I believe it was 6x4", or 1/2 plate size, from about 1900 used for Portraiture in studio. It was found most often with a Petzval Portrait lens with 'Waterhouse stops', for exposure adjustment.
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I believe it was 6x4", or 1/2 plate size, from about 1900 used for Portraiture in studio. It was found most often with a Petzval Portrait lens with 'Waterhouse stops', for exposure adjustment.
The knob especially looks like some used by both Seneca and the Northern Camera, Liberty model, cameras. circa early 20th century.
The Seneca Competitor View 5x7 might be a match.
Hope this...
May I ask, If you have a camera with movements why point it up, when rise is an easier, less distorting movement....
The Arca-Swiss 8x10 with a short rail and the wide angle bellows, performs great, even with the rather poor quality in the corners, 120mm lenses. But it is superb with the 150mm to 165mm lenses.
SK Grimes could probably mark the boards for you.
https://skgrimes.com/lens-boards/
They do all sorts of lens board and custom camera things.
I have used them for 30 years.
Rod
I must comment, that your eye strain over a day of large format photography, and the accuracy of focus, may suffer with loups for focusing above 5x. The higher magnification loups began to magnify...
I am happy to Zoom with anyone with questions on these items, I have used all of them.
Rod
And Arca-Swiss has relaunched the 5x7 cameras for some more precise choices.
KB Canham also often has 5x7 film as well.
Rod
I might try this same shot with a #11 Yellow Green filter.
Rod
As Oren mentioned above, over fixing creates the issue of removing the residual fixer in the wash.
30 seconds with continuous agitation especially with RC paers and 1 minute with Fibre seem quite...
I once salvaged some B&W infrared film for the local medical examiner here, July in Arizona, even though he carried it to me in his chest pocket. It was to get images in situ of evidence from a...
Some notes to you. You should never freeze film unless you have an old 1950s freezer. The freezers with frost-free freezers since 1970s do a flash defrost/freeze agin cycle to eliminate the buildup...
Note: IndicatorStop can stain if used at bottle indicated dilution. For film, You need to be aware that with some water, it can cause a sort of blow out between the emulsion and the Estar backing,...
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One other note. When prining B&W, Use a light af 40watts or less and not super close to prints, to make judgements on dodging/burning etc.
Because we are often in galleries or even at home with...
There was also the Prinzdorf from India/Pakistan late 1980's and early 1990s.
Wista makes and uses a thin protective glass on their cameras. Which may work for you as well.
Be apprised most of these cameras are limmted to 210mm as the longest for 5x7. They often vignette a lot with longer lenses.
Wista used to have one as well for its wood field cameras.
5x7 is a...
I always taught students: If you can't fight it join it.
So if there are no luffs, or pauses in the wind, then go even slower on shutter speed and incorporate the motion.
Paul Caponigro had a...
The 45N-2 does allow rear tilt. The best of the Metal vista cameras though is the 45 SP. I used one for 5 years in Grad school. My MFA was shooting in forest fires and it was great except no one...
Fred,
fudged a lot of info to fit his persona and that of Zone VI. Wista did make cameras that were rebadged after the Tacihara, for Zone VI. The Wista 4x5 never came with silver metal like...
Arca-Swiss does offer a bag/wide angle bellows as well.
You can use indirect displacement, to increase the rise, or fall, somewhat. Deardorff listed custom bellows with price on request in their 1991 Brochure.
Berenice in her how to use the view...
The Toyo 45A has the issue that if you want to swing you have to loosen the rail clamp and so it moves focus when you do that. It also has a tendency to lose the rail knobs on the bottom if you are...
You cannot place a fresnel in front, or on the lens side with this Graflex setup, as it will move the focus 2/3 the thickness of the fresnel. And so the film will not match the ground glass.
You...
You cannot put a fresnel on the lens side of this setup. If you do it will move the focus 2/3 the thickness of the fresnel. But if you add a fresnel on the outside, on top of the fresnel, it will...
Actually it is not supposed to be a measurement scale. It is just numbers in an arbitrary system, for the user to use with any lens board and work out what position is best.
Rod
You will still have a middle that may be soft after using rear tilt. So after attaining near and far focus points. Hunt the middle of your glass for the soft spot and before you move check the...
Focus far and tilt near is only correct for Base tilt, and Arca-Swiss Orbix tilt.
Axis tilt cameras should use the rule: Focus near and tilt far.
Also tilt has issues shooting below your feet. ...
Sorry, I missed that you want it for a 141 camera. Yes it will fit, no issues.
As it uses a mirror it would work. But you need to find a way to attach it to another brand camera.
By the way, to have the corners close to the center in terms of sharpness, you need also to shoot standard lenses--135mm and longer in most cases-- at least 2 stops down from wide open.
For Wide...
The rules are the opposite: For Base tilt, Focus far and tilt near.
For Axis tilt for near and tilt far.
Remember: Far is always tallest nearest of far objects. If, for example, you were...
The reduction plate for 5x7 to 4x5 and also the 8x10 to 4x5, did not return. The issue was that they were very heavy and prone to being unusable if dropped. The format kits were lighter and...
The instructions for the Wista SP and the VX show the differences. I really liked my SP. I used it to photograph forest fires for my MFA Thesis. But like all LF cameras with a box at the back,...
It Does resemble Soviet FKD cameras and could have been a Portrait or copy camera from late 1920s to 1930s, or even much later.
The bellows cosmetics reminds me of yours. 233998
Hi
So Edward Weston made many of his famous portraits, and other images, using a smaller format camera, when 8x10 was not feasible. He then duped the negative to 8x10 to make contact prints.
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Did you know that the Oschwald bros, later Arca-Swiss, did the major design work on the Norma for Carl Koch of Sinar?
One more addition. I said 5". They actually used 6" Gels in a magnetic holder. Burleigh Brooks sold all of this the 1950-60s.
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Hope this helps,
Rod
It is 110mm as Daniel said, and no one really made this size. They used 5" Gels at that time of manufacture, in a holder most commonly.
There are 105mm and some 112mm filters around. Tiffen or...