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Hello everyone,

I was pointed this way from the RPS forum by Paul Mitchell, it took a while to get around to it but now I'm here, thanks Paul.

My main interest is landscapes which up until quite recently I was doing solely with digital but a few months ago, feeling like I needed a new challenge, I decided to add to the toolbox and dive into the lovely world of 4x5. It's been a fun ride so far and I'm looking forward to picking the brains of all the knowledgeable people on here

Paul.

Hi Paul

Welcome to the forum.

It's good to see someone else from Bristol. Perhaps there may be enough interest to organise a Westcountry meet...

If you are thinking of darkroom work, then the St Pauls community centre darkroom has 3 LF enlargers. The devere 507 is set up to go. Chris Waller (who runs the darkroom courses) does some 5x4 work himself.

Ian

zoikes wrote:Perhaps there may be enough interest to organise a Westcountry meet...

Please do

zoikes wrote:If you are thinking of darkroom work, then the St Pauls community centre darkroom has 3 LF enlargers. The devere 507 is set up to go. Chris Waller (who runs the darkroom courses) does some 5x4 work himself.

Ian, can you please see if Chris can join us and let people know what is available? And, of course, we'd simply like to have the company of yet another LFer

zoikes wrote:Hi Paul

Welcome to the forum.

It's good to see someone else from Bristol. Perhaps there may be enough interest to organise a Westcountry meet...

If you are thinking of darkroom work, then the St Pauls community centre darkroom has 3 LF enlargers. The devere 507 is set up to go. Chris Waller (who runs the darkroom courses) does some 5x4 work himself.

Ian

Hi Ian,

I’ve not really thought about darkrooms as I guess I’m more of a scan and print type person but you never know in the future. I’d definitely be interested in a Westcountry meet at some point.

Paul.

Welcome Paul

It would be good to hear what model of camera you have and details of the lenses, too?

regards

andrew

Andrew Plume wrote:Welcome Paul

It would be good to hear what model of camera you have and details of the lenses, too?

regards

andrew

Hi Andrew, thanks for the welcome.

The camera is an Ebony 45SU, I know, but I just couldn't resist it when I saw a used one up for sale

Lenses are a Schneider APO-Symmar 210mm 5.6 and a Nikkor SW 90mm 4.5, I'm thinking of getting something wider soon but haven't decided how wide yet, and maybe something to sit between the 210 and the 90.

Paul.

Paul Dunning wrote:

Andrew Plume wrote:Welcome Paul

It would be good to hear what model of camera you have and details of the lenses, too?

regards

andrew

Hi Andrew, thanks for the welcome.

The camera is an Ebony 45SU, I know, but I just couldn't resist it when I saw a used one up for sale

Lenses are a Schneider APO-Symmar 210mm 5.6 and a Nikkor SW 90mm 4.5, I'm thinking of getting something wider soon but haven't decided how wide yet, and maybe something to sit between the 210 and the 90.

Paul.

Paul....heavens, yet another Ebony user on here...............great Cameras, terribly solid and they should hold their value well in the used market

personally, I do not 'see very wide' at all whereas plenty do, it's probably because I'm not overly interested in either landscape or architectural stuff

that's a 'fair gap' between 90 and 210mm, 150mm as I'm sure you know is 'the standard focal length' for a 4x5. A 210mm lens is nice for 4x5

best regards

andrew

The camera is an Ebony 45SU, I know, but I just couldn't resist it when I saw a used one up for sale

A wise choice. The asymmetric tilt makes focussing a breeze!

Lenses are a Schneider APO-Symmar 210mm 5.6 and a Nikkor SW 90mm 4.5, I'm thinking of getting something wider soon but haven't decided how wide yet, and maybe something to sit between the 210 and the 90.

Any wider than 90mm and you'll run into problems with (lack of) bellows flexibility so make sure you budget for bag bellows if you want to use a lot of movements.

Welcome to the forum Paul, I did say you would receive a warm welcome!

As an aside I've been exploring parts of the Ridgeway recently and am willing to organise a day out somewhere near Swindon if anyone's interested?

Paul

Paul Mitchell wrote:Welcome to the forum Paul, I did say you would receive a warm welcome!

As an aside I've been exploring parts of the Ridgeway recently and am willing to organise a day out somewhere near Swindon if anyone's interested?

Paul

Hi Paul,

I'd definitely be up for that, and thanks for the warm welcome.
Paul.

Hi
I may be able to come along - please keep me posted

Ian

Paul Mitchell wrote:Welcome to the forum Paul, I did say you would receive a warm welcome!

As an aside I've been exploring parts of the Ridgeway recently and am willing to organise a day out somewhere near Swindon if anyone's interested?

Paul

Sadly , I'm actually in Swindon- well, someone has to live here!

Seriously though, I'd be interested in a local meet.

Cheers,
Carol

Carol Bullock wrote:

Paul Mitchell wrote:Welcome to the forum Paul, I did say you would receive a warm welcome!

As an aside I've been exploring parts of the Ridgeway recently and am willing to organise a day out somewhere near Swindon if anyone's interested?

Paul

Sadly , I'm actually in Swindon- well, someone has to live here!

Seriously though, I'd be interested in a local meet.

Cheers,
Carol

Hi Carol,

I'm sure you'll be very welcome There is a thread over in the workshops section discussing this, viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2979

Paul.