Many many years ago, over drinks at the bar down the block from the lab, I was telling Dan Oshima (RIP) from The New Lab in San Francisco, that I was experimenting with some 9.5" aerial E-6 rollfilm,...
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Many many years ago, over drinks at the bar down the block from the lab, I was telling Dan Oshima (RIP) from The New Lab in San Francisco, that I was experimenting with some 9.5" aerial E-6 rollfilm,...
Yes,
direct email to my gmail address for more info.
The Fuji-A 1200s were extremely rare and not often used. The New York studio does have one again. The vast majority of work done with the camera was with 600mm as a "short-normal". Elsa used a "De...
TRy removing the rollers and see if the motor runs, sometimes the rollers get stubborn with lack of use. If that works, give the rollers a good cleaning and manually turn them via the spur gears on...
Yeah, this bothered me too....
One of my few criticisms of that wonderful project is that the distance markings are SO SMALL ! Ben and Justin, if you're reading this, Thanks again for the passion and hard work.
Very often, external aperture rings are threaded onto male external threads on the barrel, I DO NOT suggest banging on it to try to move it forwards or backwards. Also, be careful what solvents you...
ALSO: the aperture markings are probably either "US" stops. Are they "2, 4, 8, 16, 32" etc? If so, it's the "Universal System" where US-16 = f/16, and all others are one stop apart, with US 8 being...
The lenses with underrated coverage are often lenses for the repro industry, where the utmost critical sharpness (always less in the margins) was the order of the day.
Take a good look at the old catalog page Dan Fromm shared a link to. It gives coverage wide open, at moderate stops, and all the way down. It's an early catalog, before some of the shorter Fls were...
I still don't see anywhere where you tell us what the screw goes to (ie: what camera?)
I downloaded and zoomed in on the photo showing your aperture scale. It appears to be marked in "the Goerz System" rather than International stops(the F/stop scale we all know today).
You can...
Nobody says the 14" Series III Dagor will cover 20"x24" because it won't. The linked catalog page suggests 18"x22" stopped all the way down which is 90 degrees, which is in fact, the limit of these...
+1, Thin black Delrin would be a great choice.
Google found this:
https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?140866-Rodenstock-Apo-Ronar-600mm-F9-Flange
There are a handful of common process lens flange sizes used by Schneider, Nikkor, and Rodenstock. I'm sure it will be one of those, possibly 90/1.
I have not owned a 600 Apo-Ronar, but can tell...
Use google site search of this site. Lots of good info already shared.
Make sure there is nothing flammable in the path of infinity focus (as the sun transits the sky).
There's a portrait of my wife and I from 1989 (before we were married) in the "couples" section.
Elsa and I were very close for several years, I helped her a lot in the studio, she let me print in...
I worked with her a lot during my Boston days, she was generous, and funny, and loved her subjects like they were family.
RIP Dear Elsa.
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Think about lens focal lengths as they relate to the long and short sides, (and the diagonals) of the formats in question. 14" lens on 11x14 will be like to a 10" lens on 8x10, or a 5" lens on 4x5....
11"x14" FP4 and HP5 were both listed as ULF order sizes by PhotoWarehouses 2019 listings, the pages are still up. Whether some dealers (B&H, Samys, etc) periodically do their own orders of 11"x14" ...
No. It went back to Polaroid, 100%. He stole the Fuji 1200mm lens though.
Right. As mentioned elsewhere, Ron built an aftermarket cassette (which took a 150' roll of Polaroid negative) and separate processor that were compatible with the 20x24 "field" cameras he was...
Ancient history. I believe it was only there for a couple months or less anyway and went back to Polaroid.
I got involved with the cameras as a student in 1983/4 and "retired" from 20x24 in 2017...
Vaughan, I added a couple notes to your photo:
1. Steve Simmons
2. Jan Pietrzak
3. Patrick Alts restored 18"x22" Empire State
Read a brief history here:
http://mammothcamera.com/thecamera.html
Yeah, that was me, with the Wisner system John Reuter had just taken delivery of at the Santa Fe Workshops. The reason for the light leaks was design shortcomings. The original cameras had the...
One like it. I worked with Elsa a lot when I lived in Boston.
The cameras were originally built with a processor for the film built in, it's the large wooden box you can see behind the bellows on my homepage here:http://mammothcamera.com/
A little over 20...
I recently had Custom Bellows make 2 new sections of bellows for a friends S11, they cost 200 pounds per section, not including shipping. The quality is superb, as always.
I would suggest finding an inexpensive 8"x10" set up and working with it for a few months(shoot, process your own film, make prints) before considering ULF. Smaller than 8"x10" won't, in my opinion,...
Also worth noting, that the 8x10 part is from a sliding carriage back, and may NOT fit a V8.
That camera went back to Polaroid before Steve was busted, though he did steal the Fuji 1200mm lens.
OK, update.
I have a 12x20 F&S here in the shop and the gear rack is 32 pitch, 20 degree pressure angle.
I also have a Korona 8x10 Home Portrait here, and the rack looks like 45 pitch? I don't...
Pretty sure KHK only has metric gears (and racks, which is what you want) for thise vintage cameras you need imperial (english) gearing.
Mcmaster Carr is a better bet. You’ll be looking at small...
The 8"x10 ROC Carlton I used to own did not take modern holders, the proprietary holders were a good bit wider. I opted to made myself a new back for it that took standard / modern holders. (not a...
is it possible there is something shiny INSIDE the camera ? I have seen this more than once where there's a problem surface, and it'll show only with the back oriented one way.
You could tell us...
Back in the days of only film, pros shooting chrome, and lots of labs, it was common for pros doing tabletop or architecture to standardize on one brand of lenses for consistency in coatings for...
Perhaps a separately hosted, read only, archive of "outstanding threads"? I can imagine the great old threads you refer to becoming immediately polluted by the increasing number of newbies who never...