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    Re: Vivitar 283 inconsistent behavior

    Did successfully replaced one or two defective capacitors on a 285 and still have a couple of 285s to do. They are due, even with no corrosion. This does require some skills and knowledge.
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    Re: Lead and Mercury?

    And of course, if your house has iron drain pipes, the toilet adjacent to the darkroom could have a very big lead insert in the drain, from just under the bee's wax ring. Those lead insert are...
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    Re: Diy ground glass focusing screen

    Ron, any chance you can email your drawing file ?

    Thanks !
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    Re: Diy ground glass focusing screen

    One guy published some variations a while ago.

    1. For tool, use a piece of wood stuck to the glass tool with strong 3M dual side tape. It is about 1.5mm thick and its foamy so it will stick even...
  5. Re: Use of X-ray film: technical discussion with example images

    Even cheaper than a glass seller but maybe not as cheap as cupcake storage containers : drop by any Renaissance or Armée du Salut store and pick up a few frames, with or without pictures most will...
  6. Re: Story on photographing heirloom vegetables with a view camera on NPR.

    Thanks for posting !
  7. Re: Good 20 minute video on the History and Science of Lenses

    25 minutes well spent. Thanks !
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    Re: How to make a photo that looks old

    The reason I mentioned old photo paper is that the back, if printed with Kodak or whatever paper producer name, will show this in a typeset that fits the era. Thanks for the reminder about deckle...
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    Re: How to make a photo that looks old

    Some really old photographic paper for your contact prints will carry you quite far in the illusion.
  10. Re: Can't remember where to buy custom ground glass

    "Borosilicate glass plates" are available on the auction site (to be used as bed plates for 3d printers). Personally have just used real thin glass from cheap photo frame because I had not though to...
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    Re: Compund shutter problems

    Steve,

    Thanks for the graphite hint.

    As for the comparisons, hum... Just about any mechanical watch is way more delicate (did not say complex) than this shutter and if I could hold my 100$...
  12. Diffusion transfer processor : Useful for Alt processes ?

    I am offered for essentially nothing a Vertical Vic VV-1418 Enlarger (missing lens and vacuum) which I believe is really a camera, as well as a Diffusion Transfer Processor P1400.

    I am...
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    Re: Compund shutter problems

    Just open it up. The fact that you are handy (and adventurous) implies that your are qualified, provided you exercise care in disassembly and that you take pictures from various angles as you...
  14. Re: Studies in the Reactions of Silver and Light

    Image do look nice on youtube. Nice that you will be opening your darkroom to visitor. Maybe it will stir up further interest :-) !!!

    In that respect, in a totally different field, I am always...
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    Re: Home-made automatic color film processing machine - up to 5x7

    Same here ! I don't believe he has any chance to achieve "high volume" but I guess CNC cutting of plexiglass could be very appropriate to the volume he his looking at.
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    Re: Fix dent in filter thread?

    It really depend on the extent of the dent : I am threading steel pipe section of a smaller diameter than the internal diameter and then, banging on that piece to straighten the thread (also have...
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    Re: Tiny Format Portraits

    Afghan photographer at work in kind of tiny format. May have been posted before but I had never seen it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18-5xaVfhR8
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    Re: agfa-ansco universal serial numbers?

    Thanks John ! That would make sense.

    Believe the bellow is glued so will wait to see first if I can effectively patch it. If so, will check out dog collars as well as pre-made leather handles.
  19. Thread: Head Braces

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    Re: Head Braces

    If I was to make one, I would use the weigh of the subject on the chair : Just like in the picture, The "bracing" system would be attached to the back of a light weigh chair (in the picture, the...
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    Re: agfa-ansco universal serial numbers?

    My 8x10 Agfa Ansco has the serial number under the hinge (you have to remove remove all the screws holding the hinge on the short block to see it) : 2703. Found this camera at the Montreal Camera...
  21. Re: Wollensak 6"1/4 W.A. and Extreme W.A. aperture scale not equal to focal/iris

    Thanks Steven and Jim. Never thought I would have to check aperture rings as well as shutter speed (on a barrel lens anyway).

