Frank,
All good advice. It depends what you and your folk like to see.
The Lake District is about walking as said above but I would not miss it. On my list of places to take the in-laws and...
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Frank,
All good advice. It depends what you and your folk like to see.
The Lake District is about walking as said above but I would not miss it. On my list of places to take the in-laws and...
Schneider Angulon 90mm f/6.8 on to 4x5. A nice, cheap, lightweight wide angle with more available movement than the Schneider website would imply, though shading off into a blur towards the edge of...
Ric,
Have a look on the MPP Users Club website for info about register distances :
http://www.mppusers.freeuk.com/registers.htm
I have an MPP Mk VII and use MPP, Fidelity and Toyo slides...
And another. It is one of my favourite lenses thanks to the great wide angle angle perspective. It is very sharp and the colour rendering is excellent. I use it without the centre filter as I quite...
I use a Super Angulon 65/8 with and without a dark cloth. Without a dark cloth it is diffciult to see the whole screen but normally the centre can be seen and the edges a bit at a time.
Mark, I use the SA 65/8 on 4x5 quite a bit. I like it despite the #00 shutter being fiddly to work. As above, the image circle only just covers and I always stop down as far as possible to give...
Based on the performance of the two Angulons I have owned I would agree with David. The edges become soft on 5x4 with a few millimetres of movement which equates to an image circle of about 16cms....
I agree with Donald. If a piece of equipment has a good strong secondhand price that is a plus point for buying new.
I've done a bit of stained glass work in the past and the technique is to scribe the line with the diamond cutter then snap off the excess in small bites with a special pair of pliers. Works...
I started some years ago with a 90mm and still use that length and a 65mm more than any others. Next comes 210. I tend to like the 20mm focal length or thereabouts in 35mm. The darkness of the screen...
Nick,
I had an old Schneider Angulon where an element decemented itself. First thing I knew was the shutter jamming as the loose element got stuck in the works. The shot taken just before it fell...
Mark, Glasgow is a fine city which mushroomed in the 19th C so is full of amazing architecture from that period. Sadly the industrial sites such as the shipyards and ironworks are all gone now. I...
As I understand it another of its properties is that if you have a rectangle with sides 1 and 1.618... and then chop off a square of side 1 by 1 you are left with another rectangle of the same...
Given that many time exposures are in dim lighting (and not having thought of a metronome) I just practised counting seconds until it is about right. (Just One..two..three...so unimaginative!) I find...
Bob,
I suggest you look at what lens you use most in smaller formats. If you tend to go for wide angle landscapes (say 28mm in 135 format) then something like a 90mm f8 Super Angulon would be...
I went through Athens airport a couple of weeks ago. No problems. I followed my normal practice of putting LF camera and tripod in cases and film in hand luggage. This included loaded grafmatics and...
Not sure if this is strictly a compositional rule but a very useful idea to carry around is to exclude as much from the picture as possible and leave only the essentials.
Annie,
An Angulon was the first LF lens I owned and it served me well till the elements fell apart as noted above. I bought another which is still going strong. They are TINY (130g) compared with...
Pete,
For a reasonable price you should be able to get an older second hand version of either the Tele Xenar or Tele Arton. The more recent versions tend to be much more expensive. I have the old...
Your Xenar 135/4.7 is in a size #0 shutter. You will see that the Schneider web site gives the shutter size for each type of Schneider lens. The MPP Users Club website gives details of the MPP...
Colin,
I use a MPP Microtechnical Mk 7 which has some components in common with your Micropress. There is no problem using lenses of any age on the MPP. The main restrictions are that the MPP will...
Another footnote. In the Compur #00 the sizes of the threads of the Synchro Compur #00 is slightly different from the earlier Compur Rapid and pre-war Compur #00.
Paul, I have the same lens and keep it because of the short bellows draw. While mine is not the sharpest of lenses it is ok for my purposes which are probably not the most exacting. The image circle...
Rory, more info is needed to give you specific details about this camera. Ensign was a UK camera manufacturer producing huge numbers of cameras in the first half of the 20thcentury. Glass plates were...
I agree with Banister Fletcher as a good general look up book though the problem there might be too much information. If you want to learn about local houses that will probably come under 'Vernacular...
If you are looking for a fast 200mm lens for LF the best bet might be the ex-military air reconnaissance lenses often dating to WW2. The Kodak Aero Ektar is 7"/f2.5 and the Dallmeyer Pentac is...
Bruce, As you say Plasmat is now used generically for a more-or-less symmetrical 6 element design introduced (I think) by Hugo Meyer in the 1920's. It had a larger image circle than the previous top...
Jason, you may get answers more to your liking than this but I drew a grid on my ground glass with a sharp pencil. Mistakes can be removed with a soft rubber. As I use roll film holders the grid was...
Grafmatics were also made under license in UK. I have 3 grafmatics, 2 US made and 1 UK made. Sadly (as a UK citizen) I have to report that the US ones work and the UK one does not but that may just...
Sophie, The press cameras that would fit the bill are the Speed graphic type (and other US made press cameras as listed above) as your ebay item and also the UK made MPP Micropress. There are also...
I was quite disappointed when this camera came out as I thought it might be the new generation of lightweight technical field cameras I was waiting for. But as far as I can tell it has no back...
The plate size was probably 21/4x 31/4 inches. (Two and a quarter x three and a quarter)
I thought this lens looked a great idea until I checked the weight. It seems to be heavier than anything comparable.
The Wrights' photos and film are some of the all time great photos IMO. The history of early flight is one of attempts,successes and failures of the development of a viable idea whose time had...
My eyes are now middle aged and they also suffer from macular degeneration - nothing too serious as yet but it certainly takes the edge off fine vision. I always use a 50mm standard lens off a old...
Here is the Schneider website info :
http://www.schneideroptics.com/info/faq/large_format_lenses/#q13
Colin
I've alwaya liked photography since someone gave me a 127 half frame Foth Derby in 1963 or thereabouts. 15 years ago I acquired a 5x4 Sanderson dating to 1905, with the idea of doing some serious...
For me the contemplation and the rushing are strongly related. I want to capture the landscape and the light but I know I will not get the shot I want unless I spend time thinking about it before I...
John,
I have a very similar looking camera with no name on it. It also has a wooden body , frame finder, rising front etc. I reckon mine was made by Certo but as it is reticent about who made it I...
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1830609