Forgot ta say it is two sheets of cotton fabric, one white and other side black. Nothing Sci-Fi about it.
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Forgot ta say it is two sheets of cotton fabric, one white and other side black. Nothing Sci-Fi about it.
I got Photographers Formulary's largest dark cloth about a month ago. The size is right on, and somewhat hefty which I like. It is not 100% light proof, maybe 95%-98% opaque and that seems fine too....
Get a proyector! Or... Put your tranny on the inside of your camera's ground glass. Get an intense reflector to shine light through the tranny and adjust the bellows to focus you image on a bright...
I would love to see large tintypes. I think that it would be wonderful to marry an old process such as that one with modern optics.
I bought one too for about the same money. Think about spending $350-400 on a shutter and another $300 to have Steve Grimes shop mount it for you.
The lens is awesome. Yes heavy, but it performs.
Contact printing is simple, very simple. Scanning and photoshopping and outputting is in my opinion more complicated and incredibly more expensive.
The simplicity of contact printing will allow...
Wait, something I would love to do if I went there again is to take a boat ride to experience the Na Pali coast from the ocean. The cliffs are imppresive and many times you get to see caves or even...
I am from Maui and yes the wind factor is present in summer. I am having a hard time on my weekends because it is the only time I get to shoot the 8x10 but with these winds it is frustrating. Most...
Robert, I noticed there is a company selling Rotatrims in all sizes at really good prices on ebay.com. Just search Rotatrim and it will come up. I definetly need one but I am afraid of spending...
The music is in the print. I don't think you can fully appreciate a print if part of your mind is focused in following the music.
Having a soothing kind of music that doesn't require attention may...
Seems to me a valid question. You want a smooth look, go for a lens that achieves that, shoot more open than closed, use neg film, and the most important thing, chose the softest lighting you can...
I don't get it! $250 for a DVD? $85 to rent it?
John, I do a lot of close ups with my 8x10, actually about 60% of all my photographs lately are from very up close. I don't know the definition of macro. I guess macro is everything photographed at...
I do in a weird way. I squegee both sides of the prints on a large piece of glass and then I lay them on kitchen paper towels on a counter and even the carpeted floor sometimes when I ran out of...
Camera Bellows is the way to go. I have seen Kodak Masterviews and other cameras with their bellows and I can tell they are very well made and the material is top quality. My masterview needs a new...
Eric, Check this bags on ebay. I bought two of them and they perfect. They hold 7 8x10 holders and the whole case is padded. Here is the...
Bruce,
I am too considering moving up. My 8x10 has become a 4x5. I was consirering formats to move on to and so I started taping sheets of paper from my computer printer together to help me to...
Chris, please tell me how is his work amazing. I have never seen color prints more washed out than those I have just seen on the monitor. I really hope it is a monitor thing.
Maybe this is truly art and maybe I just don't get it, but I am a photographer and to my eyes these are not good photographs. I do see the intention of the "Artist" trying to make subtle pictures of...
A little too funny and painful to see my fellow americans protecting themselves from... From what is the question?
Polaroid 55 has lots of contrast. I would try to shoot flat to medium contrast scenes with it, otherwise it won't work. Polaroid 55 is almost like slide film in contrast.
Ellen, you can buy all of those books and you won't feel that you have repeated information. Sure the same processes are coverer in each of the books, but with a different style and approach. The...
Jeremy here is a link http://www.rexpccard.co.jp/english/products/subpages/firerex1.html This thingy has been tested with the T1200 and it is apparently compatible.
Yesterday, I become a member of the Agfa T1200 club. I still await shipping. There is a little gadget made by a company called Ratoc Systems which will connect a SCSI to a firewire port. Forget USB,...
I have used a KMV for 4 years. It is a wonderful camera and would not buy anything else unless I could afford an ebony!!
Jerry, I was just considering the same thing for some of my negatives. It would be great to do all burning dodging and retouching in photoshop and then output a new negative wiith all corrections...
I have a G Claron 240 with plenty of the black paint flaking off. I really don't care a bit since it does not affect performance.
I photograph with 8x10 and could not think of moving on to something else. Don't need to, too much fun. Also 8x10 is extremely convenient compared to the big boys. So I think that if I could afford a...
CXC There are lots of people that work on 8x10 for the fun of it. Bigger ground glass is incredibly better for framing and focusing and you get 8x10 negatives you can contact print. By scanning you...
Yes G-claron. They were made just for that and are great and not that expensive.
I agree with deniz. If you can afford it, make it happen. When I moved from 4x5 to 8x10 I realized that it was much easier to see on the bigger ground glass. It is really a joy, you'll see.
Emile, I have not ever been to such special places so I am not the most qulified to help you with this one but...
Can you imagine being in a pristine place, the air is cool and crisp and you are...
I had exactly the same problem and since I was happy with the 210 I purchased a 240 G Claron. The 210 sits collecting dust now.
Is is 5x12 inches or centimeters?
The G-Claron 210 I have covers just fine at f22, but the slightlest tilt will vignette the corners. I got a G-240 instead and problem solved.
Contact printing and enlarging are two different things. I myself only did and still do contacts prints only. The reason is simplicity and quality. Some of my 4x5 contact prints are just truly...
I just found a company called Rockaloid that sells kits to make tintypes. Has any one used this kit ? Does it perform well enough to have some fun with it or is it better to mix one's own chemistry?...
My Ries tripod. When I stop the pick-up and decide to take the tipod out and start setting it, I can feel time coming to a complete stop. When I disassemble it, the clock starts ticking again.
Don't feel bad on top of feeling bad. It is bad enough not coming back with photographs. Most the times I go out I tell myself I am going to enjoy regardless of whether I get something or not. Yes,...
Wonderful video. It was amazing to see the image come from negative to positive out there in the sun. Almost like a very involved polaroidtype.