Keep the camera as low as possible and be prepared to wait a loooong time for a lull. As well as increasing the stability of the pod, the strength of the wind can drop off dramatically when you're...
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Keep the camera as low as possible and be prepared to wait a loooong time for a lull. As well as increasing the stability of the pod, the strength of the wind can drop off dramatically when you're...
Who Fatali? Where Canyonlands?
Sorry - no speak Americano.
So, back to LF...
What a lot of criticism about criticism!
Critics exist because people want to read them. Sad but true. Nothing new either - Vasari and Winckelman were continuing a tradition that was already old...
John, You ought to check out the Wim Wenders film "Until the end of the world"
On the plus side, it's extremely quick and easy to use and is lighter and far less bulky than the equivalent number of film holders. It's also a piece of cake to reload - I can unload, clean and...
Having carefully selected the Tenba backpack that was just within the size restrictions I flew Heathrow-Amman on September 12th to find that NO hand baggage was being allowed on board - so...
Have you been packing the exposed/undeveloped sheets into a box too tight? On a recent trip to Syria I did precisely that. In order to save space I was putting about 80 sheets of exposed velvia...
1x standard house brick $0.02
1x hacksaw ~ $5.00
1x visit to camera shop at 2:30AM - free
Spend the remaining $894.98 on film.
(only kidding)
Don't worry Dave - took me ages to work out too. There must have been an awful lot of those old 00 fitting SA 65/8 lenses around - since buying mine I've seen several others for sale. Or maybe...
Come along now please chaps. There's a place for this kind of bickering - it's called www.photo.net
Would be nice if the LF forum could maintain its traditional ego-free status.
Roy, You'll only need 15 degrees tilt if you're doing close ups of angled scrabble boards, like they do in the LF books. I use the VX and have never need more than a few degrees of tilt either way...
There's an easy solution - unemployment.
I've just had to flog all the Hasselblad and Leica magic bullets to pay the rent. Now I'm back to a basic 5x4 kit and a Nikon F2 with some old Q-series...
Six months ago I was all set to buy the Toyo AII - then discovered that nobody in the UK had any stock. Luckily, Jenny at Teamwork (definitely the best LF shop in England) pointed me towards the...
I use the Olfa - cheap and cheerful but surprisingly good. Had one for years and still haven't used up all the supersharp blades that came with it, though I've mucked up a few kitchen tables in the...
I'd second the recommendation for the Schneider XL. I have the non-XL version of the SA 90/5.6 for 5x4 and although it's my favourite lens, I don't think the coverage would be enough for anything...
Are you guys shooting 1600ASA stock or something? I've been travelling around the world for years with 100ASA film, often to the kind of backwoods countries with the really old fashioned X-Ray ...
Raven,
If you're worried about XRays, get your film at Teamwork (Foley St W1 - they're about 10% cheaper than Calumet for most film types and have good stock levels) and have it developed by one...
... though having said all that, it's not fool-proof. But then again, what is in the LF world? Indeed I suspect that the reason we all love large format photography so much is that every single...
The Wista VX recessed lens board uses a similar "paperclip" gizmo to the Linhof but is probably cheaper. It's possible you might be able to adapt one of these onto a Calumet plate. I use one with a...
OK,
The holder and three film packets arrived from Robert White yesterday morning (210 quid altogether including P&P - fantastic customer service as ever) and I've spent the day trying it out.
...
Gavin,
Top quality sashimi has been available there in Japan for ages too - that didn't stop people over here getting really excited when it started arriving on these shores!
Yes it seems it...
Awesome! An updated Grafmatic!
Just order one from RW so should have it tomorrow.
I'm off to the Middle East next week, weighed down with 12 DDS and 400 sheets of Provia. Think I'll squeeze...
IMHO he's using a diffuser at the printing stage (ie under the enlarger lens) rather than on the camera.
Hence the way the shadows 'bleed' into the highlight areas. An old trick but one that can...
Whilst, as Bob says, you can get an extra-long extension bed and bellows for the Wista tech's, I think he'd agree that in that configuration they cease to be a portable, convenient, bomb-proof ...
I have the VX and would certainly recommend it very highly.
The saving in cost/weight re the SP might not be massive, but it's certainly significant and as always, increasing complexity increases...
I've just bought the Nikon M 300/9 and so far I'm very impressed. Sharp, contrasty and wonderfully compact - smaller than most 150's The slightly shorter flange distance means I have no trouble...
In London, Silverprint are especially useful for supplies - their web- site has some good intros to various technbiques, including my personal favourite, Gum Bichromate....
Oops - scrub the bit about Compur 0 - it's actually even smaller. The lens panel hole is approx 26mm - is that 00 ?
Just picked up a Schneider Super-Angulon 65mm f8 (with the chrome front barrel) in a compur 0 shutter. While the comments in the archive give varying assessment s of this optic, it was cheap and...
Just as a follow up, I now have a set of Wista extension tubes sitting on the desk in front of me. Not cheap (about 170 pounds sterling) but well made and perfect for what I wanted. They're ...
Thanks for the thoughts guys,
Perhaps I should have clarified by pointing out that it's a Wista VX - not one of the wooden jobbies.
I've just spoken to my local LF shop ("Teamwork" in central...
Bear with me folks...
I know that one can work out focusing distance from the old formula;
1/p + 1/q = 1/f
where p is bellows extension, q is lens-subject distance and f is focal length....
Let's see if we can lose the italics...</i></i></i>. There - how's that?
Andre,
Can't comment on belarus or ukraine cos i haven't been there, but you'll have no probs in the three baltic states - tallinn is practically a suburb of helsinki nowadays and latvia &...
Thanks everybody - informative as ever!
The cardboard weight question isn't really an issue for me - I don't mind heavy packs; it's getting the volume down so I can fit my bags into buses and...
I gave up using TechPan in 35mm years ago because I'd always end up with 36 frames on a roll that each needed slightly different development times.
Now I'm using 5x4 I may have to go back and...
Thanks Mica,
I think I'll just have to take the plunge and get the quickload back and a couple of boxes (I did have a suspicion that like Polaroids there may be some spare air-space in those...
Dear all,
The posts on this and other boards soon convinced me of the huge advantages of f uji quickloads and I'd talked myself into the idea of using nothing else for a f ive-week trip to the...
Folks,
Have just taken the plunge and got a Wista VX plus 90 & 150 Super Angulons but a m looking for a longer lens too. Wista claim the VX can accomodate lenses up to 300mm but I was thinking...