Hello
thank you for all the advice
i finally found a nice Burke and James 8x10
now just have to wait to receive it
and this week end going to see a 360 mm in belgium
i will let you know the following events
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Hello
thank you for all the advice
i finally found a nice Burke and James 8x10
now just have to wait to receive it
and this week end going to see a 360 mm in belgium
i will let you know the following events
That's great. Have fun!
thank you Peter
i'm thinking to use also the camera as enlarger with an adapted back and a DEL light head ( i allready get a column about 1.2 meter high )
There have been many threads and posts on using a view camera as an enlarger. Especially since LED light sources can be easily obtained. However, I have not seen many explanations of how people are holding the negative in place. If it were me, I'd get a extra film back and replace the ground glass with clear glass. Then I'd make over-sized clips that can hold two pieces of glass together and sandwich the negative with a piece of AN glass on the top. This is a little crazy but if using a 'LED light panel' I don't see why velcro around the perimeter of the modified back would not hold the light panel in place. Either way, I'd be interested in what you come up with. I'd probably NOT try to mount an 8x10 view camera on any column. I'd use it horizontal.
I second the motion for Professional Portrait Lightings by Charles Abel. I have two copies for my retirement fund although they have dropped a bit in cost, damn.
I am taking the liberty of reprinting this from a long ago post.
For them that don't know this is a 1947 book presenting 100 professional portrait photographers, presumably members of the Photographer's Association of America, and portraits and lighting diagrams of their work.
Goerz Dagor x2
Goerz Ceclor x2
Goerz Dogmar x2
Voightlander Heliar x15
Vitax x5
Velostigmat x9
Verito x13
Varium x2
Beach Multifocal x3
Cooke Anastigmat x2
series 11 Cooke x3
Cooke x1
Cooke Portrait x3
Cooke series Vl x2
Cooke Telephoto 1
Graf Variable x2
B&L Tessar x7
B&L Sigmar x
Struss Pictorial Lens x1
Ilex Paragon x3
Ross x2
Pinkham & Smith x2
Dallmeyer x4
Darlot x3
Zeiss Tessar x3
Contax Sonnar x1
Gundlach Radar x1
Hermagis x1
Steinheil Cassar x1
Eastman x1
Kodak x1
Of further interest is that yes this is very much an 8x10 aesthetic, largely with 8x10 cameras and 14-19 inch lenses,BUT it is also a product of the immediate post war years. That is reflected in the large variety of film sizes used on those cameras, as a conserving effort..
11x14-4 times
8x10-17
5x7 reducing boards-39
6 1/2x8 1/2-2
4 3/4x6 1/2-1
4x5-7
Double split on a 5x7 reducing back-3
Quad split on a 5x7 reducing back-9
35mm-1
that lens is mythical !Quote:
Originally Posted by cowanw
?as in not actual?
no, as in silver bullets I must have ;~'))Quote:
Originally Posted by cowanw
i've only heard of 2 people in the last 25 years who had oneQuote:
Originally Posted by cowanw
and knew what it is. im guessing there
will be ( or maybe already is ? ) some sort of cult that worships
that lens, i mean it's got one of the coolest wollensak V names ever too !
There's a Varium on ebay at the moment for a big pile of money.
Kent in SD