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  1. Thread: Nude

    by John Layton
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    Re: Nude

    Martin...wonderful! The blown out highlights really work to advantage here, as do the deep blacks - giving the image a semi-abstract feel while maintaining the strength of the silhouette - and that...
  2. Re: Finally got Office and darkroom ready...

    Very nice space...and those filing drawers - wow! But...where's the sink?
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    Re: Post Your Smaller Format Trees!

    Pieter is that a recent photo...perhaps from the area around Ubehebe crater? I'm just wondering if the bottom of that crater has (or had) become a lake due to the recent heavy rains in DV. Or...
  4. Re: Shooting multiple formats (4x5 & 8x10) - separate lens sets, or one for both?

    ...a 305mm F/9 G-Claron can do "quadruple duty" as a lens for 4x5, 5x7, 8x10, and 11x14! Does quite well with all of these formats in fact!
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    Re: MF (6x4.5,6x6,6x7,6x9,6x12) B&W film images sharing

    ...probably car headlights creating a "streak" during what was likely a slightly long exposure.
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    Re: MF (6x4.5,6x6,6x7,6x9,6x12) B&W film images sharing

    Tuco your work is so very "clean." Not clinical, mind you...but you seem able to eke every bit of whatever your camera, lens, and film are capable of...and I really admire this. Not that I can...
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    What about the aspect of "signature" in enlarging lenses? Maybe its more a matter of having as little as possible so that as much as possible of the signature of the taking lens can get transmitted...
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    Paul that's a beautiful image - and that test is meaningful to a degree...but there are some differences - specifically apparent print color and brightness/contrast, which you could likely manipulate...
  9. Re: The F.64 BPX Back Pack does not seem to have a place for a tripod. What do people

    If I'm backpacking my otherwise "lightweight" MF/LF gear, I usually strap my lightweight Feisol "Tall Traveller" tripod to my pack and hardly notice its weight...nor its "moving mass" as I strap it...
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    Re: New 75mm Hypergon Lens

    Ic that looks like a great result! Thanks for having faith in this (vintage optic repro) project...being brave and thoughtful in making specific and meaningful tweaks - and sharing with us results...
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    The last box of TMY (50 sheets of 5x7) I'd purchased from B+H was a "great" deal as it was short dated (within but a few months of expiry). Thing is, if I can put this (or any other short-dated...
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    I've had great luck in using a 135mm Rodagon for 4x5 on three separate enlargers: a Beseler 45 MX, an Omega D2-V, and a Zone VI series 2. For the largest possible (30x40) print size from a vertical...
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    As for the "the sale of a few prints should offset material costs".... if there were enough eager buyers to match the amount of passion on this forum - then yes, but realistically?

    And while...
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    Re: 5x7 enlargers?

    Not to discourage anyone from seeking out the amazing offerings from Durst...but my own quest for a 5x7 enlarger began with a search for a 138...and what I found was a confusing array of various...
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    Interesting to think about this thread in light of the "how many holders do you take with you?" thread - that where this (number of holders) question is (was) often dictated by weight and...
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    Re: Condoms For Tripods

    Jeesh...talk about clickbait! Then again...given the fact that there are already way too many tripods running around (reproducing like bunnies every time we turn our backs...shame on them!) - maybe...
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    Re: 5x7 enlargers?

    Getting a bit hard to find, and I know that opinions vary wildly on this one - but I sure do love my Zone VI (series 2) enlarger - which I truly lucked out in finding in very close to "as new"...
  18. Thread: 4x5 vs 5x7

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    Re: 4x5 vs 5x7

    I currently use two methods for 5x7 - one is to simply batch process six per run in trays (shuffle method), the other is to have six 5x7 trays, each with 10 oz developer, in two rows of three placed...
  19. Re: Dry Plates (handmade) - Tips & Tricks, Experiences & Examples . . .

    Paul I'm a bit late to the game here but that result you'd posted just over three years ago...looks great!

    I sometimes think of doing glass plates...mostly for the dimensional stability which...
  20. Re: Show your 3D printed LF photography related thing

    Wonderful! Very neat and clean design...looks like you're really refining the "state of the art!"

