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Contrary to what has been stated, I stand corrected ;) Where would be the pleasure to chat on the forum, if there was always a consensus ;) But I'm ready to make progresses and I have no excuse since I own a camera with very precise lateral shifts. I confess: it is a real shame not to use them. (I ...

Hello from France ! For buildings, depends whether you obey traditional rules regarding strictly non-converging verticals, or not ;) If you aim at a classical view, like pictures of the old Paris by Eugène Atget (a unique Atget exhibition is on-going at musée Carnavalet in Paris from April 25 to Jul...

Even if you solve difficulties with the maths, you could get into trouble finding enough light to project a very large-size image of a tiny object. Projecting opaque objects to an audience was done in the past with a dedicated projector named, in France "Episcope". usually the projections were not v...

Hello from France ! For those of ouf readers who would like to do this boring job ;) by themselves, Jean-Baptiste Maison has written an article on the subject on our French MF-LF web site. This is a frequently asked question among LF users, so it is good to share here all available resources for tha...

One set is 9x12 cm and one set is 10x15 cm. I'm assuming (hoping) that it deals with the internal size of the glass, and that overall the holders will fit a 4x5 camera. Any comments? Hello from France 9x12 and 10x15 cm were common glass plate and cut film sizes in Continental Europe before the Seco...

Hello all ! I take the liberty to make this discussion re-surface, since the last monthly delivery of http://www.galerie-photo.com has an interesting example of the "ice cream cone illusion", in the work of the Chinese large format photographer Xiao Chuan SUN Ze article (hin frennche, sorri) www.gal...

I have found other refereces in English about film processing in our forum archives http://www.galerie-photo.org/n2-f1-11983.html Jacobson, C.I., and Jacobson, R.E. (1972), Developing: 18th Revised Edition, Focal Press, London Found on Claudio Bonavolta's web site, Kodak's recipes http://www.bonavol...

Hello from across the Channel ! Since some well-informed people have maliciously reseased a very confidential information ("Charles is fluent in French") , I dare to mention here some classical books from Éditions Paul Montel, easy to find as second-hand items. (who could read such books in the XXIs...

Merry Christmas to all !! This year, I had a very special wish for Santa Claus or whichever white-beard guy supposed to bring you parcels on the morning of Dec. 25-th : "Please, could you stop stop bringing to me large format lenses, large format compur shutters, large format cameras, large format f...

(I assumed Arca-Swiss is at least in the French-speaking part of Swiss or are they really French?) From the company's point of view, Arca Swiss International is a French company. And if you come to Besançon, France, you'll be able to meet the Vogt family, the owners of the company, who live there. ...

Welcome to the British LF gang. You are not the only Continental LF-er here ;) While some Continental LF-ers go to Scotland, some others spent their family holidays not far from Linz (at least, not far, ahem, as seen from a Scotsman's point of view) since I could no resist to cross the Austrian bord...

The repository http://www.cijoint.fr/ seems to be out of order as of Dec. 2011, and the previous document http://www.cijoint.fr/cjlink.php?file=cj201106/cijri0E8PM.pdf is no longer accessible. Hence I'm placing another copy of my "Sunny-16" and EV circular slide rule on another repository. I have ad...

Hello from France Coming late to this discussion, today a LF friend of mine has told me that he has succumbed to the appeal of so-called VARIOGRAU filter recently introduced by Heliopan. I prefer not to mention the price here (outch!), but I'm interested technically to see and understand how the dev...

Hello all I hope that you could download my pdf "sunny-16" slide rule from cijoint.fr, otherwise I'll of course place another copy on another repository. In French the word "Repositoire" does not exist, and worse, COULD NOT exist since it would be too funny ;) Regarding the sunny-16 rule, I have a p...

Charles What you need to compute various EV and other combinations of speeds and f-numbers is not an energy-hungry, CO2-emissive computer fitted with some horrible software increasing your "digital slavery". You simply need a good ol' slide rule in your pocket. Like this one, made specially for you ...