When I bought my F1 a couple of years ago it arrived in the UK as photographic samples!
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When I bought my F1 a couple of years ago it arrived in the UK as photographic samples!
Nick
They are much lighter and much more pleasing on the eye, but pricey and will be less robust, i.e. they'll pick up dents and scratches in the wooden parts fairly easily, but you can claim that as...
Chamonix make a Linhof/Sinar adaptor.
http://www.chamonixviewcamera.com/adapters.html
And extenders, too.
http://www.chamonixviewcamera.com/extension.html
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Arca-Swiss D4, or D4M if you don't want extra cost. There's also the newly-released Linhof 3D Levelling Head II Q or the much cheaper Linhof 3-Way Levelling Head.
A review of the D4 -...
Schneider and Kaiser do a huge range of different sizes, with Kaiser being cheaper.
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I use a couple of the older Lowepros, one for 4 x 5 work, the other for sound recording kit. The partitions in the photo pack don't really work for me as the amount of kit in the bag stretches the...
I had a package delivered today from China of $50 worth of samples.
Very nice!
I've just unwrapped and had a brief play. Rather different to the faithful Tachihara.
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While they don't provide the answer to your specific questions, these articles will be of interest.
http://www.daveparryphotography.co.uk/new-chamonix-045f-1-first
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I've just finished reading a book on the 1950s Rolleiflexes and the author of the night shooting article recommended using a torch to illuminate what you're looking at and help set focus.
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See if you can get hold of Ansel Adams' Polaroid Land Photography. This copy does have a dust jacket, but the price is very high.
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I used a similar system. Thin file for the 1s, a V cut for the fives (Roman numerals), and a wide flat cut for the tens.
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The film is being screened at Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire, on Tuesday 25/02/2014 at 17:00 GMT.
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Is that a prototype in the photo? I have a Zeiss Ikon rangefinder and it has an optical base of 5 cm.
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Are you talking about a rangefinder camera, or a stand-alone rangefinder for calculating distances?
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An article on the BBC News website about Marc Wilson's photographs of Second World War defences.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21243179
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In the UK we did have 240V supplies, but these have now been changed to match the rest of Europe at 230V.
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It does take persistence to get in, but it's an interesting site.
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Other people to try are http://www.ffordes.com/ and https://secure.peterwalnes.com/
And rather cheekily, could I suggest having a look at http://www.lf-photo.org.uk
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And it can be set up to compensate for temperature variation and factorial development.
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This was also posted on APUG, and I've got the permission of Geoff Camber to bring it to your attention.
Unfortunately, this is only for UK photographers.
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Cotswold Salon 2012
The...
The Fresnel lens focusses the light onto the ground glass. Due to the pattern of concentric circles (or prisms) acting as a much bigger lens, it increases the light levels across the entire ground...
The Paramo dark cloth is very effective and is lightweight. I prefer it to the Blackjacket.
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I've had some success with this with a 1937 Leitz 28mm f6.3 Hektor. I used it on an Epson RD-1 and created a lens profile within ACR, which also corrects the chromatic aberration. But sometimes the...
In the Lens Corrections section of ACR, the Lens Vignetting settings should do the trick. I use ACR 4.6 so there may new tools to play with.
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The link doesn't work as it has an ellipsis in the middle replacing a lot of the text that should have been there.
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I'd ask the people at http://www.leathercaredirect.com/ as they are keeping the skills of the, now-defunct, Connolly tannery (as used on Rolls-Royce motor cars) alive.
"Leathercare has been at the...
And the last paragraphs from the Guardian obituary.
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Ever courteous, neat and soft-spoken, Arnold brought much of her own calm and gentility to her work, however anguished the subject...
From the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/05/eve-arnold
And there's also a slide show of some of her images
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Have a look at this entry in Wikipedia and see if it makes anything clearer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCTER_(optics)
Looking at the current Docter website...
It could be worth looking at the Fujitsu paper scanners as they can do double-sided scans and convert them into pdf documents in one go. It would have to be a standalone unit as it's hopeless for...
Which was?
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The controls make contact with the clips for holding the lens board in place, and even rotating the lens doesn't really solve the problem - it makes the controls less easy to see or to use....
I use Rain-X on my car's glass - windscreen, windows, mirrors and lights. I tried it on a motorcycle visor, exterior only, but this wasn't a success. I tried a few of the potions for the inside of a...
The 180mm arrived this morning, and after a quick squint through to check I could focus it, I'm pleased to say that it looks and sounds fine. I now need to get hold of a Linhof/Wista type lens panel...
Does anyone have any hints on how to avoid a steamed-up ground glass? I use a Paramo dark cloth and it seems to cause the GG and the loupe to mist over very quickly.
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And the Acratech levelling base as well.
http://www.acratech.net/home.php?cat=2
I use this with a Kirk ball-head and it's easy to see. But I would still like an Arca-Swiss D4 to play with...
I did it for a CPP-2 by cutting and pasting the text and images from the jobo.com site.
http://www.jobo.com/jobo_service_analog/us_analog/instructions/instructions_manual_cpa-2_cpp-2_lift.htm
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I've gone for another lens, this time the Fujinon-W 180mm f5.6, as that was what I wanted in the first place. Physically a bigger lens, I should get it from Germany soon.
I'm still on the hunt for...
You could try Malcolm Taylor. I met up with him earlier this month and he was talking about Cooke lenses. He regularly advertises in the back of Amateur Photographer. PM me if you need a contact...
So, does anyone have a suitable rear cell for a Fujinon NW 150mm f5.6 lens? I'm based in the UK, so would prefer to deal with someone in the EU, as that would avoid extra costs for long distance...