It might have been even more intriguing without that exclamation mark! Don't be peed off because of what the mice pee on: establish a cooperative working relationship with them. Ever persuade one to...
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It might have been even more intriguing without that exclamation mark! Don't be peed off because of what the mice pee on: establish a cooperative working relationship with them. Ever persuade one to...
I'm with John and Iga. I've dabbled with pinhole photography for many decades, and appreciate this quality of image. Vermeer does advertises 4x5 and 5x7 pinhole cameras. Unfortunately, they omit some...
If we drastically round off figures so the moon has a diameter of 2,000 miles, it's orbit's diameter is 480,000 miles, and the value of pi is 3, then in one day the moon appears to travel 720 times...
In addition to the big gear, using almost any camera that can capture multiple images on one frame of film supplements the usual eclipse photos as in this shot of a lunar eclipse decades ago.
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Walmart and some of the very low priced stores may have a variety of diopter eyeglasses for about that price.
Gee, it looks nice for a license plate name of Tin Can.
Yes indeed! In an age when most of the photographs most of us ever see have been converted to digital for posting online, it is rare that a photographer does not take advantage of the convenience of...
Except for f/3.5, the aperture numbers on your (and almost every other) lens increase or decrease by the square root of 2. In the past, several other systems have been used, although our present...
Keep in mind that the so called "T" distance (between the face of the film holder and the film) is from the face of the holder to the septum behind the film.
John -- Very well done interior of the hogback bridge. Many of us might never think of using flash on such a subject.
I agree with Drew and PRJ. The original head works perfectly for me, and is more versatile than a ballhead. Tiltall appears to be designed and built by engineer/photographers for...
For evenly distributed light on the baseboard, I used ground glass with the center darkened with a pencil.
Gregg -- Don't be in a hurry to leave us. This forum needs more fine examples of digital photographs and exhibits to help some of the old timers to feel comfortable if they take advantage of all the...
I used a 5x7 Elwood for basic B&W enlarging for several decades. It sat on the floor of a low ceiling darkroom. Other than that, it was satisfactory.
Both Niepce and Daguerre improvised or had made for them a variety of cameras before practical photography was finally possible. Much information about the struggle of both men is available in the...
Using a Dremel tool on a lens worse than using a chain saw for brain surgery!
jon-oman -- A great photograph, and fascinating in many ways. The lighting is fine, although it may have already been provided by windows on the wall out-of-sight to our right. The purely functional...
Digital often has one great advantage over traditional metering: a histogram. Judging from some photos I've noticed on this site, the histogram is sometimes neglected. Even after decades in...
I use a coarse whet stone for this. It is handy to use. It is economical for us who also frame many photos behind glass. Almost any old fairly coarse whet stone suffices.
Thank you for posting this. It can be much better to read something that can also be studied than to hear it, even when it is Ansel Adam's voice.
Bernard_L -- Your photograph of the main hall in post #8220 above is an excellent example of capturing and presenting what appears to be a difficult subject in difficult light. I probably would have...
Yes, indeed! We rarely have opportunities like this, and you certainly did it justice/
Using narrow and wide notches to indicate binary 0 and 1 would simplify the system and make it almost universally readable in this digital age.
[QUOTE=John Layton;1704807]I do believe that some of the standard measurements were modified/changed many years ago...so my advice would be to procure film holders of similar age/vintage and, once...
Check this out: https://jongrepstad.com/building-a-large-format-camera/. For the 8x10 film holder, the critical dimensions are .260 +/- 0.016 inches from the face of the holder to the back of the...
Yes, indeed! You can become your own best teacher if you make every roll of film and every sheet another lesson. NO ONE ELSE is in a position to do that for you.
An old Camera Repairman's Handbook from the National Camera Repair School lists only one 4.5 inch square board which is twice as thick and is for 5x7 Korona View cameras.
Wow, Tuco. Great capture and presentation!
It certainly does. Years ago we did not have this most valuable guide to actual values of the items we wanted to sell online or elsewhere. That's about the only reason I have for visiting ebay...
The distance from the ground glass to the face of the lens board with the extension rail on my 8x10 2D is 740mm (28 7/8 inches). Without the extension rail, it is 420mm (16 3/8 inches). These were...
I was very nearsighted from birth. Corrective eyeglasses were an absolute necessity in school. Several years ago laser surgery for glaucoma also corrected for nearsightedness, and for more money,...
I agree with Daniel Unkefer's comments about the Star D branded Tiltall. The plastic on one handle on mine broke, but a wooden substitute can be improvised and epoxied to the aluminum shaft.
Double spacing is a waste of space. For us who still own and read books more significant than those of elementary school, it is inconvenient. It can be even worse on screens than on the pages of a...
Another unusually nice one!
More nudes should be fun like this one.
MonochromeFan -- The top of my Tiltall is only 58 inches above the ground with the legs fully extended, but the very rigid center column provides 12 more inches. The four Tiltalls that I've owned...
I used well water heavily contaminated with lime. A filter and using distilled water for mixing developer and for the final film wash worked well enough.
Yes, that is the obvious explanation. The label "Super Sight" may have been no more than a joke that was spread as fact.
Researchers hoping to recreate Abbott's Super Sight might better concentrate on simple traditional optics instead of fanciful speculation diverting progress from logic towards mere scandal and other...
The photographer who doesn't use something like Photo Flo probably makes up for that by using more Spotone. Photo Flo is much less trouble, especially when used in distilled water.