Adding to Don Craig's comment, trinocular microscopes show up on Ebay for a few hundred $ (I bought a Spencer a year ago for $200- something). With a 4x5 you can also use a tripod and a geared...
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Adding to Don Craig's comment, trinocular microscopes show up on Ebay for a few hundred $ (I bought a Spencer a year ago for $200- something). With a 4x5 you can also use a tripod and a geared...
The SHen Hao sold by Badger Graphics weighs about 5.5 pounds, somewhat more than indicated on the She Hao website.
Michael Bird had the best idea - why not come up here to Alaska and check out ANWR for yourselves. We can use the extra tourism. Sheet film is available in Fairbanks at Alaskan Photo Repair (Agfa...
Edmond Scientific sells them - nice chrome-plated brass in various sizes
There are lots of articles (and book chapters) from the 40's and 50's on using Speed graphics and Graflexes for wildlife photography. I did a little with my Supergraphic on one trip to the Yukon...
Well, my Graphics View II used to be owned by Forest Lawn cemetary in LA, so I expect it spent its previous life taking pictures of monuments and grave sites.
It's most recent project involved...
They seem to have expanded all over Europe and Asia -- they even have branches in Taipei
Vaseline is available at Boots (and probably most other pharmacies) outside the US, Bob ;-)
I had one, which I just sold on Ebay --- on a Supergraphics board with cam. It is a Rodenstock rotelar, mounted on the graphics 1000 shutter and rebranded as an "optar" (Graflex's house brand).
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My analogue Pentax spot has been on the same set of batteries for 5 years
And to prove that it is not critical, Andreas Feiniger in one of his books reported that he lubicated the tracks on his Deardorf with his wife's lipstick on an assignment in the Southwest :-)
Graflex used to make a device (the graflarger) which converted a speed graphics into an enlarger. Their market was traveling press and other photographers. The work with any camera with a 4x5 ...
Interestingly, Feiniger in his book _Advanced Photography_ mentioned this same "lack" 50 years ago, and gave directions for making your own. I made several out of hardwood plywood, and even use...
Yes Kodak has discontinued 4x5 HIE; there is a German company called macophot which sells a new version ($50/box from B&H). I haven't tried it, since I have several hundred sheets of the last run...
The two approaches I use are:
Use a modern grip with a bracket which attaches to the tripod socket (I use an old Vivitar) with a cold shoe mounted on the grip. This also lets you use a...
Series 6 filters also work with the appropriate adapter ring
I shoot it at EI 40 and develop in PMK (12 minutes I believe -- my notes are in the darkroom)
Make that: Ansel Adam's _The Negative_ has all the details
No, but Ansel Admam's _The Negative_ has all the details
I have not had much trouble with film flatness in my RH-10's using FP4+, HP5+ and Fuji/Agfa print films. I suspect it is more an issue of variability with the holders than the film.
Sounds like it might be a Kodak 25" f/5.6 aerial Ektar. Mine came with a slot cut in the middle, so I made up Waterhouse stops.
BTW, the lens is slightly radioactive
Since commercial use permits are already available, the question comes down to whether the Park Service should provide special access for LF photographers who are either hobbiests or who would lose...
Until the EV system became popular in the mid-1950's, the standard shutter speed sequence ran: 1/x where x=1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500 with a shift in mechanics between 1/10 and 1/25 and...
As one who does alot of aerial mountain photography (including large format), the answer is yes, even with print film. There are four problems you face:
1. With lots of UV around, you can get...
If it has been at room temperature and not too humid, it is probably OK. I just got back from a weekend trip around the Alaska Range where I shot 8 holders of HP5+ which had been in my camera case...
You can make a series 6 to 52mm stepup ring by epoxying a series-6 retailing ring into an old 52mm filter (break out the glass of course). Use this with the appropriate series-6 pushon adapter as ...
A great example, even at 8x10. A couple of years ago my wife had to work on a Sunday afternoon, and so I did all sorts of misc catch up proof prints -- 35mm, 6x6, 6x7, and 4x5. After dinner she...
Soap and water or Fantastic also work.
Different people have different visions, and so will choose very different lens focal lengths. In the US at the moment, a wide-angle view is popular (as you can see from the responses above). A...
Look in the phone directory (and call around if necessary) for companies which process aerial film. Or, find one or two aerial photography companies and ask them who processes it locally.
The...
You might try an old series 6 telextender (I think the brand I have is "telek"). These were single-element telephoto versions of the convex "closeup attachments" which used to be popular. There...
IMHO, if one is hung up on resolution however measured, the major difference between large format and medium format is not the lenses but the precision of the camera/film/lens. As an example, I...
I have done this with both 4x5 and 2x3 speed graphics. I have also tried it with a 2x3 Crown Graphics, but the shutter speed (nominally 1/250 but actually about 1/125) was not fast enough to...
The standard filtration for ortho under those conditions a generation or two ago was a Wratten k1 filter, equivalent to a modern #6
Mosquito repellant is not necessary after the middle of August. The danger from bears is seriously over-rated, especially by folks from outside. In 13 years hiking in Alaska I have had only a...
Come on guys, New York City never gets cold ;-) I thought you only wore coats there to be fashionable! (LOL from Fairbanks Alaska, where fashion means your fur hat is dead)
Dave hits the nail on the head, and also identifies one of the major differences between outdoor incident and reflective metering. Almost no flatly illuminated subject has a brightness range of...
My 1960 Supergraphic (for which Toyo purchased the tooling and which for some reason seems to have almost the same specifications) has not rusted yet, and it has been used in alot of foul weather.
It sort of works. You have to be careful not to pull the envelope up too much (I marked mine using a template) and there are occasional problems with the catch. Overall I had about a 75% success...
I will second the WD-40 suggestion -- I have used it on half a dozen shutters with about a 75% success rate (and in larger qualtities on about the same number of 8mm movie cameras with 100%...