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  1. Saying hello, been away for a couple of years

    Greetings, guys. First time I've been back on the forum since Jan 20, 2007, apparently :( Just popping in to say hello and glad to see most of the "old gang" seems to be still around. Took a couple...
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    Re: Massive Espon rant(bad/good) page here...

    I've only have had two Epsons over the past 10 years - an old Stylus 700 (which is still running, although its hard to get ink and paper consistently for it - its very paper fussy). I have a couple...
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    Re: Assignment never tackled before

    Be a tad careful with a hard light source if you are using digital. You will have to watch the contrast carefully. Specular reflection can cause brutal pixel anomalies in the final print if the...
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    Re: If you could break one bad habit....

    Not getting out to shoot enough. Though like Dominique, it might nice to actually print some negs once in a while...:( :D
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    Re: solar photography resorces

    Adrian, Google "sun projector" - you may come up a variety of ideas to get you where you want to be. There is a "sun projector" attachment for telescopes, commonly used on so-called "Newtonian"...
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    Re: How to attach a dark cloth?

    I do most of the above in some variation or another - I carry two or three plastic clothes pins in my kit for pinching the cloth around the camera if the velcro doesn't do what I want, or I'm working...
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    Re: Katrina Update

    Quite the mess - Ed, I wonder if it would not be a good idea to provide some type of timeline with the galleries? I.e., 15 months post Katrina or whatever, so that there is a reference point in time...
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    Re: solar photography resorces

    I don't want to hi-jack Adrian's thread, but here's one more for GPS: this is enlarged, and the pixels smoothed some to bring out the contrasting details, but note the anomolous shadow artifact (the...
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    Re: solar photography resorces

    I'd like to agree with you on the atmosphere, but I don't think it is - I think that's simply edge diffraction due to the extent of the haze between me and the sun. However, I'm ready to be...
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    Re: Strange E-Bay e-mails

    I have used Pegasus mailer for about 10 years - its been very clean running, I just keep moving it from platform to platform. I get phishing emails, but none of the problems associated with outlook....
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    Re: solar photography resorces

    Proceed with EXTREME caution whenever you are pointing any camera or telescope at the sun. You can burn the coating of a lens, and you can INSTANTANEOUSLY destroy an eye. Lumicon, Coronado, Thousand...
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    Re: A Page about Time Travel....

    Great project Jim - one I've had on the burner to do for some time with my ca1900 Anthony - shoot the subjects locally I can find, that the camera would have seen, back then. Every time I get that...
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    Re: Most pathetic EBay purchase

    This one's for John Kasaian...:) $500 for a Chu Berry vintage sax in good condition ,but needing an overhaul - finding out after I closed the bid that I had bought an alto (said so in the listing)....
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    Re: Negative Problem Diagnosis.

    They look like water spots on a dry negative, before going into the developer, or, as was mentioned, developer splash. If the former, development will get a faster start on a wet spot than on dry...
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    Re: What is a Giclée print?

    Well, ok, I'll wade in too... I see that the original question got answered, and the discussion has moved, as it usually does, to the MEANING of it all :). I have used the term as an adverb:...
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    Re: Need a tacky cheap Niagara Falls hotel

    Wait a minute, you're in Rochester...just drive up the road to Syracuse...:)
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    Re: couple of sites I came across:

    re:mould/mold - its that quaint American E Pluribus unum thing - they keep taking the "you" out of everything...;) :)

    Dragan gets my attention on a whole bunch of levels. Very slick website....
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    Re: Does the World Need Another Aspen Image?

    In looking at Mr Tal's commentary, and the responses here, I think Guy was foolish to rise to the bait. "Does the world need another aspen image?" is nothing but rhetorical, and has no answer, or, if...
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    Re: How many shots per subject? Am I crazy?

    I spotmeter very carefully; will often take 2 if B&W- same exposure, not to bracket, but to correct processing in the second negative if I didn't get the exposure right. Trannies often get bracketed...
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    Re: Show me yours!

