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For instance, last week I posted a Leica equipment question and the thread devolved into a debate about a poster's comments being racist.



Ah, Godwin's Law.

Hmmm, looks fine on Mozilla 1.0/win32...

Seeing as I am unemployed for the moment, I will start working now to implement categories and admin features. It shouldn't be too hard.

As before, the biggest problem is importing the...

Well, it's still there and working. I haven't done much to it in recent months (been busy looking for work), but from a user perspective it works just fine. You can see here what remains to be...

I've been a lurker here, and a semi-active participant in the People Photography forum. I was a bit distressed about the prospect of the greenspun servers going away, so I started writing a...

I'm with Ellis: a question this broad deserves an equally broad answer:

http://www.google.com/search? hl=en&q=8x10+polaroid" turns up a few good links...

...as does http://www.goog...

Update: I snagged a 90/4.5 Grandagon (non-N) on eBay for under $500. I think I got the best of all possible worlds, eh?

Thanks for all your help! Man, I love this place.

I'm getting set up to do some architectural work (exteriors and interiors about equally) and I'm looking around at 90mm lenses. Most of what's on the used marke t are Super Angulon f/8 's and f/5.6...

Photographing Buildings Inside and Out By Norman McGrath. (AFAIK one of the bibles in this field)

See this message for what I ended up doing:

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl? msg_id=0033e5

Since I can't find the information in the archives, which model exactly do you have? I'm looking for a case for my C-1... how much room is there to spare with the camera plus film holders? Enough...

for the record: SK Grimes, $15 plus return shipping.

I *did* make trips to a few machine shops here at Columbia (I almost forgot we had a mechanical engineering department) but I had a hell of...

For the archives:

<a target="_blank" href="http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a- fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003xuw">http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a- fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003xuw</a>

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Sean-- I mistyped. It's a Betax #5. (Gundlach 300/4.5)

James-- was it a metal one? This thing feels like cast iron! It's also completely blank, the Betax requires 4 screws as well as the hole,...

Hmmm.. that's very interesting. The B&H reps I've talked to tell me B&H won't/can't do it. The used department did it for you?

Well, it's because: <ul> <li>I don't have a drill press. <li>Even if I did, it's a heavy metal lensboard... <li>...with a VERY large hole to be drilled (betax #2). </ul>

Does anyone know of a good (read: cheap) place to get a lensboard drilled in New York City? My search only yielded one place that would do it, and they wante d $50 for the privilege (Professsional...

For comparison's sake, a Green Monster (quite like the one I am awaiting delivery of):

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&item=512784035

The picture on the bottom has the...

In my search for an affordable 8x10 kit I've come across a number of older plate -type cameras from the turn of the century. Can they be adapted to use standard cut-film holders? Anything I should...

I discovered the coolest little trick today. I have a large (almost 4" diameter) 30cm tele lens in barrel. This means I can't mount my Packard behind the lens ( protrusion behind lens board). I had...

I'll be getting a Packard in about two weeks, but even then I'll have to manufacture a device to mount it in front of the front standard: it's a tele lens, and the rear diameter is 3 1/4", far too...

I've been doing a few portraits with my LF camera, using a 300mm barrel lens wit h polaroid (52) as well as film. I'm discovering now how much I miss the luxury of short shutter speeds I got with...

I was wondering what's involved in mounting a packard shutter to my camera. I ha ve a Calumet CC400, and I'm using a Schneider Xenar 300/4.5. I looked at hubphot o's packard page, and it looks like...

No, the prints were all processed indoors at 70-75 degrees.

I've noticed what appears to be a rather prominent grain pattern on my type 52 p rints. The pattern is similar to what you'd see on an enlarged 35mm print. I was n't expecting to see grain on a 4x5...

I am currently in the process of buying a lens from them... Stephan has been prompt (if curt) in his replies to my emails. I'm still waiting, however, for the lens to arrive, so I'll withhold...

This one doesn't have obvious slots for a screwdriver like others I've seen (for instance the quick release adapter the guy at the camera shop sold me to solve the problem... too bad it doesn't sit...

I went and bought one of those nice berlebach tripods from calumet, oly to disco ver the tripod had a 3/8" thread and the camera has a 1/4" thread! Local camera shop says no such adapters exist (in...

For the archives: I ended up using a cheap rolling suitcase lined with eggcrate foam. It was just the right size to hold the camera snungly, though I wouldn't really throw the case around or check...

I'd like to take my new Calumet cc400 on location with me, but I can't seem to f ind a suitable case. I simply don't have the money to shell out for a Lightware or a Pelican. My camera has the...

After a few more tries, it seems that by doing a large number of passes (10-20), the final passes being extremely slow, I can eliminate 95% of the crud. Not perfect, but better.

This is admittedly my first foray into polaroid and LF, but a search of the arch ives has not illuminated me yet. When I coat my type 52 prints, the coater seems to deposit a fair amount of grit and...

Nevermind, I figured it out this morning.

Moderators, feel free to delete this thread.

My CC400 (CC400 black + 90mm optar in recessed board + 545 = $382) rig arrived t oday, and I've already produced my first polaroids!

Small question: is the rise/fall lockdown on the front standard...

Funny how those bargains always appear when you're not looking... I finally foun d (on eBay, no less!) that cheap LF camera I was looking for in an earlier threa d. I got me a late-model...

Bill... I was the #2 bidder on that auction. I didn't want to find out what the real winning bid was (I pushed it up as high as I could really afford). But that's the kind of thing I'm talking...

Wow, I seem to have struck a nerve here. I thank everyone for their comments.

After doing a lot of thinking (and even more surfing), I think I'm going to be doing a lot more waiting now and not...

For the record, I was sniped. I looked at the bidding history, and the winning bid came in about 30 seconds before mine. The trick to doing this (as I subsequently figured out) is to bid about one ...

I used a program called Ebay Assistant, which will wait until the last 10 seconds of an auction and automatically place your bid, so there is no time to be outbid. (It's still a bit buggy,...

Well, it's me again... after losing 3 consecutive eBay auctions to smarter snipe rs than I (even using sniping software!), I'm starting to get a tad frustrated w ith the process.

Can anyone...