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    Re: Making lemonade

    Ed, the Foveon sensors are intriguing, but any digital camera I invest in also needs to be able to photograph my kids sporting activities, and there a DSLR has distinct advantages. The Sigma cameras...
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    Re: Making lemonade

    An update. Still using LF, but not really enough to put together coherent sets of images. I'm starting to feel at home with DSLR colour, although every now and then I'll try to take an image that...
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    Re: B&W 4x5 film for indoor sports?

    I've had some good luck with panning at slower shutter speeds. I don't spray and pray, but I do discard 90–95% of what I take. I'm mostly photographing handball and basketball, where the faces and...
  4. Re: Should lead fishing weights be sewn in the hem of a dark cloth?

    FWIW, the curtain hem tape is less likely to break anything, because both the weight and any impact it has when windblown are spread out.

    That said, I use a Blackjacket, and greatly prefer it to a...
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    Re: B&W 4x5 film for indoor sports?

    At 1/200 the blur will be 'artistic', even with kids. Or you'll have to stick to landings and balance poses. If you can bump the shutter speed up to 1/400 (Aero ektars are cheap) you will do much...
  6. Re: Should lead fishing weights be sewn in the hem of a dark cloth?

    Your seamstress may already have the kind of lead weight tape used for curtain hems. It comes in various grades of heavy, and is conveniently encapsulated in a cloth cover. Flexible, and easy to...
  7. Re: I have been a member of this forum for more than sixteen years....

    I try :-)
  8. Re: I have been a member of this forum for more than sixteen years....

    Ve haf vays of making you haf deja fu all ofver again!
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    Re: Sinar Shutter

    Many graphic arts lenses and older brass lenses have the flange at the back. They can often be mounted on a flat board.

    Norma-era coned lens boards are reasonably cheap, if you don't need the...
  10. Re: NYT: Legal Battle Over Vivian Maier’s Work

    I've seen a couple of Disfarmer exhibitions. One, a tightly-edited summary made him look incredibly sophisticated and experimental, within a nominally straightforward aesthetic. A more complete,...
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    Re: Best large tent?

    An alternative to the home on the range cowboy cabins would be this style of tent:

    http://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/se/vaude-badawi-long-6p-tent-d1612095?id_colour=151

    Some have three or four...
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    Re: Air Ministry 36inch f6.3 lens

    <innocent voice>
    What do they have?
    </innocent voice>
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    Re: Air Ministry 36inch f6.3 lens

    A user here (jb7 / joseph) has posted experience of using one of these beasts. Also on 8x10 I think. Samples and pictures of the setup on Flickr:
    ...
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    Re: Air Ministry 36inch f6.3 lens

    For more information, Google the Williamson aerial cameras, which these lenses were designed for and used on. I think I am right in saying they were last used regularly in Canberra flights, but it's...
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    Re: Drilling Glass

    That's pretty much how they marketed themselves. Like Swiss elves, but cheaper. Reality was cleanrooms and stainless steel.
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    Re: Drilling Glass

    If you want an accurate, clean hole, laser drilling beats all other methods. Available as small-scale contract work, but it's a bit like metal workshop stuff – things are easier if you know someone...
  17. Re: Extending Rise on Sinar Norma Front Standards

    They certainly wore suits more often :-)
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    Jerry, I now work part time with translations, and you would be amazed what English-as-a-second-language technical folk will sometimes insist is the correct English for a word or phrase. Don't...
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    That's almost as much fun as the occasional left-hand threads and non-standard bolt heads secreted at odd points around 1970s British cars.

    I've worked a lot on Ultra-high vacuum systems, where US...
  20. Re: Sinar Bellows Lens Shades on Sinar Norma Cameras

    Jerry, you're right. It is possible there is a further incompatibility. I only have Norma gear (I'm not a purist, I bought a complete outfit cheap) and haven't had the need to shop for other filter...
  21. Re: Extending Rise on Sinar Norma Front Standards

    OK, my thread gauges are a commute away, but my camera is here, so I unscrewed a black knob and it fits perfectly into the 3/8 socket in the bottom of various cameras and tripod heads.

    I don't...
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    Feeling like a mea culpa is already in order......

    3/8 is looking good. I'll check mine in case this is a Europe / USA thing.
  23. Re: Sinar Bellows Lens Shades on Sinar Norma Cameras

    The hood rotates in the holder, so aligning it with the standards/film edges is no problem at all.

    I don't know of there were later filter holders. I'm talking about the ones that look like a...
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    Re: Need a very slow motor (like 1 RPM).

    The Mindstorms motors are the most flexible in terms of connections and programming. But they are also the most expensive.

    Easy to rig up a motor and a wheel with a tyre driving the lazy Susan by...
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    Re: Need a very slow motor (like 1 RPM).

    Kumar, I don't think there are general answers to that. A lazy Susan usually has a bearing, so they spin quite freely. You would have to find a clock that can generate enough torque, but the torque...
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    Len, I can take a look at the threads on mine, but I won't have access to bolts and thread gauges until next week. I have a memory of the thread being a standard one, but it's quite possible I'm...
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    Re: Need a very slow motor (like 1 RPM).

    Butcher a clock. Use the second hand drive for 1 RPM. Change the photo-taking rate for other speeds.
  28. Re: Extending Rise on Sinar Norma Front Standards

    Some machine shops have minimum orders of about that amount, but if you have one that you're on good terms with a pair of rods should cost much less. The thread you can take from the black keeper...
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    The red-anodised 'stabilisation' rods turn up occasionally. They screw into the top of the standard uprights once you've removed the black keeper. The thread and diameter of the rods are standard...
  30. Re: Sinar Bellows Lens Shades on Sinar Norma Cameras

    The Norma clips show up on eBay all the time, and usually are not expensive. You can use the same rods (or a standard pencil).

    For field use, I have a Lee self-supporting hood attached to a 105...
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    Re: 360mm(-ish) lenses in barrel for 8x10 ?

    The image circle at infinity is roughly half that at 1:1.

    I'd take an Apo-ronar over an Industar any day. Even the older single coated models are excellent at working apertures.

    Cheaper yet...
  32. Re: Half tone screens and half tone negative reproduction

    Excellent attitude!

    Have fun.
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    If you have space, and if you really want to do this the analogue way, vertical graphics arts cameras like the Agfa Repromaster series usually go for free or peanuts if you can pick up. Find one...
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    PS: I have a set of Polaroid screens. They have metal 'wings' along the side that were meant to be inserted into slots in a special holder, which also had a slot for a Polaroid sheet film holder...
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    Bob. You sound as if you want to add gravure-style stippling to gum or carbon prints. If you are lucky enough to have some colour gravure workers whose prints you can look at, they will give you an...
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    Re: A Special Photo

    Congratulations Bryan! Wishing you a long and happy life together.
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    Re: Tie my tripod to roof rack?

    Just my little joke folks :-)

    Although gun racks do make excellent storage for all sorts of useful things.

    Randy: Sweden dropped conscription a while back. Decommissioned the cold war...
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    Re: Tie my tripod to roof rack?

    Um. Doesn't every American car have a gun rack?
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    Re: Mark Sawyer's Pixies in Lenswork

    Excellent. The thinking man's fairy.
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    Re: Personal project : People Of HSCT

    Excellent work Sergei. Humour and dignity.
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