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    Linhof Technika Rangfinder Cams

    I recent bought a user Technika IV. It had no lens but came fitted with a 150mm rangefinder cam.

    I am aware that Linhof advises that the camera and lens must be matched and the rangefinder cam...
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    Re: Durstpro USA 5x7 lamp kit

    Before you make the major expenditure for the DurstPro kit, I suggest that you see if you can be happy with the results with a PH213 bulb in your enlarger - you'll need to spend a bit of time to...
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    Re: Photographers Formulary

    Unique Photo in New Jersey has it listed on their website with no shipping restrictions listed.
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    Re: Durst 138S Replacement Bubs

    I only used the G40 bulbs with my Elwood and had no problem at all with the filament being visible. The G40 bulbs that I used had a pretty thick white coating on the glass which seems to mask the...
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    Re: 4x5 Enlarger Advice Needed

    For $50, you might be able to find a Chromega head - certainly will find one under $100 with a bit of patience. A Chromega head will fit any D-series Omega (may need a couple or hardware store items)...
  6. Re: Share your experience with Elwood 8x10 enlarger please

    Before you buy an Elwood you will want to be very sure about the availability, to you, of light bulbs for the enlarger.

    My experience is with the 5x7 Elwood. The diffusion head uses a stack of...
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    Re: Tachihara history?

    I have both a Tachihara 4x5, circa year 1999 and a Tachihara 5x7, circa 2010. Both are fine, but very differernt cameras.

    The 4x5 is a competent camera, lightweight, and quite nice for...
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    Re: Large format gear bag

    For carrying/toting your gear, as opposed to backpacking it into the mountains, I suggest that you consider a canvas toolbag of the type offered at Home Depot or Lowes. These are rugged and quite...
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    Re: Options for 5x7 development

    A suggestion on using your waterbath.

    It is easy to forget that the water bath is operating when a darkroom session ends and leave it on when you leave the room. The water can evaporate from the...
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    Re: Options for 5x7 development

    First, find a surplus laboratory constant temperature bath (aka water bath) on eBay. Be patient and don't spend more than $50. My first one was about $30 and the second (and a much better one) was 99...
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    Re: Bear spray.

    My wife and I have encountered black bears three times now-

    Once on the Appalacian Trail in Shenandoah NP - a sow with two cubs - strictly speaking, the south end of three bears running north very...
  12. Recommendations for a slide/negative scanner

    I have quite an archive of 35mm slides and Kodachrome negatives that I'd like to convert to digital form.

    I ask for recommendations for a digital scanner for 35mm only. I don't have (or an...
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    Re: Zone Vi Fixer - What Is It?

    Simple thiosulfate fixers usually contain some sodium sulfite to provide resistance to air oxidation.
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    Re: Building a 5x7 Camera

    If your objective is to have a solid, useable 5x7 camera at low cost, it is hard to beat the Ansco 5x7 (usually battleship gray). Use your woodworking skills to modify the front frame for swings...
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    Re: What kind of tanks for 5x7?

    If you have a darkroom, you might consider hangers with plastic food containers as tanks.
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    Re: Anybody still using tank & racks?

    Temperature control is pretty simple really. Just put the developer tank into a dishpan of water at the control temperature. The large mass of water in the tank and in the dishpan will make...
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    Re: Anybody still using tank & racks?

    There are plenty of half-gallon tanks available for 4x5 hanger development. Plastic food storage containers of this volume work well too and at less cost.
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    Re: Elwood enlarger and filters

    My Elwood also had an Ektanon lens. The Kodak Polycontrast filters in a below the lens holder worked just fine.
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    Re: Darkroom in laundry room?

    Isn't everything uphill anywhere from where you are in Vermont? Seemed that way when we were backpacking on the Long Trail.
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    Re: Nikkor tank/reels

    I used the Nikor tanks for a couple of years with 4x5 sheet film.

    I didn't have any discernable uneven development problems (I used inversion agitation and only loaded every other position in the...
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    Re: 5x7 bench top enlargers

    Fore and aft with an adjustment screw; side to side by shimming the column base.
  22. Re: Advice - lightweight 14" or 360mm lens for 4x5?

    A minor advantage of a front mounted lens is that, as the lens barrel is on the front of the shutter, the shutter body acts as a short expension tube, providing a small amount of effective extension...
  23. Re: portrait lens for 16x20 direct positive camera project?

    There is a 42" Artar on eBay now.
  24. Re: Advice - lightweight 14" or 360mm lens for 4x5?

    You might also consider front mounting the Artar on a less expensive shutter such as an Ilex #4 or Alphax#4 (see the S K Grimes website). Grimes charges about $85 for a simple front mount.

    Even if...
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    Re: Where can I buy bellows frames?

    I've had good luck with Jim Ormond at Western bellows (jwormond@yahoo.com).

    He is primarily a bellows fabricator but also furnished to me installed frames on a replacement bellows for a Korona. He...
  26. Re: What is so great about a converted Polaroid camera?

    What Professor Longcor said -
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    Re: Zone VI ( Wista ) vs Deardorff 4x5

    I beg to differ.

    The V8 is the adult, the V5 is the baby (in "Special guise" or otherwise).
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    Re: Zone VI ( Wista ) vs Deardorff 4x5

    Barry Cochran (dba attrevida/LF Deardorff) offers a nice metal adaptor which fits Linhof boards to baby Deardorffs.
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    Re: Developing tank & holders/hangers

    Plastic food containers make pretty useful tanks for hanger development and are inexpensive. Walmart has ones that will accomodate single 4x5 and single 5x7 hangers.

    There is the additional...
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    Re: What are they called?

    The press camera also has groundglass focussing and some bellows extension. Our in-house laboratory photographer used these features quite a bit (with a tripod) for close ups.
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    Re: Wobbly Korona 5x7

    My camera, the one with the wobble, doesn't have a fixed (rigid) front standard. One can focus with either the front or rear frames and both frames swing.
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    Re: Wobbly Korona 5x7

    Thank you all for the replies.

    My practice of a wedge under the rear frame would seem to be the best for me.

    The rods that were mentioned wouldn't be a solution on my camera as the thing to...
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    Wobbly Korona 5x7

    I have a pretty Korona 5x7. The overall cosmetics are very good (no exaggeration); it has what appears to be a new bellows; and I have the rear extension track with a stamped number that matches the...
  34. Re: Oh my...what have I gotten myself into? Korona 8x10 advice needed

    I'm afraid that I don't share your opinion of Carol at Flutot Camera Repair.

    I sent two Alphax #3's to her for cleaning/repair. One was DOA at my end twice (I sent it back to her after the first...
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    Re: Making a VC Cold Light Head?

    Walmart carries these tubes.

    I believe that there is also a 5x7 version of the Omegalite head.
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    Re: Making a VC Cold Light Head?

    A color head, such as a Chromega, provides both diffuse illumination and variable contrast (via the color filters). There is the considerable advantage that these use tungsten-halogen projector lamps...
  37. Re: Will a partially disassembled Omega D-2V fit into a compact car?

    How do you find the Omegalite head compares with the Chromega color head for printing contrasty negatives? The Chromega is also a diffusion light source.
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    Re: FIlm holder logistics.

    The Harrison tents do have the advantage that you can reload the film holders out in the field.You can reload in a diner, at a picnic table, or use the hood of your car as a hasty workbench. If you...
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    Re: 5x7 film processing, what to use?

    Hangers in plastic food containers - no scratching. Rubbermaid makes one gallon containers thatare just the right size (available at Walmart in the US).
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    Re: I hate digital

    A mixed blessing when the chicks are the same vintage as the Deardorff.
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