You might just try a little furniture polish (Pledge, etc) on the darkslides. A small squirt and then polish them up with a cloth.Originally Posted by cosmicexplosion
I have greatly improved the sliding of the darkslides of 100+ year old plate holders by just polishing them up with a cotton rag and elbow grease.
Vaughn
Try 'em and see
I steal time at 1/125th of a second, so I don't consider my photography to be Fine Art as much as it is petty larceny.
That's what I have, couldn't think of the name, yes they are very good and light too.
Wood is usually lighter than plastic, so that's an attraction. Like anything old they can have problems, but most of the ones I've had have been okay, or the problems have been sufficiently obvious that I could just cull out or repair the bad ones without having to test them.
Weston was eternally complaining about warped filmholders, but I'm not sure why this was particularly a curse for him. The humidity wherever he happened to be in Mexico or California at the time maybe?
The wood holders seem to be less attractive to static electricity and so they seem to collect less dust. They are lighter, too.
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
--A=B by Petkovšek et. al.
Jay, they make plastic film holders? What will they think of next!
They even make plastic cameras....
One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
That use plastic lenses with plastic mounts!
And are full of plastic parts!
One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
The mother of one of one of my daughter's friends had her tripod out. I picked it up. It was way lighter than any of those expensive carbon fiber jobs.
It was made of plastic!
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