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Paul Mitchell wrote:I have a 405 back and it works fine on my Chamonix

Maybe the 405 is Francophile!

I tried using one of these holders with my Linhof Colour Kardan 45s recently but it seems to keep getting stuck behind the GG, whereas I have had no such difficulties with the Fuji 5x4 instant film back, Fidelity dark slides or my Fuji QL film holder. Is there something wrong with my holder or is th...

If anyone is thinking of buying a Walker for landscape photography I suggest you visit Teamwork, in London, or call them, and ask to speak to Moses. He uses a Walker for landscape photography with a Schneider 72mm lens. It was after talking to him that I actually decided against buying this lens. Ho...

There is a secondhand centre filter currently on ebay for the Rodenstock Grandagon 75mm/f4.5 & 90mm/f6.8 lenses. You can buy it for £160 if anyone is interested. I recently bought one of these at the full price ( :evil: over £200)! Aaaaarrrrggggh! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rodenstock-Centre-Filter-for-G...

You can keep bellow and lens dry by covering them with your black cloth. I use Ebony's large black cloth which is black on the inside with a rubberized white exterior - good for keeping both cool beneath the sun and dry beneath the wet stuff. You can see what it looks like by looking at Joanna's ava...

It's the £/$ I paid over £800 for my 300mm f9 Nikkor M around 20 years ago, I'd guess the £ was at it's closest to parity with the $ at the time, and Robert White had to order the lens from Japan. I've used it twice !!! but it does fit my 10x8 camera's but I really like my12" Dagor :D No the Pounds...

I was bidding for a Nikkor M series 200mm lens, mounted in a Copal 0 shutter, last night. I withdrew when the price exceeded my £350 limit. The lens sold for an astonishing £620!!!

I've got centre filters for my 58mm Schneider XL & 75mm Rodenstock Grandagon but haven't bothered with the 120mm/f8 Nikkor. The filters need to be mounted directly to the lens and their wide outer ring accomodates adding additional screw in filters, such as a UV filter. On both these lenses you coul...

There is a Horseman (Universal back) on sale on ebay at the moment... current bid £100 - with only one bidder. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Horseman-6x12-back-for-5x4-camera_W0QQitemZ260377759670QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Photography_Film_Cameras_ET?hash=item260377759670&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1690...

Paul That's a very handsome shoe box you have there! I'm impressed that it even has an adjustible vent (open or closed) and takes a film holder. That's a evolutionary epoch event in the maturity of shoe boxes to something caressable with twiddly things too! Does it take photos as good as the Clarke...

Clarkes shoe boxes also have that nice smell of leather too! :lol: I fortunately have progressed from the shoe box phase... http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/3058784937_671ff302bd.jpg Paul That's a very handsome shoe box you have there! I'm impressed that it even has an adjustible vent (open or c...

Paul Mitchell wrote:Looks very nice... would make a great pinhole camera

It would, but surely that's what Clarkes shoe boxes were designed specifically for - once they've been blackened inside and modified?

Here are some photographs for those Ebonites (like me) who drool at the sight (let alone the touch) of their kit. Here is the Extension Back 452, which I've just acquired from Ffordes, secondhand. http://usera.ImageCave.com/AAC/UKLFPG/cameras/Ebony_ExtBk452_series%20(4%20of%206).jpg http://usera.Ima...

I've bought some stuff on ebay, but most secondhand anyway. I got my Linhof Kardan Color 45s off ebay a couple of weeks ago. For lenses I prefer to buy from a UK based dealer in case there are shutter problems, etc.

Hi Peter, Don't overlook the fact that with only 150ish bellows extension you won't realistically be able to do anything 1:1 as you need twice the bellow extension. I used to own a RSW45, a lovely camera but for me it's lack of extension meant it had to go in favour of a Chamonix 045N – a lovely ca...