Hype and promotion are nothing new! I wonder exacctly what the 'politics' behind such pieces really were. We will probably never know.
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Hype and promotion are nothing new! I wonder exacctly what the 'politics' behind such pieces really were. We will probably never know.
Thanks Ron. Interesting that the secod one is 1915 or later from the Sands Hunter & Co Ltd nameplate. I'm not sure whether Hare was still in business by that time. The design seems to be a fairly...
I've also examined a 10" x 8" back too (I looked at the 5" x 4" previously)from Gandolfi and this has the slot but it does not extend the whole way across, just a bit from each end. So its not for a...
Just had a look at mine and it looks to me as though it is part of a rebate to take a sliver of wood to joint it to another similarly rebated section of wood. This rebate appears only to be used at...
A 'catch all' such as 'in many respects' is a wooly way of saying that the assertion is not going to be validated. I'd be fascinated to know what this 'many respects' actually refers to, but I fear...
I have a pretty near identical lens although the engraving is upside down on mine which has Watson & Sons engraved on the barrel too. The really intereting thing about it is that it is a 'Patent'...
Having posted elsewhere it looks very much like this was a 'badged' camera actually made by W Watson & Sons and would have been made from around the late 1880s onwards (no cut off date).
I'm struggling to find any suppliers of CB in the UK. Any suggestions?
Some time ago I bought this camera. It needs some sort of restoration as its been well used! I can either try to find out what it looked like and rebuild it as it originally was or slide in a 5" x 4"...
Here are the details of the Waterhouse stops should anyone want to make a set for their A3 Petzval:
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Both photos were taken using another 1860s Grubb lens intended for stereo...
Today I received an A3 Petzval by Grubb and dating from the early 1860s. The glass was absolutely filthy and there was even an old sticker on the rear element. Careful application of Zeiss lens...
I used to live in North Wales on the north coast about 1km outside Eryri National Park (Snowdonia). I also worked for a time in Swansea. I would suggest that if you want to see a lot without...
Looks like a printing/copying set up of some description to me. I'd hazard a guess and suggest that it was out of equipment intended to deliver a specific print size and has sufficient adjustment to...
Thanks all. In the end I made an adapter which took a fair amount of time and then bought some original slightly smaller boards and have made some more using a ply back and mahogany front which are...
Its a real pity that there is no video record of Samuel Bourne shooting wetplate at 18,600 feet in the Himalayan snow in 1866. Shooting in the cold can be awkward, shooting large format difficult,...
Large format camera maker John Nesbitt who designed and built large format wooden cameras when he lived in Wales has died in France. I had one of these for a time and whilst it lacked some degree of...
I think its Nant Peris (much smaller than today!) looking up the Pass of Llanberis.
4009 is a real oddity in that the serial number places it firmly amongst the earlier type lenses originated by Thomas Grubb, but it is clearly marked as being from Howard and is obviously of much...
Looks like Llyn Gwynant to me. The building is still there but had boarded windows last time I saw it. At the vally bottom to the right of the photo is the campsite.
Thanks Steven. ould you provide dates for the second two please?
The Advert I'd really like to get hold of is the ‘original’ advertisement of April 9th, 1859 in “The Photographic Journal” (No 82)...
Thanks. I've located a a number of slightly smaller Gandolfi boards reasonably priced so will use those and simply make an adapter as this way I can also use them on other cameras too. Thanks for...
I am sure that William will reply (I know that he's somewhat busy) but the lens has 2 inch diameter glass fitted in the rear black ring which will give you some idea.
Intiguingly I have been carefully examining a lens engraved Howard Grubb and which I am thinking is probably from the 1990s )certainly post 1883 but more likely 1895+). Surprise, surprise it too has...
My current collection of Grubb, Dublin lenses:
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Again, thanks. Two of my cameras use boards which fit into the front section. They are of course different. I was simply hoping that one might be more easily obtainable if it was used on other...
Thanks. It appears that this was yet another 'Special' from the Gandolfis. Standardisation and record keeping were not up to the standard of their camera build unfortunately. I currently have 6...
I have a Gandolfi tailboard camera designed to take 4.5" square lensboards. This is the extrenal dimension. The external board is ~1/8" thick and has an internal secition 4 1/8" square which is also...
Many years ago I was offered a long Nikkor lens (400) by a sports photographer working for a national newspaper in London. I was obviously used and unfortunately had some fungus as a result of being...
FWIW I once owned a Takumar lens with a small but very obvious scratch on the front element. After a time i used a black felt tip pens to fill the scratch in - more obvious but it proved to be...
Except with dome ports which produce a virtual image at 4r from the centre of the dome's sphere:o.
Actually its a wonder that we ever get 'sharp' images with all these complications. I would...
But doesn't that depend upon how sharp you want the print to look?
In all honesty, a circle of confusion is a theoretical construct intended to illustrate what we see empirically. It rarely represents an actual reality. But it is helpful in keepig photographers...
Rule of thumb; prints become shaper when viewed from further away.:eek:
There is also the confusion circle which is the one in which photographers have a circular argument about the others.
FWIW I was commisioned to undertake a similar project some years ago. I shot the same views on a small format digital camera since the original images were relatively small and there was no absolute...
In terms of large format cameras Gandolfi are quite well known as a quality British maker helped no doubt by having the accolade of being the camera maker in business for the longest time. However...
Easy enough to try them on a modern digital camera. Centrally even early lenses can be surprisingly good but they seem to fall off quickly. And FWIW I have a stereo lens from 1865 which performs much...
2914 is in the collection of the History of Science Museum in Oxford so that one probably has the lens from 2915 in it! I assume that these were 'D' designated stereo lenses.
Thomas Grubb was an early adopter of ray tracing so he too put effort into his designs. His 'portable' mount (pillbox type) still does a credible job of minimising flare, and his son still tried to...
I have searched extensively but can only find references to six existant Doublet lenses by Thomas Grubb, of which I own two, both made in 1865, from two sereies of serial numbers. Two others are on a...