Recent content by SteveInNZ

It would be the final product. Maybe used as a 1:1 contact print but no enlargement. That's useful information. Thanks.

I'd like to end up with a final image on a glass plate. Is there an established method to do that ? I have a 4x5 plate camera and could put an image up on the TV and photograph that. I could print a digital negative except that I only have a laser printer and know nothing about the process. Is...

You're just looking for the little leaks. A drop at a time. The idea of the soft paper is that you can see where the leak is and attend to it. If you have a catastrophic flood, you won't mind hosing out the inside anyway. It can't get any wetter. It's quite rare that you have a catastrophic...

I attended my first (for photography) war reenactment event in the weekend. It's quite a small affair here which gave a lot of time to work at my pace and talk with the people involved. I definitely got my satisfaction from using the Speed Graphic for the WW2 stuff and the Premo for Boer and...

Try your local dive shop and see if they have a pressure pot for doing exactly what you want to do. You fill it with water and plug it into some compressed air. You'd want to pass your bathtub test first. I stuff the thing with toilet paper, do your test and then remove the paper carefully...

Thank you all for your responses. It's been quite enlightening for me and had me considering myself, more than the photographs. I feel like I've spent an hour on the therapists couch. I think you've hit the nail on the head here. I show very few people my photos and almost never post them...

I'm fairly new at this and I'm really enjoying the process of using older cameras. My main camera is a Pony Premo #2 4x5 from around the turn of the century. However, the results are just too good !! When I get it right, the images are sharp and evenly exposed. I may as well have taken them with...

Love it ! I think I can also check all of those off my list of learning experiences. Those folks taking snaps with their phone don't know what they're missing. Steve.

My "learned it the hard way" is that the notches (top right) refer to having the film in portrait orientation. That doesn't seem to get mentioned often and if you're a landscape (orientation) kinda guy, your film gets loaded upside down. For what it's worth, a lot of light gets through the...

I'm pretty new to this too so my terminology may be wrong but I'm using a Premo #2 and have a disemboweled #3. The #3 has a focus knob that the #2 doesn't. Otherwise they're the same. The back section that I've labelled 'A' contains the ground glass and the plate holder holder (?). You can...

I use one of these types on my Kodak Pony Premo #2. You need to pull the bulb off the thumbscrew valve and pull out the one way valve inside with pliers or tweezers. Put the bulb back on and you're in business. It works well and will hold a "Bulb" exposure for as long as I've needed. The only...

Doremus, The "calculation" is where I am trying to get to. Is there one ? As Matt says "Thirty two pops (five stops) would probably be a stretch". If we were to take an extreme example (for the sake of discussion) and pop the same flash 128 times with full recycle time between flashes and from...

Matt, The intensity aspect is what got me thinking about it. If I need to use many pops to build up the image, then the number of photons arriving at the film for each individual flash would be low. My situation was similar to Andrew's example except that I couldn't get closer. I haven't seen...

I had a situation last night where I wanted to light paint during a long exposure but once I took reciprocity into account, it was going to be very long. So I started thinking about 'next time' and decided that multiple flash pops might be a better solution. I would assume that within a few...

I'm considering dipping my toe into the large format world and I feel like I'm right back at square one again, which is great. So much to learn. So many mistakes to be made. All good fun. Steve.