Recent content by domaz

It's extremely hard to price these other than as a "project" camera. No one is going to know or have an idea how well it actually works as-is. The one critical measurement of any LF camera (and more so the larger the format) is the ground glass / film holder "T-Distance". Not having holders with...

Instead of a forgery I wonder if someone had the lens mounted in a shutter and they discarded the old barrel and thus the old name ring wouldn't fit, so they simply made a new one and misspelled it or didn't take much care. The labelling may have only been for there own use after all (in there...

Any interest at $50?

Bump $70

Bump $165

Up for sale is a nice little 150mm Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar in Dial-set Compur. Shutter and aperture works as it should. Retaining ring included. Lens is in good vintage condition with mostly internal dust and a single loose paint speck to report and some grime around the extreme edges. All in all...

Up for sale is a 305mm Repro Claron f/9 in good condition. The optics are good with some internal dust, a couple small coating spots and some minor yellowing (which should clear under UV light). Lens is coated as it should be. It comes with a flange. All in all very nice barrel lens to have in...

Up for sale is a very nice looking Voigtlander Bessa II with the 105mm Color Skopar f/3.5 lens. The Good: The lens is clean with only some dust visible in bright light. The shutter works at all speeds- may be slightly slow at 1 second. The bellows don't leak light (flashlight/film tested)...

Koraks- In Sandy's (and others) Carbon Printing book I believe it mentions that Ferric Carbon on an albumen substrate should work, but I have seen no confirmed reports from anyone that it actually does. From what I've gathered the most successful way to do Ferric Carbon is using fixed out silver...

Have you tried Ferric Carbon double transfer Koraks? I.e. transferring onto an Albumenized Mylar or similar. That at least would mean you could possibly clear the stain with something before getting the image on paper. I've heard varying reports of how well Double Transfer works with Ferric...

Ran across this post on Facebook recently. Apparently N-METHYL-4-(P-FORMYLSTYRYL)PYRIDINIUM METHYLSULFATE) or SBQ can be used in conjuction with PVA for what appears to be non-toxic Gum-like printing. Not much details though, but looks promising and could possibly be an alternative for non-toxic...

Inkjet papers can successfully be used for Carbon Transfer Printing. I've never tried it but have heard reports that certain papers will transfer quite well without any kind of preparation. To be safe they should be prepared with a hardened gelatin layer though which involves brushing on gelatin...

I find RC paper a lot easier to transfer to then fibre based paper. For some reason my Fibre based paper transfers don't seem to work as consistently well as RC. The moral of the story is it's probably best to start with fixed out RC paper. The added benefit of RC paper is you can transfer to...

Bruce- The most important way to avoid frilling when carbon printing is to make sure you have a safe edge. Are you doing a safe edge? If you are already doing a safe edge I would focus on how you are squeegeeing your tissue to your media. Are you squeegeeing in one smooth motion using...

I.e. piece of black cardboard you put over the lights after turning them off.