Monty,
That's good to know. Might still be interesting, but not the shot I had envisioned.
Alan,
That's a great walking tour! I think I'll spend the afternoon poking at maps using that!
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Monty,
That's good to know. Might still be interesting, but not the shot I had envisioned.
Alan,
That's a great walking tour! I think I'll spend the afternoon poking at maps using that!
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A spot opened up for a day trip to Manhattan. We get dropped off by Rockefeller center.
Suggestions for places to visit? I can see that MOMA is within a short walk.
It would be kinda fun to be...
Exotic? Caffenol, I guess. Pros: it's a staining developer like Pyro, and the ingredients are household substances, so it's fairly safe.
Not so exotic:
D-23 Pros: cheap to make from scratch, some...
You've gotten some great advice in this thread.
Three things:
1. How big noses appear in a picture (Leslie Strobel calls it "strong perspective") depends on how close the lens is. Set up your...
I want to thank everyone for their contributions to this thread, particularly Drew Wiley, and Richard Ritter. I'm going to be away from the forum for a little bit, and if I discover anything new on...
Thank you everyone,
I've researched Renaissance Wax before, and came across a conservation case study that lets me know it's not for me.
I've now filed Lexol and Neat's Foot Oil away for...
What do you suggest for waxing leather bellows, and polishing finished wood?
I've read a bunch of threads on here, but I've also seen some contradictory information, and I can't quite seem to wrap...
Don't you need to replace the IR blocking cover glass with something that has the same refractive index? Otherwise how can you make infinity, if your effective focal length is 2-4mm shorter?
I've been using the Bill Atkinson / Outback Print color test image for years to dial in color on my printer.
It would be great to have a reference for what green sensitive film can actually see. I...
I can't comment on lens availability.
But as to why 8x10 for "younger folk?"
1. Wood and brass cameras look cool. Bigger ones look cooler.
2. Big lenses look cool. Brass ones look cooler.
3....
Dan, I found a very nice pdf of Traité encyclopédique de photographie via archive.org https://archive.org/details/traiteencycloped04fabr_0/page/n6
Your article is this one, I believe?...
Thanks for the upload, Neil, that's exactly the kind of resource I was having trouble finding.
For whoever interested, I read someone else's take on "affordable":
A cup of coffee is cheap,
a bag...
Thank you Dan, this is exactly the kind of thing I had hoped to learn about!
Ah! Excellent! That was in fact what I meant by "decent", giving up little to newer lenses except for maximum...
Hi all,
At what point did decent, affordable, wide angle lenses show up? My understanding is that common prewar lenses were mostly Tessars in the normal to long range, with a handful of dialyte...
A ha! Very cool!
Especially the "poke it with a stick" method! Excellent!
Thank you everyone, for your replies, and for replying quickly!
Will
p.s.
I just poked it. This one rotates...
I'm stumped on how to figure this thing out. It's a doohicky found on the end of a wooden folding bed camera that keeps the back assembly from falling off the rails. But! I don't know what it's...
There's some diy schematics out there that do what you ask, except you need to hook it to a computer. Basically, you use an infrared detecting LED in series with a 9v battery, a resistor, and solder...
Just sent my order in for a copy! Thrilled to get ahold of his work. I've been reading his posts here for years, and I'm very excited to see his work up close!
Humm, I don't think I would have thought of black silicone. I'll have to ponder that further. The photo tape is also a good idea.
Hey, everyone!
I've got a 5x7 Conley, with cracking and flaking on the outer layer of the bellows. The inner layer is actually in pretty okay shape, and with a modest amount of work should be just...
I never knew that! That's actually really amazingly useful.
Just last week I was reading a post on here, where someone plotted out how much bulb life you save by using a Variac. Something like using 110V instead of 120V nets you a noticeably increased...
I wish you well, that must have been a fun and frustrating experience. It is good to receive personal recognition. It is a weird feeling for there to be no financial recognition, but people are weird...
Thanks for your ideas, everyone! I see some really good points in this discussion. Perhaps I should consider something like John Kasian's idea, and use a large box as a basis for a rigid changing...
Hi all,
So, I woke up this morning with an idea for a faster, easier, bigger darkroom for myself, and I'm worried I'm missing something really obvious.
The problem: my house leaks light like a...
I'm pretty interested. Particularly for finding out what they made the bellows out of! If I could figure out some cheap cardboard bellows that actually were light tight...
I have a suggestion.
Take your existing negatives, and make some contact prints, some cyanotypes, and try to inkjet print from your scans. Write on your prints what exposure, and what development...
Sure. Check out Ken Lee's tech page, here: http://www.kennethleegallery.com/html/tech/index.php scroll down until you see "Very Simple Film Developer". It's D-23, available as a mix your own kit from...
Is that in US dollars? Seems off by an order of magnitude, unless this is some kind of collector's object. Interesting.
I had planned on trying this approach:
First, I was going to print a autochrome-like filter pattern on clear mylar or acetate in 4x5 size. Then I was going to sandwich it in a filmholder in front...
I hate to suggest something that might waste film, but...! You might try doing two negatives (or two clip tests) absolutely identically, and check to see if the results are actually identical. This...
Er, hrm. Well, which surfaces should I be checking with a micrometer* to figure out if my ground glass and film holder are going to agree?
*a lucky find in my dad's desk drawer!
Also, for what to tell your wife:
...
I have no idea. For me, I can be honest: it makes me happy, this is something I want to try, I want to demystify this and find out for myself what it is...
Hi!
I doubt I'll say anything new, but here's my two cents:
4x5 is easier and cheaper than 8x10 or 5x7.
The cheapest 4x5 monorail cameras are usually the Calumet/Orbit 400 series, probably...
Were those the self-cocking type?
I haven't used it in the darkroom yet, but it is often easy to convert an ordinary webcam to infrared. I'm building a darkbox - a rigid changing tent, basically - big enough to hold tanks for dev,...
I've seen a really inexpensive 203/7.7 Ektar around. If the OP is interested, pm me and I'll shoot you a link. It's unlikely to have the same kind of rendering that he's looking for. It's not a...
Thank you everybody! I had a hunch that would be the consensus. As for paying too much...well, my spouse has pointed out many times that it is far more expensive to buy the thing that is almost right...
So, I made that classic e*** mistake - buying the slightly cheaper thing in a hurry, and not remembering to get the slightly more expensive thing that comes with the flange.
So! I bought an...
Some people have had luck with reversed 35mm lenses. Working distance is very poor - basically flange focal distance, so for Nikon, 46.5mm. T-mount is 55mm, and Mamiya RB/RZ67 lenses are right around...