to f32, in 4X5.
Beauty, thanks Vaughn that is what I was after.
Knowing that LF have equivalents in 35mm for focal length, eg. 120mm in LF (4x5) = 36mm in 35mm. If I'm using a 36mm lens to take the same shot as I would using the 120mm, is there any change in the...
Today I processed two sheets of the OoD Ektachrome 64, with my eye they seem ok. They are attached below. The darker one was one stop quicker than the lighter one, processed as per packet...
Thanks, that is helpful because I am using the Tetenal kit and Jobo rotary, I'll try different combinations as you suggest and see if I can get a decent result.
I've got some OoD Ektachrome, some going back as far as 1990 and some 2004, all kept in fridge or freezer. Now I realise this will be a test and try process and there could be some fogging but what...
Thanks Pete, that's a nice sample and gives me some confidence.
Ok I found a discussion on this topic on the site from 2004 that seemed to confirm what is being said here, no need to coat the lens unless more contrast or less flare is needed. That satisfies my...
You're right, I haven't shot with it in colour but have been meaning to do so just to see. From what I've read previously though I thought uncoated lenses did something weird to colours, but then...
When it arrived I had the lens cleaned professionally because the glass was a mess, I'm assuming that it should have little of what you describe.
Thanks guys for your thoughts. Which leads me to the next question, if the lens is coated just how much of that antique/period look will it lose in the b&w images which is where I gather the change...
I'm wondering if there is any benefit in coating my Servies VI Cooke Portrait lens to do colour photography. I've received a cost from Cooke which is prohibitive in itself but still the notion of...