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    Re: extra wide angle lens for 8x10

    I have been researching the issue of another camera and/or wide angle lens for a while for 8x10 format. With the nature of 8x10 having less depth of field as a format because the lenses are a longer...
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    Re: Hugo Meyer 200mm F-9 Lens Question

    I have an old 160mm f/9 Hugo Meyer WA Weitwinkel-Aristostigmat that came mounted in a shutter. It would almost barely covered 8x10. The 200mm should have good coverage. You will need to look up...
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    Re: extra wide angle lens for 8x10

    Wide angle lenses for 8x10 are a little bit unusual. The more expensive and the newer the lenses are (that have more coverage for movements) then they are really big and heavy. Such lenses: 155mm...
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    Re: Film holders: alternative to notches

    seems like a lot of work to notch holders. For black and white work, I just put the film into my Jobo tank sequentially and keep the holders in order sequentially in the darkroom. I write on the...
  5. Re: bellows extension factor - getting the hang of it - any suggestions : )!!! ??

    I do the same thing as Doremus! I have calculated distances from the center of lens to film plane and shown that correction on a 3 1/2 x 5" cards that I keep in my camera case. I have a number of...
  6. Re: I need some advice on choosing my first two large format lenses.

    Also it depend on what you what to taking images of. when I purchased my first 8x10, I purchased an old 12" Wollensak Velostigmat II lens - for portraits. Latter I purchased a 240mm Nikor W (as a...
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    Re: Keystone Correction

    Very nice comparison Andrew! I have been working with perspective control in enlarging for many years, by tilting the easel and negative carrier. (many years ago I purchased a perspective device...
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    Re: Best 8x10 camera for ultra-wide angle?

    I was thinking about a 8x10 wide angle camera as well. I ended up with the question - do I need a bag bellows or not? Then does the camera needs to have both bag bellows and standard bellows? Will...
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    Re: Mobility with a Toyo 45G

    I used a Omega View camera for a couple decades - which I packed around everywhere. What I ended up doing, was to buy an additional rail, and cut it down very short so that I could shoot with the...
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    Re: Best 8x10 camera for ultra-wide angle?

    John Kasian is absolutely correct about lens weight. I found out years ago the hard way, with a 12 inch Wollensak Velostigmat mounted on a wooden tail board camera. I broke the front standard of...
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    Re: Flndlng Vivian Maier

    I watched the You tube show on Vivian Maier - last night. It was very interesting from a number of vantage points. The show shows how she was a complex individual - with interviews by a number of...
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    Re: I need an extra wide lens

    I have photographed a number of buildings with wide angle lenses. I use a 90mm, 75mm,and a 135mm, mostly. Often for interior views, and for situations where there is only enough space to get the...
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    Re: Nikon 300mm F9 M

    As said by PartrickMarq above, the Nikor M lenses are a bit soft close up. I have a 300mm and a 450mm and they are both wonderful for buildings and landscape / urban images. The 300mm does not have...
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    Re: Pentax Zone V completely off

    You need to verify that the meter is accurate with another meter that is accurate. The battery is probably the issue. I always check bellows factor with a small tape measure. I do use a 75mm, 90mm...
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    Re: Pentax Zone V completely off

    I sometimes forget: bellows factor, and reciprocity factor exposure correction, reciprocity development correction. stopping down. ASA setting on the meter, etc. Way too many things to remember. I...
  16. Re: Avoiding harassment when shooting in the street

    I have been asked by a Washington State Park Ranger if I had a permit to photograph in a local State Park. She said that my equipment looked like "professional equipment." I explained that my...
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    Re: What's going to become of photography?

    With AI there is defiantly a greater possibility of re-writing and creating convenient lies for backing up someones point of view. They always had the potential for manipulation - multiple images...
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    Re: Wista 4x5 loupe

    I have gone to a 6X horseman loupe for my lijnhof with a long pop-out hood. it adjusts for eye sight corrections
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    Re: 8x10 cameras with bag bellows?

