Go to Big Basin instead. Secret redwood forest North of Santa Cruz. (Muir had something to do with this one too).
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Go to Big Basin instead. Secret redwood forest North of Santa Cruz. (Muir had something to do with this one too).
The killer is getting even development. Take a few pictures of blank sky and see if your developing procedure is producing even development. It took me two years to discover why Ansel used open...
Stop messing around and just get a used Majestic tripod with their head. A hurricane will not knock it over.
Zeiss Protar V, 111 mm will cover. F18.
My CC401 had the same problem. A previous owner had the camera base milled flat with the tripod hole. A good machinist aught to be able to do this in about 2 minutes.
Make your own trays from plastic purchased at Tap Plastic. They will tell which plastic and glue to use and cut the plastic to your instructions. And no I have no connections with the outfit other...
Mine just rolled in the door out here on the left coast. Now the fun begins. K
Seems to me even lighting and square alignment are going to be killers...
The "4X5 holders for 9X12 film" will work fine with 9 cm X 12 cm cut film which I thought was pretty standard in Europe. US 4 inch by 5 inch film is 10.2 cm X 12.7 cm which is the reason it did not...
A 270m G-Claron or a 240nn one would be a better choice in non-telephoto design.
Actually millions of folks are carrying around one camera and one single focal length lens and using it. It is called an iPhone. Someone said it is equivalent to about a 129mm on a 4X5. Depth of...
Muir Woods is vastly overrated. Try Big Basin, the first trees the Sierra Club saved and it is probably easier to get to.
Check out Majestic Tripods and Heads. You can often get them used for very little money as the backpacking crowd does not like them much... (mine weighs 19 lb)
That really nice bokeh may be a function of the nice round diaphragm in that OLD ilex shutter. No 3 Copals have really ugly, lumpy diaphragms....
Don't miss Mammoth Hot Springs from the top in the Morning with the sun coming up.
Hint: The image on the ground glass should be upside down. You probably will need to use one of those dark cloth things to see it. Look at the ground glass and not the lens.
What amazed me about the show at Stanford was how carefully Watkins studied Ansel's shots and reproduced a similar views.
Get 6X or so loupe and look in the middle of the ground glass and focus the lens on something far away. Do you see anything that is sharp using the loupe? If not you probably can't compress the...
You can still buy Copal No 3 shutters new from BHvideo. $1252.95
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=copal+co+%23+3-567&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ps
In the bad old days the old masters used to wrap their dark cloths around the bellows before stuffing in the film. They even wrapped up their film holders carefully before putting them in the...
Could you dip the film in some sort of panchromatic dyes and make it sensitive to red and blue???
Seems to me if we talk about any camera with movements with a capture area larger than say 6 square inches, or any camera with a capture area larger than 20 square inches we are safe (just think...
In my experience, life was miserable with wide angle lens until I bought a bag bellow for my ARCA. Hint. You can use the bag bellow on longer lenses.
The recessed board is evil. Even if you can get your fingers in to run the lens controls you won't have any movements due to bellows compression. You would be better off to buy a CC402 which is...
So you can use the iPAD as preView camera so to speak. I am guessing it would correspond to about a 135mm lens, but that is just a guess based on my 210 mm. Anyone have an more accurate...
Big Basin is often overlooked. First Big Trees saved from the wood cutters the Sierra Club. Just North of Santa Cruz.
I found several for sale on the internet. They look kind of like tessar design lenses, a forerunner to fujinon-L lenses. As such they will cover about 350mm, so a little wiggle room on an 8X10...
Leitz Tiltall, mine has lasted 40 years for all 4X5. Majestic for 8X10 along with a mule.
So what happens if you just use half a G-Claron? Anyone try that? Then you get a whole bunch of interesting focal lengths. (710 mm etc.)
Either one will work fine. I have both, it is a toss. I have the used the Leitz tiltall on a CC401, ARCA, and crown, speed, and super graphics for 45 years. Neither works for 8X10, here one moves...
Just buy a Calumet CC401 for $100 and be done with it.
U.S 4 = f8 US 8 = f11 US 16 = f16 etc. U. S. stands for "Universal System"
Have a look at this outfit. I have one of their 303.53mm lenses. Clearly if you want a small run of lenses made they can do it. All you need is $$$$$. www.jmloptical.com
It is a killer 4x5 lens. I have had mine for over 30 years and is my number 2 lens. Not much movement on 8x10 but is does cover. Depending on how far you have to carry it, a 300 mm Symmar S is a...
Sinar P of some sort. Built like a bank vault and about as heavy. More on the serious side a Calumet CC401 would be strong enough but not very sexy. You could try one out for less than $100
I have an old grey 8X10 one with the tilting front lens board. Seems to me if they came from the factory in grey, that is the way they aught to stay. You can have them in any color as long as it is...
You can make your own lens boards. Tap Plastics sells flat, black, 1/8 in or 1/16 polycarbonate and will cut it for you to the correct size. You can use a hole drill attachment to cut the hole. ...
I have read that 14 in Commercial Ektars cover 11X14, maybe not cheap enough....
So take multiple shots at slightly different focal planes and glue the sharp images together in Photoshop. Slice your way though the fruit. KF
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