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Re: cheap large format

Post by PAUL O » Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:29 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

oops 8)

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Re: cheap large format

Post by wannabegood » Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:58 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

thanks for your comments

i have a kodak no.1a but dont know if it will work as a lanscape use? me thinks it wont work :(

or can anyone reccomend a MF camera instead :( but i want LF :D

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product ... ts_id=7492 the film

i know this is a stupid question but is there a film that can be used in safelight :?:

are diy LF camera any good eg: compare to the one i listed, if i did build one does any one have plans to make a nice looking one :?:


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Re: cheap large format

Post by dave_whatever » Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:05 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

wannabegood wrote:thanks for your comments
or can anyone reccomend a MF camera instead :( but i want LF :D
I would have thought that £100 could easily get you started in medium format with an ebay 6x6 TLR (yashica?) a cheap indicent meter and a cheap tripod. You get a reversed view in the viewfinder, so at least you're halfway towards LF :wink:

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Re: cheap large format

Post by IanG » Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:15 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

There are some superb DIY LF cameras, Alan Clark who's a member here has made his own, look up Rayment Kirby - he has some pages on his site on camera building.

I have a Kodak 1a but the lens and shutters aren't brilliant, there are Speed/Crown Graphics selling for under £100 but you need to be fast to buy them.

Ulford Ortho Plus film can be processed with a dim safelight but it doesn't give normal tonality, dev tanks aren't that expensive or just dish process in the dark, I do that for my 10x8 negatives.

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Re: cheap large format

Post by Thingy » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:07 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Poor wannabegood.... last week I gave my "old" Linhof Colour Kardan monorail away (for free) to a financially impoverished photographer.... mind you it was rather heavy!!!! :'( :lol:

If you add just one zero on to that £100, you could buy a basic secondhand Ebony or a Gandolfi, or one of Walker's excellent cameras, and a cheapish Linhof (pre XL) lens.

The Bulldog really would be your best bet, if you're technically compitent to make it and have the necessary tools, however. If you exclude my beloved, old MPP Mk V, my very first LF camera was a lightproofed Clarkes shoebox with a pinhole and Ilford B+W photographic paper. I loaded my shoebox and placed the exposed paper in a Patterson film drum after exposure (emulsion side facing inside, of course) in my schoolboy darkroom: under my duvet at night with a couple of thick, heavy woolen blankets on top. I almost suffocated.... :? :oops:

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Re: cheap large format

Post by wannabegood » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:40 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

thats a shame because i would have paid you, not taken it away for free



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Re: cheap large format

Post by IanG » Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:00 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

I have a De Vere Whole Plate/Half Plate/5x4 monorail sat idle in the UK needs new bellows for the larger formats, but the bag bellows Camera Bellows (now Custom Bellows) made for me in 1976/7 are fine for 5x4 use, but a very heavy camera. I do want to sell it though :D

Look out for a Cambo Cadet a very versatile monorail, they are cheap light weight Dutch made, also sold as a Calumet Cadet in the US, I bought mine for around £100 and it's my main 5x4 camera when I'm in the UK, I don't fly with a 5x4 if I can help it so have a back up kit in the UK, all bought extremely cheaply off Ebay and a larger part from two forums APUG & LFPI.

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Re: cheap large format

Post by wannabegood » Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:33 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

IanG wrote:I have a De Vere Whole Plate/Half Plate/5x4 monorail sat idle in the UK needs new bellows for the larger formats, but the bag bellows Camera Bellows (now Custom Bellows) made for me in 1976/7 are fine for 5x4 use, but a very heavy camera. I do want to sell it though :D

Look out for a Cambo Cadet a very versatile monorail, they are cheap light weight Dutch made, also sold as a Calumet Cadet in the US, I bought mine for around £100 and it's my main 5x4 camera when I'm in the UK, I don't fly with a 5x4 if I can help it so have a back up kit in the UK, all bought extremely cheaply off Ebay and a larger part from two forums APUG & LFPI.

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how much are you looking for and maybe we can have a deal 8)



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Re: cheap large format

Post by IanG » Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:00 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Not a lot :D I'll have a think.

Not sure when I'm going to be in the UK at the moment, probably not until April, so you'd be in for quite a wait.

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Re: cheap large format

Post by wannabegood » Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:23 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

yer thats fine i dont need it till june so its ok :)



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Re: cheap large format

Post by Thingy » Wed Jan 13, 2010 4:33 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

You can start the fitness training necessary simply to lift :lol: the De Vere! The person I donated my old Linhof to transports it around on a heavy duty case trolley. Then again, her aluminium tripod weights more than my 45SU! :roll:
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Re: cheap large format

Post by wannabegood » Wed Jan 13, 2010 4:49 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

how many kilos? :D



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Re: cheap large format

Post by IanG » Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:17 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Many :crazy:

Probably 5 or 6 at a rough guess

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Re: cheap large format

Post by wannabegood » Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:50 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

IanG wrote:Many :crazy:

Probably 5 or 6 at a rough guess

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thats not that much i was expecting 10+Kgs :lol:


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