I gave up on Omega enlargers (or they gave up on me) a long time ago but when I was shopping last year for a new one I got stern advice from my buddies at the Time Life photolab, avoid the D5500....
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I gave up on Omega enlargers (or they gave up on me) a long time ago but when I was shopping last year for a new one I got stern advice from my buddies at the Time Life photolab, avoid the D5500....
I use Balcars, and I think that the Balcar system is the most versatile available. Do not overlook Comet, super rugged and reliable. I have never over a couple of decades had a problem with any...
My Favorites are the Davis and Sanford Air and the old Gitzo Gigant 5. There is always the Saltzman if you are into overkill. One you get used to the Davis and Sanford you will find it to more or...
There is nothing quicker than Granview! 6x12, 4x5, 8x10 http://www.granview.com
Was your FlareBuster an older model? (metal Tabs) The newer ones have a plastic tabbed clip that seems to be a bit stronger.
The Beseler 45H is one of the least known and best enlargers ever made.I have a Durst L-1200 now and traded my 45H for a CB7, but there still are moments where I miss the Beseler.
Ellis,
If you have read some of the stuff on here, you should accept that to him, it was not reversed. Quit while you are ahead.
I was deep in the most rural areas of Haiti, and shot a photo of a striking elderly lady in front of her mud and thatch home and had given her a Polaroid as a thank you. She looked up with piercing...
FlareBuster's Flarebuster!!! http://www.flarebuster.com/
Walker's seeems to be the same from the description. I use them often, and do not go out to shoot without one. They are very handy, no ...
I have owned all three sizes in the past. They are very accurate. Great for long well timed exposures. The #5 is too heavy for many wooden cameras. The cable is heavy also. They were wonderful for...
My fingers fell asleep... I typed this while on my way out the door with my GranView, a 545, and a bunch of Quickload RDPIII.
Kodak supplies this information on thier web site. Fiji supplies it ...
Kodak supplies this information on thier web site. Fiji supplies it with tye instructions packaed with the Quickload film. It works.
Fuji already has the technology and has been producing Polaroid sheet films for decades. One is sold here under the Poloroid name now. The only reason you cannot buy Fuji made Polaroid is...
Either the B&H or Freestyle site will give you the color code for the filters. The tape around the edges tell you what you have.
I have found my Zeiss (Jena) magnifying finder for the Pentacon 6 to be a great transparency viewer. maybe a better lens than most loupes and accurate adjustable focus. A quality item.
How I am solving a similar problem is; I have found a new belt for a Pako 26W and am having an upholsterer cut a belt for my Beseler from it, using my old belt as a template. That way I know I have...
Sandy:
In Many ways you are very correct, and your point was the reason for my prior post. Jim's post raises a thorny issue for the Photographer who happens to be Black, as opposed the the...
There is a photographer who sat beside Ansel Adams of the Board of the Ziff Davis Foundation, who is just as comfortable with an 8x10 Sinar as he is with a Leica, Linhof or Hasselblad. Who is...
They sure were wonderful but very limited lenses. I still have and use a 53mm Biogon and love it. The 135mm Planar was simply amazing. Amazing but relativly usless. It had no excess coverage, and...
Your comments about your Gossen are consistant with my past experiance and the questions from many friends. These meters IMHO have for a long time been designed by conceptially limited...
I have been a Balcar user ever since Dick Bali and Fred Thomas started building them 35 years ago. I have used lots of others too. All WS are not the same. There is a BIG difference in light...
There are current production, light weight (under 3 Lbs.), modern, fast, flexable, modular, Hand Held LF cameras available, designed for just this kind of use with an eye to treckers and hikers....
In between San Diego and Tucson, there is Sweet Light Lab in Palm Springs. They exist for large format and I think they have a nice Hostert E-6 machine. It is a favorite of the big format car...
Gabriel,
Harold certainly is your uncle, and you did not miss the ferricynide class. Harold and I are old buddies from NY and Philly.
That kind of light is very simple and can be done a number...
Peter,
No need to look, it will confirm your suspicions. All you will do is refine your guess to possible specifics.
Fred
Hi Paul,
When Harold and I taught that class at the Annenberg School (Uof P) we used to race each other to get there, since we had Candice Bergen and Mary Ellem Mark both in attendance we both...
What the Kodak rep was saying was that in his "shortsighted opinion" Digital ia a mature technology, which the brighter minds even at Kodak are clearly aware, it is not. That rep will be gone and...
On a D-2 a 50mm lens must be mounted on a flat board (no cone). The condensers remove by the 3 aluminum thumb screws. The correct condensors are small 2" affairs mounted in a similar large alum....
Dick
My Optar mounts just fine on my standard Cambo board with a 36mm hole. Check the Grimes site to find out if that is 0 or 1. I suspect it to be a 0.
Fred
It depends on how close you need to focus, and that depends on what kind if work you intend to do.
Durst numbers are different than Kodak numbers, info should be on the Durst or Jobo web site. My Beseler Agfa head had supplimental filters around CC40 that could be added to the path allowing an...
Rob...
Just to keep your story correct and to keep it from becoming an urban legend, It was not a White House Photographer who had this experiance, it was my friend, Time Magazine's own, Dirck...
I have an Acer ScanPrimo ST and I highly recommend it. It is definately the sleeper of flatbeds. It will scan up to 8x10 transparencies and Negs, 8.5x14 reflected. A very nice set of format masks...
From the tests I have done in the past, your problem may stem from your choice of film even more than the developer. When we ran a large scale test of Times Sq in NY for a B&W arial night shot we...
There is a 4x5 expressly designed for the LF hiker. It is the Granview. The camera only weighs about 2.5 pounds and can survive intact, being rolled down a hill, is not effected by wind, and can be...
Yes Matt, I have. For a bit more than 3 years. This after a couple of decades of using a Linhof Technica V. The camera is every bit as good as it looks, maybe a bit more so, because it delivers a...
Without a doubt.... A GranView!
This is its reason for being. It requires no setup at all. There are also dust free front and rear caps for it. At which point you can toss it down a hill (it is...
Neither can I
Ellis,
You sound like any one of five assistants I fired over the past 40 years of my effortlessly switching from a Deardorff to a Sinar to a Horseman to a Cambo. I would tell...
The first line of my prior message somehow got garbled. What I was saying is: The per sheet chemical costs are posted on the JOBO web site, at list prices. Even at list, they are nominal. For sheet...
Kodak publishes instructions for using readyloads in Polaroid 545 and 545i holders on the Kodak Professional site.