    Solution to the f12.5 puzzle is as follows :

    On the f12.5...
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    Re: Hi all from Canterbury

    Welcome - from a newcomer as well !
  23. Wollensak 6"1/4 W.A. and Extreme W.A. aperture scale not equal to focal/iris

    I am the proud new owner of two Wollensak 159mm Wide Angle lenses for 8x10 :

    6"1/4 8x10 Serie IIIa EX.W.A. f12.5 in barrel (serial 313657 - uncoated - no dots)

    6"1/4 8x10 Series III f9.5 Wide...
  24. Re: "Vases. East and West." --- 12"x16" in-camera ilfochromes

    Thank you for the wonderful images and all the detailed explanations in the video.

    Have you given any thoughts about formulating/using any sort of replacement for developper, bleach and fix...
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    Re: Ritter 14x20 camera

    What a path... Lets there be followers !
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    Re: Disassembly of B&J 8x10 front standard

    On the Burke and James, bellow is glued and therefore not removable without destroying it. It seems there is not enough clearance in the front standard for the frame to be "twisted" out even if I...
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    Re: Disassembly of B&J 8x10 front standard

    It is.
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    Disassembly of B&J 8x10 front standard

    Read the work by Kevin Bourque and tried to contact him but it seems that his email no longer works and this is probably of interest to a few others so...

    I want to clean and fix a B&J 8x10 and I...
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    Re: blackening fiberglass

    I believe that West Epoxies was supplying graphite as an additive to make, among other things, fibreglass based rudder bushings for sailboats. Should still be available. I would guess that...
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    Re: Replacing bellows on Speed Graphic

    I have an open can of the "dip it" product on hand. Worth giving it a try... Actually, will work as long as the bellow corners are not torn open.
  31. Re: Where to start? Is it too late to start? Beginner seeking advice.

    You can also check your private mail :-)
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    Re: Goerz Dagor 19" aperture repair

    I am in the process of completing a few replacement blades for an old pneumatic Wollensak shutter (holding a Conley variable soft focus lens). In this particular case, one end of the blade is simply...
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    Re: Shipping to Canada?

    Custom declaration is a green large stamp sized sticker that will be stuck to the box at the post office - most easy to fill out. USPS will save your customer custom clearing fees that he would be...
  34. Re: Any suggestions to re-balsam lens cells...? or I'm dreaming!

    Just found this link which should be of great interest, whatever bonding material is used.
    ...
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    Re: Hello from France

    Bienvenue Lionel !

    "...in awe..." Hope to be myself eventually looking at E6 sheet film (hopefully, the cost of chromes will suffice to restrain my photographic enthusiasm as currently, X-Ray...
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    Re: Another Billy the Kid plate?

    I also find these stories and pictures fascinating, even though I am somewhat remote from that way of life (my closest encounters with the wild West were watching "the Grand Chaparral" and a visit a...
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    Re: Tiny Format Portraits

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    Live shot, Sam, bassist for Juliana&Jesse. Pentax ME Super, 135mm 2.5, TMAX400 from 1989, Rodinal 1:50, 25 mn; quite obviously treated in LR.
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    Re: Harman Technology Purchased

    Hum... Film business in photography application may not be growing but "non-photography" film business may see a growing market for various applications such as battery manufacturing, solar cell...
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    Re: non Jobo drum Epiphany ???

    No...

    Off course, I understand the 3005 drum has demonstrated an unequal degree of perfection and I certainly don't reject the idea of finding one at a cost I could justify (as compared to tray...
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    non Jobo drum Epiphany ???

    Reflecting on my turbulence induced uneven development in my big Chromega Drum (4 8x10 sheets) AND looking at Jobo 3005 pictures, it just dawned on me that instead of using those long sliding lengths...
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