I seem to have completely missed the main point about of posting images in the gallery. People actually respond to them - ask questions, even give you compliments! I haven't actually been back to the images I posted over the last two or three months and, as a result, have missed all of this and ignored you folks. My sincere apologies! Check me off as a space cadet, but please, not as a person who willfuly ignores comments and questions. I'll try to be more on top of things, honest.
Now.. To the other thing. I got a couple of magic lantern lenses in a deal at the Photographica show here in MA last month and have finally made an image with one of them. This is a B&L that I believe to be the brother of the one that Jim Galli used to take some GREAT portraits. I now have 4 of these things and I'm trying to get a way to try them all. The student shot I put up a while ago (yes, he is wearing a checked tie and a checked shirt - new-preppy, the artful blending of old with sloppy) is another of the lenses. The focal plane shutter of an anniversary Speed Graphic worked fine for that one but I had to rebuild an old Calumet 401 to get enough bellows for the B&L . At a lens to object distance of about 4 feet I was close to maxed out on the 23" monorail.
To answer the question of flanges. I have made Luan plywood lens boards for the Graphic where I've simply threaded the hole with the lens. The brass threads on the lens barrel will cut the wood pretty cleanly if you cut the hole carefully and screw the board onto the lens evenly. The Calumet was another story. Aluminum plate, jewelers saw, hot glue and gaffer's tape for light control. T'aint pretty, but it seems to work.
I have two more lenses to try and a whole bunch more pictures to take. One lens is too big for the cameras I've been using (flange is over 5" wide) and I can't speak of the coverage of any of these things because I can only try them on 4x5's. I've got a Cambo lensboard started but the aluminum I'm using seems to be hardened and I get tired and have to stop for a beer every few minutes when I'm sawing it. Takes awhile.
I'm willing to loan these things out if others want to try them, by the way, maybe even trade or sell them. PM me if you've got a hankering for some seriously short DOF and old glass.
Now.. To the other thing. I got a couple of magic lantern lenses in a deal at the Photographica show here in MA last month and have finally made an image with one of them. This is a B&L that I believe to be the brother of the one that Jim Galli used to take some GREAT portraits. I now have 4 of these things and I'm trying to get a way to try them all. The student shot I put up a while ago (yes, he is wearing a checked tie and a checked shirt - new-preppy, the artful blending of old with sloppy) is another of the lenses. The focal plane shutter of an anniversary Speed Graphic worked fine for that one but I had to rebuild an old Calumet 401 to get enough bellows for the B&L . At a lens to object distance of about 4 feet I was close to maxed out on the 23" monorail.
To answer the question of flanges. I have made Luan plywood lens boards for the Graphic where I've simply threaded the hole with the lens. The brass threads on the lens barrel will cut the wood pretty cleanly if you cut the hole carefully and screw the board onto the lens evenly. The Calumet was another story. Aluminum plate, jewelers saw, hot glue and gaffer's tape for light control. T'aint pretty, but it seems to work.
I have two more lenses to try and a whole bunch more pictures to take. One lens is too big for the cameras I've been using (flange is over 5" wide) and I can't speak of the coverage of any of these things because I can only try them on 4x5's. I've got a Cambo lensboard started but the aluminum I'm using seems to be hardened and I get tired and have to stop for a beer every few minutes when I'm sawing it. Takes awhile.
I'm willing to loan these things out if others want to try them, by the way, maybe even trade or sell them. PM me if you've got a hankering for some seriously short DOF and old glass.
