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sup y'all a couple questions, I searched the thread but didn't find anything similar. I just picked up a Mamiya C220, and the foam around the edges of the back plate is kind of deteriorating. How essential is this to preventing light leaks if I were to remove it? I ran a pre-exposed roll of film through it just to test it, and it had a couple pieces on it. Was interested in taking this as a second camera to a wedding and I really don't want to risk anything.
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Sealing foam is usually there for a reason. If you remove it, replace it with some new foam. You can usually get pre-cut replacement foam sets on eBay for a few dollar.
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Forever obsessed with my Hasselblad. It's been over 2 years and I honestly don't see myself ever getting rid of this camera.  Untitled by Dev Luns, on Flickr Untitled by Dev Luns, on Flickr
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scotty posted:sup y'all a couple questions, I searched the thread but didn't find anything similar. The long-term solution is to replace the foam, as others have said - but if you really want to use it before you can replace the foam, just cover the edges of the door with gaff tape. It'll slow things down for you when you need to unload/load a roll, but it might be better than not being able to use the camera at all.
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Finally got around to scanning stuff I have in my back log!  
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crap nerd fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jul 26, 2015 |
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120 shoot astia erryday for the next two days Bike by Rohan Bassett, on Flickr
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The large format "Intrepid" camera that was on kickstarter a while back is taking orders now. Kinda tempted to get one though I should probably wait and see what people have to say about them. https://intrepidcamera.co.uk/products/intrepid-camera crap nerd fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Jul 31, 2015 |
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Jul 31, 2015 18:21
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crap nerd posted:The large format "Intrepid" camera that was on kickstarter a while back is taking orders now. Kinda tempted to get one though I should probably wait and see what people have to say about them. I just put in an order for one. It's cheap enough to get even if it ends up being kind of a dud.
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Jul 31, 2015 22:30
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This might be of interest to people, a high speed (iso 120) direct positive paper Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/114183606/galaxy-hyper-speed-direct-positive-photo-paper
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starting to scan 50 rolls from a month long trip to japan/korea Ben, Akihabara by Cameron Mattis, on Flickr
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Genderfluid posted:starting to scan 50 rolls from a month long trip to japan/korea That's a lot of flickr tags. Also nice photo.
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Spedman posted:This might be of interest to people, a high speed (iso 120) direct positive paper Kickstarter: I put in for a pack of the 8x10 became why not at that price.
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My Mamiya C220 is out of focus enough that I am convinced it's not user error anymore, and I need to adjust the focus screen. I've read how to do this, by putting a piece of ground glass on the back and compare the film plane focus using a loupe to the focus screen. I am having a hard time finding the right kind of glass to use with this camera (what do I even search for?). I've seen people recommend using something like wax paper but I feel like that would be too flimsy and wouldn't give accurate results anyway. Are there any other clever DIY solutions?
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I've used wax paper for pretty much the same thing when mucking around with home built cameras and converting Polaroids to large format lenses. It works well, just carefully tape it flat with masking tape and go for it. You could probably cut a strip like a length of film and use the rollers to get it at exactly the right position.
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I saw an uncle today I haven't seen since I was a kid. He showed me some pictures of guitar's he's made out of ancient kauri and huon pine and poo poo, also some awesome furniture. Anyhow, he's offered to make me a camera if I send him the plans  So I'm thinking of getting him to build me an 11x14 camera for WPC (to use when I actually get better at it). Flatbed preferably. Does anyone have any plans (looking @ u spedman) for an 11x14 camera, or adapted Ty Guillory's plans to 11x14? What sort of materials etc? It would be super awesome to have a handmade camera from a family member. I'd do it myself but it would probably just end up full of dust. I found a website that was in german that supposedly has 11x14 plans but the link was dead. here's a guitar he made out of the ancient kauri, wood's carbon dated as 5860 years old. It's friggin beautiful, using Duesenberg hardware. 
