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    Re: Deranged Aperture Blades

    It looks like one of the blades is missing. Can you return the lens for a refund?
  2. Re: Big snow coming to the Sierra Nevada this weekend

    I as on a birding trip to ND last June and our guide, from Minot, described overpasses over I90 completely filling up with drifted snow in past winters. There were still 20’ high piles of plowed snow...
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    Re: Camera Scanner 2024

    Here is my camera "scanner" setup that I made for copying 35mm slides and negatives. The frame is 3/4" plywood. I have an Olympus Pen F bellows, OM-1 50mm macro lens, and Fujifilm X-E1 16MP digital...
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    Re: Adapting 35mm lens.

    Not natively, but many SLR’s had T-mound adapters that were made for them, e.g., https://www.ebay.com/itm/283911351011
  5. Re: Where to find information about the manufacturing date for a Zeiss Tessar?

    The list at https://vintagelens.nl/2018/10/05/3755/ also agrees with 1938.
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    Re: Adapting 35mm lens.

    The T2 mount (M42×0.75) is 55mm.

    https://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~westin/misc/mounts-by-register.html
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    Re: The AI thread

    Giclée is another term with more than one root meaning, having been derived from a French noun for a spurt of some liquid.
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    Re: Half plate to 4x5 conversion

    Here are pictures of a 4x5 reducing back I made for my half-plate Okuhara. I used pieces of exotic hardwoods that I had from other projects. The back has ears to mimic those on the original book-form...
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    Re: Vintage Ikeda Anba Japan View Camera 5x7

    Based on the half-plate Okuhara camera I have and ones I have seen on the Web, I do not think your camera is an Okuhara. The handle fitting is different from mine and the clips to hold the ground...
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    Re: why does this happen on some posts?

    Don’t skip posts that show the option — it is not the fault of the poster, rather it is the software, so you would be ignoring valid posts. I don’t want to install Tapatalk, so I just select the...
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    Re: Make water look wet

    I like this one. It’s not the usual mirror-flat water surface so it gives the water some movement without smoothing it out to nothingness.
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    Re: why does this happen on some posts?

    Ignore the app and just use the browser option. LFP does not use complex web effects, so the browser view is fine.
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    Re: Source for used filters

    That's it. Thanks.
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    Source for used filters

    I am trying to relocate the site that sells used (and new) lens filters. I think that “filter” is in the site URL. It is run by one person and was mentioned before, but I did not bookmark it.

    Any...
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    Re: Real Blind Photogs?

    Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists

    July 8 - September 17, 2023

    https://www.bedfordgallery.org/exhibitions/current-season/sight-unseen
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    Re: Vintage Ikeda Anba Japan View Camera 5x7

    Here is what you need for your tripod attachment. It came with my Okuhara half-plate field camera. The graph paper is 1" by 8ths.

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    You could also attach a Folmer Graflex Crown...
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    Re: What's going to become of photography?

    Photographers have been altering their photos for a long time. Photographers such as Eadward Muybridge had libraries of cloud negatives that they would print into other pictures. See...
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    Re: What's going to become of photography?

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/MagrittePipe.jpg
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    Re: SINAR Norma: Now I get it!

    Brass shim stock, 3”x6”, 1 each 0.001”, 0.002”, 0.003”, 0.005”, $3.52 at...
  20. Re: Anybody have an idea what this camera is?

    What size is it? Judging by the markings on the ground glass, it looks larger than 4x5 or even Japanese Half Plate.

    The rear slide mechanism looks more modern than what I have seen on the older...
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    Re: History Question

    Going to an authoritative source, a few date citations from the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition (1989) (https://www.oed.com/oed2/00022922):

    "d. Photogr. and Television. Applied to...
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    Re: History Question

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    Re: Autistic Photographers NOT Images of

    Do you mean DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), rather than PDR? Either way, self-diagnosing has its pitfalls.
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    Re: JB Weld Tested

    JB Weld is a two-part epoxy, so it will flow, similar to cold honey. It can be sanded, drilled or tapped when cured. It would be best if you completely remove the handle so it can be clamped together...
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    Re: JB Weld Tested

    I used JB Weld "Kwik Steel" on my Weston meter. It is billed on the packaging as a steel reinforced epoxy.
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    Re: JB Weld Tested

    This is a repair to the light baffle hinge on my Weston Master light meter that I did about 10 years ago with JB Weld "Kwik Steel". I removed the baffle from the meter and made a "form" with...
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    Re: Resource for Brass Lens Era Screws?

    Here in Chicago, I go to Ace Hardware for small brass screws and bolts. For the smaller sizes (1-72 and finer), I go to a hobby shop that sells model railroading supplies.
  28. Re: Artist Refuses Prize After His AI Image Wins at Top Photo Contest

    Tell that to Man Ray: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265487

    Or to Anna Atkins:...
  29. Re: Artist Refuses Prize After His AI Image Wins at Top Photo Contest

    And the manipulation of photographs precedes Photoshop by more than 100 years.
  30. Re: Artist Refuses Prize After His AI Image Wins at Top Photo Contest

    I, personally, have never referred to any form of digital image as a “photograph”. I began calling them “digital images” around 1980, when we first used LANDSAT images in our archaeological research....
  31. Re: Details for April 28&29, 2023 Meetup of Midwest Large Format Asylum - open to all

    … and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is close by.
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    Re: W Eugene Smith Biography - which one?

    You should also add “The Jazz Loft Project” to your Smith reading list.
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    Re: Cell Phone Images

    Nice image, but it is a violet, not a wild strawberry.
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    Re: Glue used to make bellow.

    There is a famous (at least within the academic field) example in Linguistics of a worker blowing himself up by dropping a cigarette into an “empty” 55 gallon drum that had held a flammable solvent....
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    Re: What's The Worst That Could Happen?

    Before my time. My father was born in Chicago in 1913, but I grew up elsewhere and moved to Chicago in 1976 to work at the Field Museum. Lived in Wrigleyville until 1986, then moved northwest to Bryn...
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    Re: What's The Worst That Could Happen?

    Yep. But now it is called “DRiV”. I go past frequently going from Chicago to Evanston on McCormick.
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    Re: Post your churches

    One of my first LF photos, from last summer, of the chapel at North Park Village, Chicago, the former Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Taken on an Okuhara half-plate field camera with a home-made...
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    Re: Name/Guess the Artist...

    The angle of the hand and wrist differs between the two prints, so they would be from different photos.
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    Re: Name/Guess the Artist...

    +1
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    Re: Susan Sontag..

    Interesting readings.

    I would also add Errol Morris’ book Believing is Seeing to the reading list. He also discusses the Abu Ghraib photos, among others.
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