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Sad.
I remember his inspiring pictures when starting doing wetplate in 2008.

At last, the first steps of the camera: 20x20in wetplates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78tfSJhoTQA

Works fine: I just think about a few improvements (curve shape the darkslide ans V shape the...

Thank you all,
It seems not to be on the glass but the glass itself so there might be no solution.

Hello,
I get an old tessar lens witch has foggy lens (external lens surface)
This is not fungus, dust or greassy material and it doesn't goes with alcool or dish soap.
What is it?
Does anyone...

Milos, I'm selling a vintage collodion period camera 19x19in
If you're talking about he big voightlander you could see on it: it has been sold previously
The lens you can see on the 24x24" is a...

I bought a Manfrotto 454 rail for fine focusing, but I'm surprised how how you can be precise only by moving tripod

Hi,
the bellows is made of 240g cardboard+one layer of BK5 (thorlabs)
The darkslide is made with formica
I planed to use a string outstretched between the middle of each part of the camera.
If...

Hello,
here's my new lightweight camera
i decided to eliminate the flatbed witch is the heaviest part of a camera, the most difficult to built when you have no craft skill, and useless for such...

Hi, this is a 6x6in tintype with dallmeyer 3B wide open

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6x6" alumitype, 12" derogy convertible lens f:4

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8x10 alumitype xenar 300mm f:4.5

A portrait of Luther Gerlach during European collodion week-end.
more portraits here:
http://medusaphotographie.blogspot.fr/2012/04/eindhoven-wetplate-portraits.html

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Thank you for compliments!
These pictures has been shot during a workshop in a beautifull place you can see here:
http://medusaphotographie.blogspot.fr/
First one (in backyard) Hermagis extra...

6x6" Tintypes

It looks like the lens used by Ian Ruhter here (with maybe a different FL):
http://player.vimeo.com/video/39578584

Bonjour Eric!!

Bonjour Antoine,
Jean Pierre Emile Français, young optician formed by Charles Chevalier, get associated with Auzoux in 1863 and created his own compagny in 1866.

I'va had a Petzval a few weeks...

Hi,
very impressive plates and stunning portraits.
Go on!!

I had exactly the same one (sold now but not to Alex)
It was a 24in FL from the waterhouse slot.
2 sec exposure in summer open shade
I gave some technical spec here...

François who made a 16x16 plate holder for me.
this is 6x6

6x6in wetplate with Hermagis extra rapid N°5 10in f:3

5x7 tintype
Derogy petzval bayonet 12" f:4

first one is stunning!!

Hello,
what about these episcope lenses image quality and IC.
They exist in different FL: 400,600,800,1000 mm with large aperture (3.5to 4.5)
thanks
luphot

Hello,
is it possible to mount a Konica Hexanon GRII 150mm on a copal shutter?
Thank's

Hello,
Your lens is from a french "manufacture d'optiques de précision pour la photographie et la science" called "A.F.S.A" witch made lenses under his own name or for camera makers from 1900 to...

Hermagis portrait extra-rapid lens 9in f:3

...And fold

I recently got a big 19x19in old camera.
it's a double extention bed but non folding.
It's only 40 pounds but needed a sturdy tripod.
Too heavy for my majestic gear head while it hasn't sliding...

seems that I need glasses!

I tried bigger but attached file is limited to max 650x650 pixels
The data table gives serial # 20000to 35000 from 1890to 1900, so 283834 is just before medium year 1895 (it's an estimation) The...

Hello
here's a doc on hermagis petzval portrait lenses serie I (JL Princelle vademecum)
It appears that n°4 bis is 350mm FL with 86mm lens OD witch gives f/4.
It's given to cover 13x18cm (5x7in)...

Hello,
an easy setup to test your FL and IC:
You don't need a big camera, flange or lens board, just a window, black fabric and tracing paper (you can tape x A3)...and 3 arms.
Tape on the window...

Hello,
this is an Aplanat (same as Rapid rectilinar) circa 1890
N° 6 is 270mm/10in FL

Hello Alex, this book is a limited ed of 100
written by Jean Loup PRINCELLE
edited by "le rêve edition"
JL Princelle is writting a vademecum on French lenses and camera makers.
He edits a...

Hello,
I have the book Garrett is talking about...
posting an image would help.

18x24 cm wetplate with 10in Hermagis portrait extra-rapid n°5 @ f:3

I found this hermagis data in the vademecum on french lenses written by JL Princelle and Patrice H Pont

"this is first time I see a cone lens with a brass cone."
Isn't it brass under your black paint cone?
I thought mine had been black before the black paint was remove by a previous owner.