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As you expand the upper bellows when using a condenser head the illuminated area gets smaller. Basically you need the smallest area that adequately illuminates the format you are using. I think the...

I especially like the second on with the strong boundary at the bottom - the reverse of a lot of landscapes against the sky.

When I was a child, physical access to Stonehenge was no trouble. Now the volume of visitors has brought more controls. If only I'd had a large format camera back then!

The British Isles are...

{speechless} 8-)

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BDB + 3 closeup lens mounted (tape friction fit) with concave side towards the subject and behind the Copal 0 shutter. The mounting is modified from an old 135mm...

The nearest I have to this is not vintage (though I think the BDB 40.5mm +3 meniscus lens is over 50 years old now!). The +3 is mounted behind a standard Copal #0 shutter, which gives me around a...

For things like lens boards or adapters (I have one for using Wista/Technika boards on my MPP VII), OpenSCAD works well. It is usually just a case of describing an object in terms of simple primitive...

Doremus has it right. Normally the focus plane (ground, for want of a better example), the 'lens plane', and the film plane need to meet on a line for Schleimflug focus. If the back is over-tilted...

Questions, questions. A little like the Twilight Zone - and not because it may be a night shot!

And what happens tomorrow? 8-)

I like how the glass has a paper-like appearance.

90mm of extension must make front tilt/swing very sensitive? It looks like a robust solution and a lot more elegant than things I put together from ABS plumbing parts!

We moved into a new house in January, so the garden is still unexplored territory photographically. I put a 6x9 roll film back on the MPP, and used my shutter mounted pinhole. The shutter is only...

There does not seem to be any shortage of large format users in the Bay Area, but there is always room for another one 8-)

We just moved from Richmond to Vallejo before all the current...

Looks like a still from The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which would be in period. Those were the days - the only thing keeping people away from the planes was a low wall and manual gate 8-)

I have used a single coat of spray window frosting on acrylic with success. You need to practice to get an even coverage, and obviously avoid a propellant that is also a solvent. It worked at 8x10,...

If there is anywhere we can't reach with either of our Subarus (Forester, Crosstrek), then we probably should not be going 8-) I did enough backpacking and bicycle camping in an earlier life, so now...

It feels like a still from a Buster Keaton movie. The tree is vertical, so I imagine the only thing holding the building up is sheer stubborness!

If you are using a 'P' size holder, there is always this: https://www.srb-photographic.co.uk/bellows-lens-hoods-1600-c.asp from SRB Photographic in the UK. You need a slot for it to mount, but since...

Sort of symbolic, the older utility pole leaning, while the modern cell tower is ramrod straight.

I usually use some sort of hand-held shade, like the dark slide.

I do have some stacking lens hood sections for a Cokin P holder which work well - obviously the length I can use is limited by the...

I am about to start on a new darkroom in a new house myself. Now I have an impossibly high bar to aim at...

As my wife put it when she retired (and I second the motion): 'Now they pay me NOT to work there!'.

One can actually feel the stillness.

For the OP: I would try to replicate your Jobo process if rotating manually, just to keep the variables down. For inversion, especially one-shot developer use, I don't think it matters unless you...

That's rather like what happens when I get a caulking gun in my hands!

There just has to be a record of something like this. It's very strange.

Brambles. You can't turn your back on them for a moment.

Very disturbing, somehow.

The film is being fogged, either before loading into the film holders, or after the film came out of the holders. The sheet nearest the core is OK. Is the funnel properly located inside the tank lid?...

You are not going to get a lot of front movements on an MPP with that short a focal length. And getting your fingers in to manipulate the front standard is fiddly. If you can live with back movements...

I put my extraction vent in the ceiling. It was a pragmatic choice, but less than ideal. I clears the fumes and ventilates OK, but in the winter it also removes the warm air! Since my intake is from...

The Intrepid (Kickstarter version) is bellows limited with short focal lengths (say under 180mm). I can get a 90mm to focus by recessing it, but back tilt is about all the movement you have. I can do...

The prints for https://thebeardedladyproject.com/portraits/ are currently on show at the Lawrence Hall of Science (UC Berkeley, California). Since a lot are done while performing field work, they are...

I think I like this edge of the land/Camelot feel.

Curves against the square building, nice. I see the Air Con. is on!

Makes me wonder why I live here 8-)

Shades of an Albert Renger-Patzsch industrial subject, but for transportation. I like the ambiguity of scale.

Funny, the bottom one hurts my eyes, but the upper one does not. probably something to do with my corrective prescription. Something to do with the width and the heavy central element. I am not...

Since I am in the San Francisco East Bay, I rarely have to deal with temperatures below freezing, or much above 85F, and only for short periods. I insulated the shed I use (about the same size - the...

The atmosphere just makes me want to be there.

Strange how the soft light makes this seem hyper-real. So much revealed that would be lost in harsher light.

If you are using an alkali fixer, an acid stop bath is not a good idea. So this poll is only valid for acid fixers as it stands.

I used to use an indicator stop bath most of the time with acid...