Aperture did a little book "Colorama. The World's Largest Photographs. From Kodak and the George Eastman House Collection" (2004). It has a small selection of the 565 murals, plus two essays (by...
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Aperture did a little book "Colorama. The World's Largest Photographs. From Kodak and the George Eastman House Collection" (2004). It has a small selection of the 565 murals, plus two essays (by...
Yes, you're right, Dan. You realize the actual cost of your family assistants, if not the spouse then at least the children, with a conversation that begins "Dad, remember all those times when you...
With wife, youngest daughter, and son at home in Pittsburgh. Tachihara 8x10 with a 300mm lens. My technique, such as it is, I owe to Laura Wilson's Avedon at Work in the American West (2003),...
The condition of my Fujinon 105mm is very similar, possibly a little "worse", than that of the above ebay offering. Nor do I have any connection with the seller of that lens. I bought my lens over...
Yes, Leigh, Robert White! A business, not an individual person--I can see how misleading just the name is, sorry.
http://www.robertwhite.co.uk/product.asp?P_ID=1303&PT_ID=382
What with all the...
Since you'll go slower, then how about the Fujinon SW 105 f/8, with image circle of 250mm at f/22? Plenty bright enough for me on 5x7. Some people say they're hard to find, although last time I...
Not a movie but a music video with what look like press cameras but someone else will have to identify them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB15BlTty4Y&playnext=1&list=PL9DD040B1387626AE&index=11
The 8x10 Deardorff with 14" commercial Ektar lens used for a portrait in the movie Pollock (2000, I think), discussed in an earlier thread:
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Afternoon, high summer, Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, 2002
Tri-X 8x10, Apo Sironar-S 210/5.6, 1/4 @ f/45
scan of contact print on Kodak III RC
1.Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada (1948), pl. 10 “Late autumn evening, Merced Canyon west of Ribbon Creek, below Yosemite Valley.” Under Photographic Data, p. 121: 8x10 Ansco Commercial View camera,...
Until I figure out how to scan my 5x7 and 8x10 negs ... and with a debt of inspiration to Roger Minick's Sightseer Series ....
White Wolf #31, Yosemite National Park, July 26, 2002 (but printed a...
Thanks, Keith, for your observation. When in a couple of weeks my used copy (with dust jacket!) of AA in Color arrives, I'll compare the color image with the b&w one in the 1948 book.
Nicholas
Taking another look this morning, I would add....
(1) The well known image dated ca. 1950 by Adams is in fact in all probability later than the image in the 1948 book. The sapling conifer to the...
A bit late, ... but today while leafing through the photographs in my copy of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada (with selections from the works of John Muir), published in 1948, I see that Adams...
With sufficient image circle, you can shoot a triptych, one zeroed, one full left, one full right. There's some overlap, which could be cropped out, but with an appropriate subject I like to leave...
Back shift comes in handy for me when shooting with a large and heavy camera and when the subject is upright, rectilinear, with straight lines, e.g. a building. The problem is usually to get the...
In my previous post I approached the question whether wood dampens vibrations better than other materials used in camera supports by adducing a particular extreme case (a 1200mm telephoto lens on a...
In defense of metal (the OP inquired about the supposed superiority of wood), I can offer the extreme case of my own personal experience with the Nikon 1200T, the longest currently available (until...
1. Evidently you have the 8x10 head. The lever you describe is the lifter arm for the 5x7 head. As you correctly guess, its purpose is to lift a head in order to insert a film carrier, but it's not...
With the foregoing points in mind, it now occurs to me that the established packaging of enlarging *paper* might somehow have influenced this (to my mind) bizarre decision on Kodak's part.
The...
In recent years we've seen a number of limited reissues of classic LF lenses. To the best of my knowledge, the manufacturers in question do not include Nikon. What would it take to induce Nikon to...
"T.H. O'Sullivan Photographer," by Beaumont and Nancy Newhall with an appreciation by Ansel Adams, George Eastman House with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Rochester, NY 1966. A small...
It's obvious I have some work to do, Emmanuel. Meanwhile I'll simply use my spot meter on the ground glass as I described, work up some rough-and-ready working aperture positions for the new lens,...
I have just assembled a 600mm Nikon ED telephoto from separately acquired front and rear elements to which I am fitting a new Copal 3 shutter. The shutter comes with shutter speed stops and scale...
Thanks. Now that I enlarge the B&H pic for the 3-567 (and put on my reading glasses) I see the "3 S" on the front face of the housing.
According to the B&H website, the Copal #3 shutter comes in two sizes, the 3-585 (M62-0.75 mount thread; fits 65mm lensboard hole) and the slightly smaller 3-567 (M61-0.75 mount thread; fits 64.1mm...
Some questions about the Nikon T-Ed 600/800/1200 set:
(1) Is the Copal #3 shutter "designed exclusively for Nikon" (B&H) interchangeable with the stock Copal #3 (3-585) with M58-0.75 front and...
Another vote for a 25 sheet box. And I for one would like to see 5x7 available at online suppliers with no minimum number of boxes requirement--as Tri-X and Tmax100 are now.
As a 5x7 shooter I'm aware that with a bag/wide angle bellows the 72xl has enough IC to cover 5x7 with room to spare. Giving an image equal to 15mm on 35mm, it seems to be the widest alternative...
For my Tachihara 8x10 triple extension I use both boards already mentioned. Linhof-size (made by Nikon) with the adapter for smaller lenses, Sinars for the big lenses. I agree, compared to the cost...
Belatedly following up on paulr's early post, ... from Joni Mitchell's tour de force of imagery "A Case of You" in the Blue album (1971):
Oh I am a lonely painter
I live in a box of paints
The...
Robert Adams's tripod holes? Maybe it's my advancing age, but for me RA is the "now" not the "then." His west coast books (Los Angeles Spring pub. 1986 and California 1978-1983, pub. 2000) strike...
Two different things are being discussed here. One, retaking another, earlier photographer's well known image in order to understand purely photographic matters such as view or non-view camera,...
Here in Pittsburgh, many years ago, on a comparable occasion we served Iron City (the real stuff, before Lite had been thought of).
These days, for the faint of heart, Rolling Rock of mysterious...
As Percy says, photographing works of art of others is not art making.
Where Sherrie Levine is concerned, I'd add that making a critical point about art, however original or discerning, is not ...
Kirk,
That would be Sherrie Levine. If you happen to have a copy of Andy Grundberg's Crisis of the Real (Aperture 1999) nearby, Levine's "After Walker Evans: 2, 1981" in reproduced on p. 10.
I cut my own. But since I mount and overmat only a few prints to hang in my home, it's just an afternoon's work every few months or so.
You do have to change blades often; if you wait until the...
I started out contact printing my 8x10 negatives, not so much out of choice as necessity. Contact printing for me meant putting the negative over enlarging paper in a small folding easel and...
Doesn't this say it all?
Anything more than 500 yds from the car just isn't photogenic. -Brett Weston, Attributed to Brett Weston referring to working with a 10 x 8 view camera. In an interview...
I agree that the issue here is focal length. As a rule of thumb, I've always used the same focal that is "normal" for the taking lens in the corresponding format. So I use a 300 on my 8x10 enlarger...