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Oh -- that is just to make sure that your highlights do not get over-exposed/overdeveloped, blocked up, and difficult for the scanner to pick up the information. Shadows -- well, if you have too...

Challenging lighting in most cases. The first and last are the most dramatic and are also well seen and composed. If is difficult to pull off an image with only half the sky in clouds, and you did...

Levels: For ease of set-up and getting the camera semi-level without having to look at an image on the GG. And I have been in many situations where level was nowhere obvious, so it can be nice to...

They have been for awhile...

A friend was working with his 8x10 upstairs in an old wooden building slated to be torn down. Right next to the highway as it passes thru downtown, he noticed the building swayed when trucks passed...

That's why I made it easy for myself! I saved up 250 sht 8x10 boxes for awhile...we went thru 4 to 6 a semester at the university. The class was only two weeks in the summer...eight 4-hour classes....

Beautiful, Bryan

I have had kids from 8yrs to 18 yrs making pinhole cameras...just 8x10s, though. Sure had them confused at first...they had no idea what to expect. I showed no examples. They made these strange...

I have spare 11x14 camera that would be fun to set up for that. Not the most stable thing for long exposures though. It won't be anywhere near the top of my to-do list...but an interesting...

TC said he moved this internally (like a bowel movement?), but I did not see it, so I did.

Pinhole, 8x10 litho film, 250sht photopaper box as camera, home made pinhole in brass. Cyanotype,...

Here is an 8x10 pinhole self-portrait, printed as a cyanotype. Hand-made pinhole in brass. Litho film.

The 'camera' was a 250 sheet photopaper box instead of my normal 8x10 camera. I had a couple...

Oh, my -- wouldn't those be interesting posts?! Might not sound too different than some of our posts. But that's a silly idea, Mark, I do not think he could withstand the corrections he's bound to...

Where's my ten-foot pole!!! :cool:

Working with actresses and actors could be fun. "Show me the real you." "Which one?"

I tend to think of E.W. and his "No retouching".

I have the slightly larger version (Trekker II) of this for 8x10:

https://meipacks.myshopify.com/products/trekker-i

Five to six film holders (8x10) fit in the detachable daypack and should...

Do you find your low values dropping a little with sepia toning (seems to happen with prints a little)? Actually would help to boost contrast...along the lines of my bleaching then selenium toning. ...

I'll second using RF to increase contrast -- which rules out TMax, etc.

And I have given well-exposed negatives a slight bleach to deepen the shadows followed by selenium toning to boost the...

I'm with you, Maris. If that is snow, then it is a positive (also a black rebate), the black 'splotches' are thin areas on the negative. Poor aggitation in the developer tray with the negative...

I had just started working there and I started to photograph while there (Rolleiflex and an employee darkroom) -- but it had not dawned on me yet (pun intended) to take my camera with me on the walk...

I normally don't scout, but even without the LF, one can't help but look. This is close by along the river, taken a couple days ago...I'll try something here this winter -- just don't know what yet.

Cool! Love the faint mountain on the right horizon. One early spring, decades ago (1977), to get to work I had to walk along the rim in the snow, with the sun rising as I walked. Never saw anyone...

Does it have to be a tailboard -- several new non-folding cameras around except they fold up the front instead of the rear.

This might be the trailer I would want. It does have 16" wheels.

https://surlybikes.com/parts/ted_trailer

Great, Bill! Also diversey's is wonderful

Seems to me I'd want two tires on each side (and brakes) on a trailer I'm using all the time. What's the thinking on that?

PS - on anything big enough for me to stand in, anyway...6'3" and add...

Ballheads for 4x5 and 5x7 easily...I have used them (Gitzos) for years and one eventually learns how to get the best out of one's tools. With the right ballhead, I can see it working easily with...

I thought I would toss this out there. I have no connection to the designer/developer/seller. I have no idea how well it will be made.
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Jim -- have a pop top put on your van!

Below is my kind of transportation -- except I have had recent trouble with my suspension and frame recently. A bad knee for 6 weeks followed by my back...

My air-cooled VW camper broke down in Shasta. After they dropped the engine and pushed the bus back outside, they let me sleep in it until they finished it a few days later. As a result, I got to...

Big RVs are like boats...it takes money to run them and to keep them afloat.

My sister has a Sprinter/Sportsmobile. Sweet machine, reasonable size (pop-top), drives better than their old Dodge...

Get the 3.5" x 17" hangers instead and use a modified darkslide to get two of them on a 7x17 sheet of film!

Cool -- that is basically what I have now (pictured above). Tho I have to admit I like having a 2002 instead of a 2022, only because it is just so dang simpler...and has a cassette player.

The...

There has not been any Australian Sheaf Stout on American shelves since the lockdown.

On FB there appear some sort of contests for electric conversions...I have always treated them as spam/scams, but they had a mid-60s VW bus modified for electric. Cool idea -- but one would be able...

I keep the battery in the PDS Meter, but now that someone posted about it, it will go dead the next time I use it. A battery last too many years for me to keep track.

Here are a couple old ones.

The first is "Two Minutes in the Life of a Photographer" in Yosemite. 8x10 carbon print. I would have been sharper, but I looked down at my watch at what I thought was...

How many people, what type of roads, how long of trips, do you need/want a toilet in it, want it self-contained or not?

My photomobile -- pop top, fold out bed, second battery for inside lights,...

Always...
and we all have lived in Humboldt County for 40 or 50 years...

Very cool!

Nothing to show for 2021 yet...mostly shadow self-portraits in the past, though....like this one I posted years ago...(5x7 contact print).