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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    Collodion and cellulose are two different things.
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    Re: Camera for Africa trip

    Will you be needing a telephoto for the Ostrich shot?
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    Re: Mortensen's Glycin Variant Film Developer

    As regards soft focus lenses, I have never heard Mortensen ever used one.
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    Re: tripods and quality

    When the Tiltall is recommended, it is generally the 40-60 year old version, not the new version - sadly.
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    Re: Soft-Focus Lens Examples

    I wish this had been published in English. I may well have to bit the postage bullet and order one from Europe.
    In addition it is difficult over here in Canada to appreciate or even find examples...
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    Re: Soft-Focus Lens Examples

    Lovely image
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    Re: Hello from Toronto.

    Welcome from Hamilton.
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    Re: Best lens for ultra closeup…portraits!

    I would use a 19 inch plus lens for this. A 508mm Ilex-Calumet Caltar would be a good choice. Or a triple convertible such as a Wollensak. Depth of field depends on magnification so a 8x10 print of...
  9. Thread: Daguerre Camera

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    Re: Daguerre Camera

    https://www.katebackdrop.com/blogs/insights-guide/the-camera-history
    Perhaps you are misremembering something like was the #5 camera on this page
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    Re: Film holders: alternative to notches

    I will sometimes indicate, on the outside of a used holder, with post it notes with the info needed and an indication of clipping corners (clipping on the way into the developer tank). Generally I...
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    Re: Historic and vintage portraits

    Not a bad thought as sometimes keeping light away from these old images in important. I have two Calotypes of ferns from a Talbot kinsman which are badly faded. I have a black cloth fraped over the...
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    Re: Historic and vintage portraits

    A shadow box is a picture frame that has some added depth to the space between the glass and the back. It is often used to accommodate the thickness of three dimensional objects of some size. Cased...
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    Re: Soft-Focus Lens Examples

    And regarding the differences in soft focus lenses these letters attached to post number 8 are a wonderful insight.

    https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/taylor-and-hobson-soft-focus-lens.203546/
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    Re: Soft-Focus Lens Examples

    A reminder that early Veritos were used as enlarger lenses and had a slot in the side of the barrel to allow for star shaped (and other shapes) diaphragms and presumably could be used for taking lens...
  15. Re: New Daguerreotype - With magnified image detail

    Exceptional
  16. Re: Older Arca ball head, anyone know if the camera platform is removable?

    Any of the many makes of this will go on and work well and maybe better having the flat base to contact rather than screwing to a 1/4 " thread.
    https://flmcanada.com/product/flm-srb-60-clamp/
  17. Re: New Here - Searching for Post Mortem Photo by Wm. Paisley Hughes of NC ca 1879-19

    Jack Mord has an interest in post mortem photographs
    https://store.thanatos.net/pages/contact-jack
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    Re: Re-assessing my (un)sharpest lenses

    Very kind of you. Thank You.
    I am talking to a photographer in Switzerland who has a copy of the Komuranon-SF Soft Focus 300mm f/5.6 Lens and he has a web site from the past which identifies a third...
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    Re: Recent Close-Up Botanical Daguerreotypes

    Wonderful work!
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    Re: How to focus a soft focus lens

    One thing that becomes apparent with these lenses is that wysiwyg on the GG is not really true.
    I have found it very heplful to use a sharp specular light source such as a old maglight with the top...
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    Re: Improve sharpness of a magic lantern lens?

    I would cut a black matboard to fit in the lens hood and make the apertures in the middle of that to try out various smaller apertures.
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    Re: Re-assessing my (un)sharpest lenses

    Ever since the beginning of photography the aesthetic of the daguerreotype has competed for our attention with the aesthetic of the calotype. While each era of technology is of its time, the...
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    Re: Re-assessing my (un)sharpest lenses

    I really like portraiture and being able to choose the right lens for the subject is something that suits my nature.
    I remember doing a portrait of a ninety year old man once and really liking the...
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    Re: Re-assessing my (un)sharpest lenses

    If anybody is truly interested,, each picture can be opened in a new tab and it will fill the screen, for comparison of hat texture, hair resolution halo etc.
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    Re: Portrait 8X10 SF Print Comparisons?

    I did this
    https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?172146-Re-assessing-my-(un)sharpest-lenses
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    Re: Gitzo 1500 Studex

    Why don't you take out the column assembly and measure the diameter of the insert required. ? 75mm, 100mm or 3 1/2 in.
  27. Re: Need help on machining issue -- attaching enlarging lens to board

    if it's a Omega part number 421-013 you are looking for, I have two.
    Yes Postage from Canada is pesky.
    Bill
  28. Thread: Americana

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    Re: Americana

    https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/valentine-diners-west-virginia-white-sulphur-springs/18787
    Apparently these diners were Pre fab and shipped all about.
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    Re: Identification of cable releases...

    The middle one may be a Wollensak
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    Re: Found the levels slider in PS

    I hope you will take these comments as I mean them, in good faith. A lot of people like the high contrast look. It is the default setting for store reprints (for digital and usually colour prints),...
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    Re: Help with stabilising a Cambo SC 8 x 10?

    I think what you have is a great solution. If there is any residual shake some sort of compressible liner such as thin leather within the clamp or if necessary under it on the tripod surface might...
  32. Re: Artist Refuses Prize After His AI Image Wins at Top Photo Contest

    A contact print or indeed any enlarged chemical print is a cameraless photograph. A camera may make a slide photograph or may make a negative photograph. Just saying.
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    Re: Set up for Packard shutter

    If you have trouble with squeezing and want to use very long hoses like TC then a vinyl tubing between the camera and the bulb will expand less under pressure and the pressure will not be dissipated....
  34. Re: 45% Humidity and Ilford FB Still Won't Dry Flat

    Your press is heated, right?
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    Re: Cambo lens boards

    https://www.pacificrimcamera.com/rl/00838/00838.pdf
    On page 7 of this PDF there is reference to a flat lens board #14/C98, 8 and 9/16th inch square - for use on 5x7 rear standard.
    Perhaps there are...
  36. Re: Interesting (to me, at least) Kodak portrait lens realization

    Good for you, eh!
    Bill
  37. Re: Interesting (to me, at least) Kodak portrait lens realization

    Do you mean they fit the flange or the black part of the barrel is the same as Wollensaks'? Cause the barrels on mine are distinctly different with a step and a set screw.
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    Re: New Book: Eleventyone Portraits 1841 to 1950

    I am very pleased to have been noticed by Mick Johnston and been his Book of the Year for 2021.
    https://theonlinephotographer.typepa...reat-book.html
    I have added a few images and pages to the...
  39. Re: Printing Ilford MG Classic and Cooltone with a Zone VI VC enlarger

    I am sure the answer lies in Nicholas Lindan''s PDF
    http://www.darkroomautomation.com/support/appnotesgmeasured.pdf
    But I have a hard time with graphs ( compared to sentences). In any case, with my...
  40. Re: Printing Ilford MG Classic and Cooltone with a Zone VI VC enlarger

    This was a really good point. It has taken me a bit of time as I was involved in a project with a different enlarger but I finally got to it. I used a Stouffer TP4x5-21 to contact print a set of...
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