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Hi Jean, this one: http://www.silvestricamera.it/img/prodotti/mod_h_h25/4x5_Back_Modh_big.jpg Silvestri cameras use bayonet and helical mounts - so my 47mm XL lens is mounted in one, which means that it can be used to 'zone focus' as well as ground glass focussed on a wide-angle platform. The great ...

Hi Uranium, I don't know enough about it, but for an impulse thing, if it was around, why ...yes! It's surprisingly cute looking for a whole plate camera. I take it, this camera uses whole plate DDS, since bookform plate holders are not in keeping with the age nor the technology of the era. Just loo...

Jean - you must be shooting in noir & blanc? I find I always get severe light fall-off with the 47mm XL. It is not very well publicised, but the 47mm XL does have several millimetres of shift, particularly at closer focus (around 1-2 metres). My 47mm XL is in a helicoid lens, so I can set the hyperf...

Contrived' to me means artificial or forced: that's what we humans do: we force the elements of nature into an arragement that is unnatural. We also remove them from their context by framing. This is true for both visual and acoustic elements. You must try some rave music one day - you might enjoy ...

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I want one!!

Sigh. That is just so gorgeous and elegant.

Yeah - wishful thinking on my part too :? You know that Lotus are selling LF film at discounted rates: http://www.lotusviewcamera.at/used/film.html If you don't mind halving a 7x17" film and trimming 1/2 inch off, the film is pretty good value. Not sure why I keep thinking that Adox CMS20 might beco...

Difficult question - are there many Graflex users in Europe, Jean? There's a lot more on the American forum - they regularly use 127mm Ektars and 150mm Schneider Xenars (a modern lens), but that is very similar in focal length to what you are already using. You know that you can use an 'extender' bo...

Lol Charles - clearly if you understand these musings, then you're very special :D Bergson would recognise the processes you describe, un moment de decryptage, perhaps, an effervescence of l'élan vital, the intuitive substrate which motivates a photographer to seek out the world. To know it. I under...

Sandeha - do you mean, Retrophotographic wlll carry NP15 in whole plate size? I have never found an importer for the ISO25 in whole plate size. As you know, www.mrcad.co.uk carries half-plate size of Adox 25 but they have not sold whole plate size for over a year. I'd love a slow emulsion in whole p...

Almost, Rob? The camera is now almost in all its constituent parts spread out on a makeshift table. Almost ;) Nitromors is good stuff. I haven't found a way to safely work with tarnished brass without thinning it. I'm not sure the brass parts of the Charten I have are solid brass (surely they must ...

Salut Jean et bienvenue.

Le Sinar - c'est mon LF appareil le plus favoris'e aussi. Le Frankenappareil que vous avez cre'e presque rassemble le Sinar Handy. C'est tres courageux d'avoir trouv'e un facon de travailler avec le 47mmXL sur le meme Sinar.

Salut et bienvenue Daniel.

J'adore vos images prises en Irlande. 'Sais pas pourquo, mais vos images me ravivent les experiences de notre jeunesse au pres de l'Ouest d'Irlande.

Felicitations

Nice one Uranium! Any examples of the Swedish whole-plate? This is something I've never seen, mostly having only witnessed the British camera industry side of things. Keith - 1 1/2 years is a reasonable time scale. Are you going for an Ebony instead then? If not, maybe as many as 2 of us are thinkin...

Hi there, neat though that you're almost there. Almost ......! Now where's that shutter? :) Are you going to recreate a set of bellows for this? I love the idea of restoring, although this looks like it's going to be hard work. Like you, my Charten needs a serious chroming agent to remove the oxidis...

Hi again....back onto rhythm vs repetition. When my kids had not grown, they would bang on their drums. Years of this torture reminds me how I regularly hear 'repetition'. On a good day, perhaps a distant memory back to his school concert, he transforms his banging repetition, into a rhythm. I exper...