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The main price you pay when using telephoto's is that front tilt gets difficult. Where the front nodal point of most lenses is more or less in the...

I think the Technika board is a really good candidate. There are even adapters available to mount them on MF cameras. I use lenses in Technika boards...

This is a cool looking bag! And very easy for handling. Nowadays I shoot in good weather only, and carry the Sinar P2 8x10" just as it is. The tripod...

Thanks for your comment. Arca 8x10 is difficult to carry around in the field unlike field fold cameras. One more shot to reply PM to Danny. I...

Please permit me to add one more notable and seemingly omnipresent nemesis, the _reeking WIND!!!! I am not one to disgrace myself with use of foul...

Adam, No special talents required... Telephotos need less belows extension than the indicated focal length. The Nikon 360 tele requires roughly...

Thank you, just beautiful work.

This was taken in a remote section of NW New Jersey in an area famous for rare wildflowers which require a limestone (basic PH) environment. Fringed...

Two other things come to mind: 1. Fear of losing footing (now approaching 70) while climbing boulders to get "the shot". I had two falls, one in the...

Hi. This was taken in the vicinity of the Stony Brook Watershed land grant and organic farm. Quite a number of fallow fields there, though this was...

throw them out n get new ones. ...

Some B&J backs don’t fit. I never found one that did despite others saying it would. I ended up making my own.

I find bulls in the pasture to be a practical concern. Rather too thrilling, in fact!

8x10 Agfa green X-ray film @ 80 iso, 5 minutes in HC-110B @ 20C, Fujinon 210mm f/5.6, contact print onto Multigrade RC. Somehow I managed to...

Haha! Awesome!

You'll probably spend more on cleaner than a new pair of goggles! They don't cost much these days. But yeah, try some dilute dish soap first.

I have a far better micrometer driven geared head made from a forged bronze housing. I got it free, military surplus. It was originally made for...

I no longer have a KMV Deardorff and B&J may vary, Ansco and many others vary with variation within production I suggest you make what you have...