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  I shot some expired Ilford Multigrade paper, think I'll need to use some of the filters to get that contrast down, its a bit much. what the gently caress posted:I saw an uncle today I haven't seen since I was a kid. He showed me some pictures of guitar's he's made out of ancient kauri and huon pine and poo poo, also some awesome furniture. Anyhow, he's offered to make me a camera if I send him the plans Thats frickin' rad you're uncle is going to make you a camera. Here's a link to a ton of different camera design websites: http://home.online.no/~gjon/camerabuilders.htm I reckon a copy of a Tailboard camera might be the right way to go, lots of wood is needed and they look fantastic. Or maybe a copy of a Century No. 2 8x10.
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Spedman posted:This might be of interest to people, a high speed (iso 120) direct positive paper Kickstarter: Actually "just" high-speed paper designed for reversal processing, but I'm chipping in for at least a small pack of 4x5" too. Might go for more later, depending on the chemistry they're promising to post about soon.
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what the gently caress posted:here's a guitar he made out of the ancient kauri, wood's carbon dated as 5860 years old. 
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nielsm posted:Actually "just" high-speed paper designed for reversal processing, but I'm chipping in for at least a small pack of 4x5" too. Might go for more later, depending on the chemistry they're promising to post about soon. They're are designing it to be used with standard reversal processes already out in the market. The wood is probably pulled out of a swamp and not cut down. http://www.ancientkauri.co.nz/zealand_ancient_swamp_kauri_wood
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Not to worry http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_kauri
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Woah that's really cool!
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i thought the same thing but looked it up before i posted I've been reading the oldest living things in the world by rachel sussman. Turns out many of the really old trees (everything in the book is 2000 years old+) are partially hollow, a condition that helped spare them the axe when people were logging all of the ancient trees . Unfortunately, in 2012 some meth head got into one of the trees via its hollow trunk and set it on fire, perhaps unintentionally, and killed it. It was a 3,500 year old bald cypress just outside of Orlando called "the senator".
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Dren posted:i thought the same thing but looked it up before i posted Perhaps we could convince the meth community to start setting actual senators on fire.
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Spedman posted:
I seem to remember watching a documentary about a similar thing with mummified corpses found amazingly preserved in Denmark in a bog http://www.tollundman.dk/ Anyway, without trying to derail... I couldn't find the tailboard plans you were talking about spedman (a lot of the links on that page are dead/outdated/unavailable) but I was chatting to my uncle again today and he said he reckons it will be really easy for him to adapt the 8x10 plans to 11x14, so I bought a copy of Ty Guillory's book off ebay and got it sent to him. Hopefully I'll get the camera before the end of the year  I've got a CC Harrison rapid-rectilinear lens that will cover it easily, my fujinon-L 420mm f/8 may also cover it but I'm not sure.
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Awesome, that was the design kind of design I was suggesting, as I think it's be pretty straight forward for someone to make who has woodworking skills, but not specifically for camera making. I assume you're wanting the one with bellows? (box cameras are annoyingly heavy). According to these nerds the 420mm should cover the 11x14: http://photo.net/large-format-photography-forum/003bwt?start=10 Are you planning on shooting film/paper/wet-plate with it? What about holders?
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Yeah I'm going for the bellows build. And awesome, that's promising. Covers 11x14 pretty easily. That lens is by far my favourite lens to use on 8x10, awesome I can throw it on a bigger camera. Going to use the camera for wet plate. I've given up on film for the meantime. I can't justify expenses for it, and I find it a lot slower than wpc. At least at the end of a plate shooting session I have the finished product in my hands... just suits me better. Might sell off all my film gear and get a dslr for happy snapping. Does that manual come with instructions for making plate holders? I'd imagine it would as it would seem strange to design a camera without an adaptive plate holder...? Or is that stupid thinking? e: looking at some screenshots of the manual it looks like there are indeed plans for plate holders included (I guess the book is called "making the traditional wet plate camera" after all) Sludge Tank fucked around with this message at 08:59 on Aug 3, 2015 |
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It'd be great if he does make that holder for you, I'd reckon that'd be the most fiddly bit of the whole build, getting that plate at the focus plane. Are you going to make the bellows? I kind of went the other way with WPC, I did love the instant result, but I just couldn't handle the overhead of carting all the stuff around, it doesn't help having a little place where everything has to be packed away each time. This is why I've moved to doing contact printing with paper and film negatives, can do it all pretty easily in a blacked out little bathroom. I have been looking at doing collodion chloride printing, still uses all the wpc that I've got left over, plus its very high resolution and the most archival printing process of all apparently. Still haven't mixed up the solution up for it yet.
