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  1. Image circle for Nikkor 760mm mounted in shutter

    Thank you Mike, it is indeed the 760MM APO Nikkor. When I was hunting for a long focal length lens, I really wanted the 30inch Red Dot Artar, and I used to haunt eBay (for months and years) looking...
  2. Image circle for Nikkor 760mm mounted in shutter

    Please forgive me, I've searched the net for days, trying to find some information about my Nikkor 760mm process lens. I had the lens mounted in shutter by SK Grimes, but almost never use it. I...
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    Motorhome Location Vehicle?

    I'm a Airsteamer and a LF user. Often, at the same time.
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/Boondockflyfish/sunriseairstreamandRainier.jpg
  4. Thread: LF groups

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    LF groups

    I emailed everybody who responded to this thread or sent me an email directly. If you did NOT receive an email from me with a short questionaire; PLEASE, Please re-respond or send me an email to be...
  5. WWLFG (WesternWashington Large Format Group)

    Mr Thalmann, I think the Yahoo Group is a superb idea, and the idea about a website is an excellent way to make infomation availible to ALL. I have some website building skills, but in no way am I...
  6. Thread: LF groups

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    LF groups

    I should've included above--

    Do NOT post your email address directly on this thread (to reduce the possibility of email address harvesting robots from snagging it) Just post the "include me on...
  7. WWLFG (WesternWashington Large Format Group)

    I am compiling a mailing list for the PNWLFG (Pacific North West Large Format Group). If you've posted a response on this thread or the one on the main board, I have added your name to the list. If...
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    LF groups

    I am compiling a mailing list for the PNWLFG (Pacific North West Large Format Group). If you've posted a response on this thread or the one on the main board, I have added your name to the list. ...
  9. WWLFG (WesternWashington Large Format Group)

    i can't make the 6 Nov meeting. I am free the following 2 Saturdays. I think this is going to be one of the more challenging tasks. Putting out dates, and seeing who'll be able to attend.

    Dave
  10. Thread: LF groups

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    LF groups

    ANYBODY interested in setting up an informal "Get Together" Either a workshop/print-critique/general bull-session or an on-location photoshoot somewhere. (I'm leaning toward the former for the...
  11. Thread: LF groups

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    LF groups

    I'm interested TOO!! I live in Tacoma and shoot 8X10 B&W
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    Needing some new 8x10" equipment

    HEY!!!! I love my C-1
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    Info on Schneider Symmar lens

    I have the 240/480 and it's one of my favorite lenses. I use the 240 side of it almost exclusively since I have a 19" Artar. It covers 8X10 and it's my normal lens
  14. How many years have you being doing LF photography?

    since 1996, started out with an old 5X7 Korona, then bought a 4X5 Wisner Tech. I found a 8X10 Calumet C-1 and have used that for 5 years.
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    Tips for Grand Canyon / Sedona next week

    A second vote for the NORTH RIM!!!!
  16. Want to buy 8x10 set-up used: is this possible for less than $1000

    I bought a Calumet C-1 (8X10) last week on eBay, which I intended to use as a source for spare parts for the one I've been using for ten years, made out like a bandit at a cost of 400 bucks. The...
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    Just to let everyone know

    WTF?
  18. What's a Sinar auto shutter and a DB mounted lens?

    Sounds like the ideal method, like a high tech packard shutter. Can a Sinar shutter be modified to work in other cameras? Are their diferent sizes? Is the release cable routed thru the lens...
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    8x10 Lens Question

    The "Wolly 159" does a great job and just as Jeff mentioned, I bought mine at eBay for about 2 c-notes Dave
  20. What's a Sinar auto shutter and a DB mounted lens?

    I guess the subject line said it all, Sinar users or LF experts, a little help p lease, just out of curiosity. Dave
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    Praise for SK Gimes. What Great Service

    Grimes is GOD!
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    Tuesday's disaster

    I speak to you not as a 8X10 photographer, but as an active duty serviceman who just happens to shoot LF in my spare time. We will prevail! Dave
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    Ground glass for Calumet

    I have the same camera and I broke the gridded GG. I bought one from Calumet, but I have since, purchased 2 from eBay. (cheap)
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    8X10 negative holder

    I have a Besalar 45 negative holder called the Negaflat for my Besalar 45M, it a pplies tension to the negative and keeps it very flat, does any one know if they make this for 8X10. Or any other...
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    Thin, sharp BLACK LINES....(Negatives)

    I have experienced the same problem once, on 3 sheets of film shot on the same day, same location. The marks on the film look like small lighting bolts and they are slightly out of focus. I...
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    Nikkor APO 610mm

    Does anyone have experiance with Nikkor APO f9 process lenses with LF photograph y, Do these lenses perform at infinity? Are there major focus problem around th e edges. Will the 610mm cover 8X10,...
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    can lenses be recoated

    I shoot 8X10 non-professionally, and have been collecting lens for it for two ye ars, I now have two. I had a 19 inch Red Dot Artar (Goerz) mounted in shutter b y Mr Grimes last year. There are...
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    wirst watch for darkroom

    I made a cassette tape, I sat down with a tape recorder and my watch and I started off with, Stand by for 2 minute water bath. I then start monitoring my watch, I give markers every 15 secs...
  29. Thread: PYRO

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    PYRO

    In "The book of Pyro" the author suggests that PMK developer isn't suited for de ep tanks and steel film hangers, however the "Darkroom cookbok" says that it can yeild excellent results. I am a 8X10...
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