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Horseman 6x9 in the 9xx series have all movements, and on tripod with the focusing graflock back are view cameras. I do horizontal enlargement of whole and half plate sheets, with a custom diffusion back on the camera, alignments/ parallelisms checked with levels and cheap measuring laser. Of...

there is a Rittreck with the 5x7 back and the rotating 4x5 on Yahoo auctions now, 2 days left, current bid 1204 ￥ ie ~ 1,3 of your $. https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k1227496859 for items on Yahoo Japan i use Zenmarket proxy, they collect the import VAT for reversion to my treasury...

just to illustrate what "old" is "old" in Paris. At the time of Atget, Haussmann reshaping was accomplished since long (1870), so the old preserved in pictures by Atget was in part more about decorative architecture that is prone to disappear when real estate business or trends redo things, in...

the conclusion in that article points to former photographers of Paris: "D’autres photographes firent, par le passé, un travail similaire, citons : Nègre, Le Secq, Maraille. Ils furent de bons photographes mais ils n’avaient pas cette petite flamme qu’ont les grands artistes, leur capacité...

the biographic summary in Pelloch' 29 mentions a Jean Leroy. He collected testimonies about Atget, and with many of his photographs, made it into a small book in 1975: "Atget, magicien du vieux paris en son epoque." ISBN 10 : 2904732500 , a reprint in 1992 ISBN 13 : 9782904732508

:-) a pitfall I guess for some machine translators. Carrosse is a full coach (roofed, doors). Wondering if English car derives also from the same latin word carrus, that makes carro in Italian and Spanish. this: smaller, no roof, for summer, version: calèche. Fiacre is a rented calèche or...

long thread but fast to read. few points about Atget: - there is no comprehensive dedicated biographic book about Atget in French, because he was a regular guy, not a celebrity with a timeline of contacts, events with other celebrities. He was not a professional photographer with a studio...

Photoline It loads raw/dng/cr2/nef/etc. 79€. Very compact and fast. Runs on MacOS from 10.13. I am Unix user since ever, so have been using the usual BSD/Linux software on PC. I don't need advanced "developing" features of the digital format processors like Darktable, Rawtherapee, ART...

thanks. The fix was easy, even if glueing the H-values mask back on the slide must be done with caution. I am wondering about the original glue. Cyanoacrylate glue is strong but causes a "frosting" by the bonding edge, and in this case the bonding area is so tiny that it is important frosting...

I was browsing Yahoo Auctions without any plan, just looking around, and saw a Calcu-Light-X sold for ... 980¥ (!). This is 5 to 6 €/$/£. Bought it. Description says it is untested because corrosion in the batteries housing. Big probabilities it can be fixed, anyway I have fixed several cameras...

I had this Calcu-light XP for few years, but have been using mostly other light meters. Now for very light travel I am using it more. Probably the smallest and lightest meter with 10° accessory and fiber optic probe that I use on ground glass. The 10° viewfinder is uncommon on 2nd hand places...

I also have sets of sheaths for film, to use with the wooden plate holders. Last, I cut plates from cheap 2mm float glass sheets, and apply FOMA emulsion. Another way to enjoy these cameras if you get a kit camera+wooden holder, very common and cheap on Yahoo.

the one pictured in your first comment is somewhat uncommon: it has a spring back for film holder, but uncertain what kind of dimension, Matuo or Rittreck are common, Toyo are very uncommon. With back for glass plates holders, they cost very little when bought on Yahoo auctions site. Some...

in this film, Preikestolen, Kjeragbolten, Nordkapp plateau, have become very unnatural places because the huge flow of tourism. Author writes under her film on Youtube: "a reflective documentary exploring modern tourism and the transformation of serene European landscapes into curated...