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So here I am 604 web pages and post count so high I dare not even think in those terms, lest I fear an explosion of the brain. How do i sort through all that to find a few answers and testimonials...

Thank you. It would be nice to kow the name of the tripod or one of like kind. Since that 4x5 looks a little puny on it, I'm truing to picture my weight-modified horseman on it. Looks like it might...

As the OP, I am grateful for these suggestions and welcome more. I might interject by discussing what I had been using with the camera when it still had it's heavy rear L-arm. A Leitz Tiltall. It's...

I have a Horseman 8x10. The big one with the heavy L arms. I'm in the middle of a modification to get rid of the rear L arm, which will shed about 12,000 pounds off the camera and turn it into...

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Find another 8x10 and go take pictures with it. Might be nice and pretty, but if it's not ready for work with nothing more than a general clean-up, let the present owner worry his soul over it. I...

Looks like clouds to me.

Wow 80-95 is some seriously warm water for FB especially. You're right. In the southeast (NC) it might get 82 or so in the hottest season, and I don't like it at all for washing film and paper. You...

I just found out the Timberlands that I have on now, that served me so well through those winters of wood cutting for my very survival those 4 years, are made in the Dominican Republic. As I look...

Truthfully, I see no reason not to use the Xray film if you have no other choice. I'm satisfied that the experimentation just on this site alone has demonstrated the capability of it being used with...

God I hate digital. Just ruining everything.

If the camera is a 4x5, set the infinity stop and Kalart for the longer lens. Make pencil marks (or similar) on the focus rail as your infinity position for the 90mm. fabricate or make focus scales...

You didn't say what size Graphic you have. Can't reasonably answer the question without knowing that first.

Down here in NC, cotton socks are cheap and do very nicely in most cases. I found that wearing 2 pairs is OK. It's rare to be in a condition where you could get a dangerous frostbite. I should have...

Oh, I thought the photos were largely posted directly on the LFF servers along with the text of the post itself. I figured the photos probably took up more server hard drive which the site owner was...

How far back do posted photos ordinarily go on these years old threads before photos are stripped out of the posts?

Everybody can see I have a post on here I deleted because I didn't want to stir up the pot. So I'll just post a picture I like and let it do my talking. I know full well some people in this country...

In all the photo forums, I don't recall any discussions on boots. Like in the kind you wear. Mighty dadgum important subject for those of us who trudge out with cameras (or chainsaws for that...

For the little I have developed 2 sided Xray film so far, I used what I had on hand, big Cesco-Lite flat bottom plastic trays left over from a print shop and Beutler's developer. And then made sure I...

I am not making this thread to be a rant, at least in spirit. I just don't understand the prohibitive pricing of large format film. take any larger than 4x5 large format panchromatic film price, and...

Actually seabee, I had misaddressed you and was thinking of the Viet Nam vet from the 60's. Though misaddressed, the same regards may go just as well to any of you. With that, I'll cease posting...

I'll never quite understand certain crowds, like the pinhole crowd or ULF people. And I'm an avid handicraftsman myself. Why detract from photography for the sake of woodworking on...

Thank you seabee. You actually volunteered. I hope I might be allowed to relay my story about willingness. I had some of that--a wee tiny bit. Maybe not enough, but I did try. ON 12/31/74 I turned...

Looks like it's back to the drawing board with my Honeywell 682S. Just no capability for fill flash artisanry. (is that a word?) I think the Strobonars must have been originally designed to replace...

Thank you for the constructive post. The only thing I have against adopting this idea is the obvious parallax of the flash beam to camera angle of view. Seems like you'd have to be at least 10 feet...

I could achieve the wanted goal if there was a way to rig up venetian blind style louvers on my Honeywell Strobonar. But mounting my 611 to the Graflex with the standard bracket and tripod socket...

[QUOTE=hsandler;1437975]This was my solution.
I had seen that somewhere before and thought it was sort of neat, but discounted it. The 283 is like so many other auto flashes that gives you several...

Thank you. The Sunpak 611 has 8 choices of variable power. Truth be known, it's variable duration, not variable brightness in the true sense, as with an incadescent bulb on a dimmer. I bought mine...

Man. Viet Nam from 1964 to 1970--hell on earth. I am so glad I was born a year or 2 too late to have been drafted into that horrible ordeal. Imagine being drafted into a war where the enemy was a...

Thank you for all these responses. I looked at that Rollei flash mentioned it the second post. But it looks like it doesn't have the variable power manual mode I want. I never used my Sunpak in auto...

When I got my Super Graphic, I did some waiting on the auction site to get just the right flash, which was a Honeywell Stobonar 682S. Really nice. The flash handle diameter was the #1 must-have,...

Thank you for that post. Looks like this thread is a short-timer. Now, for coming up with the book. All I have is the leaflet.

I'll never know what is inside the sort of people that would enlist, being this is a volunteer military. It's something more than just the paid benefit incentives for after discharge. These are...

Well friend it looks like it's just us and the thread is going nowhere. So I'll just ask the #1 question in my mind. Now mind you, I don't recall the mixing instructions because the set is not handy....

This thread may fall flat on its face. But I've got a complete Colorvir kit and I'd like to get the most out of it. I don't live in proximity to any subjects I regularly see that are anything but an...

I am not not by nature one prone to challenge rules. Rules are rules and I mostly abide them, even when I deem them absurd. HOA's are something that is registered by the neighborhood developer before...

In the southeast it gets hot, sticky, and totally miserable. But you just have to deal with it. When you're in your hot darkroom, be glad you're not on a work crew tarring a black roof or on bucket...

I didn't read all the posts, but I can tell you that after exhaustive work on learning exposure meter calibration and repair, that meter sensitivity to different colors is all over the place. In...

It was a guy named Danny. I did a search of my gmail account and found my correspondences with him in 2013 about this. I won't give his last name just yet, for his privacy. But... I obviously glommed...

Thank you. I'd hear the name Grimes, and searched just now. He's a machinist, and the one I'll likely use. But he's not the guy with the plan I saw. At least I don't think so.