I photograph buildings for my business and for fun with 4x5 Technikardan or digital. Most often I use a 90mm Grandagon or a longer lens for exterior images. I do use the 90mm for interior images...
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I photograph buildings for my business and for fun with 4x5 Technikardan or digital. Most often I use a 90mm Grandagon or a longer lens for exterior images. I do use the 90mm for interior images...
See Large Format Photography article https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?155357-24-inch-lens-on-Chamonix-8x10 I have a Calumet C-2 8x10 and with a 30-34 inch bellows...
If you are trying to shoot around the house - you will want some bellows extension for more close-up images that you might shoot. I am on my third 4x5 camera. The first two cameras were rail...
I have a C-1 "Black Beast" I carry in maybe 1/2 mile from my car after going out scouting to find the first image. I'm not hiking with it - I have other formats for that - that are much lighter than...
Drew, sorry to hear that Golden Gate National Recreational area is compromised. I always wanted to do some large format photography there. I didn't know that the San Francisco area was as unsafe as...
Check the ground glass corner cutouts after stopping down to make sure nothing is blocking the full coverage on the film plane - and that the iris is round
I have been researching the issue of another camera and/or wide angle lens for a while for 8x10 format. With the nature of 8x10 having less depth of field as a format because the lenses are a longer...
I have an old 160mm f/9 Hugo Meyer WA Weitwinkel-Aristostigmat that came mounted in a shutter. It would almost barely covered 8x10. The 200mm should have good coverage. You will need to look up...
Wide angle lenses for 8x10 are a little bit unusual. The more expensive and the newer the lenses are (that have more coverage for movements) then they are really big and heavy. Such lenses: 155mm...
seems like a lot of work to notch holders. For black and white work, I just put the film into my Jobo tank sequentially and keep the holders in order sequentially in the darkroom. I write on the...
I do the same thing as Doremus! I have calculated distances from the center of lens to film plane and shown that correction on a 3 1/2 x 5" cards that I keep in my camera case. I have a number of...
Also it depend on what you what to taking images of. when I purchased my first 8x10, I purchased an old 12" Wollensak Velostigmat II lens - for portraits. Latter I purchased a 240mm Nikor W (as a...
Very nice comparison Andrew! I have been working with perspective control in enlarging for many years, by tilting the easel and negative carrier. (many years ago I purchased a perspective device...
I was thinking about a 8x10 wide angle camera as well. I ended up with the question - do I need a bag bellows or not? Then does the camera needs to have both bag bellows and standard bellows? Will...
I used a Omega View camera for a couple decades - which I packed around everywhere. What I ended up doing, was to buy an additional rail, and cut it down very short so that I could shoot with the...
John Kasian is absolutely correct about lens weight. I found out years ago the hard way, with a 12 inch Wollensak Velostigmat mounted on a wooden tail board camera. I broke the front standard of...
I watched the You tube show on Vivian Maier - last night. It was very interesting from a number of vantage points. The show shows how she was a complex individual - with interviews by a number of...
I have photographed a number of buildings with wide angle lenses. I use a 90mm, 75mm,and a 135mm, mostly. Often for interior views, and for situations where there is only enough space to get the...
As said by PartrickMarq above, the Nikor M lenses are a bit soft close up. I have a 300mm and a 450mm and they are both wonderful for buildings and landscape / urban images. The 300mm does not have...
You need to verify that the meter is accurate with another meter that is accurate. The battery is probably the issue. I always check bellows factor with a small tape measure. I do use a 75mm, 90mm...
I sometimes forget: bellows factor, and reciprocity factor exposure correction, reciprocity development correction. stopping down. ASA setting on the meter, etc. Way too many things to remember. I...
I have been asked by a Washington State Park Ranger if I had a permit to photograph in a local State Park. She said that my equipment looked like "professional equipment." I explained that my...
With AI there is defiantly a greater possibility of re-writing and creating convenient lies for backing up someones point of view. They always had the potential for manipulation - multiple images...
I have gone to a 6X horseman loupe for my lijnhof with a long pop-out hood. it adjusts for eye sight corrections
I have spent some time with my Calumet and my widest lens I currently have for it - 6 1/2 inch f/8 Dagor - the lens covers about as much as there are movements around an inch. I keep thinking in...
Yes it is a clamp to hold the cable release and a ring to slide over the cable plunger to activate the cable release. I have one on the first Gitzo tripod head I purchased.
I think I saw a video of Bernice Abbot using a 8x10 Deardorff with a dedicated bag bellow - shooting from a tall building in New York. That might have been around the 1970's. It probably had a...
How many 8x10 cameras have a bag bellows? I often want rise with wide angle on 8x10 format - how much rise is built into the Deardorff 8x10 sliding rise on the front standard? (this is because with...
Drew sorry for the late response to your post - I must not of seen it. Your family has a fascinating history! I am very impressed that your Aunt Lucia Wiley was such a fine painter! The painting...
Why do we call film photography "analog" and not always call the newer process "digital photography"? Phillip, Brian, Pieter, and Jnantz, I think you are all correct - as language changes over time...
I have used Panda in Seattle - but they are not processing sheet film from looking at their website. I have heard of Blue Moon in Portland.
This is a very difficult question! Most used lenses for 4x5 landscape are: 3 5/8" WA Dagor (92mm) 4 3/8" WA Dagor (112mm), 90mm Grandagon, and 75mm Grandagon.
My recent belief is that 8x10 is less flexible than 4x5. I would enjoy a discussion by forum members of where 8x10 works best or better than 4x5. I have been using the 4x5 format for 49 years -...
My first lens was also a convertible 180mm / 360mm Symmar in a Copal shutter manufactured about 1968. I bought it used in 1975. It has been a good lens. It is not as clinically as sharp as later...
I have kept old film boxes - and the plastic and cardboard inserts to use for each development type of exposed black and white film. I prefer to leave the film in holders if possible.
Seed's Dry Plates company was sold to Eastman Kodak in 1902 - according to the internet. The other box with Standard extremely Rapid Dry Plate - Eastman Kodak.. is listed on the internet from the...
Seed's Dry Plates company was sold to Eastman Kodak in 1902 - according to the internet.
I was alluding to extending the plane of focus along more of a horizontal plane (for landscape work as an example) instead of a vertical plane - as you do often with a building (then stopping down...
You need to plan for what you are going to do. What size prints maximum, size of trays controls size of a darkroom sink. Color and or black and white. Size of maximum enlarger (8x10 enlargers may...
I have purchased from brick and mortar and online stores such as KEH, Igor's Camera, Glazier's in Seattle, B and H, etc. I have purchased on e-bay - but you need to be careful - read everything on...