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If it is glue on the rotary switches, it is strong stuff. I have a 450 which I tried to work on. I tried pull one of the rotary switch handles off and ended up breaking the post off.

-Darren

Press release today from the US Forest service "Forest Service Temporarily Closes Southern California National Forests, Adds Prohibitions in Others": ...

Wouldn't this thread be better in another forum here like "Image Sharing (LF) & Discussion" or "Resources"?

Even mistakes can become art. See Chris McCaw's Sunburn work. https://www.chrismccaw.com/sunburn

I remember seeing a video of him taking a day shot with one of his home built ULF cameras with...

Yesterday there was a mountain lion sighting in San Francisco near Russian Hill

https://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/article/Video-mountain-lion-wandering-in-San-Francisco-15344437.php

-Darren

actually, the Mamiya dual cable release would allow you to lift the mirror and then fire the shutter. You would just need to figure out the best way to go from the open shutter to close before you...

The Lomo suggestion was more along the lines using it with a small format camera (handhold) over an RB.

I had the same idea about using a Petzval on a RB; a while ago I acquired a 6" Darlot lens...

What size lens are you thinking? Would it be something you could use the shutter out of an existing RB lens? If you go with an external shutter, what where your plans on mounting it to the RB?

I...

Staring at me right in the face; I don't know how I missed that. thanks for pointing it out!

-Darren

I looked the other day and found the rules in less than 10 minutes under the FAQ at https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/faq.php?faq=vb_faq

Where did you look? I did a quick google...

IKeep an eye out for the WD externals hard drives Currently when they go on sale the 12tb ones are like ~$185. 10tb version go for around $140-160, 8tb for around $120~130, and the 14tb for around...

I just checked in the book "OverExposure: Health Hazards in Photography" by Susan Shaw, 1983, and here is what is listed for potassium ferricyanide (Farmer's reducer):



Potassium ferrocyanide...

I was told there was a little bit that comes off when removing it from the contact glass and "don't put your nose by the print" when you check or remove the print. We were printing in the sun so...

There are several companies who sell precoated cynotype paper. do a search for "sun print" on on amazon to get a list. there is one from UC Berkeley for ~$8 that includes 15 20x30cm sheets. i doubt...

Instead of trying to scale down a 4x5 camera, have you thought of looking at some 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 cameras and seeing if it would be easier to scale it up?

-Darren

Another article: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Cupertino-park-closes-child-mountain-lion-injury-15061367.php

This park is in Cupertino which is a bit away from Santa Cruz. There are plenty...

It was standing room only. Great presentation of some of his work and some stories behind them.

-Darren

Some lenses to consider keeping an eye out for. When they show up they are often in a Wollensak Alphax or Betax shutter. Not modern but I've found them to be fairly decent shutters.

Wollensak...

I enjoy the grove on the bluffs at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve.

-Darren

DoWhat are the measurements of the threads on the lens cells? Can you also measure the thickness of the old shutter where the elements screw in?

-Darren

I was not the winner. I am not surprised that ebay has done what it can to hide the true sell value. Thanks for the update.

-Darren

Kalosat IB with original box but without flange.

BIN at $3000 USD. Item 292324365334

Inciweb page on the Mission fire: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5588/

-Darren

I believe Firefox considers user passwords as sensitive data.

-Darren

I find the new rules for the FS section fine. I am a little disappointed at the number of replies to this thread in comparison to the rest of the sub-forums I subscribe to here.

As a reminder to...

Betax 5 is the shutter and size. What is the maximum aperture of this lens? That would help determine what series it is and what coverage it has. It should be able to do at least 8x10".

-Darren

How does one close their own thread? I looked at some of my (really) old threads and I don't see an option to do that. Is that something that is going to be turned on during the maintenance?
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I have what I think is a Linhof Standard 9x12cm. SN:13644 There are no back movements. Front movements include horizontal and vertical shift and you can tilt the top of the lens back. There are...

I have seen a lot of Alphax #3 shutters that had f/3.5 apertures (from oscilloscope?) I want to say those were for 75mm lenses so the scale is probably way off. I have a Series III f/9.5 in an...

I was up at Lee Vining / Mono Lake this past weekend. I took Sonora Pass over and did not see any color on the west side until around 9000' though there was color down to ~8000' on the east side. ...

Some more information about the butte fire can be found at yubanet.com.

Wasn't there an old store or something in the foothills which had steel doors to protect the inside from fires?

-Darren

Are you sure it is an f/4? All the Velostigmat Series II lenses I have seen are f/4.5.



I was lucky enough to find one mounted in a BetaX #4 shutter. The Alphax #4 is the same size so that...

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Wollensak Series II f/4.5 15.5" with diffusion ring in studio shutter (missing piston). quite a bit of missing paint. $535. item: 141492433501

yup, i just checked and no longer see those warning messages. Thanks!

-Darren

i'm seeing the following errors at the top of the page (above everything else) when I go to the advanced search page at http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/search.php



The form below...

Bausch and Lomb 12" F5 Portrait lens $371.66 item #131299128082

This lens does not appear to have the diffusion ring.

-Darren

I don't see it at InciWeb but I did find some information about the fire at http://yubanet.com/CAFires/El_Portal.php

Also, from http://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm:

This thread is to track sale prices of lenses that were designed to be soft focus. Auctions or sale offers that ended with no buyer are excluded since they do not indicate what people are willing to...