Someone gots to do it!Originally Posted by Kodachrome25
Someone gots to do it!
"Landscapes exist in the material world yet soar in the realms of the spirit..." Tsung Ping, 5th Century China
Michael, If you intend to do something similar,I would call up the local university, college and high school to get recommendations of the best instrument repair people in your region and then talk with them. Usually, at the university level, someone of the music faculty will have an interest in antique instruments, including brass. Since you are close to Denver, talking with anyone from the brass section of the Denver Symphony should get you excellent references. Unless they do the work themselves, any of these folks will have resources for restoration services and that's how I would find the go-to resource.
It accidentally happen for me that way because one of the local music faculty who was also deeply into photography and was a good family friend, met with me one day to show me his latest find, a cool little 35mm Tessina. I had just recently gotten this camera and thought to ask him about brass refinishing. He told me about this guy who happened to work in the town where I had my studio and to whom he traveled for all of his restoration work on his large collection of tubas, Sousaphones, and other brass goodies. The rest you already know.
"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude." Carl Sandburg
I worked as an instrument repair tech for 8 years. We cleaned brass with phosphoric acid (the lightest acid bath), or diluted hydrochloric acid. If it was really bad, it would go into the muriatic acid (straight hydrochloric). I splashed that stuff on myself once - not fun. The phosphoric wasn't a big deal - I had to put my whole arm in it once to retrieve a small piece from a trumpet that had fallen out of the basket we dipped stuff in. We also had some other solvents for tarnish, some vile pink stuff that I think was sulfuric acid.
Anyway, all of that stuff will strip lacquer, if given time. Re-lacquering is pretty easy. You can get muriatic locally I would imagine.
Linhof Kardan Color. Last iteration I think.
Took me a while to put a nice one together. Wish the tripod matched the dolly and camera, but it's a great studio rig. Does 1 to 1 with 480 mm Ronar.
I have taken it on location, but never again. I have more parts for the tripod and can lift the camera about 8 feet up.
Tin Can
Randy, now that is cool looking!!
"WOW! Now thats a big camera. By the way, how many megapixels is that thing?"
Yea yea, if I lived in a place like you I could take awesome photos all day long too
HAH!
Now I see why you are thinking about 16x20 and 20x24.
I have no large size camera
The guidelines require that all posts be about large-format photography. They also require that images in the large-format image-posting forum be made using large-format, as defined.It would probably be best to "codify" that tradition in the Usage Guidelines.
It seems clear to me that we allow the use of smaller formats in the equipment threads when they are illustrating a large-format topic. But we do not allow anything but large format (as defined) in the threads that ostensibly demonstrate large-format photography.
Rick "who has used small formats to illustrate a technique in the past" Denney
From a set of images shot for a UK magazine, the LF cameras visible are a Speed Graphic and the edge of my Super Graphic, on the top shelf is a Houghton Duchess half plate camera.
The reflex camera shown isn't LF it's a 6x9 TP Junior Reflex, there's a 5x4 Kershaw Soho Reflex in the cabinet which awaits restoration.
Here's the Duchess with a 12" Wray RR lens
And with a 165mm 1913 Tessar.
I made an adapter to allow me to use modern 5x4 DDS with the camera.
Ian
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