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Mine too comes in at just a fraction under 8lbs with std. bellows

I have no idea where Linhof gets their 6.6lbs from? I just checked my Linhof literature and it lists it as 6.6lbs in both...

Recently a couple of us have come across posts from the list copied to others weblogs and other sites. I know from discussions (my own posts don't happen to be in this example) that there are some...

The problem with that Michael, is that the Fuji/Linhofs are really in effect just crops from a big negative (you've just chosen not to carry the extra film around with you...).

I'd rather just use...

"The only way to compare scanners is to actually scan negatives on them and compare the scans. But you have to be aware that even when you specify 'no sharpening', many scanners still do quite a...

if you want to see a small scale niche publicaton that works, take a look at Wooden Boat. It's everthing that view camera often isn't - well written, well edited and designed, and visually...

the sight of a modern high-tech lens on say an Ebony looks ubsurd to me."

You are concerned about fashion...? who cares what it looks like - the camera is just a box with a whole and a lump of...

"My contribution may be too late to make any difference, but anyways here goes. I would recommend a smaller size for a second lens, to give you a greater total range, like a 240mm or less. Just a...

Michael, I'm guessing that would be Geoffrey James - I know he used to be on the old Greenspun list, and moved over to Photo.net when this list was moved there. I'm not sure if he has been so active...

The interesting thing about photography, compared to virtually every other creative art form/process, is that the technical side is prety simple and very easy to learn. It doesn't actually take that...

yoursllf wart - we'll that too. Keep yourself warm...

and if you bring some of those sterno logs, you can keep yoursllf wart and provide lighting for the photographs...

"Paul Caponigro, Jock Sturgee, Michael Kenna, Bruce Barbaum, John Sexton, Flor Garduño, Anne Leibowitz and there are many others that escape my mind."

True, probably close to 50/50 - though...

"Ah yes, every time this argument surfaces this handful of photographers are presented as the holy grail of ink jet prints. But if we are going to drop names I am sure the rest of us can come up with...

"And neither of these notable and admirable examples have any problem at all telling a potential print buyer exactly what they are getting." This is the crux of the issue, thanks Clay. My point...

"And yet fails to explain why machine made digital prints by Andreas Gursky (among others) sell for $650,000 +" I think this may be very much the exception. Can you name another photographer who can...

"Everyone understands the distinction between a handmade print and a machine-made print; that's why Clyde Butcher's handmade silver prints sell for $250 and his inkjets sell for $45; that's why many...

Sure Sandy, agree to differ to a slight degree.

"I really don't have much more to add to this discussion. I respect your opinion, and you make some good points, but if you really believe, as you...

Sandy, early on there was talk of "calling a spade a spade" - if the process uses carbon pigments (as opposed to the colour inks use of colour pigments) why not call it carbon pigment? Or do you...

unfortunately Sandy Quadtone inkjet printing (as well as other forms) turned to both pigment inks and carbon in part for the very reasons you outline with regard to tradtitional carbon printing -...

"They are prints made with carbon pigmets, plain and simple. In fact it is probably more accurate (and truthful) than the term "carbon prints" for the historic process which often doesn't even use...

Oh Jay, give it a break, "ignorant, naive, disingenuous, honour, deception" These are photographs we are talking about, snapshots, things to put on your wall for decoration - not the cure for cancer...

"Nobody here is saying that ink jet prints are "bad", it is precisely because they can be very good that people making them should not be ashamed of calling them what they are. If otoh the term...

what a sad and sorry little thread. It really doesn't matter what you call your photographs, or what they are made of (nor how much time and money it cost to make them).

The uses and meanings of...

"Isn't "great color landscape shots" an oximoron? There are a lot of good ones, but I can't think of a single "great" "

And what, pray tell, would class as a "great" landscape photograph "not in...

But that's really no different than saying you don't like someone's prints because they pushed their Tri-X to 800 and it's grainy, or they used a developer that exaggerate grain. If you take an 8x10...

"Also, I DON'T LIKE the look of a digital print. I go into so many galleries and see digital color prints and just say to myself "ugh". I can't really explain in a subjective manner, but they just...

your regular chromogenic (or dye coupler) colour print - of course it's the old codger who's showing his ignorance. Current colour materials are rated at between 100 and 200 years depending on...

"There is fairly large museum exhibit and archive market that will demand archival toned silver prints for many years to come - that alone should manage to keep a couple paper and film lines going."...

well for one thing they don't make any in transparency and hardly any in colour print - especially 8x10

"I for one want all the speed I can reasonably get. Tri-X in XTOL 1:3 gives me an EI of 400,...

"Wow...what an idiot I am!"

I think it was probably the fact you only just noticed it's been discontinued that might have given that impression.... :-)

"George .... goes back farther than that. Has anyone read Plato's Republic and the Myth of the Cave specifically?"

Among other things Plato, probably one of the roots of the fear of and failure to...

"I suspect that most, if not all, artists & craftsmen enjoy the process of creation as much as the final product. The process for digital images is becoming too easy. If you were a furniture maker,...

"First off, we can agree that a digital print is a reproduction. If I'm not miskaten, Adams spoke of the fact that all reproductions are relatively the same, whereas each photographic print is a...

That should, of course, be: "The important thing is to not stop exploring what they can do and pushing the boundaries of both the materials and tools and our own vision."

"In theory, digital photography and traditional photography are two different art forms and should be able to co-exist. But in reality, many silver based photographic materials are disappearing from...

"Why be surprised? Copal shutters do not have intermediate settings for shutter speed. And trying to use them could create problems with the shutter."

If you read the post I don't think James was...

I'm using my Chevy Impala to enlarge my large format negatives, but I'm coming up against a lot of problems. First, it seems really hard to find somewhere that is really dark enough that my paper,...

Exactly what kind of service and technical support for a camera back does $1,000.00+ buy you. If you aren't sure how to load the film, does someone from Linhof come and show you? Does it include the...