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Hard to answer- it depends how good a job you do cutting it so that it fits tightly on the spool. If it's cut much too short then there could be a lot of fogging from the edges. And some films are notorious for light-piping all the way through, e.g. HIE and any IR or extended red film will...

The aerial cameras are awesome! There has been an aerial plaubel on fleabay for months now, it keeps speaking to me in my dreams. Unfortunately my dreams also involve an open cockpit airplane or helicopter, a reckless pilot, and the coast of hawaii... The problem with the aerials is, of...

Next I will demonstrate cutting of aerial film with a bagel cutter ;)

:pinch: Sorry! At least it's all over in a few seconds. Sorry! But they are great little cameras...

Haha, it is actually the most comfortable chair ever... it is a stealth recliner. Very hard to sit in it and not take a nap.

Haha cscurrier, that chair is not of my choosing, it's left over by some old ladies :) Pentaxuser, you could keep the backing paper from another 127 roll and use that, or you could make your own backing paper. But this whole operation, including loading a camera, could easily be done in a...

Here's a quick vid showing how to cut any 120/220 film down to 127 format. Quite a money saver, if I do say so myself. http://youtu.be/o-HLR-k_qOE Enjoy :)

Declining demand for 'traditional' RF lenses does not mean that the prices for those lenses will go down- quite the opposite. The facilities that design and build these things do not have the luxury of scaling back instantly with the market- they have skilled labour and high-cost facilities to...

Just a couple quick thoughts: (1) it is (and always has been) blazingly obvious that EK's film division can turn a profit... if they are taken out from under the other mountain of debt. Ideally, that's what chp. 11 does- allow subparts of a business to rise out from under the cloud of the...

Yes, a basic grown graphic with a 135mm or similar lens will deliver quite shallow depth of field. A comparable linhof or horseman VH-R would also be something to consider. All depends how much attention you want to draw to yourself. A crown graphic will probably be the talk of the room; not...

Well the obvious choice is a press camera! They are actually very quiet and you have a rangefinder. How about a graphic? Put on a rollfilm back and call it medium format. There are fast lenses available. If you want something smaller and more agile, how about a konica hexar AF... stealthy...

Joe that dulcimer image is great! Sure, you can do that, although the paper probably isn't as red sensitive as you'd like; if you can find sensitivity curves for it then you'll see what I mean. I have made perfectly acceptable paper negatives from slides using ordinary (red insensitive) photo...

I wouldn't read too much into the price increases. Technical labor costs are rising, as well as the cost of the commodities associated with manufacturing things like this. For a long while, the cost of manufacturing some tech object in Asia was low; that is changing quickly. Plus, the currency...

Beautiful. I am especially impressed by how much the ice hanging down from the pole looks like fabric.

Simon, I hope you are considering a limited superspecial edition. Gold plated or something, with a velvet box and large price tag....

Yep. I call it instant film.

I think I'll stick with the b&w one, thank you.

Yeah well some of that is my sunburn... :D

Veery nice!

Your wish is my command. I am attaching a scan of a quick self portrait. No adjustments other than flipping the neg to positive. The sheet was rather clumsily handled, please pay not attention to the drying marks etc.

I use 77mm screw-ons. For the fisheye you can use a screw-on rear filter. To economize, you may be able to use a (much smaller!) rear filter for other lenses too, but this should be done with all due caution.

Yes, for absolutely no reason other than spare time and curiosity, I developed some astia 100F in RA4 chems. The result was a very thick negative image, despite running it for only 45 sec at a lukewarm temp. The image would probably be printable- it certainly was scannable. Any...

I think those expressions mean something like "haha look at her tryign to balance that ridiculous camera..." Just kidding; actually you're doing very well to be able to capture nice candid expressions after so little time with the camera. Good work, these are all very nice!

Well, you don't need fluorite for UV... unless you mean deep UV. What is your purpose? What wavelength are you aiming for? With fused quartz you can go way past the 360nm cutoff of ordinary glass. Anyway, if you want to try to track down those other lenses, best of luck to you, and I think...

Hey, nothing wrong with those, I like the look! When I say "should" do this or that, obviously I am talking about getting middle-of-the-road, accurate colours... which may not necessarily be effective colours...

You probably know this already, but if your purpose is to shoot UV, I would suggest looking at apo process lenses. Also, it seems that one of the most knowledgeable people, when it comes to UV lenses, is Bjørn Rørslett.

Please post images!

:blink: My condolences...

My guess is the item was out of stock, but yeah, just call...

When are we going to get past the eleventh chapter of this book?