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  1. Re: 8x10 Field Camera: Deardorff, Wisener, Tachihara or ???

    The more common double-extension 8x10 Tachihara has a maximum bellows draw of around 23", the triple-extension is about 34".
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    Re: Why BLACK & White PRINTS!

    this
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    Re: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 135mm f4.5

    Actually, modern lenses aren't one way - they're lots of different ways. Similarly, Tessars don't all look the same, even classic Tessars. If there's a particular look you're after, you'll need to...
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    Re: ULF Film Campaign 2024 by Ilford

    I have tested the listed URLs for the US participating dealers. All of them work.
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    Re: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 135mm f4.5

    They can, but they don't necessarily. If that's a concern each particular lens needs to be evaluated for its own merits.
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    Re: Ilford ULF order for 2024?

    1. Only the listed dealers are participating. Any stock that others might get will be second-hand and likely delayed.

    2. Participating dealers are not obliged to charge the same prices, though...
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    Re: Macro Lens for Sinar F

    Schneider describes the G-Claron as "A symmetrical, six-element large format taking lens particularly corrected for 1:1 linear magnification. The lens can be used for angles of view up to 64 degrees...
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    Re: Macro Lens for Sinar F

    What do you mean by "natively magnify"?

    But this...



    ...is indeed precisely the point - what magnification or magnification range a lens is optimized for.

    For example, from Rodenstock's...
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    Re: Ilford ULF order for 2024?

    Note that the closing date is earlier than last year, too - June 1 this time:

    https://www.ilfordphoto.com//ultra-large-format-and-custom-film-campaign-2024/
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    Re: Vittorio Sella

    Tony Decaneas, who founded the Panopticon Lab and Panopticon Gallery in Boston, was also the exclusive agent for the Bradford Washburn estate, and the North/South America agent for Vittorio Sella. I...
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    Re: Macro Lens for Sinar F

    The 120 Nikkor-AM has ample coverage for 4x5 at 1:1 magnification. That's what it's designed for.
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    Re: Ilford ULF order for 2024?

    Last year it was announced on May 22, with the order period running until July 7.
  13. Re: Thesis Exhibit, the last one, LUCAD in Cambridge MA

    Other end of Cambridge: poor guy having trouble keeping up with his 6.001 project assignments...
  14. Re: Have you had to pay hefty customs fees when buying from Japan?

    He is entitled to a receipt without having to pay extra. The post office I use most of the time gives me one every time without my even needing to ask.
  15. Re: Have you had to pay hefty customs fees when buying from Japan?

    To follow up on Darr's point, service here is highly variable across locations. My experience with my local post office has been pretty good, but at his post office in a different state my brother...
  16. Thread: Lynn Whitney

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    Re: Lynn Whitney

    She now has another book out with a more extensive representation of her Lake Erie work:

    https://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?catalog=KH245
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    Re: Deardorff 8x10 Questions

    +1. Richard restored a whole plate Century for me - I sent it to him in decrepit condition and got back a cosmetically beautiful, completely functional camera.

    As Richard builds his own cameras...
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    Re: Post Your Smaller Format Trees!

    https://orengrad.com/LFF/_DSF3038sspB.jpg

    Went for a walk this evening...
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    Re: Any Schneider 210XL owners here?

    No such list has been made public. Schneider has refused to respond to questions about this.
  20. Thread: Baldwin Lee

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    Re: Baldwin Lee

    Reviving this thread to add some new material:

    https://www.baldwinlee.com/

    Baldwin Lee’s Extraordinary Pictures from the American South
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    Re: Who can do a Copal Shutter CLA in 2024?

    Michael overhauled a Yashica TLR for me including CLA on the shutter, which was an early-'60s vintage Copal.
  22. Re: lens caps for Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S, 300mm & 360 lenses

    B&H still lists a wide variety of Schneider caps in stock or available to order:
    ...
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    Re: Who can do a Copal Shutter CLA in 2024?

    Another place to try:

    https://www.cameradoctornyc.com/page2
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    Re: New Jobo Chemistry Announcement

    The data sheet is available from the main Jobo (Germany) site - click on the References/Downloads tab in the middle of this page:

    https://www.jobo.com/en/chemistry/9511-b-w-developer
  25. Re: Berenice Abbott's "Super Sight" at the MIT Museum

    A diagram on the wall showed a projection lens as part of the setup.

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    Many of the pictures were quite soft overall, and where there were areas of crisp focus, they often weren't...
  26. Re: Berenice Abbott's "Super Sight" at the MIT Museum

    I saw this show today, got a close look at the prints.

    Lots of hype over... not much. No image quality breakthrough here, whatsoever. She could have done better with an ordinary 8x10 camera,...
  27. Re: Walking around Midtown neighborhood, New-York City

    Naej: what specific areas do you have in mind when you say "midtown"?
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    Lukas Hoffmann

    Just stumbled across this photographer of whom I was previously unaware, who works in large format. Haven't yet decided what I think of his work, but I thought I'd share in case it might be of...
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    Re: Biggest Free Camera Manuals Mike Butkus

    Direct link to his large format section:

    https://butkus.org/chinon/large_format.htm
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    Re: Who can do a CLA of a Durst Head?

    There's a guy named George Brown who does business on eBay under the name "apogeebee" and who has offered enlarger-head CLAs for many years now. He did a nice job fixing my gummed-up LPL 4500II...
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    Re: 5x7 enlargers?

    Something to watch out for when shopping: many 5x7 Elwoods are missing the tapered diffusion glass needed to even out the illumination.
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    It hasn't.

    Print with more drama if that is what you need to do at this point in your life to make pictures that you find satisfying. If you don't know, try it and see - print some pictures that...
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    Re: Selecting Paper

    If you truly want a pure cotton rag paper, AFAIK there is only one - Ilford Multigrade Art 300. But it has a very distinctive look and more demanding handling characteristics.
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    Re: Cescolite Development Tray Question

    This. I've never had to replace a tray, have added from time to time to enable extra process steps or when I've needed a new size. The earliest of my Paterson trays are now more than 40 years old,...
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    Re: Cescolite Development Tray Question

    I've not done tray development of negatives, but with prints in a flat-bottom tray I sometimes have trouble with the print sinking to the bottom of the tray and being difficult to grab quickly and...
  36. Re: Detailed Comparison of Chamonix with Phillips Compact II

    Sorry for my delay in responding!



    Yes, it does, though I can't recall ever needing to use it. But sure, if you have a heavy lens on the front standard and you need to point the camera way...
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    Re: 4x5 camera identification

    Seems vaguely Ebony-ish to me too. But if it is an Ebony, it must be a very early one - the details of the hardware fittings are not consistent with any Ebony model I've seen, from the Wide/New...
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    Re: Mentoring younger photographers

    Our flavor of creative anachronism is distinctly 19th-20th century, with arguably a whiff of steampunk.
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    Re: Is the WTB subforum dead?

    Andrea is talking about views, not replies.
  40. Re: why they remove the price after an item is sold ?

    Current snapshot only - eBay deletes completed auctions after a relatively short period, I think it's 90 days now. For auctions further back, realized prices can still be found on sellers' Feedback...
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