If your camera already works fine without the fresnel, put the fresnel on your side of the ground glass, not the lens side.
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If your camera already works fine without the fresnel, put the fresnel on your side of the ground glass, not the lens side.
Stop bath is closely related to vinegar. Fixer is a whole other chemical. No need to worry about the fumes from your RTV silicone sealed corners.
I am curious to know if RTV silicone is inert in the...
Have you made plates in the 9x12 cm size? My cameras with plate holders are 9x12 and 5x7.
Composition, subject, exposure, and the way they all work together. The subject should communicate something. The more levels it communicates on, the better.
A viewer may be bored by a photo, but a photo is not intrinsically boring.
A photo of an unremarkable subject from a normal or common point of view may not excite many viewers. However, there are...
Try using an interior room at night with the door closed and all the lights in the house off. If there is a window, cover it. Maybe hang a blanket over the inside of the bathroom door and put plywood...
It depends on the book. Traditional books work well in the traditional publishing model, but traditional publishing companies won't work with material that isn't going to make them money. Thus,...
Way Beyond Monochrome is quite a book and I recommend it highly. However, it offers very little on contact printing.
HC-110 is still useful even when it has turned brown and has formed solids in the bottom of the bottle.
Some woods make a more solid camera than others. Mahogany seems to build a more solid camera than cherry wood, for example. This is just my observation, having handled only a dozen or so wooden large...
I photograph out of a personal drive to express myself through art. I pursue art as a continuing path of personal development. Each photograph has a beginning and an end. At the end, I get the...
Packard shutters are still being made. http://www.packardshutter.com/
My name is Jeff Bradford and I'm new to large format. I've been a photography enthusiast since the 1980's. I currently work as a product photographer. The need to express myself through artwork has...