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Re: The way this Board is run

Post by Peter B » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:02 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

vanman wrote:Hi Charles,
Are you cutting film to half plate size or have you a secret source of half plate film. I've got the holders but no film, I prefer 5x7 but half plate at the right price would be nice.
Vanman.
I haven't actually used them myself, but here's a link to a German website. http://www.lumiere-shop.de/index.php?pa ... &info=1670

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Re: The way this Board is run

Post by Dave Tolcher » Thu Nov 17, 2011 9:24 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Seeing as we are back on photography again.... or order some on the Ilford film run which is what I did for whole plate.

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Re: The way this Board is run

Post by Andrew Plume » Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:59 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

vanman wrote:Hi Charles,
Are you cutting film to half plate size or have you a secret source of half plate film. I've got the holders but no film, I prefer 5x7 but half plate at the right price would be nice.
Vanman.

Hello 'vanman'

my, that's a very interesting name that you post under

agphotographic should have some Adox in this size

best regards

andrew

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Re: The way this Board is run

Post by vanman » Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:44 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

On the German site the stuff's about a pound a sheet, I won't pay that let alone what Harmon are likly to charge. I'll stick to Foma for the time being. Thanks anyway Charles.
Andrew, I drive a Transit for my sins, I can find it in the dark as it usually smells of rancid Lurcher (better than the hairy leather bellows on the 11x14). We must meet up in the sometime I'm looking for a cheap Tessar. Thanks for the tip about AG.
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Re: The way this Board is run

Post by Charles Twist » Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:01 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00

vanman wrote:Hi Charles,
Are you cutting film to half plate size or have you a secret source of half plate film. I've got the holders but no film, I prefer 5x7 but half plate at the right price would be nice.
Vanman.
For this project, I am using Ilford's Direct Positive Paper which I am cutting down to size from 5x7. Not too bad a job - almost on a par with watching paint dry.

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Re: The way this Board is run

Post by Fourtoes » Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:03 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Hi Charles,

I've got a box of that in a draw somewhere. What speed are you rating it at? And are you just shooting it and deving it when you get home?
Oh and thanks for dropping the books back at the studio, sorry I missed you both.

T

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Re: The way this Board is run

Post by Andrew Plume » Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:09 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00

vanman wrote:On the German site the stuff's about a pound a sheet, I won't pay that let alone what Harmon are likly to charge. I'll stick to Foma for the time being. Thanks anyway Charles.
Andrew, I drive a Transit for my sins, I can find it in the dark as it usually smells of rancid Lurcher (better than the hairy leather bellows on the 11x14). We must meet up in the sometime I'm looking for a cheap Tessar. Thanks for the tip about AG.
Vanman

thx indeed 'v m'

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Re: The way this Board is run

Post by IanG » Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:50 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Charles Twist wrote:
By Front End, I presume you mean the non-forum part. I'll be putting some thought in to that today as I have cleared a few hours to work on it. We're all agreed it's not brilliant, but again we're limited by time and what skills we have in-house. Now if somebody out there knows a thing or two about web design and wants to help, please step forward. Thank you.

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Charles

Hi Charles

As it happens I have content / pages you can have, up to date & needing very little ediditing there's no strings. Yes messages go to Spam and unwanted PM's from moderators get deleted without even being read, I've not read any in months.

That needs explanation. I won't read or reply to what can't be said openly in public on this Forum and this is the only Forum I've ever needed to treat this way.

The bottom line is there's a need to clarify the structurev of the forum, and simplify thing, to many chiefs and a very few indians as the red highlighting clarifies :D

Ian

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Re: The way this Board is run

Post by Sal Santamaura » Wed Nov 23, 2011 2:49 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00

That the moderators continue to put up with this makes one suspect you might be in some way related to Neville Chamberlain. :) You're more tolerant folks than I, that's for sure.

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Re: The way this Board is run

Post by Charles Twist » Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:55 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00

IanG wrote: Hi Charles

As it happens I have content / pages you can have, up to date & needing very little ediditing there's no strings. Yes messages go to Spam and unwanted PM's from moderators get deleted without even being read, I've not read any in months.

Ian
Hello Ian,
There are plenty of people lurking on this forum and generally being put off by this discussion over who can be chief and who shouldn't be, so let's keep it to the point.
Seriously now, if you could give me/us some idea of the number of articles, their size and content, that would be useful. You've got my email, so maybe that's a better route than pm (smoke signals don't have the baud rate). We've progressed the design of the non-forum part as far as we can and we really need your articles at this point so that we can move to the next stage.
Thanks for your input.
Best regards,
Charles

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