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    Re: Paper negatives

    Yep, I've always used ISO 3 or 6 also.
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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    As always there are lots of wonderful shots in this thread but this is really outstanding I think... obviously a great location (with 'good bones' :) ), but really well composed and executed.

    And...
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    Re: Best lens for ultra closeup…portraits!

    Wouldn't you have a really shallow depth of field shooting at that magnification? Maybe that's what you want...

    You could shoot on larger film and crop... or if you're scanning shoot from further...
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    Re: extra wide angle lens for 8x10

    Here's a very light weight option... barrel TTH Cooke VIIB 133mm f6.5 (at f32), paper negative, 'top hat' exposure. Home made 8x10 box camera.
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    Re: Historical Portraits

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    One of my grandmothers, around 1908 I think. I just love this portrait.
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    Re: Historical Portraits

    Hi Peter, no, it looks like a paper print, fixed to a cardboard mount. I don't know much about the different types of print made back in those days.
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    Re: Historical Portraits

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    Great idea for a thread.

    Two of my great-grandparents (the couple in the back row), with the rest of my great-grandmother's family.

    They were married in 1895, so probably when they...
  8. Re: Petzval Lens - Any idea where it might come from?

    No-one has replied to you, so I'll give it a go...

    I'm no expert but the lack of an aperture control makes me think that it is a lens from a magic lantern - an early form of projector in other...
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    Re: Best practices for soft focus lenses?

    (The 'Compendium' is still on the Cooke Optics website at https://cookeoptics.com/compendium/ but is a shadow of it's former self - it used to have images from the old catalogues, and a far more...
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    Re: Best practices for soft focus lenses?

    Your 'Thomas Hobson Cooke Series II 15" f/4.5 knuckler' will be a 'Taylor Hobson Cooke Series II 15" f/4.5 knuckler'.

    Taylor, Taylor & Hobson (TTH) licensed the triplet design from T Cooke and...
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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Beautiful set of images. There is nowhere better than the Lake District most of the year round, but especially when the autumn colours match the fells. Looks like you were lucky with the weather!
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    Re: Post Your Photos Made At Close Distance

    Thanks, interesting.
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    Re: Post Your Photos Made At Close Distance

    Is this a LF version of this lens, or a MF one? It's a great lens on MF (a Hassie 500CM in my case)...

    I'm intrigued! :)
  14. Re: C.P. Goerz Extra Rapid Lynkeioskop Serie C. no1 > flange diameter?

    Could this be one and a half inch at 36 TPI?

    As you are in the EU I'm sure Jose at Custom Photo Tools could help (I have no connection apart from being a happy customer - he has done excellent...
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    Re: Digital IR

    This thread is full of wonderful images but these last two (Bill and Andrew) are particulary fine I think - well done!
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    Re: Old Things,Farms,Barns,Buildings, Plus

    Wow, that's lovely. Out of interest, how long does it take you? Presumably you don't colour each individual leaf... :)

    That browny-red really reminds me of the autochrome color palette.
  17. Re: I would be happy to know the filter aperture diameter of the Ektar 203mm f/7.7

    Sorry, it's not for sale, I showed the photo as examples of the various types.
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    Some of the 203mm f7.7 Ektars made here in the UK say 'Mount 370' on the beauty ring. I would imagine that this refers to the filter size.

    I have several 'Mount 370' push-on filters and a push-on...
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    Re: Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

    [the above from 2013...]

    Is this the same lens re-surfaced in a Flints auction here in the UK? (I've no connection with the lens, or the auction).
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    Re: Jobo 3006 weeping / leaking

    Thanks both for the replies and suggestions.

    I checked for any hairline cracks but found none. There are plenty of small scratches though around the inside of the lid, I guess capillary action...
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    Re: Dust particles

    Presumably one neg may have an unlucky dust spot (or spots), while the other may not.


    Not related to loading film but I used to have a real problem with dust until an old time photographer...
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    Re: post your trees!

    Martin and Phillip - thanks for your kind comments.
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    Re: Digital IR

    Me neither, we inherited it with the house - apparently it can self seed and become a bit invasive in damp conditions but I think we will be okay. The hanging form of it is quite decorative.
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    Re: post your trees!

    https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52954150602_52d843231a_o.jpg
    May blossom

    New-to-me Tachihara 5x4, Symmar 150/265 (unconverted at 150), Ilford FP4, yellow filter. Rodinal 1:50, rotated 13 mins...
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    Re: Konica GRII series coverage

    A word created and used by Robert Heinlein in his book 'Stranger in a Strange Land'. IIRC (and it is decades since I read it) in that book it means to know and understand something deeply and...
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    Jobo 3006 weeping / leaking

    I use a secondhand Jobo 3006 drum to develop 5x7 and 5x4, and find it excellent, producing consistently good results.

    It does leak ('weep' might be a better description) around the join where the...
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    Re: Digital IR

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    Pendulate Sedge

    'Contre jour'. Same camera and lens as previously.
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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Wow... great shot.
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    Re: Digital IR

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    Setting Sail

    Self-converted Nikon D200 (750nm), Nikkor 28mm f3.5 (AI'd)
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    Re: Cooke Portrait Lens Serial Numbers

    Hi Karl, some serial numbers from the Flints sale (UK) today (all are knucklers):

    Series IIA f/3.5 15" no. 122495
    Series IIE f/4.5 18" no. 208860
    Series IIB f/4.5 12¾" no. 211229
    Series IIA...
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    Re: Quirky or Querky Hoya filters????

    Definitely 'quirky' here in the UK (where things are invariably quirky anyway).

    (Or, if you're an old typist, it is QWERTY of course... :)
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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Gevork, that's beautiful... and Darr - wow! Exceptional.
  33. Re: Schneider SYMMAR 300mm f/5.6/500mm f/12 Convertible

    I have this lens - it is in a Compound #3 (not a Compur) - see the asterisk (*) and note on the data sheet.

    I got it to use as a long lens on my Canham woody... (I've not used it yet). These...
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    Re: Fomapan 100, 200 and 400

    That's great, thanks for the details! :)
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    Re: Fomapan 100, 200 and 400

    Wow - great tonal range in this image... Could you give some detail on the Cafenol developer that you used please, dilution and agitation (if any)?

    I'm keen to give it a go - Foma often seems just...
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    Re: Re-assessing my (un)sharpest lenses

    These are really great comparisons. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this! :)
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    Re: Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

    Great find Mark. If it's too small for you please send it my way - I'll give you 15 bucks for it... :rolleyes:
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    Re: Nikkor SW 90mm f/4.5 Lens Board?

    The curious case of the rotated jpg...



    How annoying it is when a photo doesn't display in the correct orientation... even though it looked fine before it was uploaded.

    Why does it happen?...
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    Re: Imagon 250mm + Compur 3 f5.6?

    Surely the physical size of the wide open aperture on the shutter has to be at least the same as the physical size of the disk?

    I know that the Imagon 'h' stop measurement is not the same as the...
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    Re: Post Your First Successful LF Picture

    From the title of the thread I thought you might mean the first shot that avoided all of the potential pitfalls of LF photography, but I get it now...

    The first (and one of the few) shots that I...
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