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be in France a full week earlier

Hi Bob
As you may imagine scheduling such an event is a compromise between various options for various week-ends.
I hope that your visit to France will be a good...

VI-th Galerie-Photo conference Oct. 12-13, 2013, Graçay (FR)

"Alternatif !"

Alternative photographic processes, historical, present and future techniques.

VI-th Galerie-Photo conference,...

Dan said:
aren't you the person who convinced me to look harder at

In our series: Secrets of the Cold War Unveiled, here are the persons who easily convinced Dan in 1963 to look harder at [TOP...

Many thanks, Arne, for this invaluable info.

I'll pass it immediately to our French MF/LF forum http://www.galerie-photo.info !

Hi, Rod and thanks for the information about the LuLF !

I had written for the British LF forum a more extensive report about manipulating the LuLF at the last Photokina in Cologne.

Read more...

Hello from France

Such a 6cmx24cm (3 images on a 120 rollfilm) was on display at the last Photokina in Cologne, September 2012.
As seen on the Shen-Hao booth, all you need in terms of rollfim...

Hello from France

I'm not sure about what is an Arca Swiss SL-23, but you'll find below a link to the Oschwald Arca Swiss catalog (sorry, French and German only) of the sixties.
If you can...

Thanks to Struan for sharing with us this subtle image of "Cirsium palustre (at f32)".
This image demonstrates that, when using a fast shutter speed, not only waterfalls loose their specific mood...

In closeup work, diffraction is a killer.

Hello Dan and thanks for reading my impossible post ;)
Macro shots with a LF camera in windy conditions .. sure that your sharpness will get killed...

Hello all!

Coming late to this discussion and after having carefully read the exchanges, I'd like to address a few questions that have been raised, and as far as I've seen, not yet answered.

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Rather than use a calculator, consider downloading and printing a DOF chart

I totally agree with Jim. Print charts, use slide rules like the Rodenstock DOF calculator (a kind of of a circular...

.. for example, as far as I understand, never send anything to Canada from the US.
But I can tell you the true reason of those delays for clearing the customs entering Canada: it's because Canada...

Hello to all people who hate the "group f/64" approach where everything is (supposed to be) equally sharp from one foot to infinity ;)

The computations are simple ; hence I hardly ever use any DOF...

Those pictures of the 11x14" A/S LulF camera are mine, taken at the A/S booth at the 2012 Photokina.
Thanks for crediting and please feel free to re-use them as you wish.

General view, actually...

Hello from the other side of the planet!
To the best of my knowledge, the Arca Swiss LuIF camera is a 11x14". If you need a 8x10", F-line and M-line cameras offer the 8x10" format in various...

What, if anything, fell on those countries' optical goods makers?

Hello from France !

Coming late this most enjoyable discussion, first I should mention that Dan raises a question for which he...

Here is an address for a photographic machinist in Portugal.

http://www.customphototools.com/

psst : something for you :cool:
http://www.galerie-photo.com/congres-galerie-photo-2013-gracay.html

Welcome to the LF club!

You are not the only European here. Please do not hesitate to ask all questions you would have!

pssst : this link can be of some interest to you...

Is the scanner a linear device or a logarthmic one ? Surely it is linear ?

A scanner + its software is a complete system, and you only get out of it what the manufacturers actually accept to...

I have placed here a copy of the official specs fot the discontinued Kodak technical Pan film
http://cjoint.com/?CDDsfBXWDZK

As you can see on page 10/12 of the pdf document, when processed...

If your lens is a Symmar-S 5.6 / 135 than the front filter thread is M49x0.75 (metric specifications - thread diameter = 49 mm ; thread pitch = 0.75 mm)

See the latest Symmar-S documentation in...

Welcome to the LF club.
The Linhof Color 9x12 (as we used to say in Europe) was also "my" first LF camera in the mid 1970's. Not actually mine, but my lab's, where I was a student.
I liked the...

Tim Parkin on the UK LF forum has offered us a nice on-line simulator of DOF with tilted planes.

http://static.timparkin.co.uk/static/focus/index.psp?lenstilt=6.1&a=98.5&focallength=90&N=32&coc=0.1

Hello from France and welcom to the club of ultra-wide angle lenses for 6x9 / 2"x3" !

Taking into account that your lens is, with a probability of 99.9%, optically identical to the Rodenstock 55...

Great news, Robert ! I hope that you enjoyed your travel to Normandy.
In this discussion, we had thought of many things, including complex issues about French laws on image rights, dangers of quick...

Hello from Besançon, France

If you are interested in mountain landscapes, the Grenoble area and Chartreuse range have a lot to offer. Not far south from Grenoble on the edge of the Vercors...

Size 6,5x9 is hard to find in Europe too


I just received a few boxes of Ilford FP4 6.5x9 sheet film from this excellent vendor in Germany.
For some unknown reasons, Ilford offers FP4 in 6.5x9...

What is the MAX and MINIMUM extension with the 38cm 4x5 171x171 bellows?

Hello from France!

The official specs for the standard Arca Swiss F-line synthetic bellows in 171-171 are listed at the...

Hello Arne
Thanks for the information.
The 150 mm Componon-S enlarger lens is still there, but, as you mentioned, in the new SK web site, not at the place you would expect to find it, i.e. outside...

Any Problems with camera or tripod on the island?

Hello from France
I've never been inside Mont Saint Michel island, but this raises some interesting question regarding image rights.
Inside...

would be "projet francophone"

Better would be : francographe or francophote, since, to the best of my knowledge, no on-line spoken exchanges, no sound whatsoever will be exchanged through this...

Congratulations for your trip. Iceland is full of visitors in summer (in recent years, more people visited Iceland annually than the actual number of inhabitants), hence it does make sense to visit...

The purpose would be to shift the image back very slightly, most likely.

Yes, but not only. Of course the image as formed through a piece of flat glass is shifted by an amount of about 1/3 of...

Regarding early image "manipulation", I have had the pleasure to see original prints by Le Gray, a French Master of the XIXst century, in an exhibition in Montpellier (this was a joint exhibition...

A few additional ideas related to macro work:

- in macro work the depth of field does not directly depend on the focal length in use, only on the magnification and the f-number; hence, "longer...

Hello from France

the distance you are referring to is listed by the manufacturer and can be defined and measured either between the lens board and the focal point = flange focal distance, or...

Hello from France as well, and welcome to the French sub-section of this forum ;)

Hello from France
Yes, I've experienced this film under the brand CR-200 and I got the yellow cast.
I have had RSX-200 slides exposed and processed in similar conditions and results were very...

Yes, according to this French authoritative on-line dictionary, http ://atilf.atilf.fr
aplanétique is simply a French spelling for the original English word: aplanatic, and means: a lens corrected...