    I do have a question for you about Poron foam: how well does in maintain its "springiness" over...
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    Re: Selenium Intensifying A Negative

    Ha! I crashed a John Sexton workshop years ago...had been waiting outside for his workshop session to end before our prearranged meeting, when it started to rain buckets so I let myself in - to see...
  22. Re: Posslibly of interest: a Canadian photographer's machinist

    In my wildest dreams I would have a shop like this...and another of equivalent capabilities for wood - but then I wonder if, in the quest for the "perfect camera," I might get so caught up in this...
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    Re: extra wide angle lens for 8x10

    Paul, are you making contact sheets or enlargements from 8x10?

    I ask this as my "negative" comment on the state of affairs respective of "modern" lens design is more related to the ability to...
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    Re: Trying Out EMA

    Andrew I think you should give EMA another chance...but with subject matter equal or a bit closer (in terms of tones and textures) to what Eric describes above.

    I suggest this also because I've...
  25. Re: DIY Right Angle Mirror-Box for ULF Closeups?

    Thanks Greg! I likely won't need to be using this until later this Spring...and in the meantime I'll keep my eyes open for one of the Sinar units (thanks for the heads-up about the semi-reflecting...
  26. Re: DIY Right Angle Mirror-Box for ULF Closeups?

    Greg...how large is the mirror in that Sinar mirror-box of yours? Don't worry if its buried away someplace, but if its close by and you could get a look at it and let me know, that would be great!
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    Re: extra wide angle lens for 8x10

    As Robert's post above reiterates...wide angle lenses for 8x10 are indeed "unusual," in that there are basically no choices to be had for anything of recent design and manufacture which would truly...
  28. DIY Right Angle Mirror-Box for ULF Closeups?

    As I’ve been getting back into using my 11x14 camera, I’m thinking that I’d like to do some close up work…with the camera in a more or less straight down orientation.

    But from where I sit (or...
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    Re: 5x8 Camera Build

    Yes...a Rotatrim would make a very smooth cut. While I don't happen to own one of these cutters...my wife does have a fabric cutter which works on the same principle - which she uses with a...
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    Re: 5x8 Camera Build

    Having done a bit of photography in the desert southwest with my 5x7 (but as one who has never quite warmed up to "ultra wide" formats) - I can just look at your photos of your camera in that...
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    Re: Bridal Falls Provincial Park

    Yes indeed...too much water can make things difficult! And late Summer/early Autumn can present better conditions as you've mentioned - in fact you'll notice in my photo some fallen leaves adhering...
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    Re: Bridal Falls Provincial Park

    Andrew, the (type of) environment you'd worked in that video is one of my very favorites...deep forest with lots of great "water features." Interesting, though...how certain things (like those...
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    Re: Post Your Photos Made At Close Distance

    ...arri that's really interesting that those spheres are from Thor Labs, as I'm sure you're aware that vikings could turn glass (quartz?) spheres on lathes, to an accuracy approaching that of what we...
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    Re: Who is shooting 20x24 film nowadays?

    Yeah...and all of us 11x14 (and smaller) folks - we're just stuck in the past...we're history! :rolleyes:
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    Re: Post Your Photos Made At Close Distance

    While I'd posted this recently in the "Around The House" thread...I figured it could do double-duty, as it is indeed a (reasonably) close up image...with the subject (frost on a windowpane) measuring...
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    Re: 5x8 Camera Build

    Wonderful job on this build...resulting in a great camera with a good degree of movements and bellows extensions - all in a package which weighs under 2.5 lbs? Bravo!

    My latest (5x7) plywood...
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    Re: Ansels The Negative

    ...no, I think its called the "100th monkey theorem," where if there were 100 monkeys typing on into infinity...they would indeed come up with Shakesphere's works. Then again...if you think about it...
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    Re: Hard Time Photographing During A Snow

    ...and I'd like to reiterate my earlier edit regarding my entry about photographing on a mountaintop in extremely cold conditions - that Andrew actually had it much worse than I, in that my film...
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    Re: Hard Time Photographing During A Snow

    Back in the day I'd freeze my Leicas when it was snowing outside...by either leaving them in an open garage or even in the kitchen freezer (in a baggie so they wouldn't ice over on the way outside) -...
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    Re: Hard Time Photographing During A Snow

    Like that tent!

    Wasn't there some kind of tent that you'd basically throw up in the air, upon which it would "un-pop" itself, and land on the ground as a fully erected tent? Or did I dream...
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