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Looks good! I ordered on that I intend to use on wildlife, especially turtles. After I have set up the camera, which will spook them off their log, I can retreat and wait for them to return for...

Sounds a lot like the old Kodak Royal X Pan film. Kodak rated it at 1200 in 4X5. I used some in the 80s and after testing rated at 1200 processed in Diafine. Base fog was very high but it printed...

I think you would then want the original design as well . I don't think you would like the shorter one for most studio and urban work.

Here is one I made from wet suit neoprene. I first made one for my 8X10 Deardorff held on by Velcro and then for my Toyo 810M, glued to a plywood frame that attaches like a Toyo accessory.
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My largest format has been 8X10. Ever since I started 8X10 in 1986, I have made enlargements from various self-made rigs and Beseler mods to the late production Beseler I use now. I like to print...

That is not a revolving back. It will not fit on a Technika.

My Master Technika came new with a 150mm Symmar-S in a recessed board so it could fold in the case. Perhaps the later 150 Sironar N could fold on a flat board. Bob Salomon would have the answer. I...

Anette,

You are embarked on a great photographic adventure and will surely learn a great deal about equipment (tool) selection. You asked about putting the 150 on a flat board for easier release...

A 270 tele is nice focused on the ground glass of a view camera when you get even closer, or even with a Technika which has plenty of bellows.

Maybe someone can show some close portraits made with a Technika on 4X5 with a lens of 210mm or longer using the cam-coupled RF and the multi-focus finder, on or off a tripod, I'd like to see them...

Here's how you can make some nice head and shoulder compositions with the Master Technika. Get a Super Rolex Back for 6X9 on 120 film. Your 150 becomes a portrait length, and a 90mm or 100mm your...

Range finder press and view cameras like the Technika, Graphic and others, do not have focus on the back, so they are awkward to use for close portraits with ground glass focusing and composition. ...

I don't like Fresnels either, especially with wide lenses. I found a type of gray plastic material in a large hobby store used for model railroads that is the exact thickness required to shim a...

[/QUOTE]One option for you is to install Linux and run Gimp. I haven't looked into the suitability of Gimp for working on scanned photographs, but it has a good reputation generally, and an active,...

Yes, his work is outstanding.

Karl Blossfeld's work is remarkable. His sense of pattern recognition was highly developed. Another of my favorites is Andreas Feininger, who produced In a Grain of Sand: Exploring Design by Nature,...

Here's a vintage Toyo field camera that I like a lot now after a few mods. In that era, Toyo wisely chose to use the Pacemaker Graphic lens board, but I did not like the mechanics of the 4X5...

Here is a TRF Crown Graphic, cam-coupled to lenses from 58mm to 360mm telephoto. Shown here set up for "Big Shot" and two full frame 4X5s. Amanda with her horse Bullet, 210mm Nikkor W and Maria...

I made a similar camera from a Linhof view standard, putting the back on one side and a reducing lensboard with the Technika wide angle focus device on the front and a 58 Rodenstock that just clipped...

In 1975, I studied the Sinar Photo Know How course, and I know it set me on the right path to learn and use view camera capabilities. Somewhere the book was lost over the years. Recently, I bought...

Now if you buy any top of the line camera body from Fujifilm, it can send files by bluetooth to your printer. Of course they will only be the printer resolution. Once you get the Lomograflok, you...

Dynalite went to Pocket Wizzard radio because so many new cameras were using IR pulses for focus and other features which would interfere with the Wein IR sync pulse. Prior to this development, Wein ...

That looks good. One of my most used tripods is a Benbo2 on which I shortened the center column. One end of the column has the factory 3/8" stud, the other end I modified with a mild steed sleeve...

Indie Film Lab in Montgomery Alabama has one of those Hasselblad scanners and can make you a beautiful hi-res scan, ready for printing at a very reasonable price. They can also scan your 6X9s on a...

Wasn't that dust-off spray Omit once claimed to prevent oxidation of chemicals. Now I remember, that stuff was Freon. Probably long removed from the market. Maybe the new AC gas they sell in...

Eager to get some of my Graphic-mounted lenses up on the RIT surplus P2 I bought from Robert's, I began cutting down and configuring a Toyo flat Graphic adapter board to fit, a lot of work, but it is...

I have had a lot of experience photographing people in all situations with hand-held press and view cameras and I have also used FujiFilm digital cameras since the early 2000s. Graflex actually...

I never had a temperature-controlled tank line, just Cescolite plastic 4X5 tanks and Kodak hangers. I kept the lab at 68* in winter and 75* in warmer months.

I abandoned tanks and hangers for tray development in the 80s. I found that the hangers were acting like radiators around the edges of the film affecting developer temperature and activity, causing...

For many years, I used a Soviet-era 2cm finder that had parallax correction on 8X10 with 120mm lens and 4X5 with a 65mm. I sold it with a TRF Crown I had set up cam-coupled to the 65mm f8 Fujinon...

I started going to these shows in Boston in the 80s. They were then being run by Russell Norton, who also had them in NYC and Washington DC. There were shows strictly limited to antique images and...

I posted this information on the Business thread because I will be at this show and have space I could share with another photographer in the Northern Virginia area. For anyone else, these are good...

I have two tables reserved and paid for for Mary Martin's March 13th show at Dulles. I have always done well and learned a great deal at these shows. Now, vintage equipment is allowed along with...

Check out the Sinar stuff that Robert's has. All very nice P2 4X5 cameras and accessories from Rochester Institute of Technology. You can buy Sinar bellows, viewers, lenses, which will all fit your...

I run Ubuntu Studio, and Firefox with Duck Duck Go. on my computers. I noticed that warning a few days ago but I could go ahead and connect. I know traffic has been way down so I tried my iPhone...

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These are some of my favorite images from my early attempts with a 35mm camera, a Nikon F with 58mm 1.2 lens.
Wryk and Stevenson, on watch in forward engine room, USS Tiru SS416,...

Dynatect will make a bellows here in the US to the same specs as Nabel at a more favorable price. All synthetic, two layers with synthetic stiffeners, no cardboard, very thin and waterproof. Send...

Here is the Ghostmaster patent, now expired which explains construction and operation. When I started producing them, I adjusted the value of certain components and when I offered kits on this...

Those 10,000 lumen LEDs that are offered for pre-order are only $25. You won't be charged until the lights are shipped. B&H does business the same way.

Faith and belief have nothing to offer science which could be at the service of the biosphere rather than the self-destructive folly that prevails now.