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    Re: how old are we?

    still... 48, but 49 in a week and a bit more. Approaching half a century.... and just entered ultra large format with a Vageeswari 10x12 this summer! But I have more cameras than time to use them...
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    Re: In Praise of 5x7... Post'em !

    you can always home develop with the C-41 and E-6 Tetenal kits; and for LF... use a Paterson tank with a "20th Century Camera" film reel for several LF formats. I've used all of these and it's quite...
  3. Thread: 10x12 format?

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    Re: 10x12 format?

    Hi, I've just bought a 10x12 Vageeswari from India, complete with a barrel CZJ Tessar and three double holders... in not the best condition. I think out of 6 plates, I can use 1 straight away without...
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    Re: Wet Plate Collodion questions answered here.

    Finally on track. Yesterday I was able to made some more plates, both tintypes & ambrotypes (4x5) and worked quite fine. Even as I was forced to use my only UV light as it was dark already. Here's...
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    Re: Wet Plate Collodion questions answered here.

    Some news, good news, about my own collodion. Today I did some more tintypes and worked much better; very well in fact.

    First I worked on the silver bath to bring up the gravity from the low...
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    Re: Wet Plate Collodion questions answered here.

    Well, when I mixed the collodion I tried to follow Quinn's book instructions to the point. But with the water maybe I added 2-3 ml more to disolve the cadmium bromide. First time doing it, and also...
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    Re: Wet Plate Collodion questions answered here.

    Many thanks for your long reply , Paul.

    1) yes, by now this development problems are only experienced in my own (first) salted collodion. I'm quite sure I used too much water, beginner's...
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    Re: Wet Plate Collodion questions answered here.

    Well, I have not problems at all with the images themselves with my old collodion, nor the negative collodion bought last month. Just this foggy mess with my own made collodion, just 5 days old, now....
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    Re: Wet Plate Collodion questions answered here.

    well, some minimal progress made, here. I've done a little trial with the baking soda: 4 grams of baking soda into 100 ml of my salted collodion, mixed for about 30-40 minutes. Then decanted and...
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    Re: Wet Plate Collodion questions answered here.

    Searching for information, now it seems that could be related to water in the collodion or too short time in the silver bath (or maybe both?), and Quinn Jacobson quotes a XIX C. book telling to put a...
  11. Re: Making collodion negatives for Salt Printing.

    Wow, that's my goal, too. I've done some first trials with salt prints, and I've been doing wet plate since 2020, although with a bunch of problems most of the times. Now I'm trying to get salt...
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    Re: Wet Plate Collodion questions answered here.

    Well, after an autumn without much wet plates, I've started winter and 2022 with a lot of trials and it's problems. Although now my silver baths seem quite correct, I've been ending my supply of...
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    Re: Jason Lane Dry Plate

    Here's some 25 ASA I shoot last year, forgot to post here. All are urban scenes in Barcelona:

    https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50104962611_1811262f5e_z.jpgLa Sagrada Família vista com al inici...
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    Re: Jason Lane Dry Plate

    Wonderful images, rrunnertexas. Those abandoned places have a wonderful atmosphere with the dry plates!
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    Re: Wet Plate Collodion questions answered here.

    Many thanks for your tips. The fixer tip I think it's specially relevant.

    Today I managed to make this silver bath work again, although maybe it recovered on it's own (time to settle, maybe)....
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    Re: Wet Plate Collodion questions answered here.

    Hi,

    I've been doing wet plate collodion for almost a year, generally with acceptable results. But lately my tyntypes & ambrotypes have a lot of tiny black dots. And I mean a lot. I asume it is...
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    Re: Collodion - Wet Plate Images

    A couple more wet plates, now experimenting with inside UV led light and both with the MD7 developer by Mammoth.
    Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic 4x5
    Lens: Kodak Anastigmaf f4.5
    Collodion: Franalog...
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    Re: Post your churches

    The partially romanesque church of Santa Maria de Santiga, arround my hometown, Sabadell, Catalonia. My grandfather took the same image with an identical camera c.1930.

