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Chris Jordan was the guest on the Colbert Report tonight. Some here have questioned whether what he's doing is art. I think it is definitely art - he is using his photographic skills to point out the...

All good and true arguments except for one small detail - I believe you stated you were on private property - the owner of private property has every right forbid photography while you're on his...

He is not trying to make a comparison about lenses - the point he's making is that if you want sharper prints, then move up to a larger format so you enlarge your negatives less or make contact...

Chris,
back when I was in college at Boston University, I was once walking home from a bar when someone hit me in the chest with a full beer can. The car it came from was going about 50MPH - left...

Not true - much of Ansel Adam's Basic Photo Series was about things like composition, filters, perspective, and exposure. These are all still completely relevant to digital photography.

I signed up a couple of days ago. You should be aware that they expose your e-mail to spammers.

You can use a 2820 Print Test drum instead of a 2523 drum. The 2509N reel fits inside it the same way and it uses the same 270ml minimum. However, if you only want to process 1 or 2 sheets, then you...

Hi all,
thanks for the replies. I'm not really sure what I'd do with a blank scale. If I do end up sending the lens out it will most likely be to SK Grimes simply because I have dealt with them...

Hi All,
So I bought a 90mm f/6.8 Calumet Caltar-II N MC lens - I believe it's a re-branded Rodenstock lens. There are a couple of things I have noticed about the f-stops. First, the f-stop ring...

Now I see - I was thinking of either photographic or digital prints - not offset printing. Since they were using the chrome itself as a reference, I can see where the problem came from. These days...

Is it possible that the dark slides are not the right ones for the holders? Perhaps they're a little too wide. Or maybe the holders themselves are a little warped? Given the number of film holders...

Wow - that's really surprising. I would have thought that printing process would have compensated for any slight color differences between the lenses instead of accentuating it.

David S.,
I bought one of those recessed lens boards from china for my 65mm Super-Angulon. The lens board works just fine on my Linhof. However, you should be aware of a couple of things. First,...

Because of the nature of Image processing algorithms, dual cores offer the potential to make a big difference. However, the software needs to be written to take advantage of multiple cores for you to...

If you can find drivers for your scanner, I'd go with a windows box running 64-bit Windows XP. 4x5 scans get very large - easily half a gig in size and you need all the memory you can handle. 32-bit...

This is not exactly true - I can't speak to MacOS, but on Windows XP the NTFS file system supports file sizes up to 2 TB. Photoshop CS also supports files this large as long as they're saved in .psb...

Have you considered PMK Pyro or Pyrocat-HD? I use PMK - haven't tried Pyrocat-HD, They are very economical - about $25.00 for enough stock to mix 50 liters of working solution and the stock has an...

Just an update. The Fujinon lens arrived and I have mounted it in a lens board. I'm very happy I passed on the scratched Nikkor. The Fujinon is in like new condition without a mark on it. One...

Thanks for the info - I actually ended up getting a clean Fujinon C 300mm f/8.5

I'm looking at this 300mm Nikkor-M f/9 on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180056385492&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=008

it has a couple of small scratches on the...

Arggg - I got it wrong in my original post. I have a caltar-S II, not a caltar-II S - calument had both lenses at different times.


Yes - there is a small spacer ring there, but it isn't thick...

Hi Ted,
I have read in other forums (on photo.net i think) that the Calumet Caltar-II S is a re-branded Schneider Symmar-S, while the Caltar-S II is a re-branded Rodenstock.

Hi Ted,
Thanks for the reply and information. I bought the lens mounted on a sinar lensboard so it didn't come with an extension ring. Do you know where I can get an extension ring? Also, it looks...

I recently purchased a 300mm f/5.6 Calumet Caltar-II S lens to use with my linhof color 2 view camera. This is a mono-rail camera that uses the linhof technica IV front and read standards. It turns...

Hi all,
I'm considering a linhof reflex viewer for my linhof. My only concern is that it appears to only have a 2x magnification. Is this really enough for critical focusing?