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y'all need to follow that link, there are TONS of great images there, I could spend a lot of time I don't have going from one link to the next!

Randy, color film or colored B/W or ??

Thanks for resurrecting this. It is getting harder all the time to find "proper" fluorescent lights of any kind. I'll continue to use my 6 x 18" bug zapper bulbs until I can't, but it's good to...

Sounds like a reasonable approach. Once you get going in 4x5 you might want bigger contact prints and then those lenses will seem a lot "shorter." I got to borrow a 75mm (I think that was it) for a...

It is fun seeing some of y'all on this thread. Sorry I don't have an easy way to reciprocate. If I dug out my 4x5 notebook, I have one of me in my basement several moves ago whilst testing film...

I'm amazed. I've snapped a few iPhone pics through my scopes and some friend's scopes but I never thought to mount an 8x10! Amazing!

Way cool Randy!

I'm trained in the sciences (chemistry), the mad artist part of photography fascinates me along with the chemistry!
Seriously though, I developed some 1956 expired film a few years ago, so call it...

Or we could sort of go the opposite direction: lenses repurposed for LF, i.e. close-up "filters" or positive meniscus lenses, perhaps with Waterhouse stops, old projector lenses, some are Cooke...

Wow! What scope mount did y'all use to facilitate tracking? I'm initially assuming the 8x10 camera is stationary. I recall seeing a mount on the Stellafane website where the axis corresponding to...

I don't think coating with nitrocellulose would work. It is waterproof once dry, so you would not be able to develop the films. Maybe it could be used as a protectant after development, but the dry...

I got started in LF fairly similarly, in my case it was a Busch Pressman D. The old press cameras can teach people a lot and are a lot of fun in their own right.

Thank you! yes, exactly that book!

there's a book, the title of which I thought was primitive optics, which a couple moves ago I borrowed from the library, perhaps through interlibrary loan. but I can't find a citation to it in...

We have a very similar apple peeler/corer/slicer that clamps to a surface instead of vacuum. My adult kids used it to make an apple pie this Thanksgiving. I think it is too much of a pain to clean...

Emil, that hand colored print is amazing! Is the underlying image a platinum print or ?

I doubt that film holders will hold a vacuum well enough to need a bleed valve.

I'd seen that Ilford makes rolls of printing paper still. That won't work for UV contact printing.

Life does get consumed with darting about chasing lots of ideas, but sometimes that's exactly...

Another crazy question then, what about roll film for ULF/LF? That would require a vacuum back as adhesives would stop the film motion. The military used LF or ULF film rolls for aerial...

The camera that the bellows came out of was a graphic arts camera with a v. heavy vacuum back. I'd do almost anything to avoid having to run a noisy vacuum pump---I might could live with a quite one...

Once upon a time, maybe 5-6 years ago I rescued a 1/2 plate camera from craigslist and restored it. One of the included items was an early shutter to be used behind the rapid rectilinear lens. It...

Vaughn,

The low tack adhesive spray makes a lot more sense to me than always pointing the camera straight up!

I have this tendency to go to the most complicated process I guess.

My vision? Tough. I’m trying to decide what the compelling reason is to do ULF when 8x10 or cropped 8x10 seems like plenty most of the time.

Maybe this should be a separate thread, but if I built a ULF camera in the 20x24 class, thinking landscapes and portraits, what movements would y’all say are needed? Rise fall, and back tilt? Or also...

I feel silly asking if someone had tried this and you are making these already! What do they cost and what kind of vacuum do they require to work?

About a week ago I took the "heart" out of a graphic arts camera at a print shop dating back to 1946 that is going out of business---the camera is, I think 1970's or 80's vintage, but I really don't...

My kids are older now, the last one will graduate from H.S. this Spring, God willing. I have fond memories of a large appliance box when I was 5, making it into an imaginary submarine and airplane...

Tin Can,
Not working for a living? haha, no. I'm the pastor of a church and have another f/t job. Family: a wife, 4 children 3 grown but on is finishing high school. I got a lot more done on...

Tin Can, are you referring to the guy who made a sliding box camera with a packet of film inside and 2 pants legs together access to the inside? That's pretty clever! He posted a 3rd video with a...

ULF'ers,

Has anyone ever built an ULF SLR or TLR? I was thinking that 8x10 was enough and that whole plate was really ideal, but over the years several interesting pieces of gear have come my way...

He put up a third video on a trapdoor type shutter, opened by a string and closed by rubber bands, commenting that this might not work so well if it wasn't on an 8kg lens!

Thanks Tin Can, but right now I don't have a darkroom or even printing paper that large, and so on. Still, it it was hard to pass up the key parts to build a monster camera. I'm not making any...

I had myself about convinced that 8x10 was way more than enough and that 6.5x8.5 was actually "Goldilocks" perfect and then I was recently given the bellows and lens out of a graphic arts copy...

If you can find wooden crutches they can be turned into a tripod. I don't have the pictures on this computer. It is fairly light, but not as easy to use as "real" tripods. Like the hockey stick...

I've used tacky glue for installation of home-made bellows. A lot of glues soften and start to release with a little heat. It helps with un-plumbing fixtures too. Emphasis on "a little," and go...

Someone can do a better job on this than I can, but the sunny 16 rule is a way of estimating exposures. Xray film will make you think your light meter is lying to you, however, or the estimation...

Aperture control for projection lenses: I made a collar/cylinders from cardboard which slip onto the front of the lens into which I can place various cardboard or plastic sheets with different sized...

Once upon a time, about 5-6-7 years ago I was wandering through an antique mall and saw an opaque projector with an 18" f3.6 cooke triplet projection lens. I don't know that I ever weighed it, ?5...

the bayonet remark was funny!

the link above is to 14x17 at 86 cents a sheet. Wow. Might have to build a 14x17 so I can afford to shoot film...hahaha...not funny. seriously tempting. I think I will stick to 8x10 for now, and...