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Hi All I just bought a book from the nation Portrait Gallery of photographs by Emil Hoppe. For those of you who don't know the name, Hoppe was called 'The Master' by Cecil Beaton, and worked between 1907 and the late sixties. Anyway, the book is super, if you like his style, and what's more has been...

Hi Dean,

Would you take £150 for the three Grafmatics?

Susie

Hi Charles, Your question about plate sizes remined me that I had read something a while ago, but approaches it from another direction. The design of any lens is dominated by what is known as the Petzval Sum, which is related to the curvature of the image of a flat object. Until the mid 1880’s nearl...

Hi Jools, I've been following this thread for some time and have been wondering why/how you've got so hung up on which adjustments you will need, without having yet tried a camera out. Just in answer to your last posting, about landscapes, three of my cameras have the following: One (10x8 Kodak View...

Hello everyone. Here is a list of the lenses I have available: Here is a list of the lenses I have available: 4-1/4” f/6.5 Dallmeyer Wide angle in a Compur shutter £300. 120mm f/6.8 Goerz Dagor in Synchro Compur shutter £175. 9-1/2” f/9 Goerz Red Dot Artar in a Synchro Compur shutter £175. 17” f/10 ...

Hi Guys and Girls, I am having a major clearout of equipment that hasn’t been used for ages, and is taking up valuble space and capital! I will send details to anyone interested, but as I hope to sell it all, the prices will be fair but not give-a-way. The cameras are: Agfa 5x7, Korona 5x7, Korona 5...

Hi Charles, I would assume that as the name has the root Anastig- then the lens will be an anastigmat and therefore not in the Rapid Rectilinear family, and would date from after 1890. The Tessar has a un-cemented pair in front of the iris and a cemented pair behind. If it is pre-1920 then it could ...

Hi John, Can you answer a question about silver nitrate? Does it go "off" with age? I have a tub containing about 200g of silver nitrate that I got about 33 years ago (I know where I was when I got it!). It isn't sealed, but is in its original air tight container as supplied, and is still crystallin...

Hi John, I don't know where the "John" S A came from, must have been a 'senior' moment. The grave is in the south graveyard of All Saint's Hockerill, the parish church on the east side of Bishop's Stortford. http://www.allsaintshockerill.org.uk (near Jn 8 of the M 11). I was going to take a pic of i...

Hi all. I have been asked to take a portrait of the vicar at church, to go up in the sacristy alongside those of previous incumbents, dating back to 1860's. As I don't particularly care for colour pictures of clergy (!) I thought I'd do something a bit more traditional. In the loft I have a few pack...

Hi Gary and Paul,

My reply was to Nick's original question on this post - fogging in the centre of the image. Unfortunately, the image is showing as no longer available to view.

I agree that Valerio's fog is due to the darkslide not going all the way in.

Susie

Hi Nick.

I haven't been able to view your fogged pics, but is there any possibility of the sheets of film bowing and touching one another while they are in the developing tank and therefore not coming into contact with the developer?

Just a thought,

Susie

Hi Chris.

I need to go to see Paula sometime to get my Technika serviced. If you haven't already gone we could do a combined trip perhaps: I live near Bishops Stortford, just down the M11 from you.

Susie

Hi Tim,

Having used and collected Linhof gear for about 30 years, if you want any help in sorting it out, then just let me know.

Susie

Hi Ian, The Rectigraph is a version of the Rapid Rectilinear lens, designed in 1866 by J H Dallmeyer. This is the name that Lancaster gave to their version. Nearly every manufacturer used the design, Kingslake lists 29 different manufacturers' names for the same design! It has a doublet (two lenses ...