The bolt should have a slightly lesser diameter next to the bolt end or screw head end. This allows one to screw the bolt all the way in at either end and then one can slide the bolt along the...
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The bolt should have a slightly lesser diameter next to the bolt end or screw head end. This allows one to screw the bolt all the way in at either end and then one can slide the bolt along the...
Well the bellows are only for the purpose of focusing on the ground glass in general and have nothing to do with close up or any other camera to subject distance. And so will not have any exposure...
The “H” is designed to be a hand-holdable architectural camera for travel. How close does it focus?
Is the bellows on the front or the back of the Silvestri H camera. How close can you focus?
Beauty, eh!
Some of the Deardorff lines will wash off with soap and water. I have also read that the clear lines might be lacquer. I suppose there might have been different methods over the history of the...
Collodion and cellulose are two different things.
Will you be needing a telephoto for the Ostrich shot?
As regards soft focus lenses, I have never heard Mortensen ever used one.
When the Tiltall is recommended, it is generally the 40-60 year old version, not the new version - sadly.
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...
Lovely image
Welcome from Hamilton.
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...
https://www.katebackdrop.com/blogs/insights-guide/the-camera-history
Perhaps you are misremembering something like was the #5 camera on this page
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...
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...
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...
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/
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...
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/
Jack Mord has an interest in post mortem photographs
https://store.thanatos.net/pages/contact-jack
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...
Wonderful work!
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
I did this
https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?172146-Re-assessing-my-(un)sharpest-lenses
Why don't you take out the column assembly and measure the diameter of the insert required. ? 75mm, 100mm or 3 1/2 in.
if it's a Omega part number 421-013 you are looking for, I have two.
Yes Postage from Canada is pesky.
Bill
https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/valentine-diners-west-virginia-white-sulphur-springs/18787
Apparently these diners were Pre fab and shipped all about.
The middle one may be a Wollensak
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),...
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...
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.
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....
Your press is heated, right?