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2010 galerie-photo conference, Perpignan, France October 15 (Friday), 16(Saturday) and 17(Sunday), 2010. Pre-registration now open Location : Palais des Rois de Majorque, Perpignan, France. Main topic : Self-published books in photography. Admission to all sessions is free of charge. Programme Frida...

and would like to know if monoballs are versatile, stable and robust enough for using with .. Hello from France To the question quoted above, I can answer YES as a happy user of an Arca Swiss B1 ballhead with a 5x4" camera. The Z1 is the new version, stronger, lighter and cheaper than the discontin...

Why film ? To the many good reasons listed above in favour of film use, I may add this comment. I use 100% film for my personnal and family photography which is a hobby. The number of images produced per year is small enough to justify that I would not gain anything by switching to digital photograp...

John, it is great if you can attend the Perpignan conference and share with the participants your experience of a self published photo book. The programme is being worked out those days and Pierre Corratgé, the leader of the organising team is preparing a memourable event. Regarding jokes & other en...

Congratulations to the UKLFPG for strictly respecting gender balance regulations !
We, in our French LF-get-together, still have a lot of progresses to do....

So that takes you from F/11.3 to f/4, which is a lot lower than Emmanuel suggests :?: . Might have misunderstood you here, but I now suspect that the optimal f/stop is independent of the format... Charles, your calculations are certainly right, I was speaking about a "theoretical" comparison betwee...

Hang on a minute. I've been in "la belle Bretagne" Ooooops ! Sorry Joanna ! I should have said : for use in the British Isles, including of course the Channel Islands, plus Normandy & Brittany.... ---------------- Comments and suggestions to Tim for his simulation tool. It is nice to be able to def...

http://www.timparkin.co.uk/static/focus/index.html Thanks Tim for the nice Scheimpflug simulator. And thanks to Joanna to define Le Poil de Chien as the definite unit of measurement for small tilt angles. I like very much the first diagram posted here, showing that even with 1 degree of tilt angle,...

Just seen this Ilford have brought out reversal paper. GREAT ! I'll immediately pass the info to the French LF group ! So far in terms of B&W reversal photographic paper, the market only offered one example of this kind of paper, one EFKE-made (sold in the USA) or re-sold (??) under the brand Kraus...

Hello all ! The French medium and large format community federated by the web sites http://www.galerie-photo.info and http://www.galerie-photo.com is pleased to announce its 5-th conference Location : Perpignan, France Dates : October 15, 16 and 17, 2010 (from Friday afternoon to Sunday) The detaile...

Hello from France ! is there any colour sheet film apart from kodak and fuji ? I'm afraid not, except old stock of Agfa sheet film, the German company was bankrupt a few years ago. However the parent company Agfa Gevaert in Belgium had stocked some big rolls of film for aerial photography. So the st...

But did you notice that there were no jet trails in the sky today... The Swiss sky-cleaners did the job early this morning :mrgreen: http://www.plonkreplonk.ch/html/cartes/grandes_cartes/0278.jpeg Take the opportunity to practice your Icelandic ! Eyjafjallajökull : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikip...

Another problem with manually-focusing enlargers is that at large manifications, the distance between the head and the base boad makes impractical to rotate the focusing knob manually while checking with your eye looking inside the focus finder seating on the board. On my AHEL 12, I bought a device ...

Hello from France Carbon fibre tripods are a mature product and there is a harsh competition among manufacturers. This pushes the honourable GITZO company to maintain high-quality carbon fibre products with improved performances on its catalog. However, so far I've resisted the carbon fibre appeal, ...

It's a technika style board (96mm x 99mm). The shutter is a Copal 0. Thanks Charles. Then for a 72, 75 or 90, Mr. Salomon, the well-known Technika-Man on the US forum, indicates below that a 16 mm Technika board, hole size 0 is OK. A 21 mm recessed exists and is designed for shorter focal lengths. ...