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    Travelling with a large format camera

    Wooden field cameras (some of which are still in use in some of these countries) raise fewer suspicions than all-metal black monorails, which can look like weap ons (I take my monorail standards off...
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    72 SA XL lens w Wide Angle bellows.

    Nope, none at all. I use this combo all the time (72mmXL, Sinar F2, W/A bellows) without problems. The "Superwide" bellows Sinar sells are necessary only with c ertain metering-probe configurations;...
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    High-quality black-and-white digital prints?

    Can anyone recommend a (good-enough-to-sell-prints) process for outputting digit al black-and-white print files? I'm looking for quality that will rival at least an excellent warmtone RC print (I...
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    Horseman VH 6 x 9 field camera -- Advice?

    You may want to directly contact some of the contributors to the "Horseman" sect ion of the Medium Format Digest, accessible via the www.photo.net/photo home pag e or directly at
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  5. For anyone who's thinking about moving into 4x5 . . .

    . . . or might think about it somewhere down the road in the future, be sure to pick up the November issue of Popular Photography (yes, Popular Photography!). T hey have a very good introduction to...
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    field camera for landscape and portrait

    I'd go with the Toyo CX, which weighs 8 lbs. and is probably the sturdiest camer a listed yet in this thread. If Toyo/Mamiya stubbornly persists in making afford able 4x5's that people won't grow out...
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    Calumet 4x5 camera

    The new Toyo 4x5 monorail (model name, anyone? I should've checked toyoview.com) seems much more capable and versatile than the Cadet and for not much more mone y (I think $600 street?). If you're...
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    Ready Load Film Holders

    I shoot Readyload (TMX 100) with the Kodak holder. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I s hoot 300-400 Readyloads per month and I don't know when I last had a failure. Ac tually, I do, but it failed...
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    Sinar rail clamp 2 w/ a pan-tilt head

    Actually, in this respect the Sinar setup may be more precise and quicker than a double-tilt head; it doesn't take much of a turn on the rail-clamp knob to loos en up the monorail enough to pivot the...
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    Sinar rail clamp 2 w/ a pan-tilt head

    I use the Sinar tripod head with the Sinar rail clamp (not the 2, although the o nly difference is strength, weight, and cost; the function's about the same).

    I was choosing between the Gitzo 1370...
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    Calumet Cadet and roll film

    Re the roll-film part of the question:

    To use roll-film in a view camera, you have two options: the slim C2N style, whi ch slides into the camera in front of the groundglass just like a 4x5...
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    Lens-mounted lens hoods for LF?

    I'm trying to find a practical bellows-style lens hood for mounting on the lense s of LF cameras. I'm considering the Lee that sells for about $100 (plus $40-70 for a lens thread adaptor ring); it's...
  13. Ansel Adams NOT among century's most influential?

    Time let its own criteria ("Influence over greatness") fail them in the Photogra phy category: critics and photographers will debate forever the "genius" of Alfr ed Steiglitz and Ansel Adams, but few...
  14. Unsharp Masking instructions and a handmade registration system

    Fernando,

    Check Howard Bond's website, www.musicman.com/hb/hbmask.html

    ...A workshop with Howard would be ideal for you (he lists the schedule on his w ebsite), but if you're not in the U.S....
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    how to find/make ground glass??

    I've never made one, but I've bought several, in three different sizes, from Ste phen Shuart in PA, who has a full-page ad toward the back of most Shutterbugs. S S sells some bizarro stuff (his...
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    question from a beginner

    I know Phil Greenspun recommended the Sinar X to you over on photo.net, but chec k out the Sinar f2; it weighs and costs much less (it's 7.9 lbs. and $2495) and yet is a full Sinar, with all the good...
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    dark room equipment

    Uh, two exceptions to the "no great printers use condensers": Paul Caponigro use s a Durst condenser and Brett Weston used a variety of condensers--sometimes eve n a point source! (See article "The...
  18. Are there optical disadvantages to large-coverage lenses?

    I'm wondering about whether there are downsides (besides weight and cost, of cou rse!) to using extra-large coverage lenses in cases where you don't need the cov erage.

    Consider some 90mm options...
  19. How good is ArcaSwiss U.S. sales and tech support?

    Boy, thanks a million for the tips, Gordon! I went straight to bhphotovideo's we b page to check it out (I hadn't seen it there before in the Large Format sectio n because they simply called it...
  20. How good is ArcaSwiss U.S. sales and tech support?

    Does anyone in the U.S. have any RECENT experience with ArcaSwiss sales/tech.sup port/parts?

    I ask because I'm in the market for my first 4x5 camera (I'm moving down from 8x 10 and 11x14, although...
  21. State of the art large format lenses for 4x5 and 5x7

    You'd really be hard-pressed to go wrong with a current lens from any of the Big Four (Fuji, Nikkor, Rodenstock, and Schneider). ("Sinaron" and "Caltar"--aka "C alumet" are just Rodenstocks with a...
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