    I have spent some time with my Calumet and my widest lens I currently have for it - 6 1/2 inch f/8 Dagor - the lens covers about as much as there are movements around an inch. I keep thinking in...
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    Re: Gitzo tripod head

    Yes it is a clamp to hold the cable release and a ring to slide over the cable plunger to activate the cable release. I have one on the first Gitzo tripod head I purchased.
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    Re: 8x10 format wide angle

    I think I saw a video of Bernice Abbot using a 8x10 Deardorff with a dedicated bag bellow - shooting from a tall building in New York. That might have been around the 1970's. It probably had a...
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    8x10 cameras with bag bellows?

    How many 8x10 cameras have a bag bellows? I often want rise with wide angle on 8x10 format - how much rise is built into the Deardorff 8x10 sliding rise on the front standard? (this is because with...
  23. Re: Camping suggestions on the west coast or western states?

    Drew sorry for the late response to your post - I must not of seen it. Your family has a fascinating history! I am very impressed that your Aunt Lucia Wiley was such a fine painter! The painting...
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    Re: History Question

    Why do we call film photography "analog" and not always call the newer process "digital photography"? Phillip, Brian, Pieter, and Jnantz, I think you are all correct - as language changes over time...
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    Re: Labs for 4x5 E6?

    I have used Panda in Seattle - but they are not processing sheet film from looking at their website. I have heard of Blue Moon in Portland.
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    Re: Favorite Lens

    This is a very difficult question! Most used lenses for 4x5 landscape are: 3 5/8" WA Dagor (92mm) 4 3/8" WA Dagor (112mm), 90mm Grandagon, and 75mm Grandagon.
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    Re: Why is 8x10 so expensive over 4x5 ?

    My recent belief is that 8x10 is less flexible than 4x5. I would enjoy a discussion by forum members of where 8x10 works best or better than 4x5. I have been using the 4x5 format for 49 years -...
  28. Re: Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar vs. Rodenstock Sironar question

    My first lens was also a convertible 180mm / 360mm Symmar in a Copal shutter manufactured about 1968. I bought it used in 1975. It has been a good lens. It is not as clinically as sharp as later...
  29. Re: Bag or box to store film for your field trips

    I have kept old film boxes - and the plastic and cardboard inserts to use for each development type of exposed black and white film. I prefer to leave the film in holders if possible.
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    Re: Help dating old plates

    Seed's Dry Plates company was sold to Eastman Kodak in 1902 - according to the internet. The other box with Standard extremely Rapid Dry Plate - Eastman Kodak.. is listed on the internet from the...
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    Re: Help dating old plates

    Seed's Dry Plates company was sold to Eastman Kodak in 1902 - according to the internet.
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    Re: Focusing after back swing

    I was alluding to extending the plane of focus along more of a horizontal plane (for landscape work as an example) instead of a vertical plane - as you do often with a building (then stopping down...
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    Re: Floorplan or design for a darkroom

    You need to plan for what you are going to do. What size prints maximum, size of trays controls size of a darkroom sink. Color and or black and white. Size of maximum enlarger (8x10 enlargers may...
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    Re: Where to buy LF lenses?

    I have purchased from brick and mortar and online stores such as KEH, Igor's Camera, Glazier's in Seattle, B and H, etc. I have purchased on e-bay - but you need to be careful - read everything on...
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    Re: Focusing after back swing

    I have photographed buildings quite a bit. two point (or one point) perspectives are usually preferred over three point perspectives. In other words, using the rear standard vertical (as is the ...
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    Re: Focusing after back swing

    The rear swing, tilt, shift, alter perspective. The front swing tilt, alters where the plane of focus is located in the real world (along with the f-stop used giving you the perceived depth of area...
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    Re: What's The Worst That Could Happen?

    My grandfather lost his right arm below the elbow in an accident in the Great Northern Shop - probably in Minneapolis - St Paul area. Factories were dangerous.
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    Re: bag for 4x5 holder?

    I have an Igloo brand hard soda pop or beer cooler that I leave in the trunk and change out the shot taken holders for un-shot taken holders. It is the correct size for 4x5. I have a larger soft...
  39. Re: Focusing loupe - which one do you recommend

    Horseman 6X long loupe is big and heavy. The optics are very good. They extend the length of a viewing hood. I put mine in an old sock to keep it from getting beat up - I will find a case for it...
  40. Re: 50 years from now .... Ask your question or respond !

    a "Struss" lens on a digital camera? why not just a program?
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