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Many, many new-to-large-format YouTubers do this. That, and shoot wide open with extreme tilt to get whacky planes of focus because bokeh.

JOBO solved the problem a decade ago with the 2520 tank and 2509N reels. Not cheap but works well for 6 sheets

It would have been designed for 8x10. I believe Toyo updated the M810 with longer bellos extension specifically fir the 1200mm version.

The Fujinar 250mm (or 25cm) f4.5 lens covers about 286mm. In huge Shanel 5 shutter, or barrel. IN the Shanel 5 shutter they appear to be common on Rittreck View 5x7 cameras (the shutter was made by...

The challenge is that for a 4x10 camera it's the 10 inch dimension that needs to be accommodated. You really need to start with an 8x10 camera.

If you choose a telephoto lens, note that the design severely limits tilts and swings. The long lens barrel and optical design cause mechanical vignetting when the lens is rotated around the shutter...

The Fujinon T 600mm won't cover 8x10, it just covers whole plate 6½x8½ and 5x7 with some movement, but note that tilt and swing are difficult with telephoto lens designs.

Differentiate between a...

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They probably mean an infrared light source, or an extremely deep, barely-visible red. More likely it's a translation error.

Some panchromatic film data sheets allow for use under a deep green...

It's good that car makers do that, otherwise there would be half the number of lanes at the gas station to fill up on. Fun fact: the little picture of the gas pump on the dash indicates the side of...

A dry cabinet would be ideal but air-tight food storage boxes, a humidity indicator strip, and a couple of bags of desiccant also get the job done and scale well. If storing in the camera bag I keep...

That lens has an image circle 141mm, will not cover 4x5 (152mm) at infinity.

That's probably dichroic fog which can look like image reversal. Probably exhausted fixer, or used fix with dissolved metallic silver that's precipitating out (causing the dichroic fog). Try...

ALL colour commercial work was photographed in reversal (slide) film. That's what the printing industry required. The only pro photographers that used colour negative film were wedding and portrait,...

The wd40 washed off the protective layer of oil. Next tine clean with wd40 then wipe with light machine oil.

The thing to understand about rust is that the iron-oxide molecule is larger than the metallic iron so it breaks the crystal lattice and becomes mechanically weak, which exposes fresh iron underneath...

Unexposed developed reversal film will be Dmax black.

I use a JOBO 2552 tank (actually a Chinese copy made by Poilot) and a Poilot reel, which is similar to reels made by Catlabs and others. The reel holds six sheets, can be fiddly to load (they all...

I've bought a Rittreck View that had Dymo tape with "STUDIO 2" written on it. I've also read that they were favoured by commercial street portrait photographers around tourist spots in Japan.

Note...

Hmmmph. REAL photographers do it in water from Homebush Bay.

(The suburb of Rhodes, adjacent to Homebush Bay, was an industrial area that included many chemical factories like Union Carbide, where...

A lot depends on the amount of movement you require, and how wide you want. Before you get too carried away with wide, consider whether your camera bellows will compress and if it does, whether the...

Given the lens isn't in the correct shutter I'd recommend returning for a refund and getting one that is in the right shutter and mounted on the right lens board. Futzing around getting apertures...

Before buying the lens, get in touch with a repair person familiar with Copal 1 shutters and get an estimate for a CLA.

Why not use UV LEDs? They generate a lot less heat, use a lot less energy. Probably cheaper too.

Thanks Mark, I will henceforth refer to cos^N falloff. :)

A tip with the Seiko shutters, particularly the 0: do NOT try to open the blades with the shutter uncocked, and never apply much force. The opening lever (dunno its proper name) has a small pin...

Thanks, I appreciate the correction. (I will update the original post.)

The older version has a large image, and stopped down to f32-f45 it covers but the lens really needs to be carefully centred. The significant cos4 cos^3 (theta) cos^N vignetting (due to the short...

The SW 105mm is one of the few lenses where the image circle specs are the same for both old and new versions. For most other lenses the old versions have more coverage, often significantly more.

Was it listed recently? I may have seen that... mounted on a Graphic board, the shutter release lever had a small pin fitted into it to connect to mechanisms on the camera body.

Most modern 90mm...

Toyo cameras are superb but the original bellows are always full of pinholes, even old stock never opened NIB. Chinese replacement bellows are reasonable priced.

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Most modern 90mm lenses cover 5x7 and give a very wide angle of view (about 20mm FFE). Because they are a common wide lens for 4x5 they are abundant and cheap. Given the choice, a lens with a larger...

This is for the writing-on-the-front single-coated lenses. The later writing-on-the-barrel multi-coated lenses are all in Copal shutters.

I have two writing-on-the-front single-coated 180mm...

It's basically just a mirror.

I assume your interest in reflex viewers is with regard to large format cameras: a reflex viewer will make the image upright but the image becomes laterally...

Most metal Wista 45 cameras have graflok backs, but this does not.

The single-coated Fujinon W 180mm f5.6 lens also just covers 8x10 (the Copal shutter version seems to have ~5mm more circle than the Seiko shutter version). A little bit wider, a lot cheaper, easier...

Remember also that 8x10 negatives projected to 8x10 paper will be 1:1 so there will be a 2-stop bellows factor; enlarging to something like 16x20 will still probably be 1 stop which is why those...

Jobo 2550 tank and Catlabs reel, or the Poilot (Chinese) equivalent of both will process 3 sheets of 8x10.

The Nikkor SW 120mm is really, really, really short, the equivalent of 18mm on full-frame 35mm. It barely covers 8x10 and you'll probably end up with the front bed of the Intrepid occupying most of...