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A great lens for sure. Quite heavy, well dense actually, I suppose. Have you thought of an ApoRonar 420mm or 480mm? I have the 420mm now and I picked up a barrel version for a third the price of the be-shuttered Nikkor. More common too. It's a dialyte design, I believe, and so able to be damned sha...

There's one on the auction site but it's cliffpr and it doesn't look very cheap! :shock: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NIKON-Nikkor-450mm-F9-Copal-3-/400255910677?pt=UK_Lenses_Filters_Lenses&hash=item5d311c8315 I'd possibly be happy if it were £500 but even then that is probably a bit higher than avera...

Anybody have one? If you see one I'd love to know about it! Want it to complete my 8x10 lens range (110, 240, 300, 450, 600/800/1200) and also for my 4x5 triptych project (3x 4x5 backs side by side for in camera triptychs)

Tim

<cough> Gentle heat only, not the full blast... </cough> OK - Sticking the 1Kw hair dryer on full heat and then inserting it into the drum for a few minutes may not have been the best idea I've ever had. It was definitely dry when I finished though. The problem was that I presumed the material that...

Drying reels with a hair-drier (the wife's not mine :wink: ) is a good way to dry them totally and quickly. I used to do this before I got a second reel. Careful with this one - I ruined a £300 expert drum trying to dry it a bit too quickly (the plastic bowed in so it touched the film when in use)....

That sounds like a good idea Ed, I'll probably give it a go. Luckily in a year of doing my own E6 I can only find 2 sheets with this on, so its not a massive problem but if I can improve the process then thats great. Definitely looks like either splashing dev or water getting on the film before fir...

They say don't pre wash either. However I had problems with C41 without a pre-wash (probably because of the short dev time). I think skipping pre-wash is OK for a dip and dunk where you go from nothing on the film to 100% covered in a split second. However when adding in a drum, I use a good 4 minut...

I didn't try to correct the colour balance when I took the film shot. I tried to set the white balance on both the film and digital shots in post. What I meant was that using the equivalent amount of exposure on both film and digital, the film one seemed to come out a lot darker and contrastier. Ot...

Looking for this to complete my lens range...

How romantic! :) It's funny how that stance has lasted through from the early 19th century. I know you're not being manicheistic, but commissioned work does sometimes rise above the brief, and sometimes it has to wait a while before something in it resonates with the present. Well I do wonder how m...

... The art bit is a lot less straightforward, and I am not going to even bother attemting to define it as so much as already been said. It's about beauty, subject, self-validation, exploration, and the list goes on. I would venture to suggest that some art is created with an end in mind, unlike wh...

Don't forget to ask what 'award winning' means (which normally comes before - 'fine art')

My guess is that it implies that the work has been done for no other purpose than itself; which discounts most fine artists who do it to make money and hence are influenced by these pressures.... Fine art means a disconnect with the external hence no taking photographs because you think they'll do w...

For better or worse the damned & blasted ebay had a used scanview scanmate plus for sale for the price of a V700 which tempted me. I know next to nothing about drum scanning other than this is going to be a PITA but possibly yield some excellent results. At least I will be able to say I tried it......

I just use the disk to measure something in the scene and then use the rule against that. No need to leave the disc in the scene really (you don't need absolute accuracy anyway)