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Spedman posted:It'd be great if he does make that holder for you, I'd reckon that'd be the most fiddly bit of the whole build, getting that plate at the focus plane. collodion chloride printing.... interesting.... don't think I've even heard of it... I'd imagine it's somewhere in the realm of albumen printing, or silver gelatin? I haven't gotten as far as that. I do have Chris James's new edition of alternative photography book but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet (still backtracking through my wpc manuals) I was looking to start doing salt printing but then I looked at the process and found very quickly it would be something I'd lose interest in very quickly just for the lengthy process. I at least want to do contacts... Perhaps just cyanotypes, tea toned, or something are more up my alley for simplicity... I have little patience I suppose.... you guys gave some sage advice in that other wet printing thread, i was getting too far ahead of myself. re: the wpc, I've got it streamlined pretty well actually. All the equipment fits in three plastic containers (you know the storage ones), one cleaning, one chemistry and the other camera gear. These all fit in my van which I've turned into a mobile dark room. When the poo poo is not in my van (I only need to transfer the chemistry tub into my "lab" at home to play/maintain silver/collodion etc) I leave them at the studio. I too was worried it as going to be a logistics nightmare but if you have a vehicle like a van that is a dedicated mobile photo-making unit then it works out ok. It only takes me 5 minutes to get out/set up my table to start making plates when I'm out in the field. It's really nice actually. Probably not too much longer than just setting up a LF camera for normal film shooting. Later down the track if I've got a bit more money (lol) I'd probably like to look into getting one of those large Ford Transit vans that you can stand in and turning that into a darkroom, my Hiace is a little small and I can only really sit/kneel in it when I'm sensitizing and developing, but it's not too bad since you're only in there for a few minutes at a time. And the bellows, nah, I'll order some bellows from that custombellows.uk site I reckon... better safe than sorry Sludge Tank fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Aug 4, 2015 |
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Salt printing looks amazing, but its a ton of work to get a great print, and again I don't really have the time and space to get it right, so I'm sticking to Argyrotype/Cyanotype and regular contact printing, and also trying the CC process. You just need the right paper, but you just flow the collodion on to it (the special version), let it dry and print straight away, and process like any of the other alt printing processes. I barely have enough room for the minimal amount of gear I have to do wet-plate, and a Corolla isn't going to cut it for a mobile processing unit. I found this guys mobile darkroom project a little while ago, and I have to say it looks pretty tempting to build myself: http://petapixel.com/2015/07/06/how-i-turned-a-caravan-into-a-mobile-darkroom-for-wet-plate-photos/ Have a look on e-bay for bellows, lots of different camera versions for decent prices out of China.
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Thanks for the bellows tip. I was under the impression that chinese bellows were a bit hit-and-miss as far as quality goes...? Yeah I've been following Paul Alsop for a while now... he's pretty clean. Craig Tuffin also has a caravan he hauls around behind his Ford Transit that he's turned into a camera. He's also doing mercurial daguerreotypes now which are friggin awesome. I saw some d-types at the Queensland gallery for that "Photograph and Australia" exhibition there... so cool in the flesh. Maybe one day way down the track I'd love to give it a go. Wet printing/alternative processes are so enticing but I just know that I don't have the patience for it... and wpc as it is is already a bit expensive so maybe I'll just stick to ambrotypes for a while and try and get better at it before I start doing glass negatives to print from. I'm pretty happy with ambro's atm and I got a couple of them framed and they look so friggin nice in a frame, even if they aren't the cleanest plates. Sludge Tank fucked around with this message at 09:45 on Aug 4, 2015 |
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I got a bonus at work a little while ago. Rather than do anything even vaguely responsible with it, I found and ordered a 6x7 projector. As it turns out, 6x7 projectors are really big. This thing weighs close to 40 pounds, and the lens tube looks like it came off a softball launcher. I have some big slide mounts coming in the mail today. 
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