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Zebra said:

Tri,

thank you for the kind words. Coming from someone who's work I enjoy so much it means a lot.

I mounted the 8D on a nine inch board that the Ebony accepted. The flange goes all the way to the edge of the board. I didn't want to cut the flange, and I was afraid wood boards wouldn't maintain their structural integrity so I had an alumium board made that would account for the flange going to the edge and still make the allowance to fit into the groove of the camera. It worked out really well. The shop I had make it though locally (I had a week off from work right when the lens came to me and couldn't stand the thought of not shooting it during the week so no SK Grimes) wasn't set up to handle making it black so although they did a great job with the lensboard itself it was really shiny. What you see in the above picture of my son was light hitting the sensitized plate in the camera bouncing back and hitting the shiny aluminum and then fogging the plate. The fogging was vexing to me as I kept thinking it was chemical but with the help of Jason Greenberg Motamedi I came to black out the back of that lensboard in the other shots posted. I like the dreamy feel of this even though its a bit foggy and of course the fact that its my son who won't sit for me often, makes it even more special too me.

Thanks again for the kind words,

Monty

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