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Surely you could set a mirror at 7½ feet from the camera, pointed at the target which is 7½ feet away, giving a 15 feet distanced target?


As is done in opticians for eye tests

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I was sent this wartime picture (WW1 or WW2?) by a friend who found it on the internet.

I though you all may be interested.

I assume some will tell us where it was photographed what camera is...

Thanks very much Bob...

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Hi Bob another one for you - A Linhof Technika IV with beige coloured leather, serial number is 77022 can you confirm the model and date of manufacture?

Also when having a cam made for a...

Thank you for the information, have found one and hope to collect it this weekend.

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Hi - I'm considering the purchase of a Linhof Technika IV 5 x 4 camera. I have been looking at the auction house and other places unfortunately I seem to have a few questions about that model. It...

Thanks for that information - I thought that as the other rollers were on a plastic base I had to change the complete item instead of just the rollers.

thanks again

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Hi - I'm having a bit of a problem with a Jobo CP2A lift arm. I need top remove the plastic spacer at the end of the lift to replace the rollers so I can replace them with rollers suitable for expert...

Thanks for all your comments...

I shall start by doing a test run with a short pre-wash of around two minutes and will see how much I should increase my dev time.

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I have just obtained a Jobo expert tank to develop 5 x 4 film with a CPA2 processor. On reading the instructions(!) Jobo recommend a pre-wash I am using Silverprint Pyro I have never used a pre-wash...

I use a Manfrotto 400 geared head it works fine with my 10 x 8 Deardorf and also with my various 5 x 4 cameras on top of a Bearlebach 3042 tripod. the 400 is a rather weighty object and probably...

Thanks to everyone for the information, I will stick with the normal 25xx tanks for the present.

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Hi - I have just bought a Jobo CPA2 and now I would like to get an Expert drum to go with it. I use 5 x 4 and 10x 8 film Colour and Monochrome film and about three times as much 5 x 4 as 10 x 8...

I use 1/3 Isopropyl Alcohol, 2/3 Distilled water and one very very small drop of wetting agent. Filter into a small spray bottle. Use sparingly with a well washed microfibre cloth.

Works for me -...

Hi - I'm having trouble with my Color Munki Photo, When I purchased it the software provided refused to recognise the Color Munki although the devices' LED lit up. After contacting X-rite they said...

"It didn't come out"

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Shutter not working correctly, opening should be circular.

Try carefully manipulating the cylinder insert on the rhs of your picture up and down - the problem could be a sticky piston or a leak in...

Is trichromie colour allowed (assuming it is done on a large format camera)?

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Thank you both for the information

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Hi - I have just purchased a Horseman 5 x 4 monorail and would like to use it with some of my barrel lenses. I assume that the bellows end of the front standard is Sinar shutter compatible?

If so...

How can you do it with a "galli" shutter?

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Hi - last year I lent a friend of mine my Wista 5x4 DX field camera. He returned it after a few days saying he didn't use it so I just left it in the outfit bag. and didn't bother to check it.
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Thank you for all your replies. As it has been raining in London almost without a stop since a drought was declared I though I would set up the camera in the house and focus through a window at an...

Hi - I have just purchased a casket set of four lenses. Unfortunately the focal lengths are not marked.

Obviously I can find out the focal length by focussing on infinity.

However in my small...

It is a well known issue with a wife shutter that it may go bananas when in proximity to a Girlfriend shutter, thus requiring both to need a very expensive CLA usually involving jewelry...

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like this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7LZiQHsqo

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First arrange your bank loan...

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And don't forget the seller wants you to pay an additional 23% VAT if you are in the E.U.

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Then send it off for a CLA...

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I showed the page at my camera club and it was suggested that the hidden ones were not the childs mother, but the nanny.
One would not like the hired help to be shown in an expensive portrait...
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Try this - Pinhole designer (free!) http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholedesigner/

Should help to discover the best sizes for your pinhole.

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I use addall books here: http://used.addall.com/

they search lots of booksellers and give you a list of whatever they found with details and prices.

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Here is a reference to a Cokin adapter for large format lenses: http://www.srb-griturn.com/cokin-universal-adaptor-627-p.asp. The supplier is in the UK but you should be able to get one in the USA....

To get a very useful Pinhole resource try here:
http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholedesigner/




Hope its useful

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Why does no one ever mention the Imagon 360mm with H=5.8 - H7.7 and H=9.5 - H11.5 barrel mounted. I don't have the ND or yellow filter.

I have one and it seems to produce OK images when on my 10 x...

Here is a picture of Netherne Tower just outside Croydon, South London, in the UK. The area used to be a large Mental Asylum. The tower was the water tower for the area. The Asylum site has been...

I eventually purchased an almost new 400 head from the auction site It is extremely substantial and as ljsegil comments: The gears used are Brass on Aluminium on the others - the 405 and 410, the...

Try using the international green coloured private 'permission' payment paper.

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You could try these people for bookbinding tape:

http://www.ratchford.co.uk/index.asp

and this for repairing pinholes in bellows - cloth shutters etc:
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Thanks for your observations and help...

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