Great stuff. Carl is a wonderful, patient and good humoured teacher isn't he? Had a great day down in Glasgow on Saturday at a "consolidation" day with him and now my tin has arrived
Hi Andrew, Yep sounds like it might be me. And thanks about the kind words re. my blog. Hi, I like your blog. Re the varnish - weirdly the same thing happened to us at a recent Carl Radford workshop. We used the olde worlde trad varnish and the images literally slid off the tin. I am not sure if Ca...
Thank goodness someone has had the good idea to start a forum on this... There are some of us large format users out there who stilll like to dabble with the dangerous chemicals instead of only using film
Hi all, Thanks for staring this new thread John, I'm glad you're so interested :-) For starters, the course I did was with Carl Radford http://www.carls-gallery.co.uk/index.html and I did the course at his home in Glasgow as it was nice and handy for me. He is running another course in the Lake Dist...
Hi John, Well - it depends on what camera you are using of course and whether you are making ambrotypes (using glass) or tintypes (using aluminium). The glass used is normally either 2 or 3mm although I haven't used glass yet. The aluminium is all-round easier as there is no prepping involved. For m...
Hi John, yep, small world just about covers it! No, my existing lenses are for a 4 x 5 but I am able to do wet plate work with my camera and, in fact, I found it easier to handle that size plate rather than any of the bigger sizes as I have girly small hands. I'm interested in alternative processes ...
Welcome Lucy ..... and hello back from way down south. Congrats on the Speed Graphic. I met a trader at the Photographica Fair in London last week. He was showing me the most amazing lens - Kodak 7inch Aero Ektar f2.5(!) - and explaining about how it was a WWII lens, was radioactive(!), and that pe...
Hi, I'm Lucy and I am hoping that one of these days I might know enough to start posting some questions on here... I'm new to LF photography and have a Speed Graphic which I am loving and I can tell I'm in it for the long haul.