Recent content by Kilgallb

Yes, the Shen-hao does fold and close without pinching. Maybe I need to make discretion the better part of valour and not do it.

Great image. I like the tone and the colour.

I mostly use my 90mm with my Shen Hao 4x5. This means removing the bellows and replacing with the bag bellows to get tilt. Then doing the reverse when you are done. Is it ok to fold the camera up with the bag bellows in place? Or will I damage the bag bellows if I leave it in place folded up...

I would make the little room totally wet for developing film and prints to 16x20 black and white in trays. Put the RA4 processor in there too. I would make the big area for the enlarger and handling paper. Totally dry. Also to load film developer tanks.

The problem you describe is why there is a rubber cover for the eye piece attached to the carry strap. I still have mine.

You need a device to sense you are are pointing your camera at the the North sky while news reports say there is high sunspot activity then invoke the filter that makes the processing invoke the Northern Lights filter. Apple really does this.

Thanks for the input. I have a 35mm Pentax made for a 645 system and have used it on a Canon RP using a Photodiox tilt swing adaptor. The lens works well with lots of rise or tilt, but tilt is always the opposite direction from rise and fall. I never thought of using an enlarger lens, good idea.

I hope this is the right location for this. It is digital in nature. If in the wrong place please move. Has anyone used a Cambo Actus B with a mirrorless DSLR. I would like to know if the front tilt and swing are a fine movement with the ability to precisely set angles. I had a Toyo 45CF...

I have owned a K1000 for years. I think Pentax optimized the meter to work outside on a sunny day with Kodak asa 80 film they sold in those days.

My local Home Despot usually has bamboo table tops for less than $100.

Yesterday Claude told me to buy panchromatic paper to do monochrome prints from. Colour negatives. Sloppy!

One thing I always wondered about leaf shutters is the speed to full open. It would seem at faster speeds the percentage of the total time to open is greater on a fast speed than a slow speed. Do any of these shutter tester measure the on and off time or compensate for it?

Some time ago I got this reply from Ilford. I was asking about what wavelengths for LEDs to do split grade printing. The maximum green sensitivity of our Multigrade materials is at approximately 530nm, and you should aim for an LED source emitting within about 5nm either side of this. The...

I made a heavy dark cloth then years later bought a light weight one. After being frustrated with the wind blowing it around, I went back to the old hand made heavy cloth.

I shoot landscapes so the tilt thing is to push the bottom of the lens board to focus the foreground. Work on that until top to bottom is in focus. Then left to right for front swing.