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I have one of the "Xenophon" filter holders mentioned earlier. It's mounted permanently behind my 121/8 Super-Angulon (it was designed for this lens). It's a metal bracket that holds a 3" gel filter...

Beautiful shot, Tobias. There are few, if any places like that in the rest of the world, and I'm sure they are rare in England. Thanks for showing us.

Ansel no doubt had a 35mm camera (likely a Zeiss Contax) with him on that day. He carried a *ton* of gear with him while on the road (as any professional on a long assignment would).
But instead he...

What a great resource! I'll take my time and read through the many older posts. Thank you for pointing this out, Merg.

Recently, on another forum, Richard Ritter has reported that Wisner and Zone VI bag bellows are not interchangeable. And that Zone VI sold very few of the wide-angle bellows. I would ask him about...

Yes indeed, very well done Stephen!

I've used Gepe 35mm glass slide mounts. But any piece of glass that fits in your enlarger should work. I think that any commercially made glass sheet should be flat enough for the purpose.
But who...

Lexol was designed for leather-bound books, so should work in this situation. It's a long time since I owned a camera with leather bellows, but I used Lexol (a tiny amount) on those with good...

A fascinating approach and a demanding technical challenge. Well done! Those old lenses can be quite good- "they built better than they knew".

Most any LF lens made since WWII (and quite a few from before that) will provide all the resolution you could ever need, if used within their design limits. They were carefully designed and built to...

I'll recommend "Art and Photography" by the late Aaron Scharf.
And I'd search for a library with copies of "Afterimage", the publication of the Visual Studies Workshop. Plenty of artspeak to be...

I'll second the Sinar F for extreme wide-angle photography. I shot a fair amount of architecture with my Zone VI 4x5; with the bag bellows my 75mm lens was usable, if fiddly. (My architect clients...

I've had a Zone VI 4x5 for 30 years; I bought the bag bellows with the camera. It's useful for lenses 135mm and shorter, which is to say I recognize your problem. Oddly enough, I know someone locally...

I think you'll have to make one, or have one made. The old Chicago Calumet CC-series cameras also had a 4" square board, and Calumet did later buy Cambo (or was it vice-versa?), so Cambo might have...

Practice makes perfect- it's no different than any other craft in that respect. Keep at it, and soon you'll be back up to speed.

I shoot 4x5 but this may help. I develop up to 12 (absolute maximum) sheets at a time in an 8x10 tray. It has a ridged bottom and I agitate by shuffling; the film is emulsion up. 2 liters of...

To clarify a bit... Graflex never made lenses or leaf shutters. After WWII, Graflex contracted with Wollensak to supply lenses in shutters for the Graflex Speed and Crown Graphic cameras. So a...

Excellent!

The desire to avoid doing maintenance, and the desire to avoid paying for it, is built deep into our culture. All parts of it, at every scale.

"What?? Pay for fixing it? I'll just throw that junk...

Welcome aboard!
And please share some of your LF photos, when you have some that you like.

A moment's thought suggested to me that anyone using a 150/210mm lens at f/2.8 will not be interested in sharpness in the corners of the image, or range of movements wide open. So it's likely that...

oh, one more thing... those lifting arms were designed to carry a symmetrical weight (like a condenser head). The Super-Chromega carries most of its weight offset to the right; this means that over...

I recently acquired a number of the Riteway holders, and use them with my c.1992 Zone VI 4x5. A useful trick, before pulling the dark slide, is to put your left thumb on the film back and your...

KHB Photografix in Toronto is probably your best source for Omega parts. Other forum members may know of other vendors.

But don't change out that head- it's one of the best available for b/w, as...

10x seems like too high a magnification to me. 4x seems about right. But then I've been using the same Ednalite loupe since before I began using LF, over 40 years, so I may just be used to that one....

A Sinar F will be much more portable if you find a Sinar Norma rail clamp; it's surprising how much difference the short clamp will make.
And certainly the F2 will handle wide-angle lenses more...

Well done, Corran!

He was only a name to me, but I'd like to change that.
Can anyone point me to where his work can be seen?
May he rest in peace!

When Michael A. Smith was still alive, he and Paula Chamlee (both devotees of the KMV) offered new versions of those lensboards. I owned a KMV then, but had enough boards, so never followed up on...

Well done. Keep working- and show us your results!

There is a good deal of information about Goerz lenses on the front page of this site. Dagor lenses have a long and complex manufacturing history, and those articles are of some help- there are even...

"Multi-image" as in multi-projector slide shows? Certainly the Robertson in question could have been used to make graphic elements for those extravaganzas. And a lot of other copy/graphic arts...

There's an application, designed by member Jeff Conrad, on the front page of this site.
It's been redesigned since I last used it in the 2000s, but might still be useful.

And Mr. Shaw, clouds...

Here's a short and incomplete explanation.Kodachrome was introduced in the late 1930s and was the first successful color film. Meant for 8mm home movies, and in 35mm for slides to be projected. It...

Well seen and well done!

Brilliant. Omega did make an extended fine-focus dial assembly that attached to the focusing stage- it was optional on the D5XL Super-Chromega, I think.
I remember them well from my days in the...

That's quite a nice lens- we had one in the cabinet when I worked for Kodak. Only used it a few times in 25 years, but it performed well when we needed it.

I'm not familiar with that formula, either. Glad to hear that you're getting good results!
But you should be aware that any replenishment method is designed for large volumes of film. Still, its...

The shutter on your 121/8 Super-Angulon is an ordinary Compur enclosed in the lens barrel. Just an unusual example of 1950's lens "styling". I have one and it's been a favorite for many years.
As...

Well, it's really a small optical bench, one that you can take out into the field. So a true dual-purpose device...