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In the end, the difference in weight between most of the wood/carbon fiber field cameras is neglegible. By the time you add the weight of a couple of lenses, a tripod, a focusing cloth and...

For all-around use, the longest non-telephoto lens you can use with the Tackihara will be about 210mm (8 inches) or maybe a 240mm (10 inch).

The arithmetic is pretty simple.

With 330mm bellows...

I'd like to replace my safelights with LEDs.

In theory LEDs should make a perfect safelight source since (excepting so-called white LEDs) they emit on a single wavelength. This also presumes that...

Broken wood can be repaired or replaced by a reasonably competent cabinet maker or even a hobbiest.

Broken metal should be replaced or, if a replacement is unavailable, repaired by a highly...

I guess this must be the week for bellows questions.

I've got an old Tachihara full-plate field camera in need of a new bellows. The existing one is just barely usable and getting worse.

Can...

I'm happy to be able to say that my local "Thomas Kincade - Painter of Light" Gallery has gone out of business.

More room for some real art in downtown Wyandotte!;)

Chuck Peacock

Gee, I own most of those books, even the long out-of-print ones from pre-1960 -- and I actually attended one of the AA Workshop's in Yosemite.

If Alt is an expert, what does that make me?

Chuck...

With 47 negatives he'd need to sell more than 550 prints each at $7500 to come up with $200 million.

Did Ansel ever sell 550 prints of any of his images -- at any price?

I suspect the Alan Ross...

Thanks to everyone for their replies, but my original post is more than two years old. Since then I've gotten a Sinar F2 for studio work and a Tachihara full-plate with 4x5 and 5x7 backs to be...

Thanks!

I had searched for 'diycamera' but that didn't retrn anything. Knowing the right search term(s) helps.

Chuck

Hi,

Is anyone familiar with an outfit called http://diycamerakit.com?

They have a custom bellows kit that looks interesting -- if a fair amount of work.

Chuck Peacock

Don was one of the instructors when I attended the Ansel Adams workshop in Yosemite back in the early 1980s.

With Don gone I think they only ones left are John Sexton and Olivia Parker.

Ansel...

Widelux F7
Leica CL -- not reliable but a great pocket camera when it worked.
Ikeda 4x5 Field Camera
210mm Symmar-S -- Missed this one so much I replaced it
90mm Angulon -- replaced with f/8...

In the USA, Freestyle carries this stuff for $72.99.

There's also a fairly nasty MDB sheet that states "A hazard for drinking water sources when only small quantities get into groundwater."
...

Will the Jobo 2521 tank (for a single 2509n reel) work on a Uniroller, or do you need to get a bigger tank like the 2551 to roll reliably?

A couple of people have asked what exactly was wrong with the Calumet. My friend got this camera from his local school system. They had used it as a parts camera to keep a number of others running...

Hello,

While I'm a new member of the list, I’ve been shooting 4x5 for about 30 years using a Crown Graphic and an Ikeda folding field camera. Lately I’ve been getting an itch to try some things...

I certainly understand that the lens and the shutter don't have to be made at the same time. And in many cases it's obvious that lenses have been remounted into a different shutter.

Before I...

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Does any one out there know when Compur switched from to old style 1-2-5-10-25-50-100-... shutter speed sequence to the modern, geometric 1-2-4-8-15-30-60-125-...?

It seems to me that Leica...