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"Technically Perfect"?

Well, no. Technically inept LF photographer that I am, I often find that what I had wanted to capture on film is not what the film captured. Framing, exposure and focus...

OK, so "Artsy Home" and "Artsy" are two different outfits. Apparently "Artsy" is newer and I have never had anything to do with them. In the end, their low-level AI was polite about it.
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I had suspected that. As it turns out, artsy.com and aqrtsyhome.com are different entities and I gos confused. Now I am persuing my issue with Artsy Home . . .I will have to wait for a response...

Update: "They" say there is no record of any account in my name . . .this is so (fill in a bad word here).

Re: The paper templet idea . . .

Why not just expose one half of a piece of B&W film and process it?

It will; be clear-0ish on one half and black on the other.

Plce that over the GG to...

A jogging stroller?

Many years ago I was contacted by Artsy Home sugesting that I should post my images there with the view to selling prints. Back then it was sorta like Etsy is today, but early on and a bit...

A number of years ago, I got a golf bag cart at the Goodwill store.
Took it hoime and stripped off most of the golf bag related parts.
Got out a vintage external backpack frame and fastened it on...

I have seen "pre-Owned" Littman cameras come up on e-Bay from time to time. Conversions by other makers are available there too.

There is a nine-year long train of threads on this forum devoted to...

So, what about coming back with exposed film in the now unsealed boxes?

Anyone . . .?

Having worked for a firm that made radiation sources for industrial uses, I understand about background radiation at 35,000 feet, and from the thorium-sand beaches in faraway places. If high levels...

So hand inspection not the carry-on bag X-Ray then?

Well OK, but I am a bit nervous about that.

Back in 2011 we made the same trip. In Houston I asked for hand inspection of a fifty sheet box...

I have had a little trouble with getting the stripes the same width on the negative when testing this way. Three is easier than four. Not sure how I would do five.

Years ago, I did some...

I meter with a Minolta Autometer IV F, in incident mode or with a 5-deg spot attachment. I have had poor results in the past using a deep red filter and applying a filter factor . . .either I have a...

We will be traveling within the USA iun July; one direct hop from Houston to Denver and return. I have not flown with LF gear for five years or so. What should I do with the film??

What I am getting is that the inverted/reversed GG image is the issue:

My experience is that after a while the brain adapts and this is no longer a distraction or a problem.

An out of the...

Sure an LF camera is a tool to be used, but I view the older wooden cameras heirlooms to be conserved for the future use of others. My view is that we do not actually own that Ansco, 2D or 'Dorff. ...

I may be wrong on this, but it seems to me that DSLR outfit will come in at 3x to 5x over an LF shooting outfit.

What a nice DIY project, and so well done. Please post some images with it loaded and in the field.


I would like to see a parts kit to convert a golf bag pull cart into a camera bag transporter....

TYhat does look like a real SN.

Where can I find the relationship between the SN and the date of mfg?

What about a Segway? Are they still a thing?

Why not a full-on electric trail bike?

A Golf Cart?

I'd like to see a parts kit for converting a golf-bag pull cart into something that could mount an f64 size LF camera bag and wooden tripod.

That would allow for travel over reasonable turf (like...

I understood that to be an assembly number.

A number of years ago I was trying to date my then new to me Kodak 2D. Some website had a listing of the six or so changes in the name plate wording and the year ranges that each change covered.
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Buy the book Adams wrote. And there are others out there.

Buy the Workshop and newsletter stuff from Zone VI (e-bay).

Read'em.

I have used a Minolta Autometer IV f for years with a 5 deg spot attachment. Works for me.

I truely mikss the "good-'ol-days" of the Houston Camera Show.

Wish I knew then what I know now though. I;d have taken out a loan and bought up all those old brass lenses.

I would not have...

Rats! Tried to fix the title, but can't figure that out.

Got it, no problem. -- Oren

My experience is thin; a few small plates at a workshop using the Becquerel process with Jerry Spagnoli. A great experience overall.

In the distant past, I had some wet chemistry lab experience...

I did a Dasg workshop years ago. It was fun but I just cannot see well enough to decern the delicate color changes when costing s plste with Iodine fumes.

Anyway, I was thinking about it this...

Not complaining, just asking for guidance.

Right now there is a guy on The-Bay who is asking $2,900 for a 2D. Sure, it has all the extra parts and is in great cosmetic condition but . . . .

"Field Camera", yet he is showing it indoors, not outside.

Wish I could support working with one that big.

Looking at Kodak 2D cameras on e-Bay this AM. Ran across a nice one, but it is offered at over 2Grand because it has a '"Low Number". . . .in the 90s I think.

I didn't know that serial numbers...

Just noodeling around on the-bay this AM and noticed an offer for ten brand new "Crown" brand 4x5 film holders for what amounts to around $7.50 each.

Looking around more, I have seen other,...

Anyone ever make a ULF from a cardboard box?

It could be lightweight (ish) and sturdy enough for an outing or two. Perhaps the bits necessary to reinforce whatever holds up the lens and the GG...

My oldest lens is a brass rectilinear of unknown maker and unknown age.

I put my Wista 45DX on a • Velbon "El Carmagne 540", This tripod is mounted with a light-duty magnesium alloy "Gitzo G1177M" ball head.
Never weighed the combo, but it is just able to hold the...

Was doing an insurance review of my stuff the other day. Looking on-line, it seems that my Nikkor 90mm f/8 is holding a similar value to the f/4.5 model.

It seems that the older lens is about as...

Years agi I was able to view the private collection of a member of a cmera collectors club. Lots of great stuff in custome built-in cabinets. Right in the middle of the floor , on camera stands ...