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Thanks loads, Kirk. Put simply, I admire and am grateful to all you guys who keep this forum going. Enjoy the "retirement(?)"

You all might be interested in Susan Cain's book "Quiet". She makes a strong plea for the introverted life style. Her TED lecture gives a nice overview. ...

Seat of the pants Zone system?

Try http://graflex.org/speed-graphic/grafmatic/

"The Canadian shore of Lake Michigan is very, very wild."

MMmmm!! I bet those Michigan folk are really wild about the recent annexation of their land by the warlike Canadians.

I echo Glenn's advice. My Crown Graphic has a spring back (non Graflok) which is not designed to accommodate a fresnel lens on the lens side of the GG screen. So I have my fresnel placed between...

How did you cover that front door? I have wanted to do it myself but cannot figure out how to avoid creases.
A very nice piece of work.
John

Netflix has it in their rental list,

Thanks Bob,
I have an idea that many people are installing those washers. I have bought three tanks over the years and I installed the washers in every case. (The exploded assembly drawing also...

Bob and Len,
Let us get oriented here. Len mentioned looking at the "long side" of the tank. Hard to know what that is. And the diagram could be showing a couple of orientations. Bare with me...

Check out the Dokas link;
http://www.dokasphotos.com/techniques/ground_glass/

Also use your light-meter to see how much brighter your screen is compared to others.

I have made my own gg using the same technique. And yes, the glass will be a little clearer than one that had used coarser powder. After all, using no powder at all will produce a clear piece of...

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1 No more expensive purchases for this LF hobby! Make do with what I have got. I can't use what I have got properly anyway.
2 I have...

Thanks for tip on Eyeclops. I bought mine from Wallmart for $47.00. Loading my 4x5 holders and grafmatic has never been easier. The biggest aid is in loading my HP Combi tank. And you can actually...

When I pushed down the release button it seemed as if the metal was stuck at the bottom. I pulled and exposed the film, pushed it back, kept tugging and gripping until it freed itself. I then...

I was recently shooting in the early morning in the Tetons and found that I simply could not release my Readyload film from the holder. It was very cold (Late May) and I had noticed the car...

Thank you Rich and Bruce. I guess my confusion lay in thinking that Kerry Thalmann et al. were refering to a general method of attaching the Toho rail to any type of quick release plate not just the...

I too have just received my Toho Shimo FC-45X and would like to play at replacing the rail mount with the MPR-73 or B27 plates mentioned above. But I am having a difficult time understanding the...

"from filter #1-#3
(5 Kodak filters) I only get a one step increase"
What I meant is when using a #1 filter I can count 11 steps on my print of the Stouffer Step Wedge. When I use a #3 filter I...

Does anyone have information about the kind of contrast profile one gets for various b&w papers using a step wedge and color filters. I have just finished such an exercise on Arista II and Dektol...