What did Ansel Adams use?

[David Carson]

Check this out: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/s...f_packing.html

[David A. Goldfarb]

Check this out: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/s...f_packing.html

That's a great page! I like William Henry Jackson's list--"400 pieces of glass."

[Brian Ellis]

That's a great page! I like William Henry Jackson's list--"400 pieces of glass."

Wasn't it William Henry Jackson who spent a couple months or so in the wilderness making hundreds of photographs on wet plate, then on the return trip the mule slipped, the plates fell to the ground and broke, so he turned around and went back in for another few months? Or something like that.

[Caroline Matthews]

Wasn't it William Henry Jackson who spent a couple months or so in the wilderness making hundreds of photographs on wet plate, then on the return trip the mule slipped, the plates fell to the ground and broke, so he turned around and went back in for another few months? Or something like that.

I just LOVE (not!) Brian's urban myths. Why can he not check his facts and make an accurate post, rather than "...or something like that." Or somthing like that is not helpful, accurate, or useful. Thanks Brian.

[Keith Tapscott.]

What 8x10 Camera did he use?

[Robert Brummitt]

Wow, how about this! Bionic carriers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdK2y3lphmE

I wouldn't be surprised if Calumet starts selling this!

[John Kasaian]

What 8x10 Camera did he use?

A bunch of them, Keith!

Many of his more famous 8x10s were taken with an Ansco, though several were taken with an aluminium version of the 2D (?) IIRC.

When I met Mr. Adams he had two 8x10.s set up at the Tunnel View in Yosemite. I seem to recall that one of them was a Kodak Master View (but I could be mistaken---I was probably less than 8 years old at the time!) There is a story that he tried a Deardorff for a short time but wasn't impressed. Whether or not that was why they started building 'dorff's with front swings is anyone's guess, but that's the urban legend I've heard.

Cheers

[CG]

Wasn't it William Henry Jackson who spent a couple months or so in the wilderness making hundreds of photographs on wet plate, then on the return trip the mule slipped, the plates fell to the ground and broke, so he turned around and went back in for another few months? ...

I believe it was Jackson. Wikipedia has same info too.

C

[mdd99]

Ansel lost a passel of glass plates that fell into the drink in Alaska, too.

[Turner Reich]

Ansel use other people, his son, friends, assistants to carry his extra stuff.