    My Anthony Normandie, ca 1899-1903, 8x10, big ol' Calumet Caltar 14 3/4" lens that does double duty on this and my Cambo. I finally have a vintage tessar for it, but have not yet made a board for...
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    Re: What Kodak is up to

    I can hardly wait. I'd rather have a good light sensitive emulsion. Cereal boxes get recycled rather quickly, assuming you can recycle such a package at all...
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    Re: Putting it all together

    You could make a single focused theme about someone beating a dead horse....
  23. Re: True? "Music is most direct path to spiritual world!?"

    Perhaps what needs to be defined is "music", not spirituality. My house is inhabited by a veritable cornucopia of musical instruments- keyboards, violin, woodwinds, guitars. But I can unequivocally...
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    Re: Breaking Barriers in 2006

    I think as long as a photo can be made by anyone with the push of button, these barriers will exist. Personally, I believe it is all about snobbery, unless of course the presentation is specific to...
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    Re: Polishing/relacquering brass lenses

    I finally just cleaned it at some length - I'll post a before and after when I get around to it. Since the front and rear elements were kind enough to unscrew without any particular agony, I was able...
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    Re: Super Clouds

    I would disagree - both photos on that line are all contrails. But of course, neither of us will know for sure...:) I have seen many contrails grow to those formations in the right atmosphere,...
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    Re: Super Clouds

    Quite a number of the thin wispy ones at the end particularly, are contrails. Ok, they're clouds too... nice collection though. Hope none are 'shopped...
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    Re: Aimlessly wandering about the woods

    Well, I don't have mountain lions (unless you believe the "eye-witness" reports and rumours) to consider in the bush where I go, but there are (black) bears, and the occasional 2 legged varmint. ...
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    Re: Polishing/relacquering brass lenses

    Hi Pete - thanks for all of the info. I'm not concerned about getting the old off and polishing up - that I know how to do. its more of a question as to whether I should do it or not....
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    Re: Making a darkcloth

    Marked the edge centres of my commercial white/black on the white side for centering over the camera, so that I can position it quickly so that it doesn't slide off halfway through the shot setup....
  31. Re: To Canadians, where are you buying 4x5 film?

    Henry's no longer has any interest in ordering any film for you. The world's all digital now, don't you know...?

    They still stock provia, velvia, and Tmax, but aren't interested in getting...
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    Re: preparing for winter

    The snorkel idea might not be so dumb. Not thinking about my diving snorkel, but a foot-long section of soft food grade vinyl hose that can just hang down from your mouth, and a set of swimmer's...
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    Re: LF in the Snow - HOW?

    Snowshoes (REAL snowshoes - good appropriate paddles with long beavertails - not those useless "high tech" high-ticket oval monstrosities that are sold to complement your Columbia jacket), unless...
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    Re: Developing an Eye for Both Color and B&W?

    I don't do B&W well, as I shoot and react to colour mostly. My eye gets lost in the hues and shades of colour. I don't see tonal relationships because of this; I have to work to pull them out.

    I...
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    Polishing/relacquering brass lenses

    I have finally acquired a brass barrel lens (a Zeiss Apochromat Tessor, ca 1907) suitable for my old Anthony Normandie, and I am giving some thought to refinishing the brass. The camera, although a...
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    Re: Fired up my homebuilt enlarger!

    Phooey - you've just brought the realm of 8x10 into possibility for me...Arrrrgh! another project! :)
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    Re: Tachihara weight limit

    I use a Nikkor 240 W that weighs 2.lb (just weighed it) and it causes no problems.
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    Re: Am I a complete loser if.... ?

    I've started scanning my B&W negs, and am blown away by the results...and I can print them on anything that will go through the printer. Scanned as RGB, printed as warm tone, sepia, selenium...Yikes!
  39. Re: Student Essays on field trip to Ansel Adams Exhibit

    The Chinese students quite appear to have chinese as their mother tongue... :p English translation of camera manuals appears to be secure... :)



    Ansel, you rascal. Hiding out in the...
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    Re: On Plagiarism and Similarities

    I think its presumptious at best to think that anything in the "public domain" can be plagiarized. Its very possible that two people can have the same basic vision of something (including the...
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