The polaroid glasses require a special polarizing approach that is way too expensive for casual viewing, but you can easily make anaglyphs viewable with red/cyan stereo glasses. Scan the original,...
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The polaroid glasses require a special polarizing approach that is way too expensive for casual viewing, but you can easily make anaglyphs viewable with red/cyan stereo glasses. Scan the original,...
Recently I have had problems with my local lab when developing C41 8x10 negatives: where there are large regions of what should be smooth density such as in skies there is uneven density that they...
I have a related question on glass plate negatives. I inherited from my great grandfather a group of 5x7 glass plate negatives he made in Miami, in 1906, when there were only 300 people there. ...
I had the same hesitation when first considering taking my 8x10 on air trips. There is no reason not to have that baby with you. I have dealt with a number of issues in plannning on taking my 8x10...
Re: LF Generation Gap ?
I was out at night this week on Nanjing Street in Shanghai with my 8x10, shooting the neon lights, and when I came out from under the dark cloth found myself encountering a group of ~15 very...
Leigh,
I use the iqsmart3, but not with an oil-mount. Is there significant degradation of scan quality when dry-scanned?
Howard
For those of you interested in the Pictorial school of photography, there is an impressive exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum, "Impressionist Camera". Approximately 150 19th century "photographs"...
Please pardon me if the answer to this question is obvious, but is there any use for 8x10 Polaroid negatives (without the positives) in producing images? Reason I ask is that sometimes on the...
I agree with Scott's and Joffre's advice. I was on sabbatical in 1996 in Hamilton (N.I.) and spent weekends driving to different parts of the North Island--quite beautiful. The last two weeks we...
I purchased the Compact II this year and the price: $2,840.00. Ditto on others: Dick is a pleasure to work with.
At work I have a $150,000 pulsed Ti:sapphire laser and have to regularly clean its mirrors. The service engineer showed me how: use Kodak lens tissue, folded and clamped in a hemostat without...
Ben,
You are correct about the focussing knob. I got my Compact II in June and thus it is the current version. My prior field 8x10 was one of those Dorf copies, a Rajah, and that is the only...