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    Re: Beginner: Regular or DB lenses?

    Well one good reason to purchase a Sinar shutter is if you plan to use barrel lenses.
    You could use a combination of modern lenses on DB board and/or a set of nice barrel lenses with many aperture...
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    Re: Beginner: Regular or DB lenses?

    Or you could also get a Shen Hao XPO45 which accept a Sinar shutter albeit with restricted front movements for field work.

    It is of course a lot more expansive than a used Sinar F or F2 as you...
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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    http://www.lucbenacphoto.com/img/s7/v157/p1145313326-4.jpg

    CZJ Tessar 135/4.5 (1938), D-23, Ilford Delta 100, Sinar P
  4. Re: What lens would you consider the sharpest wide open?

    Should will call it - luck of the draw - as we can also add sample to sample variation.
    Would you say that there is a good chance that an Ektar 203/7.7 will be decently sharp wide open and as there...
  5. Re: What lens would you consider the sharpest wide open?

    Which complicate matters further for un coated lenses, as to me a lens stopped down to 6.3 or 7.7 is not the same than a lens wide-open at the same apertures.
    I often like the look of un coated...
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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    Thank you very much.
    I just found an old Dial-set Compur on eBay to move the 1938 Tessar 135/4.5 from a Sinar Db board to it.
    It has I think ten aperture blades so I am looking forward to it.
    ...
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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    Did think about it like one...
    You get more delicate tones and I am more in your face.
    Likely be able to use controlled lightning would be great and I am sure that after looking at all the set-ups...
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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    Not to the caliber of Jonathan's but a few addition from this week-end playing some more with un-coated lenses.

    http://www.lucbenacphoto.com/img/s12/v187/p1135080981-4.jpg
    D-23, Ilford Delta 100,...
  9. Re: Kodak Anastigmat 152mm f7.7 help needed by forum experts

    Thanks Jim. You won't remember it, but as a beginner in a new field, I always think that I screw-up something. I will take the opinion of the master as money in the bank and use the lens as the...
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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    Another new lens to test. Not a very Christian one.
    Lens cells are a Dialyte Kodak Agnastigmat 152/7.7 but the barrel is likely from a B&L Tessar f6.3.

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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    I got some lens cells from afriednly forum member for a CZJ Tessar 135/4.5 that looks dated 1938. I put it ona Sinar DB shutter and tried it out.
    I love it.
    ...
  12. Re: Kodak Anastigmat 152mm f7.7 help needed by forum experts

    To IanG

    Ian I could not reply to your PM as you mail box is full.
    I posted here as as I do not want to seem rude by not answering you right away.:


    Hello Ian,

    Thank you very much, that is...
  13. Re: Kodak Anastigmat 152mm f7.7 help needed by forum experts

    I have taken some shots last night:

    Wide open
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    F/11
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    F/8
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  14. Re: Kodak Anastigmat 152mm f7.7 help needed by forum experts

    Ok so I switched the front and back cells which should be identical in terms of glass.
    This allows both cells to seat properly - screwed in - and the iris to operate.

    Here are photos of the lens:...
  15. Re: Kodak Anastigmat 152mm f7.7 help needed by forum experts

    I was afraid of that....
    I bought it from Jim's Camera in Seattle. The store itself is closing but he is still selling on-line.
    I already accepted the partial refund. The lure from old barrel...
  16. Re: Kodak Anastigmat 152mm f7.7 help needed by forum experts

    I will post some tonight after work.

    This thread at photo.net http://photo.net/large-format-photography-forum/00RY7J talk about the same lens in a shutter.

    The shutter looks like this (cleaner)...
  17. Kodak Anastigmat 152mm f7.7 help needed by forum experts

    Hello,
    I need some help and guidance.
    I purchased a Kodak Anastigmat 152mm f7.7 in barrel - at least that was it was advertised as.
    I have received the lens and of course it is in the wrong...
  18. Re: LF image only, no written comments, reply by image only

    http://www.lucbenacphoto.com/img/s7/v158/p1093358345-4.jpg
  19. Thread: Flowers Anyone?

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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    Thank you both.
    The lighting was provided for free by Nature, but adjusted in PS.....
    I am not sure if this is based on the design (dialyte) but the lens is nice wide open which I do not like from...
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    Re: CZJ Tessar - "critical f-stop"

    Yes that is what I forgot to mention, this was for shots with specular highlights - flowers/bushes wet with dew in early morning raising light . I found that uncoated lenses seem to have a "nice"...
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    Re: CZJ Tessar - "critical f-stop"

    Thanks Ken.
    I did find that under f11 the CZJ 250, 180 or 135 where a little bit soft anyway.

