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I'd go to a "stock photo" website, where there will be a wide variety of high quality images by numerous photographers, with most of the photos conventionally composed, each of which can be easily...

The only view camera photographers who use blankets rather than the BTZS focus cloths are those who have never spent the $60 and tried the BTZS.

I gave up a long time ago on those who say...

It depends on what you're shooting, but "uncorrected" verticals in closeup work can look worse than they do for buildings (partly because we're more used to seeing uncorrected building photos than...

Don't know about Arca Swiss, but with any recent Sinar, any Sinar bellows (bag or regular) easily clips onto the back standard for viewing purposes. It works fine, although obviously there's no ...

Sorin,

Do you want a "rotating" back or simply one that can be removed and changed from/to landscape/portrait mode? Few cameras being discussed here have the former; most have the latter.
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Although each of the four major brands (Fuji, Nikkor, Rodenstock, and Schneider) has its partisans, most photographers agree that it's difficult to generalize about entire brands. The differences...

If you're contact printing 8x10, grain is not a matter. If you enlarge any format large enough, it is of course a matter. But because you have to enlarge 8x10 film quite a ways before grain is a...

...but you can guarantee yourself prints that are perfectly free of specks, hairs, lint, dust, etc. if you use Readyloads or Quickloads...

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Yes, Sal, you're right about Ansel endorsing the need for true shades. I probably had St. Edward in mind more than St. Ansel (the latter of whom obviously could make do with a hat on occasion but...

Several of the above respondents have implied that you only need to worry about blocking light from a point source (like the sun). But every test I've ever seen shows that image quality is degraded...

From Christopherf Burkett's "Intimations of Paradise":

"I print all of my own work, spending ten or more months every year in the darkroom. . . . There are many subtle and important decisions ...

I'd say it depends on the size of the print, the nature of the friendship, and the degree to which you can do prep work yourself.

If it were me (I have no framing/mat-cutting capabilities) I'd go...

Hope you've got deep pockets, Rob. The last I heard full-sized Gurskys were starting at $50,000 per (the New Yorker said he only makes six copies of each picture, and he makes about 10 pictures per...

Actually, Wilshire was a legendary "drop tester" for the Graphic View company. Quite the showman, he would drop Graphic View cameras from the roof of the 12-story company headquarters, after which...

Oren, is the Phillips a horizontal-only camera (you have to use tripod head to tilt the camera 90 degrees to shoot verticals) or does it have a revolving back, as I assume the Canham has?
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Garry and Erik, do either of you have a sense for the longest lens that can be used with the bag bellows on the Ebony? That might help Mike justify the bb purchase. I initially shied away from...

Doug, I have no quarrel with anything you say. But I think that, using the Medium-Format Digest as a model, it IS possible to be directly linked to photo.net while still retaining all of the good...

One more correction:

In the first paragraph of my original post I meant, of course, that photo.net is the most visited PHOTO site on the web....

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..."but then again every LF thread that lands over there is one less thread in the information base over here."

Thoughts?

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As I recall, several months ago users of this forum were asked if this site should join photo.net, where there was already a general photography forum, a medium-format forum, and a nature...

Doug,

I've got a lens that makes images that'll knock your socks off. Send me $40 (non-refundable, sorry) for a sample photo and you'll see what I mean. Details after I get your check or money...

It really depends on what works for you. If you find you're never changing the fine focus when you double-check with the loupe, you can just leave on the binocular device. But if you're always...

Oops, bad math (I was thinking 20x30). Guess you could only get 30 of them from a 20x24. So much for that.

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True, Bill, but you could cut 48 of them from one sheet of 20x24!

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Don't know if it's available on video. Some possible leads:

Janet Russek of Scheinbaum & Russek (in Santa Fe) founded the New Mexico Council of Photography, which annually awards the Willard Van ...

I obviously was composing my above response as you were posting your 70%/30% response. I'm surprised to learn that you shoot that much MF (and obviously the Fuji 6x9 wouldn't be a huge difference...

I don't know of any 5x7 metal fields or monorails in the $500 range (which is presumably what you'd have to pay if you're going to stay within the $700-900 figure).

Like Chuck Pere (above), I...

You had me (in your first post), then you lost me (in your second):

"I do not feel like I have to justify, in moral terms, the intent of my artistic endeavors. The artist is not beholden to an...

Of course, it could be Carleton Watkins, too . . . but I've spent far too much time on this already.

(Hmmm. If W.H. Fox Talbot's grand-daughter married Carleton Watkins' son, they COULD have...

The plot thickens....

Just a hunch, but the "Watson" got me thinking about British photographers (it's elementary!). "Albot" sounds like saying "Albert" with a full nose, but could Alex be...

Hmmm. This is suspicious.

1. We've got someone claiming to be "A COLLEGE STUDENT" and yet he/she types the query in all capital letters; I can't believe anyone could make it three months into...

Hi Larry,

If you scroll down this "Q&A" page a ways, there's a wonderful section called "Older Messages." Answers to your questions are there in myriad forms and in different categories, but you...

There has been a ton of discussion of this on www.photo.net/photo; just type in "Xray" in the Search box and you'll find a day's worth of reading.

Basically, though, these two rules can be a...

I don't have any magic answer to offer, but you'll find extensive discussion of such topics if you go to www.photo.net/photo and type

< "getting published" >

in the Search box.

Good luck. ....

Marshall, see the post from Wednesday (titled "Readyload Systems"; it's a few below this thread on the "New Messages" list), where this subject was discussed at some length.

Please note that...

Also, I see someone posed a question about Fortepan 400 in the unmoderated forum of www.photo.net/photo this morning; no answers yet, but we'll see. That prompted me to type in "Fortepan" and...

According to their puerile "ED" ads in View Camera, Forte is distributed in the US by omega.satter.com, "Call 410.374.3250 for dealer referral."

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Guess not.

But do write up a report and post it; I wish this site had more reviews of workshops. . . .

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If you had that many problems with Provia F, perhaps it'd be best for you to buy a box and see if you like it more than you did before. The nearly unanimous praise for this film has been...

. . . luck, and one more note:

Whichever company (Kodak or Fuji) is first to sell rapid loads in the US with color negative film will get a huge market edge. Despite the pleading of countless...