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Hopefully those of ya'll that are on FB can perhaps report back? :) Can we entire Lee to maybe come over here and stop by perhaps? ;)

Made a new 8X10 GG last night from Home Depot 8X10 which exactly fits 8X10 I made cut corners first, as I like them. First to check aperture and...

'Via' carries her original Volvo B-18 4-cyl; rated at 115hp in 1966. The previous owner replaced the original twin SU carbs with a 2-choke downdraft...

A great thread. All good stuff here. I really do not want to use a 135 Elmar on a LF format. I just made the OP to settle for myself a "bar bet"...

Angular Pool, Monument Bay Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111 FB VC photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.5cm, from a 4x5...

If fixer does not remove it, it's probably not something that's meant to be part of the film. Anyone in the household with "institutional green"...

Strange inverse natural laws indeed . . . Youth is wasted on the young! No good deed goes unpunished. Virtue is its own revenge.

�� Fun is the best reason of all to do what we do (whatever the heck it is we do!).

Exactly, this is how it should be.

In that picture, the unit is on it's side, so the "bottom" flap, which is on the right, folds in first. Then the sides, then the top flap which has...

Harder than first thought however, since this is a for a project where dof isn't that important I'm glad to say I now own an Ensar anastigmat 105mm...

Which engine in that beauty?

Some split backs were made right The Levy will be a 14X17" camera one year, maybe this year ...

Shell. 13x18 Fomapan 200 Rodinal 1+25 Heliar 30cm @ f22 ( next time will try G-Claron at f45 or f64 )

John I don’t know if you’re on facebook, but if so this is an ongoing active topic of conversation in Dry Plate Photographers group. If you had...

Mark... we didn't get one snowflake at our house on the west side.

I suspect many experienced LF users here have their own way of doing things, but I'd imagine those starting out or wanting to improve, would benefit...

1994 or 95

I am confident film was emulsion in, as I feel for notch at top right before rolling the film and inserting it into the drum. I tried refixing and...

Looks like the film was in contact with the drum. Assuming it is the non-emulsion side of the film, you may be able to re-fix it and it will go...

There’s a cig tucked in the corner, a small (and overlooked detail) that makes it for me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ugh, this is exactly the kind I said would leave wood splinters all over the glass and wear out much quicker than every other kind. I can't believe...

Hello Bob, my recently acquired Master Technika is in Munich for CLA now. S/N B551590 - what is the year, please?

It snows once every couple of winters in Tucson, so it's a happy event when it does happen. Last month the snow melted within an hour in town, but...