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Good work, Jon. I like the restraint with the color versions.

Terrific photos, Scott!

Great job!

Yes, you have to get the diffusion right for a given print enlargement, and it likely means stopping down a bit more for bigger enlargements....

And you don't have to follow "The Rules". Hurrell...

Thanks, Les! I'd driven by the entrance to this place a number of times. I had no idea how immense it was, and how much was back there. There are miles of narrow roads on the property.

Aiden,

That's great! If it were me, I'd spend a good amount of time using the Prinz. I'm planning on using a longer lens in the same series for portraits with an 8x10. Have fun!

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Thanks, Jon.

I have a little bit of experience with diffusion filters....getting the right one is hard! Different systems, different lighting, and, especially, different enlargement factors will have a huge...

This is about a 40 minute drive west of here. It's part of the Green Lake Conference Center, https://www.glcc.org/index.html ,which is really strange. The barn is on the same (huge!) property. I'd...

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They are hard to focus, and, yes, I've read and tried all of the suggestions here over the years. The lens is also less versatile than, say, a Xenar. LF is hard enough for a beginner....

All great lenses.....except for the Fujinon SF.....but are some of these good for someone starting out? I have a couple of Imagons, for example, and they're great, but they're much harder to use...

Not for me.



Only if you use the strainer disk, which you don't have to do.

That's one of the few lenses that I really dislike, and my Ebay moniker is 'fujinon'. It's not sharp, and it's not really soft.

Note that 180mm and 210mm lenses are very similar, but 210s are much more common, and thus maybe cheaper.

Look for a lens in the right board. Given your camera, you should be able to do that. If not, you'll have to buy a board with the right-sized hole, or have a blank board drilled.

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Don't stress over this. Take a look and find what seems like the best fit. There are no guarantees with anything that you buy that it will be The One. Get one in a good shutter with the flash sync...

I've had Richard do it a couple of times over the years, and he would be my first choice, but I expect that anyone capable of calibrating a Pentax Digital Meter should be able to do it.

I use an old golf bag dolly.

John,

Great story! The link to your site didn't work for me. I get a "404 Not Found" error. I tried Chrome and Firefox.

Yes!

And vibration.....

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All Souls Parish Church, Berlin, WI

An old version of my setup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmRHTausFls

Daniel's version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXy7RJwIBAo&t=0s

I don't see any reason why it won't work. Whatever you go with, there will always be something better (and likely more expensive or inconvenient) that you could've done. "Perfection is the enemy of...

That's great! I hope it works out for you.

Speaking as someone who's done a lot of work on digital camera scanning.....the stability and alignment needs for scanning are much higher than for traditional copy stand work.

Sorry. I mean the piece that you're showing with an added extension rail.

Something to think about: https://petapixel.com/2022/06/11/how-to-build-a-diy-t-rex-stand-for-macro-photography/?fbclid=IwAR0-j08owoyuTI4n5ijScvukUAImdUsPq4KZ_fjOlSUoiUb5049JMYqdtFw

I have lots of...

Good work, Jon!

I was last in Brussels in...1977. :)

Looking good, Jon! That was my main wide angle lens from about 1994-2021. I had to retire mine as it stopped focusing. Otherwise, I'd still be using it.

Welcome, Sergio!

That's got a 'war of the worlds' vibe. Neat! Do you know what it's meant to contain?

Great job, Randy!

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Thanks, Jon!

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