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hiya david

i use a set of these:

http://www.viewcamerastore.com/servlet/ ... Cap/Detail

they work well but are quite pricey for what they are. have heard of some people making use of black drainage tubing with caps on the ends.

cheers

john

hiya colin, have you any images produced with this lens? i could be interested in it.

that looks like the stuff, it stuck pretty well for me. cheers, john

hiya, i got some vintage car loom tape off of ebay which i did mine with, have no idea what it was called though.

hiya, i have used this film in the past and have gotten some fine pinholes which turned out to be the stop bath being too aggressive, i changed to water for stop and the problem went away. cheers. john

it is a 4x5 image. i think 5x7 would be fine with one. there is a guy who shoots the 7 inch on 8x10 on but 1:1 portraits, strange images they are here is a link, you have to click through the links to see the pictures. i will definitely be shooting some more with it very soon. thanks for the comment...

forgot to say it was efke 50 on 4x5 in rodinal. cheers for the comments, john

hiya charles

it is just a roughish scan from my epson 3200, i scan in colour negative mode and thats how bad the cast is but i quite like it. a bit lith like really.

cheers

john

hiya all, i have got hold of a 1944 Aero Ektar and had to give it a dam good spring clean with it's scary elements. was a bit of a long shot doing a self portrait with it's f 2.5 aperture but with the help of a stick with blobs of blu tak where my eyes were going to be i think it's turned out well. ...

hiya ed i'm not in birmingham now but i'm from around there and there are a few nice places to visit but a bit outside of birmingham in the black country, only about 8 miles or so. the black country museum is a good place to start: http://www.bclm.co.uk/index.htm there are some quite old industrial ...

hiya sapata you can pre flash the paper in camera, if you hold a piece of paper in front of the lens or one of those diffuser filter type things over the lens and give it a bit of exposure then that will do the trick. it will be a trial and error situation but you will get much less contrast. cheers...

hiya keith, I have an older lens with an old shutter on which you have to use a locking cable release to hold the shutter open on the B setting for composing etc. sounds like it could be the same with this one. cheers, john

cheers for the info on that andrew, will leave this one for now, looks like a whole lotta lens for the money though. cheers, john

hiya andrew, can you adjust the aperture on this manually without the DB shutter? i have an older green sinar shutter with no aperture scale and wondered if it would work with this. cheers, john

hiya, have pm'd you about the film changing bag, cheers, john