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    Re: Antique Steinheil Lens

    Jim in your long way of testing lenses the Steinheil Antiplanet is a missing.....I think you will have some surprises and it will worth some films.
    I have some in good and bad conditions and it...
  2. Thread: Image circle?

    by Ongarine
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    Re: Image circle?

    Yes Emil you are lucky:) , the Suter Anastigmat series II 520 mm. f6,3 will cover 16x20. I had an old photocopy of a Suter catalogue I studied very well because I had to test some of the their...
  3. Re: Voigtlaender Collinear Ser. II No. 8 question

    As Jim said it is a 17 inches or 430 millimeters and the front element is 2 3/4 inches or 70 millimeters. It is a 3+3 symmetrical anastigmat.
    It will cover around 80° and at full aperture f 6,3...
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    Re: Rome and Florence

    Sorry to say that Christmas time is not the best period to visit Florence and Rome and take pictures with LF.
    There will be crowded of tourists and many "Christmas lights" will be hanging in the...
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    Re: Let's Vote!!! Only one wide lens, 75 or 90?

    In my experience 90 solves many (almost all) situations, 75 is more specific and too wide for my taste. I vote for the 90.
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    Re: Shen Hao FCL-57-A

    Dear Luca,
    the best choice to go is a Shen Hao 5x7 with a 4x5 back, you could have some money selling the 4x5. This seems to me the most practical way to do some botanics.
    Sinar is heavy on the...
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    Re: 5 grand? What am I missing?

    Ernest,
    I used a 60 mm. Hypergon with fan, it was owned by a very old photographer mounted in a type (not original) Sinar recessed lensboard.
    The slides were produces more than 25 years ago and I...
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    Re: 5 grand? What am I missing?

    Any old/modern monorail camera with bag bellow and recessed lens board will works.
    I used it on an old Sinar P2 (first serie) mounted directly on the recessed board.
    It was tricky to use and the...
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    Re: 5 grand? What am I missing?

    I used many years ago a 60 mm. with fan to make a 10x12 cm. slide of a ceiling in a church.......it was not so easy and the Ektas flew as water in the fall.
    Hypergon could be interesting not at that...
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    Re: Ciao/Hello from Italy

    Sono qui anch'io a Verona all'ombra di San Zeno
    Here I'm in Verona in Saint Zeno shadow.
    Daniele
  11. Thread: Foma N111

    by Ongarine
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    Re: Foma N111

    I'm a graded paper guy too! :-)
    Foma N111 is called Fomabrom and I used it in grade 2 (normal) so no comparision with hard grade.
    It is a good paper with a "neutral/cold" tendence, depends the...
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    "Others" enlarging lenses

    For years and years of darkroom work I used mainly brands of enlargers lenses with more or less satisfaction.
    In the last months I became curious about performances of English enlarger lenses:
    -...
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    Re: When in Rome...where to buy Efke film

    Ooops I forget the URL...........
    www.fotomatica.it
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    Re: When in Rome...where to buy Efke film

    Nemez no more deal the Efke products, he had stop 3 years ago.
    The place where you can find Efke films is Fotomatica that is located near Treviso in the Northeast of Italy.
    Here there is their...
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    Best INSURED international shipping

    I live in Italy and I sold and bought many items (big wooden cameras, huge lenses, films and paper) via eBay and off all over the world (USA, England, Germany, France, Canada, China...)since 1998. ...
  16. Barberino Val D’Elsa, between Florence and Siena

    Frank. if you will decide to visit S. Gimignano take a look to Chiesa di S. Agostino
    you will find frescos of Benozzo Gozzoli one of the most underestimate Italian painter. Some others frescos by...
  17. Barberino Val D’Elsa, between Florence and Siena

    Frank you are in the middle of the Tuscany, more in the heart of "pittoresco".
    Here a usefull link http://www.barberinovaldelsa.net/
    With a little dictionary English-Italian you will have very...
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