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  1. Thread: Slik DX 700

    by Wilhelm
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    Slik DX 700

    Works fine with my 7# Technika and long, heavy lenses. Also with the Gandolfi 5x7 and 15" lens. Wouldn't use it for 8x10, though.
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    Large Format increases our talent

    Go to it, if you're idea of good photography is to make pictures like Fred Picker.
  3. Long Lens Selection - Telephoto vs Normal Design

    Consider the 15" Tele-Raptar. It easily covers 5x7 so there's plenty of room for movements on 4x5, and it's cheap, cheap, cheap.
  4. Current landscape photographers breaking new ground.

    It takes one to know one, Domenico.
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    Bit of fun - 'Extreme Large Format?'

    This is really stupid!
  6. Current landscape photographers breaking new ground.

    www.fatali.com
  7. Thread: Linhof Viewer

    by Wilhelm
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    Linhof Viewer

    I just bought one at eBay (about $200). It weighs just under 8 oz, and to my great disappointment is it almost worthless for composing. The center of the ground glass is nicely visable for...
  8. Use Of Mirror Device w/Large Format As Evans&Levitt

    Evans did it with 35mm, and Levitt just pointed her Rollei sideways, but Paul Strand did it with a Graflex type camera. Many of his Mexican Portfolio pictures were made that way. (The earlier...
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    cliche in landscape photography

    I went to Yosemite last year for the first time. It is spectacular, and I'm glad that I had the inspiration of AA and Watkins, and even the street vendors of San Francisco with their color post...
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    Gandolfi cameras

    Beware used Gandolfi cameras advertised as 5x7 which are really "half- plate" models. Much older and worth only about half as much.
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    Why do the contact prints look so good?

    You are comparing apples with oranges. There are many superb 35mm enlargements which can't be visually distinguished from 8x10 contact prints.
  12. Using a 50mm lens on a Omega Type DII Enlarger

    Actually, for best results with a 50mm lens, there is a recessed board.
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