    Jason Lane 2 ASA dry plate,...
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    yes, 12,9 cm in lenght without cup & cap, but with hood. Covering a 16cm circle it would left the longer corners of a 13x18 vignetted, but I would have to live with that. With portrait or close up...
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    well, the front diameter without hood, but taking all the brass bulk is just 60mm, but only the lens, the visible frontal glass, is just 50mm. For the back, these numbers are 63mm and 54mm. So...
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    sadly, my lenses are smaller, now I've found my caliper, and it's exactly at 51mm in diameter (front), so probable it does not cover a 13x18; I asume the focal leght is from half-way between each...
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    It's a wonderful threat! This serial numbers lists should be tried with other large manufacturers, at least those with less information about numbers & dates of production.

    Just today my...
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    Re: Collodion - Wet Plate Images

    many thanks! more plates soon :D
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    Re: Show off your Large Format camera!

    Here are some of my large format cameras, from "small" to larger, not all of them:

    https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50582722016_191e7d2f2d_z.jpgWestern Cyclone No.4 by SBA73, en Flickr
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    Re: Jason Lane Dry Plate

    Several more 9x12 Jason Lane 25 ASA plates, all in my hometown, Sabadell, Catalonia (all hand-held):

    https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49867007557_ab753ae107_b.jpgMercat tancat / Closed markets...
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    Re: Collodion - Wet Plate Images

    I've been preparing to make collodion plates for almost a year, and a couple of months ago I started making plates. First in 4x5 (with a Speed Graphic), then in 5x7/13x18 with a couple of cameras (a...
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    Re: Jason Lane Dry Plate

    Hi, I had forgotten about this thread, I've been distracted in the last months. Here are some plates, mostly 9x12, I've taken in these last year.

    Beginning with that one, I'm quite fond of. Taken...
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    Re: Jason Lane Dry Plate

    Ihagee Patent Duplex 720 (9x12), made c.1925; Meyer Gorlitz Doppel-Anastigmat Veraplan f4.5 / 135mm; Jason Lane Dry Plate 2 ASA

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    Re: Jason Lane Dry Plate

    Here's a trial picture taken with that combination of Pacemaker Speed Graphic & adapted filmpack: Jason Lane 4x5 2 ASA dry plate, developed in HC110.

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    Re: Jason Lane Dry Plate

    I have managed to adapt extremely easylly a 4x5 film pack holder for my Speed Graphic. I've just made a cheap "filler" with a couple of layers of black foamcore. It blocks the light that should enter...
  31. Re: How to properly use a Goerz Ango (Anschütz) camera?

    Wow, I had forgotten that thread, about the Goerz Anschütz (Ango) and it's shutter. It took me a while, but finally I managed to shoot some pictures with my 1/4 plate Goerz Ango. It works...
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    Re: February portraits

    Jason Lane Dry Plate, 2 ASA, on a Ihagee Patent Duplex 720; Meyer Görlitz Doppel-Anastigmat Veraplan f4.5 / 135mm lens. Developed in HC110.

    Even with a 2 ASA dry plate and without tripod, I...
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    Re: February portraits

    My first 18x24 portrait, using a Soviet FK made in Leningrad by GOMZ in 1960; the film is also Soviet, Foto-65 by Smeva, expired in 1981!!
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    Re: how old are we?

    46 this last december
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    Re: Post your churches

    impressive atmosphere and charm. Congratulations
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    Re: November 2019 Portraits

    Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic, No.32 Kodak Anastigmat f4.5 lens, Fomapan 200
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    Re: Show off your Large Format camera!

    A probably German tailboard camera, in 13x18 format. It's lens is a Rodenstock Recti-Aplanat f8 210mm, mounted in an unnamed (but German) roller-blind shutter. The serial number in the lens puts it...
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    Re: Lane "Speed" Plates

    About the 25 ASA dry plates... could you push them to 50 ASA? As somebody tried it? And what should be the developing times & details?

    Thanks
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    That's a wonderful comparison, many thanks. By now I have only minor experiences with cyanotypes & kallitypes, with mixed results. Sun exposure is way unreliable, so I'm in the process of building a...
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    They look gorgeous DaveF. I have done some kallitypes and cyanotypes, with mixed results. As I have not much time left for trials. Most of my problems are subexposed prints, mostly with cyanotypes....
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