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04-24-2024-01 by Drew Saunders, on Flickr
Elizabeth Gamble Garden, Palo Alto, CA. Ebony 45SU Fuji Fujinar 210mm f/4.5 f/8 1/30"...
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04-24-2024-01 by Drew Saunders, on Flickr
Elizabeth Gamble Garden, Palo Alto, CA. Ebony 45SU Fuji Fujinar 210mm f/4.5 f/8 1/30"...
I was playing with the polarizer to get through the glare, but found the image to be too busy and too boring, so I turned it to maximize glare, and liked the results better:
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When I went to replace the dark slide on this one, I felt it catch on the film. Uh-oh! I just jammed the dark slide harder and hoped for the best, and when I removed the holder, didn't see the film...
Sadly, Ebony Camera's website went offline when they shut down, but here's an archive of their "Lens Compatibility Table"...
Adox/Fotoimpex states a 6 month shelf life after it's been opened: https://www.fotoimpex.com/shop/images/products/media/56415_4_PDF-Datenblatt.pdf
The Tachihara uses the extremely common Linhof Technika sized 96x99mm lensboard. It's probably the most commonly used lensboard in LF, with the Sinar size the 2nd most common. There are lots of...
You can get a 62mm lens to Bay 60 step down ring. B&H sells a Heliopan one for $95.
Then you need a 60mm to 62mm step up ring. Those should be cheaper and plentiful.
I don't see any 60mm to Bay 60...
Really big lily (Cala lily? I should probably check the labels on the plants!) at the Elizabeth Gamble Garden in Palo Alto, California:
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This one is a double mistake. First, I used the 2-stop ND filter on my Imagon when I probably would have been better off without it, so it's about 2 stops under-exposed. Then, I didn't know that Adox...
I've not been shooting much this year, but I did get 12 exposed sheets between April and early June, so I developed them all at once in nearly expired Adox Rodinal, so they're all thin, but I was...
Many of your equations are here: https://www.kennethleegallery.com/html/tech/bellows.php
So, with 40x50", a 4x life size image will give you a subject size of 1/4 your plate size, or 12.5x10",...
It shows up for a few seconds early in this video: https://youtu.be/iMjqL4aDgXc
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I was watching a YouTube video and spotted an interesting Jobo tank compatible drum rotator that looks like it might be a pretty decent, not so huge, alternative to ancient used rotating bases or the...
Yes, you have a flange, instead of a retaining ring. See https://skgrimes.com/products/mounting-flanges/ for an explanation.
In theory, with one lensboard and a flange, you could have multiple...
Here's an interview with an artist who uses AI to initiate her images and calls her work "synthography."...
What do you mean by "portrait"? With a roughly 5x7" sheet of film (I know the actual image is smaller), a tight head shot might be a 1/2 life size, or almost 10x14" subject. Maybe 1/3 life size for...
The last few times I’ve done this, both at home (2009 intel iMac to 2019 intel iMac) and at work (2108 intel iMac that died 4 days after the extended warranty that my employer paid for! To a 2021 M1...
My Flickr link is in my signature, but I noticed that Tapatalk doesn't show signatures, so:
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The two gardens I reference are at...
253 images from 2008, I certainly appreciate it!
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Things to do while in a boring zoom meeting where people can't tell that you're not looking at the laptop camera:
I looked at the 36 LF images (all 4x5) that I uploaded to Flickr from 2022 (I...
I don't know if Chamonix has a manual, but Ebony made one for asymmetrical rear movements. Here's an archived copy of it:...
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08-09-2022-02 by Drew Saunders, on Flickr
Elizabeth Gamble Garden, Palo Alto, California. Rose "Chrysler Imperial." Ebony 45SU 4x5,...
I got my 2019 iMac to talk to my Firewire 400 Nikon Coolscan 9000 by:
Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter
Thunderbolt 2 to Firewire 800 adapter
Firewire 800 at one end, 400 at the other...
I’d recommend putting the lens back onto the flange, then marking the lensboard where the middle of the Ilex diamond is. Remove the lens and mark the flange at the same spot as the mark you made....
I have the stainless steel 120 reel for my 1500 series tanks, and somehow my Monday Afternoon brain remembered that they're currently made by Hewes. Not cheap, try to find some used ones, as they're...
There’s a 180/4.5 Fujinar on eBay right now for a good price. It’s in an older Copal 3 shutter, which is going to be easier to mount and service than an older shutter. I have four single-coated...
Plain Xenar (Tessar clone), not a telephoto design. Look for a 180 f/4.5. The more common tele-xenar is a f/5.5
Here’s some photos of one:...
I have a 180 Xenar that I bought in 2011 and haven't used as much as I'd like. I asked my home machinist friend Milt (who builds his own hot rods) to drill out my lensboard to fit the #2 sized hole,...
I did:
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OK, two more with the Imagon at the Arizona Cactus Garden at Stanford.
The first is without the disk, wide open at f/5.6-ish, which I think works out pretty well, but may be a bit too soft. I did...
And now for the last two:
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A few weeks ago, I took the 250mm Fujinar (single coated Tessar copy) and 250mm Imagon with me to the Arizona Cactus Garden at Stanford, with 3 holders of Rollei RPX 25, and shot the same composition...
Back in 2010, I was able to photograph with my 4x5 inside the Mission San Carlos Borromeo, in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.
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Yesterday I rode a small part of the Windy Hill preserve in Woodside on my road bike with 28mm slicks (because any bike is a mountain bike if you lack sufficient common sense...) and the Midpeninsula...
According to this: http://linhof.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/linhof_master_technika_e.pdf
Your Master Technica can go up to 430mm of bellows. I presume that's with the rear bellows behind the...
Just a sprinkle of (much needed) rain made for some nice droplet photos of the wisteria in my apartments micro back "yard." Fuji X-E3 and my new toy, the Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x macro (as in it'll go to...
Review, with benchmarks, for both Max and Ultra: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/mac-studio-review-a-nearly-perfect-workhorse-mac/
Do you want to shoot wide open only, all the time? Can you get a Sinar shutter or similar on your camera (might require getting a Sinar camera)? If so, then slide projector lenses might work for you....
There were a handful of rumors about a "bigger mini" for a while, and a couple of days ago a pretty good rumor about something to be called "Studio" that was this "taller mini," but nothing on the...
I guess I'm old enough to remember how to do math with fractions, so I compare along the approximate diagonal (43.3mm vs 154mm) by multiplying by 2/7 or 7/2, depending on which direction I'm...