I have purchased a couple different magnifying glasses to use for soft focus lenses. What did you use for a shutter?
I am thinking of building a drop shutter with flash synch to use with the...
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I have purchased a couple different magnifying glasses to use for soft focus lenses. What did you use for a shutter?
I am thinking of building a drop shutter with flash synch to use with the...
I may just do that. Since I first wrote this posting, I have ordered several brands of Technika compatible lens boards so have a couple I can put to use. The ones I buy now are Luland via eBay and...
I have. One humid summer evening in the '90s, I was working as the stills photographer on the set of a movie up near Rome, Georgia USA. As the evening cooled off, the humidity in the air condensed on...
Bob,
Of course, you are right about PPR here in Atlanta being a place to buy camera gear. But I just don't think of them as a place to go for used gear.
Terry
Mike,
Back about 50 years ago when I was a working newspaper photojournalist, several of the papers used variable condenser head 4x5" Beseler enlargers for everything from 35mm to medium format to...
Oh my! Talc or chalk or any other powder is the LAST thing that I would want anywhere near a changing bag because that crap WILL get on my unexposed film and need to be removed later by spotting...
This has all been a very good discussion of the bellows possibly getting in the way.
But I would like to add one more possibility:
David (being new to this) did not remove the dark slide...
Kumar,
Oh, sorry. I certainly don't want to make problems for you.
If I may ask general questions, would that be OK?
1. Will those new aluminum darkslides fit and work properly in ANY 4x5"...
Kumar,
May we still order the new Toyo 4x5" sheet film holders with the aluminum darkslides from you?
If so, what is the price + how much for shipping and handling to Atlanta, Georgia 30319?
...
David, were the 6 Toyo film holders brand new or used?
If they were new, then why after over 3 YEARS does MAC Group still have defective products in their inventory?
Did they think we would not...
Hey, Rick... I still own one of those Acer scanners. It has been storage for over 10 years. I may drag it out to scan some of my 4x5" negatives. Oh, golly, I hope the film holders are still in the...
Like many of my fellow photographers, I have also used one sheet of film for multiple exposures - either I was in a rush or tired or both.
To stop that from happening, I have started to do...
My personal opinion would be to keep all of my 4x5" dark slides in place. This is because I own over 100 of them which I have accumulated over many years. If I had to figure out which slides went...
Huh?
The suggestion about storing Harrison tents in a box got me thinking about what kind of box would be appropriate.
It would need to be big enough to allow me to store my film changing tent flat and...
Yesterday I searched eBay for projection lenses and found several. The problem is that the seller almost never says what image format they will cover. And I can only assume that most are for 35mm...
To reply to my own posting... I have been thinking about needing to focus: extend that lever on the left so that the top edge of the dropping shutter starts out above the lens.
Design it so the...
How are you going to focus? It would seem to me that you would need a longer piece that has a setting for fully open which would allow one to focus.
Here in Atlanta, I only use Steam Distilled water from the grocery store for my B&W final Photo Flo rinse, all the other stages of development use tap water with no problems.
Back in the '80s, I...
Just a wild idea, but what about using one of those products made to be used on automobile dashboards such as Armor All? Would it help to "rejuvenate" plastic materials that have gone sticky?
I experienced this with a Nikon D70 DSLR that I had not used for a long time. And it was sitting in an open box near my desk, so for sure, it was not closed up in an air-tight enclosure.
It seems...
Back in the '70s, I photographed an old vaudeville theatre that was being restored near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA. After I lit it and then composed one particular view from the balcony using my...
Is not the price difference due to VAT being included? Don't forget that here in the US, an in-store purchase will have local and state sales taxes added which could be as much as 10%. If one does a...
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Nikon D70
Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 lens
ISO 200
f/5.6 (if I remember correctly)
In 2016, I had just received my new Chamonix so thought it would be fun to use at the wedding of my friend Kevin Johnson to the lovely Sara.
In my haste, to create some wedding portraits, I mixed...
A couple years ago when I was living in a different house, my solution to darken a bathroom window came from a Jo-Ann Fabric Store and my tool box:
1. extendable curtain rod
2. black out fabric
3....
Thanks, but most likey there would be no interest because I am not a "process artist", I just get the job done... quietly and with no crew.
IMHO, you are going to need more lighting than that. Try some hard directional light from the back or side aimed toward the fabric, not the person.
Experiment with a large reflector with a silver...
Are your Wista lens boards the same design as used for Chamonix (Linhof Technika)? If so, I believe I saw some Technika-style center hole recessed boards on eBay yesterday when I was looking for some...
I saw some Arca clamp clones on eBay recently for about US $15.
What is interesting is that I actually work on movie sets with a large format camera; I may be the last one in the world doing this.
Actress Gelena Piper as an unnamed cotton picking field slave...
Who?
Sorry, but I have no idea who Gregory Crewdson is. Should I?
Most likely the photography chemistry would cause any metal that is not Type 316 Stainless Steel to rapidly rust or contaminate your chemistry.
As Sgt. L.C. Ross once said, "Most of them are...
Yes, I understand the purpose for the red, blue and green lines as being the zero coordinate. What I don't see is where that spot is located on the lens board.
But, after all, it has been over 55...
Am I simply not reading your drawing correctly or are you actually missing something? I see where you have an intersection of blue, green and red lines indicating the center of the hole. Right? But...
This kind of Quick Release plate is very popular in the video industry. The tripod I use for my large format work was actually made for video work and has a head exactly like this.
BTW, I would...
I just looked at the interactive weather map www.windy.com and it looks as though the east coast of Florida will be (somewhat) spared but the west coast will get slammed. And then on Monday,...
When I was a senior in high school (September 1962 to June 1963) I wanted to be the photographer for the school newspaper. The school had a 4x5" Speed Graphic, flash bulbs and Tri-X pack film. I...
Doesn't one of our members custom make some very nice lens caps?
Actually, here in Atlanta, you can. Every time I go into Wing's Camera that is exactly what I do. Over the years I have amassed a very decent inventory of Series filters, filter holders, adapters and...