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by Susie Frith
Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:57 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Lens for a MPP
Replies: 14
Views: 7660

Re: Lens for a MPP

Hi Nick, Just to add to the good advice already given, if you go for a Schneider lens, make sure you get a Super Angulon 90mm f/8 (or f/5.6 if your pocket runs to it) and not the earlier Angulon 90mm f/6.8. The earlier lens is okay, but not nearly as good as the Super Angulon. And yes, you will need...
by Susie Frith
Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:13 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: Classifieds
Topic: FS: MPP 5x4 Darkslides
Replies: 3
Views: 2157

Re: FS: MPP 5x4 Darkslides

Hi Paul,

You should get some takers for these as they are the Bee's Knees for those doing 5x4 wetplate, that is assuming they are the ones for glass plates, but also have the septum for film!

Susie
by Susie Frith
Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:43 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A question on focussing
Replies: 14
Views: 8057

Re: A question on focussing

Hi Valerio, Like Neil, anything closer than a couple of feet and I need glasses. Several years ago when I had my eyes tested, I also had a perscription made up for a pair of glasses that will focus at about 7 inches. There is very little depth of focus at that range, and I have to keep them perched ...
by Susie Frith
Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:06 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Protars
Replies: 3
Views: 3475

Re: Protars

Oops! I was messing about with Photobucket and managed to move the pictures to another album. :oops:
by Susie Frith
Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:18 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rucksack and monorail camera
Replies: 7
Views: 5600

Re: Rucksack and monorail camera

Hi Valerio.

Assuming your Kardan is like mine: the rail unscrews into two, it should fit into a large LoPro rucksack. Whereabouts in London are you? It might save time and be easier if we met up. I'm north of london, but within easy drive/train.

Susie
by Susie Frith
Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:23 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: Critique
Topic: St Alban's Cathedral
Replies: 2
Views: 7780

Re: St Alban's Cathedral

Looking good there Neil. Is this one of your Starbucks specials? What was the film>

Susie
by Susie Frith
Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:10 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Scheimpflug and another question
Replies: 37
Views: 21081

Re: Scheimpflug and another question

Hi Valerio, As Joanna said, you may well be putting on too much tilt: it is very sensitive. Certainly, with the Kardan, it is very difficult to put a small amount of front tilt on, as the ball detent wants to snap the lens panel back to zero. On mine the 'baggy' bit of the bellows also fouls the len...
by Susie Frith
Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:39 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: Critique
Topic: First Wet-plates
Replies: 25
Views: 25449

Re: First Wet-plates

Here is another one I took on the same occasion, just got it scanned in. I was pouring a plate to use for another trial exposure. I knew these two girls were about, just looking at what these odd people were doing, when I heard Carl tell them that, "Susie's just pouring a plate: she will take your p...
by Susie Frith
Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:00 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A personal observation on images worth keeping...
Replies: 4
Views: 3373

Re: A personal observation on images worth keeping...

I know what you mean Neil. I can think of very few pictures I have made that I think are worth keeping, even those that are pleasing to look at! However I must say, that even though they were poorly posed, badly exposed, over developed and imperfect in many more ways, the wet-plate tin-types I did a...
by Susie Frith
Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:24 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Air bulb suggestions
Replies: 12
Views: 6603

Re: Air bulb suggestions

I have a few Packards and they all work, albeit after being taken apart and cleaned. There is usually a button which switches from bulb to instantanious.

Susie
by Susie Frith
Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:37 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Air bulb suggestions
Replies: 12
Views: 6603

Re: Air bulb suggestions

Hi Charles, The only time I have used an air bulb has been on Packard shutters on "Instantaneous", which is about 1/10th sec. The one I have has a bleed hole in the end, so it needs to be stopped up with a thumb as the bulb is squeezed, and then let open to let the air back into the bulb. It is quit...
by Susie Frith
Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:29 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Some thoughts on the design of a lightweight 4x5
Replies: 73
Views: 39966

Re: Some thoughts on the design of a lightweight 4x5

Hi Neil, I read with interest some of your recent comments about your intended use of the camera. A few years ago I was chatting to Paula Pell-Johnson who took over the Linhof agents from her father, about designing an English camera. This was about the time that Gandolfi was starting to dissapear, ...
by Susie Frith
Sun Aug 21, 2011 4:52 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: Classifieds
Topic: WTB Zeiss 21cm/4.5 Tessar in shutter
Replies: 4
Views: 2240

Re: WTB Zeiss 21cm/4.5 Tessar in shutter

Found one, and bought it!

Good old ebay.de! The serial number shows it to be of 1926 vintage, the very year that Zeiss Ikon was formed. I made an offer and got it for about half the BIN.

Thanks for your suggestions guys.

Susie
by Susie Frith
Sun Aug 21, 2011 4:31 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Some thoughts on the design of a lightweight 4x5
Replies: 73
Views: 39966

Re: Some thoughts on the design of a lightweight 4x5

How wrong can one be?! While up in the loft, I dug out my Sanderson 5x4 Hand and stand camera, as it is about the lightest LF camera I own. To me, there is nothing of it. Very small, amazingly light, I thought I had your answer: a modern version of this. Downstairs in the kitchen I popped it onto th...
by Susie Frith
Sun Aug 21, 2011 3:00 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Protars
Replies: 3
Views: 3475

Protars

Hi all, Andrew Plume asked to see some pictures of my Protar set (why, I'm not sure!), so here they are, together with some rambling of mine. http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n556/KateandSusie/Susies%20camera%20pics/L1000163.jpg The first one shows the complete outfit, as it were. The set consist...