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Wow! That’s very nice. And encouraging. Thanks. You had a much more successful first attempt then I did.

I recently bought a bottle of that Foma Photo Emulsion with the idea of making my own dry plates for negatives. I set about prepping 5x7 inch glass...

something else I may have to consider in case of the newer wrinkly Topcor 65mm is the use of a spacer, in order to compensate for the recessed mount?...

Frozen Cypress Dawes by Nokton48, on Flickr 4x5 Sinar Norma 90mm F8 chrome Sinar Norma Auto Aperture lens Sinar Norma Shutter

thank you, very useful. so from random ebay search, the older hammered: and its back and the newer one:

Ha, "Luck is the residue of design," as Branch Rickey once said.:) Certainly an evocative photograph--I suspect it would have a number of different...

Thanks guys! The horizontal ones are OK, the thick vertical one does bother me...

Thanks all of you guys for the very kind comments! And I guess this is the beauty of large format for me, due to the high level of involvement in...

Thanks guys for the kind comments. Actually it's not all what it seems, I was actually stupid enough to shift my 240mm lens over the limits of its...

Auto Maki no 2 150 2.8 Xenotar HRU 1 by Nokton48, on Flickr "At the local Crystal Palace Conservatory" Automatic Makiflex #2 150mm F2.8 Xenotar...

? my first link is from an archived version of KOMAMURA website, with the list of compatible lenses. The current Komamura website has no longer...

MINR XRay Test 1 210mm Componon F22 Two Pops C171 by Nokton48, on Flickr 18x24cm Kodak MIN-R Mammography film cut into 4x5s. Sinar Norma...

HRU Makiflex Std Mic-X 240 f4.5 Tele-Arton by Nokton48, on Flickr Plaubel Makiflex Standard camera 240mm F5.5 chrome barrel mount Schneider...

Aside from DX and FX digital I shoot 35mm, 6x6, 6x7, 6x9, 6x12, 9x12, 4x5, 5x7 and 8x10. Lately it's been mostly FX and 8x10.

OP, your first link is to archive.com, not to a Komura catalog. I think you meant Komamura and type Komura. Please correct both errors. You...

Horseman modified the mount of the 65mm lens for the VH-R an ER-1 cameras by increasing the flange-focal length (ie mounting it in a recessed panel.)...