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    Re: Condoms For Tripods

    I use a wood tripod and never had a problem in the rain or snow with the legs getting water inside and freezing. Also no problems using it in swamps and rivers where there is sand and dirt that could...
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    Re: Best 8x10 camera for ultra-wide angle?

    A custom built camera.
    It has short rails. The front focus and the back can be reposition on the rear rail. This would keep the front and rear rail out of the image.
    Bellow would be both pleated...
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    Re: Early Zone VI Field Camera

    Most of the early made cameras have been burned as fire wood. There were about 100 made.
    The bulk of the cameras made you can take camera number 500 and number 750 and number 3000. Take then apart...
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    Re: Benzotriazole Questions

    Fred said one ounce working strength (1%) to one quart of working developer.

    You can use up to 8 ounces to 1 quart of developer. You will want to lengthen the time in the developer. and you may...
  5. Re: My New Antique Lens: A Question About Screws

    You could use the lens as is. Do the focusing with the camera. The reason there is a rack and pinion on the lens, it was used on a box camera that had no focusing.
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    Re: Resource for Brass Lens Era Screws?

    Last time I needed those screws I had to make them.
  7. Re: Who's still repairing Deardorff cameras in 2023?

    Just send the back.
    shipping info http://www.lg4mat.net/mail.html
  8. Re: Metal field cameras - what was the niche?

    I work all winter using a Zone VI camera and wear gloves all the time.
    When the final design was being done on the Zone VI camera it was winter time and Fred had me get a set of bigger knobs that...
  9. Re: Metal field cameras - what was the niche?

    Metal cameras in the winter time is a bad choice. Here in New England the temps get down below Zero. The best ice is found at a temp around o degrees. Problem with metal camera you can not work the...
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    Re: 10 x 12 film actual size

    The maximum size would be 10 x 12. Films are cut a bit under size. So the size would be around 9 31/32 x 11 31/32 and as small as 9 15/16 x 11 15/16.
  11. Re: Wood Field Camera Repair Question: How to remove the focus knob on the Pinion?

    Knob is probably put on with a locking compound Like LokTight. Plus it is tighten up against the end of threads
    One of two things may happen when you go to twist the knob off.
    1 It comes off.
    2...
  12. Re: Can a ground glass substitute for Anti-Newton-Ring Glass?

    Over the years of printing in the same darkroom I have found that I would have problems with Newton rings and then go for months with out any problems. Winter time was the problem time. the dark room...
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    Re: New spot meter - Pentax VI scale

    Since the last time a Zone VI zone dial was sold would be 17 years ago I would say the dial just got darker with age. It is only a aid. The true zone color was never right.

    As far as being...
  14. Re: Zone VI variable contrast cold light head

    Only one problem. Some of the parts in the head had the marking removed . I reached out the the people who were building the units a few years ago and was told they no longer had any info on the...
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    Re: Zone VI camera

    The light weight was build in Vermont. Calumet just used aluminum instead of brass. It made the camera about 1 1/2 pounds lighter.
  16. Re: Instructions for Zone VI print washer ??

    To save water This came from a customer in CA back in the 80"s when they had water woos.
    Fill
    Run 10 minutes
    Let sit 45 minutes with no running water.
    Drain half way down by removing bottom drain...
  17. Re: Refinished LF Wood Camera 'coating' Melting

    There is part of the problem.

    Weather may have played a part. If it was sprayed in heat over 85 degrees the surface flash drys. Leading the person to put a second and third coat on before the...
  18. Re: Calibrating Pentax Digital 1 Deg. Zone VI Modified Meter

    When I calibrate modified meters I check the filters, they sometimes fail due to age and the conditions they are used in.
  19. Re: Which paper is closest to graded Brilliant (Guillemot version).

    Before Calumet bought Zone VI we would buy the whole production run of the paper all grades. When Calumet took over they went to R. Guilleminot and told then they wanted a lower price and smaller...
  20. Re: Henry William Jackson glass negative from NGM 1989/2 , Is it colorful ?

    A friend of mine worked for the USGS. He started in the sixty's when the USGS was in Washington DC. He found the plates in the basement and they were wrapped in newspaper. It was at the time the USGS...
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    Re: Kodak Eastman View 2D: Serial Numbers?

    That is a production number. It is used to match parts up after finishing. It is stamped on all 3 rail parts.
    If it was a serial number there is more then two with the same number.
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    Re: How Many LF Formats Do You Use/Own?

    Do I count cameras that work?
    Do I also count cameras that are in pieces and can be made into cameras?
  23. Re: can't get sharp photos with an LF camera

    Find someone who has a working darkroom or send the negatives to a service that dose darkroom printing.
    Have contact prints made and have one or two enlargements made.
    Compare to the scams and...
  24. Re: can't get sharp photos with an LF camera

    When you made the negatives did you close down the lens?
    If you did there should be a sharp area on the negative. Even if the focusing screen is out of adjustments you will get a shape image on the...
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    Re: Pentax digital spotmeter zone stick

    http://www.largeformatphotography.info/articles/ZoneDial.pdf
  26. Re: How do you clean your ground glass and make it brighter?

    It does over time. You just don't notice it.
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    Re: Deardorff: "New" vs Old?

    The camera made down south had parts made with stainless steel. Deardorffs made in Chicago had no stainless steel. Part were nickel plated.
  28. Re: Zone VI 8x10 Serial # 157 - When made?

    Your camera is from the first run of 8 x 10 cameras. Around 1988.
  29. Re: 8x10 Field Camera which uses Sinar Lensboards?

    A few Wisner camera he did it as a custom charge,
    Deadorff with an adapter board.
    Zone VI 8 x 10 cameras
    Ritter 8 x 10
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    Re: How not to drill a lens board

    I did not do the second board.
    I have a lathe, a milling machine, a drill press and fly cutters.

    The person that made image number2 said he read about doing that way on this forum.
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    How not to drill a lens board

    How not to drill a lens board

    Image 1 is a lens boards properly sized and drilled.

    Image 2 is one where connect the holes was done.

    Image 3 is the first lens board on top of the second.
    ...
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    Re: Wisner 11x14 Question

    Top part get screwed to the body of the camera.
    Second part slides in the part screwed fast to the body. The right hand hole goes to the bottom of the camera. It gets a 3 /16 shaft thru both sides....
  33. Re: Pentax V, three cell meter light adjustment or replacement.

    Yes it will .
  34. Re: Pentax V, three cell meter light adjustment or replacement.

    Pentax stopped supplying parts for this meter in 2007
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    Re: Repair missing broken tenon

    If you want it repaired once and right I would send it to someone who knows what they are doing.
    I have done more repairs to camera that were repaired by someone who did not know what they were...
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    Re: Custom Camera Makers

    Yes send me an e mail off line.

    Richard
  37. Re: How did they blacken the metal stops & caps of the Daguerre era lenses?

    Liver of sulfur,
  38. Re: Deardorff 8x10 lens board mounting problem.

    Your problem could be one of two reasons.
    1 the front was not milled to the proper size I have seem this.
    2 the lens boards is a little over sized and did fit in a different Deardorff but not your...
  39. Re: help identifying a camera and repair suggestion

    You are missing a very important part. It is the base of the front standard. It is an "L" shape part with two "T"post that connect to the metal base.
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    Re: Zone VI Camera Question

    No
    Different front frames
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