What are your goals?
Will you be printing your negatives in the darkroom, or scanning for some other form of output?
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What are your goals?
Will you be printing your negatives in the darkroom, or scanning for some other form of output?
Wrestling with the same problem - dealing with the tall hood on Graflexes. I have the Horseman long loupe but it's not long enough for the tallest hoods. Have fiddled with dollar-store reading...
As mentioned, the 355 G-Claron has monster coverage, at least when stopped way down. I've used the 360 Apo-Symmar on 11x14 - the image circle is large enough to allow decent room for movement. Note...
This is the coming to fruition of the Kickstarter campaign that was posted here:
https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?165605-George-Tice
Publisher's page:
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B&H discontinuation notices aren't a reliable indicator of what's happening at the factory. They often reflect just changes in SKUs or temporary disruptions of supply chains. If you want the...
What Peter said. For $200, if you shop carefully, you might *just* be able to find an early-model APS-C DSLR with a 50mm prime lens or an entry-level kit zoom, in decent condition. It should also...
How much are you comfortable spending?
FWIW, Digital Silver Imaging "prints" on both RC and FB - your choice. You can even order toning if you want.
You might try this service:
https://digitalsilverimaging.com/dsi-digital-silver-prints/
The proprietor, Eric Luden, used to work for Ilford/Harman Technology.
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We are currently in production [4-25-22]. THIS IS THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE LAST DR5 LAB RUN....
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Lucky man! :)
This is marvelous, thanks for sharing. Only quibble is that the audio volume is quite low despite having the YouTube volume setting at max and the volume control on my speaker at...
I'm in the same boat. Adjustable compendium hoods allow the greatest flexibility in optimally shading the lens while retaining maximum movement capability, but at the cost of a lot more fuss in...
Can you be specific? Which film(s), developer(s), processing times/temps, processing methods (tank/reel types, agitation, etc)? Do you end up with the same CI? How do you determine EI?
Here's a place to start. There are three different models from J.A. Anderson on the first page linked below - scroll down just a bit - but none matches your camera. OTOH, if you browse the site you...
There are some instances where manufacturers have recommended different developing times for the "same" film in different formats - 35 vs 120 vs sheets - to achieve a given contrast index. But I've...
35mm, 120 and sheet film are coated on different bases, hence different master rolls. 35 and 120 are generally coated on cellulose acetate, but the 120 base in thinner. Sheet film is generally...
Used to use an opaque plastic bucket for gallon and 5-liter mixes of D-76, ID-11 and Xtol, got fed up with that as it was often hard to see the volume markings molded into the plastic. A few years...
By chance the first LF camera I had the opportunity to use on my own was an 8x10, so my perception of LF sizes was warped from the get-go - 4x5 has always seemed small to me. :)
Commonly accepted definitions base large format photography on 4"x5" and larger sheet film (or the 9x12 cm metric equivalent), regardless of the style of camera being used. This is the definition we...
Just checked, it's the same for me. Never noticed it before.
As noted at the top of our FAQ page, our current definition was established in 2014. No further changes are planned.
Not new, not a user customization. Common in the Japanese market. I have a few holders with darkslides like this, used to have more in both WP and 6x10, all of them Tachihara Hope holders offered...
Hard to make a blanket statement - both Ebony and Gandolfi offered a range of very different designs. What features or other attributes are you looking for in a camera?
I am deeply saddened to share word of the passing of the original author of this thread, Jeffrey Goggin ("Audii-Dudii"):
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/66069364
Bob, take a look at his website I linked above. Very much alive, has his finger in a grillion different pies beyond photography.
Yes, I remember seeing that listing at the time. I have some of his 12x20 holders for my F&S. They're beastly heavy, like apparently everything else he built.
That website has been up, unchanged, for ages. I wonder how many years it's been since he's built and sold any of those items.
What he's been up to:
https://douglasbusch.com/
Two points:
1) No, there is absolutely not a general prohibition of external links here.
2) How best to manage scarce public resources that face competing demands is an important question,...
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Somewhat in the same vein, I think contact prints of small pinhole-camera negatives often work very well. With conventionally sharp pictures made with good lenses there's sometimes...
Maybe Rod can clarify whether it has the retaining sliders that would make it compatible with the Canham 6x17 roll film back as well as the Chinese 6x17 roll holders that use a similar mounting plate.
Excellent, thanks!
This - let's hear it for 35mm contact prints! In the same vein, pre-pandemic when they were offering in-person workshops, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester used to have a daguerreotype workshop...
Very happy to hear. Have you had any trouble with head strikes on baryta paper? I realize this is strongly dependent on the local environment, but still curious as to whether you've run into that...
Deleted a bunch of silly bickering and responses to it, that was getting in the way of those who are trying to be helpful as well as those who are interested in being helped. No more of that, please.
I've merged three threads on the same topic. A tough one - we still don't have an answer!
Barry, this is OK. It's good to see you reaching out for ideas. I am going to move the thread to the "New Products" subforum; please feel free to continue the discussion.
Please don't go there.
I'm going to close this. I hope we can have other discussions focused on how to help young photographers who are interested in our craft. But repeating a point I posted in...