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I recently saw someone using little transparent triangles, just 3, to hold the print on the backing card. Worked neatly ... those triangles probably have a name, but I don't recall what it is.

Well done, Steve.

I'll be there for just the Saturday.

A further update. I have to say that even with limited movements, a traditional whole plate camera is a big lump of fun. Looking at that big view screen and focusing hardly needing a loup, it's relatively easy to compose. I am, though, going to have to improve my hit rate ... this was #3 out of four...

I've put in for the day as a minimum, but depending on how things go I might be able to extend.

The restoration has progressed quite well so far, so here's a little update ...

http://www.sandehalynch.com/restoration.htm

Someone once quipped that in painting you add while in photography you subtract . No idea of the source of that one, but I imagine the subtraction and exclusion of the irrelevant is part of what you both mean by filtering. Is that idea rooted exclusively in traditional modernism? My guess is that I ...

Very nice stuff there, and interesting designs.

No, Rob, just wishful thinking on my part.

I will write to them and explain how the entire film market is leaning inexorably towards low ISO Whole Plate and advise that they should not miss the boat on this.

You're right. On 5x7 with these lenses I've used Wephota NP15 ISO 25 from Retrophotographic, but currently they only seem to have ISO 100 for WP.

Almost, Rob? The camera is now almost in all its constituent parts spread out on a makeshift table. The bellows are flattening under bricks at present. I'll be making a fresh set. It's not too difficult dealing with large bellows. Shutters? I wish. The lenses I currently have for this one are both p...

Any three-way discussion is bound to be fraught with danger, but the directions that this discussion has taken are interesting (to say the least!) But it is now so wide ranging I can only pick up a few points here and there - inevitably the ones that concern me most. I've been wondering how to addre...

Hello Rob. Thanks for your input. At some point the original back was replaced with a later wooden Kodak springback of the same fit. No problem on that account, fortunately. http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a119/Sandeha/large_format/th_IMGP3848_copy.jpg Perhaps this was added at the same time that ...

That's the smell of my new camera. It reminds me of some great grandma's bedroom cupboards - lace and old leather. A scent I haven't come across since I was a kid. It's a whole plate brass and mahogany double draw folder, with front rise and fall, front tilt both ways, rear tilt both ways and rear s...

Hi. I remember once writing "composition is rhythm" , but I'm not trying to suggest that rhythm and composition are wholly interchangeable terms - rather using rhythm to explain composition. I find rhythm as evident in the first shot as in the second while, if I understand you correctly, you are say...

Have you tried http://www.the-darkroom.co.uk/index2.html

I use them for any colour (except C41 in 4x5 which they no longer do).