Last week, a friend gave me a 4x5 Beseler enlarger (I think an MXT) that was sitting in his shed for a decade. He thought it would be too bulky to transport anywhere to sell. I discovered they're...
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Last week, a friend gave me a 4x5 Beseler enlarger (I think an MXT) that was sitting in his shed for a decade. He thought it would be too bulky to transport anywhere to sell. I discovered they're...
Mine is apparently a DX. (I say "apparently" because I bought it on eBay and decided it was a DX by comparing features, but "DX" does not appear on the camera). It has 300 mm of extension, but...
I recently bought the kind of camera I've wanted since I was a teenager: a 4x5 Wista field camera. I've used press-type cameras for years, but this is the first time I've had the real thing. For it...
I came upon an 85/3.5 Wollensak in a box of my own old camera stuff. It was apparently mostly sold on Ciroflex TLRs. I put it on a lensboard and checked it at infinity on my Speed Graphic, and it...
I have a slightly weirder question. I just bought two 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 Speed Graphics (one for parts), and I seem to like lenses slightly shorter than the long dimension of the format. (My favorite...