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It's been awhile since I've had the 4x5 out. But now it has gotten easier to develop b/w at home, and I plan on doing a lot more.

This is my son, who took my request to "stand still" to mean he...

Resurrecting an old thread to say thanks! A little searching before posting revealed that this issue had already been discussed. So thanks! Crud removal, and a slight repositioning of those tabs so...

wow, talk about a revived thread! some really great still lifes here. all shall have prizes!

all i have are wood hole saws, which will probably not work on this. i'd hoped i had a size that fit, but no. and no real way to stabilize the board. but the size 0 hole is cut already, it just needs...

i don't know colorado, but i do know google. :) there's a place in colorado called "squaw rock", apparently near some chalk bluffs (which would likely be white in color). same thing? here's a link:
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perhaps they're just upgrading their air conditioning…

When I was about eight years of age. I first wanted to be an astronaut, and then, ever practical even at that age, I decided that was unlikely. So I decided I'd become an aerospace engineer, so I...

You dremel people think everything can be solved with a dremel, don't you? :)

I might have to investigate that, thanks! Hardly fits the 'ordinary guy tools' goal I had though.

Bob B: is this a special hole saw for metal? the only ones i have are for wood. i'm not sure which would win, the lensboard or the hole saw. :) with that groove it would be self-guilding though...i...

thanks Tim. every recessed board i've come across on ebay has been sized for copal 0. i see others that have this same scored ring around the opening as well, but haven't yet seen any for copal 1. i...

Ralph: Rats. I was hoping you'd tell me a stout screw driver and a mallet would be enough to knock it loose. :)

Nick: it's definitely a groove, so it should have no bearing on whether the shutter...

hey all. i've got a recessed board for my toyo view C. it's currently drilled for a copal 0, but the metal is also scored around the opening for a copal 1 size. i need the larger size so i can try...

hey darryl, nice glow on the first one! both are nice in fact.

so why does everyone talk about green laser pointers, rather than the red ones john just mentioned? red seems like it'd be easier and cheaper (they've been around for ages). eyes are more sensitive...

Derrick: It's funny, I see all those lens-baby tilt-a-whirl cityscapes on flickr and they just leave me cold. They all look like toy cities, and the effect soon grows tiresome. Your black and white...

Thanks Jim, for taking the comment in the spirit in which it was intended.

I used to worry that I was spending more time fiddling with 'new' lenses and cameras (read: old, ebay uglies, homemade...

Jim, it appears on this forum that there are some people who will tell you're done wonderful work, no matter what you post.

I'm not that guy. ;)

That said, I'll say that some of these work, and...

Pierre: really great and creative work!

Daniel: Nice work too! I didn't know we needed poppy reserves here in California. My neighbor has a 'poppy reserve' in the cracks of his sidewalk. :) Once...

if you're printing the next day, you can bottle it all up and use it again. but developer fixer exhaust...sometimes in the same printing session, if you're doing lots of prints. i print so...

wow, i know exactly the spot you mean! there's a bridge on the 33, and you can pass under the bridge or start on the east side. a couple-mile loop...i've shot 35mm there, but never yielded anything...

Jason, i really like that self-portrait. You have a very enigmatic expression on your face. When there's nothing else to shoot, you can always shoot yourself!

it's that last image, of the path through the trees, that does it for me. just something about the combination of lens and subject. nice!

he's already confirmed, the shutter is firing.

zoom: as i mentioned, try developing a sheet of film exposed to room light. that takes the camera completely out of the equation. if you still get a...

I use a special lens pillow. I inflate it before every set up, and place it directly below where the lensboard would be. Then when I install or remove the lens, I am protected in case the lens falls...

ah, i misunderstood, and now i concur with everyone else (sorry, mike!). to me, "top right" means the notch is on the top edge, over to the right. but i could see how that could also be interpreted...

top right notch is correct. i'm not sure why mike says he thinks that's wrong. if you have the notch in the top right, then you are staring at the emulsion side. that side of the film is the side...

i use stops in front of my homemade landscape lenses without vignetting. depends on the distance from the lens, and the focal length, among other things.

seems to me you could just make your own waterhouse style stops and put them over the front of the lens. perfectly round, no pesky blades to make your bokeh pointy.

thanks Ron! I plan to have these placed next to each other, so the little one is looking sideways at his insane older brother. And the two 'normal' shots on the outside of those two.

i guess i'll have to try this again. milder agitation, and perhaps a different dev and/or film. i just want something better than the taco method! easy, cheap, and more reliable. apparently that's a...

the actual speed of a strobe is usually between 1/1000 and 1/10,000 second. so you ought not to have any problem at even 1/500. if your flash pops are unusually long, they're still going to be much...

a follow up...i gave the tanks a try, and the results were awful! the edges were 'burned' from overdevelopment, about 1/2" all the way around. no hanger holes per se, just wide bands of developed...

i gotta vote for the hyperion. i made a point of viewing the images quickly, without looking at which lens was which. didn't want to be influenced by 'brand names' and all (cooke fever...). i liked...

I've heard that taking large format portraits of small children is insane. It's probably true.

Toyo-View C, Goerz Dagor 6" lens. Shoot thru umbrella camera right, hairlight camera left in a snoot...

xmishx: gorgeous portrait! i'm becoming a fan of your work.

it's probably fine. i buy expired 4x5 film all the time from Brooks students, and have yet to run into problems. as long as your film holders are really light tight, you should be fine. but hey, if...

since my wife has promised me her palm in the next week or so, this looks interesting. i will give a try! and perhaps miss fewer shots...

both very nice xmishx! you've captured something in each.

hey jeff, that looks like my flower image! same vase, same type of flower... :)

I would weep tears of joy if my wife ever said that to me! :)