    On a slightly different topic I have been thinking about your comments on aperture blades today...
    I...
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    CZJ Tessar - "critical f-stop"

    Hello,
    I read in this forum a reference to Zeiss insiders by Peter K Peter K in a post from 2010.

    >>>>>Reckmeyer, as I know a Zeiss staff member, coined the notion "critical f-stop", the f-stop...
  23. Thread: Flowers Anyone?

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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    D-23, Ilford Delta 100, Kodak Agnastigmat 203/7.7, Sinar P

    http://www.lucbenacphoto.com/img/s6/v138/p1106791160-4.jpg

    I do like this lens wide open. The Sinar DB Copal iris is terrible with...
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    Kodak Ektanon Dialyte F7.7

    Hello,
    I just purchased a Kodak Anastigmat 152mm f7.7 in barrel from Jim's Camera. I have not received it yet but it should nicely complement the Kodak Anastigmat 203mm f7.7 mounted on a Sinar DB...
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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    That's very nice...
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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    Sinar P CZJ 250/4.5 DD23

    http://www.lucbenacphoto.com/img/s12/v187/p1099279073-4.jpg
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    Re: Around the house?

    Jonathan,
    Aside the usual "I pat your back and you pat mine", the new series (stills + flowers) that you have been posting since your return are an example to follow in terms of creativity and...
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    Re: Useful IKEA items.

    The name is DIGNITET.
    While you mention it, the set of paper drawers with the printer on top is also from Ikea.
    I think that it fits a 16x20.
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    Re: Useful IKEA items.

    They have some very nice wall mounts with a steel cable that I find useful to let prints dry out of the way. Or just let them hanging fro a while until you decide which keep, which needs touching-up,...
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    Re: Still-Life Images, 2015

    Thank you very much.

    That one was designed by a French architect :
    http://www.forge-de-laguiole.com/fr/17-laguioles-eric-raffy

    The moment I saw it, I had to have it (I am from this region of...
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    Re: Still-Life Images, 2015

    Sinar P CZJ 180/4.5 f5.6 Delta 100 DD23
    http://www.lucbenacphoto.com/img/s5/v129/p1094301787-4.jpg




    ShenHao XPO45 Fujinon-NW 125/5.6 f11 Delta 100 DD23...
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    Re: Still-Life Images, 2015

    Sinar P CZJ 250/4.5 Delta 100 DD23

    http://www.lucbenacphoto.com/img/s7/v158/p1093358345-4.jpg
  33. Re: Wisner, Zone VI. Or Shen Hao? Field camera help?!

    I had a Chamonix 45N2, a Wista 45DX but I finally settled on a Shen Hao XPO45.
    It is non folding, very sturdy and the ergonomics just work better for me.

    Cheers,

    Luc
  34. Thread: Flowers Anyone?

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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    Rainy week-end and a new lens to try so I have been playing around.

    Sinar P Kodak Agnastigmat 203/7.7 wide open Delta 100 DD23

    http://www.lucbenacphoto.com/img/s7/v167/p1083548277-4.jpg
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    Re: Scanning Resolution

    Excuse by advance my lack of knowledge but I seem to recall reading instructions for Piezography ink printing on QTR to the effect that it was "better" to send the image to QTR at full pixel...
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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    Sinar P CZJ Tessar 135/4.5 Delta100 DD23

    http://www.lucbenacphoto.com/img/s12/v185/p1074550117-4.jpg
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    Re: Piezography good test print image

    Actually if you look for the custom profiling on Piezography and download the package, I think to remember that it contains a tonal scale to print.
    I have been thinking about having a custom profile...
  38. Thread: Flowers Anyone?

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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    Trying out a Fujinon-L 210/5.6 single coated lens against the sun

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    ShenHao XPO45 Delta 100 D23
  39. Thread: Just Leaves

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    Re: Just Leaves

    Trying out a newly acquired Fujinon-L 210/5.6 Delta 100 D-23 Shen Hao XPO45

    http://www.lucbenacphoto.com/img/s5/v119/p677838784-4.jpg
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    Re: MF (6x6,6x7,6x9,6x12) B&W film images sharing

    My Minolta Autocord
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    Kodak Medalist
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    are the only MF camera that I have kept and I had a lot :-)
    I am trying out Rolleinar 1 and 2

    Might come across you on the North Shore...
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