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The "Dance of the Dark Cloth" can be simplified with a strip each of velcro hooks and loops. Squeeze the velcro together when you are focusing and remove the cloth before you move away from the...

For the last few days my attempts to get onto this forum have been met by a page announcing that this (and several other forums hosted by Lusenet) have been mov ed to photo.net, are temporarily...

36 years old (one year older than my father, who is 35 and staying that way). Got my first 35mm SLR ten years ago and my Tachihara 5x4 four years ago. I dearly love the 5x4 but make more money...

I often use my Nikon F5 as a meter, especially if I'm shooting velvia. The matrix metering system is quick and accurate if you want to meter the whole scene quickly, or there is the choice of spot...

Thanks Tony for your response. I've placed an order this morning for one, based on your response and information from a couple of other sources. No one using it for 5x4 scanning has anything bad...

Thanks for that Miles. I've seen that page before. Can you please respond again when you've taken your scanner out of its box and made some scans from 5x4 sheets? I'd be very interested in YOUR ...

I'm considering buying the Epson 2450 and I'd like to hear from those of you who have bought or regularly use one for scanning 5x4 sheet film, both colour and B &W. Do you have any regrets after...

Yes, using LF has made me a better photographer.

I learnt photography on a manual 35mm, and was happy if I got 2 to 3 "keepers" per roll. Since learning to me more circumspect with composition...

Richard, I think they are having problems with their server - I just tried a link which I have used regularly and received an error message to the effect that I "don't have authority to access the...

One of my tripods is a second-hand, fibre-glass, surveyors tripod. It is a little heavy, and completely unuseable on a hard slippery surface (floor tiles, lino, etc), but it is rock solid when...

If the edge that you see through the corner is curved, you are looking at the rim of the lens, and this will result in vignetting of your image. If you are seeing no edge at all, you should get a...

Good-bye and good riddance..

I LIKE sharp focus - my preferences are all that count for me! Luckily, there are enough people around here who also like it and keep me in film money!

Those people (like me) think soft focus /...

Great site Nigel. As others have said, clean and pleasant design, quick viewing times and wonderful shots displayed. I was expecting the portfolios to have a common theme internally, but that was...

LF improves my creativity on a base level, because I am forced to create the image in my mind before I set the camera on the tripod and attempt to re-create the image on film and paper. Even if I...

Film capture of the image (Velvia and FP4 for LF, Fuji Press 400 & 800 for 35mm) then scanned and printed on Lambda 2 printer. Most dollar value sales come from the 35mm horse race finish photos,...

Peter,

Here in Kalgoorlie, I sell many prints through 2 galleries (approx 200 prints per year) as well as about 100 per year in a monthly market stall. All of these are of images taken locally,...

Hi Adrian,

Just a small correction on the response from Brian; the current Tachihara does have front shift, though he is correct to say there is no rear shift. I have a Tachihara, but no...

I too wonder about Mr Greenspun's motivation for closing the server on this forum while still maintaining the photo.net forum (I don't blame him - he can't go on absorbing a cost such as this...

Sal,

Don't take it to heart: There are a few smart alecs on any forum!

Graeme

Gary,

I use a company in Brisbane, Australia, called fstoponline (http://www.fstoponline.com.au/) who print out on a lambda printer. Their maximum size prints are 120cm x 30m, you can send your...

Unfortunately negative film will only get me to 160 ISO, and it can't be pushed the rest of the way. The exposure times are in the laps of the gods, since the meteors only last a couple of seconds...

With the Leonid Meteor Shower due on 18-19 of November, I'm currently preparing for a small trip to capture the event on film. Astronomical web sites suggest 4 00ISO film, but this can't be found in...

Dave,

I don't know which is more important to you - the journey or the photos - but my in experience I have found it best to drive to a spot with many subject types, or one you particularly...

Mine also has two 1/4" sockets, but I believe that they each have adaptor threads in them. I think you can take out the adaptors to make them 3/8", though I haven't tried this yet.

Foiled by physiology! In just about every aspect of our physiology, one side of the body is controlled by the other side of the brain. In a cruel twist that severely hampers this particular...

Andrew,

I live in Kalgoorlie and regularly use Perth Pro Sales (for overnight delivery) and Vanbar for all other delivery modes.

Yes - DBI is probably the lazy man's answer to precise Zone system testing and calibration, but then, I'm a lazy man. After less than 5 negs developed by inspection, I could see a marked...

Sounds like a good idea to me. Do you have email addresses for the people that count at those companies? If so, can you post them here and I'll send emails on a regular basis.

Gamma rays will go through lead with little hinderance, but they will also go through film without fogging it (at least in the low doses that are called background radiation).

I believe that the...

The lead bags for film are designed for the (moderate) doses of radiation produced by airport X-ray machines, and are definitely enough protection from background radiation.

I don't think they...

When Mr Oppenheimer tells me I should take precautions against radiation by freezing my film in a lead bag, I start to worry about more than my film!

I'm sorry dg and Dmitri, I don't have an answer to your questions. My response is aimed at the people who always question "why" a question is asked, and then don't offer a solution to the...

Martin, Some consumer electronic stores sell "talking timers", which count from a set time (hours: minutes: seconds) down to zero at minute intervals and then up to ten minutes after the desired...

Hi George,

I posted the question you refer to. Here is the link to the question and its answers:

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0057kA

The most difficult part...

Hi Martin,

My enlarger is in fact a vertically mounted Cambo monorail camera. I built a neg holder with MDF board and 3 ply which sits on the rear standard. The camera is mounted on the wall...

Having processed a few trannies myself, I found that if the temperature that I dried them at was too high, they would curl as you describe. Once stored with the other trannies in my files, the...

Hi Doug,

You're after a Linhof lens board. You will have no trouble finding these boards second hand at any shop that deals in LF gear. They sell regularly on ebay as well (search for Copal). ...

Does anyone have a repair manual PDF for a synchro compur shutter? This shutter is on my Super Angulon 90/8, and now has one of the shutter leaves hanging limp ly across the aperture. Finding a new...

I don't know if this will add to, or reduce the confusion, but here's the way I think of it:

When you're looking at the emulsion side, the corner nearest to the notches will be in a clock wise...