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  1. Re: What's your go-to when you want pronounced grain on BW sheet film?

    I'm not into grain, but if I were, I think I'd try temperature-shock reticulation.
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    Re: Ansels The Negative

    But could a million monkeys photographing with a million 8x10 view cameras for a million years replicate the portfolios of Ansel Adams?

    I think we're working on it...
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    Re: Ansels The Negative

    "The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works...
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    Re: Ansel Adams Interview/ 1983

    I've always admired Adams' photographic work, but I think I could best him at martinis.
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    Re: Ansels The Negative

    That's why people using the Zone System use spot-meters.
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    Re: Ansels The Negative

    #2 answers #1. Most images require normal exposure and processing, so yes, just follow the meter and standard processing instructions. The Zone System is for improving the negative's printability in...
  7. Re: bellows extension factor - getting the hang of it - any suggestions : )!!! ??

    Remember that calculating the f/stop means measuring from the rear nodal point of the lens to the focal point. On telephoto lenses, the rear nodal point is in front of the lens, while on...
  8. Re: bellows extension factor - getting the hang of it - any suggestions : )!!! ??

    Yes. You've concentrated the same amount of light in a smaller area, regardless of focus.
  9. Re: bellows extension factor - getting the hang of it - any suggestions : )!!! ??

    Okay, here's probably the simplest method for math-o-phobics:

    Close down the aperture of your lens to 1 centimeter wide, measured through the front element. Put a little mark on your aperture...
  10. Re: I need some advice on choosing my first two large format lenses.

    I agree with John, buy one lens to start. Everyone should have a "normal" lens, so start with 300mm, then see whether it seems too long or short for your needs.

    If you want a second lens right...
  11. Re: What, if any, are the drawbacks to owning a Kodak Master View 8x10?

    It should be noted that all these lenses are f/9 maximum aperture, (well, f/8.5 for the Fuji).
  12. Re: What, if any, are the drawbacks to owning a Kodak Master View 8x10?

    Keep in mind that whatever used camera you buy, if you get it at a fair price, you can resell it at a fair price if it doesn't work out. New cameras will lose some value when they become used, which...
  13. Re: What, if any, are the drawbacks to owning a Kodak View Master 8x10?

    I have a few 8x10s, including a Master View which is my hiking 8x10. It weighs about 12 pounds, about the same as a Deardorff or 2D. Considering the weight of the rest of the equipment needed...
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    Re: Strobes and Pops

    Can anyone speak further to working with reciprocity failure during multiple strobe pops?
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    Re: Jan Groover’s 8x10?

    Looks like a home-made 11x14.
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    Re: How to focus a soft focus lens

    Having the soft image from focus shift overlaid on the sharp image is the whole point of the Imagon.

    To quote from the Rodenstock's instructions online at:...
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    Re: How to focus a soft focus lens

    Not according to Kuhn, and his method makes sense if you want a sharp image with a soft overlay. Focus for the sharp image for the central aperture, then add the soft effect from the peripheral...
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    Re: How to focus a soft focus lens

    It should be noted that the technique for focusing the Imagon with h/stops is very different than for other soft focus lenses with conventional f/stops. With the Imagon, you focus on the sharp image...
  19. Re: How have you shopped for lenses over the years?

    Really, I'm not trying to start trouble, but... umm...

    You know, the Fujinon L-Series Tessar lenses are really, really nice...

    If you really want a complete "Fuji Kit", I think you need all of...
  20. Re: bellows extension factor - getting the hang of it - any suggestions : )!!! ??

    There is no such thing as "bellows extension factor". All those calculations are just a work-around for not being able to figure out your f/stop at any focusing distance other than infinity.

    It's...
  21. Re: How have you shopped for lenses over the years?

    Let's face it. We just can't help ourselves...
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    Re: Startrails!

    Okay, serious points for that one!
  23. Re: How have you shopped for lenses over the years?

    A haiku for large format photographers:

    I'll buy no lenses.
    I have enough already.
    Oh, a Cooke Portrait...
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    Re: New 75mm Hypergon Lens

    The light reflecting off the spinner is directional, though.
  25. Re: How have you shopped for lenses over the years?

    "How have you shopped for lenses over the years?"

    Constantly...
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    Re: New 75mm Hypergon Lens

    Yep, I'd suspect that shiny spinner.
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    Re: New 75mm Hypergon Lens

    I've heard the exposure with the fan should be 6 times or 8 times the original exposure. The big variable will be compensating for reciprocity failure, which varies from film to film, at these...
  28. Re: Good equivalent of the now pricey Aero Ektar 178 2.5?

    Another possible option. Perhaps. Put a +3 diopter on an f/4.5 300mm lens. That would give you (approximately) a 160mm f/2.3. There might be some aberrations, but they might be interesting.
  29. Re: What's your favorite internet falsehood on photography?

    One of my favorite photographic peccadilloes is often found in old photography textbooks, where the author has included an array of images of the same scene but printed at different contrasts from...
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    Re: New 75mm Hypergon Lens

    An air bulb is just a rubber bulb you can squeeze to blow air out, in this case through a hose leading to the fan. Blow air on the fan and it spins.

    And I'm not interested in a new Hypergon as I...
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    Re: New 75mm Hypergon Lens

    If you look, the trees aren't quite vertical. The needed movements would have put them slightly out-of-focus, so I just let the lens do what it does. It's remarkable that it can stay rectilinear at...
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    Re: New 75mm Hypergon Lens

    Here are a few older images made with the 75mm Hypergon on 8x10. I haven't used it much, but hope to get back to it as time allows...
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    Re: New 75mm Hypergon Lens

    In the original Hypergon, the lens elements were so close together that there wasn't room for both aperture and shutter blades between them. Those Hypergons could only be mounted in a Volute...
  34. Re: What's your favorite internet falsehood on photography?

    Pretty much what Vaughn said. To put it as simply as possible, the f/stop is the number of times the aperture diameter will fit into a focal length. Your focal length is how far your bellows is...
  35. Re: What's your favorite internet falsehood on photography?

    1. f/16 was an arbitrary choice and a pretty commonly used f/stop. The math works for all f/stop values.

    2. I'm presuming the photographer chose that aperture based on the depth of field (or...
  36. Re: What's your favorite internet falsehood on photography?

    I'm guessing you want an example of figuring your actual f/stop instead of a bellows extension factor.

    Say you have a 210mm lens at f/16. At infinity, 210/16 gives an entrance pupil of 13.125mm....
  37. Re: What's your favorite internet falsehood on photography?

    The center of a complex lens is so close to the rear nodal point that it will make no difference in determining the exposure. The error will be less than the shutter speed error even with a pretty...
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    Re: Best practices for soft focus lenses?

    That got me at first too. And I didn't even know Hermagis made an endoscope...
  39. Re: What's your favorite internet falsehood on photography?

    You know, if you buy an Australian view camera and use it in the northern hemisphere, the image will be rightside up. Also, Australian Petzvals swirl counter-clockwise.

    And the Flat Earth Society...
  40. Re: What's your favorite internet falsehood on photography?

    I'm always amused by the "bellows extension factor" explanations. There's no such thing. Just divide your bellows extension (lens center to ground glass) by the diameter of your aperture. That's...
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