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Should be no problem. Folk wisdom has it that you'll be using the "sweet spot" or highest-resolution center of the 210mm lens's coverage.
Someone else (who knows it) can post the formula that will...

I'd look up the work of Adam Clark Vroman. There are at least two books of his fine photographs, one published by Aperture.
There is a whole industry around the photographs of Edward Sheriff Curtis...

Truly "industrial-strength".

And somewhere out there are the front groups of those two mysteries...

Welcome! And don't be afraid to share your pictures, when you have them.

Fred Picker (who made and sold the Zone VI folding field cameras) advocated for practicing your setup procedures a hundred? times without actually making a picture. So when you had to move fast you'd...

i've been using TF-5 for film and paper for a while now. It works very well, doesn't stink, and my FP4+ negatives developed in Pyrocat have a definite "imagewise" stain. I also use a citric acid stop...

Here's how I understand it; Schneider purchased the Goerz name in the early 1970s. They kept the Artar lenses and discontinued their (very similar) Repro-Claron line. They also made various Dagors in...

I've long used acrylic for glazing, for the obvious reasons; the weight and fragility of glass. There are several museum-quality, UV-protectant types.

I've seen this. Probably due to a slow wi-fi; it doesn't happen when I am physically close to the router. My antique MacBook probably doesn't help, either.

Looks interesting.
But be aware that the algorithm is watching all the time. Yesterday I clicked on the link, examined the book's description, and left the site.
So far today in my FB feed, there...

Welcome aboard, sir!

If you want to shoot subjects directly overhead, perhaps a 45-degree prism might answer.
In the before times, there were devices like the Spiratone "Circo-Mirro-Tach" that threaded into the filter...

Three or four years ago I saw them testing the 747 tanker. It was noticeable overhead for its size (no commercial carriers fly 747s into Tucson), slow flight, and unusual flight patterns. Those are...

I too wondered about using jetliners as air tankers. But the old veteran prop jobs are aging out, and some years ago the gov't outlawed the WW2 veteran aircraft after one crashed. People who know...

Many, if not most, older LF lenses do not have their lens barrels made to fit the modern filter sizes. The threads on the inside of the barrel are only there to assemble the lens.
Brian Shaw has...

Welcome! I have only seen Wales from the other side of the Bristol Channel, 25 years ago. I'd like to visit there someday. Perhaps in the meantime you'll share some of your photographs?

Three things-
1) the leaf shutters for view cameras "almost never" are accurate at their highest marked speeds. If the top speed is important, the best you can do is get the shutter adjusted, and...

Since Mr. Watkins' studio, containing most of his photographs (and presumably records) was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, you may have great difficulty finding much more information....

One wonders, as one does, what the Marine Corps wanted an 11x14 field camera for.
And have any of the photographs made with those impressive cameras survived?

Deepblue, very nice. Keep up the good work.

I recall seeing a show of the Becher's work, probably at the George Eastman House, back in the '90s. letchhausen's idea about seeing their work as a whole is a good one. I find their work...

Well done, sir. I've always admired those cameras, and came close to owning one once. Maybe someday!

A long time ago (late 1980s) we had a D3 at work, along with several other types of Omegas. We were able to use the D3 with a medium length cone and a 135mm lens to enlarge 4x5 negatives. I do recall...

Pro Copy 4125 was invented specifically to make copy negatives from B/W photographs. I must have used thousands of sheets in my photo lab days. It did its job well, but it was not easy to get the...

It could be that Mr. Sexton has considered that many of his watchers do not speak English as their first language.
Speaking slowly and clearly never hurts with comprehension... it wouldn't help if...

Unusually seen and very nicely done, if a bit vertigo-inducing.

When I bought my first view camera, in 1982, I had no idea that Deardorff was still in business. I'd seen the cameras in the studios of commercial photographers that I'd worked for, but never thought...

Sounds like you're having fun. I look forward to (eventually) seeing your photos from this trip.

You have a local camera repairman? Lucky you. But if you have to send it out, Mr. Ritter is your man.

If nothing else, a 19" lens has little inherent depth-of-field. So you'll likely need a smaller aperture than with a shorter f.l. lens.
Camera movements for d-o-f, well, you're just going to have...

"Why are we here?"
A question from the dawn of human consciousness, still being asked.
There are almost as many answers as questioners.

I'm a member of this forum because I've been making...

FWIW, I develop in trays and my usual time is 10.5 minutes @ 68F. I can (but often don't) process 12 sheets of 4x5 in an 8x10 tray with 2L of Pyrocat-HD.
That said, if your shadows seem too deep,...

It's worth mentioning that Rodinal was never meant to be used with fast films. In fact when it was introduced (in the 1890s?) there was no such thing as "fast film" and enlarging was a rarity. So it...

If you want to bring back a long-gone paper, I'd talk to Paula Chamlee. She and her late husband, Michael A. Smith, devoted a great deal of effort (and no doubt a small fortune) to make their...

Looks like a pretty successful answer to a difficult technical problem. Congratulations!

Goers Artars are very sharp lenses with slightly lower contrast than lenses made in the last 40 years. They cover about 45 degrees- so this lens will work well on 4x5, might cover 5x7. A Packard...

You won't be using the lens wide open, I imagine. So the fungus around the edge should have no visible effect. The scratch? In such a no-flare situation I think you'd never see any evidence of it.

Congratulations Roger, you've found a Volvo 1800 that looks even worse than my own car. No small accomplishment!

Sad to see that poor carcass of a BMW 2000CS- perhaps the most rust-prone vehicle of all time. I think the graffiti in photo #2 was tagged by the BMW's owner, who had been sold the car as an "easy...