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    Re: movies influencing photography

    FYI: Article about Gordon Willis in yesterday's Boston Globe:

    http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2007/01/14/a_study_in_contrasts/

    I love his B&W photography in Woody Allen's "Stardust...
  2. Thread: Howdy!

    by Bill Hahn
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    Re: Howdy!

    And yet another welcome from someone who is on multiple sites...and thanks for your posting re: Nicole....
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    Re: On LF portraiture

    Bruce is right on about shooting polaroids.

    I attended a workshop this past March about Large Format Portraiture and had a blast shooting polaroids.

    There is a different dynamic between the...
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    Re: Books on the History of Photography?

    Not that anybody cares, but "Park Street" should be "Park Avenue" in my post above.
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    Re: Books on the History of Photography?

    Mike,

    A couple of others:

    "From Adams To Stieglitz" by Nancy Newhall - another book "to start with".
    "Shadow and Substance" - the biography of W. Eugene Smith by Jim Hughes
    Ansel Adam's...
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    Re: Greetings from Boston

    Welcome, DrPablo....there are many LF shooters scattered around the commonwealth....I frequently shoot in the scenic town of Harvard, Mass....

    Bill Hahn
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    Motto for us elderly LF'ers

    Just a word to the wise:

    After a weekend's frolic with my 4x5, I found my knees were causing me great pain. Didn't stop me from going to work, but I shuffled like an old man when going to the...
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    If Only Four Books....

    Another vote for Strand's "Time In New England"

    "Intimations of Paradise" Christopher Burkett

    "The Hungry Eye" (Walker Evans photographs)

    "The American Wilderness" - Ansel Adams

    (At least...
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    most original screw up

    Anybody take a shot, remove the film holder, walk around to the front to open the lens, and
    find themselves exclaiming: "Oh, so *that's* how you remove the bellow from the front standard!" ?
  10. Selecting a 4X5 View Camera for the First Time...

    Oh dear, I never realized that my Walker Titan SF was "as ugly as sin"....:-)

    I bought mine in late 2000 after much research. I've never regretted it, and actually
    the fact that I didn't see...
  11. New Camera, Great Service, Thought You Should Know

    Dave,

    Just a quick post from someone who has been using a Walker Titan SF happily for
    five years - congratulations. It's a great camera...

    -Bill H.
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    DeadPan Aesthetic

    With all this talk of Walker Evans, I just wanted to point out that there is a video called "Walker Evans' America" with some film footage of Evans. It's well worth watching. At one point he...
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    Musings on Photographic Solitude

    May I recommend Robert Schumann, Opus 83 No 3, "Der Einsiedler" (The Hermit)

    Die Jahren wie die Wolken geh'n,

    und lassen mich hier einsam steh'n.

    Die Welt hat mich vergessen.

    The years go...
  14. Thread: roll call

    by Bill Hahn
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    roll call

    North Central Massachusetts USA, small town in northern Worcester county. We got our first traffic
    signal a few years ago, though it took some months for the locals to understand it....

    ...a...
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    Labor Day weekend shooting in the back yard

    ...around the house...
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    Labor Day weekend shooting in the back yard

    >I for one appreciate the thought, the opportunity, and the challenge (Mark Sawyer)

    Ditto.

    I'm old enough to remember the gas lines of the 70's - but they didn't bother me, because at that...
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    Autumn in New England

    John,

    Thanks for the link. I recommend to you "Seagulls and Summer People" by Captain Kendall Morse, if you
    can find a recording. Morse used to have a program on Maine public tv called "In...
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    Autumn in New England

    >looking forward to a change of pace....

    Which reminds me of the ancient joke about the "summer person" teenager
    who was bored out of mind during a Maine vacation. On a walk, she encountered ...
  19. Thread: hype?

    by Bill Hahn
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    hype?

    I've been using a leica 6ttl for about three years. (I also shoot 4x5 LF and a Pentax 6x7 MF formats.)

    Went to Paul Butzi's site and read what he wrote about the Leica camera, and found myself in...
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    Other formats ?

    In the past 2 months I've shot about 6 rolls 35mm black and white, 6 rolls 120 film B&W, and
    about 50 sheets 4x5. FWIW.
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    Picker and the New England Esthetic

    Wow, I've been reading various photographic fora for about seven years and this is the best thread
    I've ever encountered. Thanks everyone for your insights and history.

    Just a few quick...
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    Looking for Mike Walker

    FWIW, I am another satisfied user of a Titan SF.
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    Paul Strand Documentary

    I'll add my assent to the praise. After viewing the DVD many times, I made a

    point of acquiring many of the books Strand worked on; the one about France,

    the one about the Italian village,...
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    labs north of Boston (NH border)

    I live in Northern Worcester County, one town away from the Mass-NH border. I've been using Dorian Color Labs in Arlington (www.dorianlab.com) - via mailers, I've never visited their labs - for B&W...
  25. Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler - Manhatta (FYI)

    "Manhatta" is also on the DVD of "Under The Dark Cloth", a movie made about Paul Strand and available from amazon.

    Paul Strand made a movie about Mexican fishermen called "The Wave", and got a...
  26. George N. Barnard and Alexander Gardner on Antiques Roadshow

    See the book "Gettysburg: A Journey In Time" by William A. Frassanito; I believe he was the first to notice that the "sniper's" body was moved.

    In that book, and in his book on Antietam,...
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    Van Dyke's EW film

    There is a video called "Remembering Edward Weston", which has some B&W film footage of EW at work. It's available at www.photoeye.com. I don't know if it's the film shot by Willard Van Dyke.
  28. Desert, The Mojave and Death Valley Photographs by jack Dykinga, text by Janice Emily Bowers

    I believe the latest issue of "View Camera" (the one that arrived at my house yesterday) has an article by Mr. Dykinga about packbacking with a large format camera, complete with photographs showing...
  29. What's your best/worst/most embarrassing LF experience?

    I'm also relatively new to large format photography, and I have a motto: sometimes it helps if you make an even number of mistakes!

    Example:

    I was shooting a stream, had focused, metered (it...
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    Japanese Historical Exhibition/Book 1931

    Raymond,

    I poked around a little bit using www.google.com, and I think the photographer in question was Nicola Perscheid. Apparently there is also a kind of large format lens named after him. Do...
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    A question to Walker Titan owners

    Richard (Ross),

    I haven't used a 90mm lens with the Titan SF, so I can't give you a definitive answer.

    You might want to check out the review at www.walkercameras.com, which claims that the...
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    A question to Walker Titan owners

    Hagai,

    I use the Rodenstock Sironar-N 135mm lens with my Walker Titan, and it is possible to close the camera with this lens on. Feel feel to email me if you have more questions about the Walker...
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    old U.S. stops vs. stanard f/stops

    See this thread (which I found by typeing "US fstops" into a google search):

    http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000P49
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