Best source for ground glass

You take things too seriously. Are you training to be a moderator? You're doing a swell job. Let me aid you in your training. Hit the ignore button and relieve yourself of the stress of ever having to read a comment that you don't agree with. Or just go and take a picture. That's what i'm going to do.

Larkis, Dead Link Removed and also http://www.dokasphotos.com/techniques/ground_glass/ go over it if you're at all interested in making some. A carbide scribe or glass cutter to cut the glass into pieces and a sharpening stone to smooth the edges with a bit of practice and patience.. I've used valve grinding compound to start and finish it off with approx. 600 grit silicon carbide. Sears still has the valve grinding compound, the silicon carbide you'll probably have to order unless you have a lapidary supply shop around.

The rougher grits make a brighter glass but are distracting when viewed through a loupe.

If you want to buy, I can't help you there but have seen some nice ones on ebay. I can say that the ones i've made are very close if not equal to the standard graflex ground glass.

Also, Larkis, sorry if I hijacked your thread. That was not my intention.

2F/2F said:

I do not, nor did I, presume to know the details. I was not trying to say that the smoking is causing his problems at all. The last thing I want to do is be an anti smoking crusader on a photography Website. I only commented on something that *appeared* ironic when viewed. It was not a comment about Dave, but a comment on accidental humor, I guess you might say.

I do not know Dave, but I wish him well. I am sure we have all been affected by health issues with those we know and love. I sure have. My apologies for making myself unclear and for finding humor in the area immediately surrounding a sensitive issue.

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Not a problem. It just looks bad. Unclear anticedent *L*.

I have written to Dave a number of times over the last couple of years, about GG, photography, and life in Montana (a place I lived for one year of semi-retirement) and consider him a distant friend. I am sure Dave wouldn't take it all that seriously either. He is good egg.

tim in san jose

Phillip P. Dimor said:

You take things too seriously. Are you training to be a moderator? You're doing a swell job. Let me aid you in your training. Hit the ignore button and relieve yourself of the stress of ever having to read a comment that you don't agree with. Or just go and take a picture. That's what i'm going to do.

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Close. I have a couple of lens boards to make for the Deardorff.

Have a good one.

tim in san jose

Has someone used both GVB and SatinSnow? How goes the comparison?

What I want is a good-quality one made of some sort of plastic material instead of glass (for my field cameras). Is this possible?

Plastic may be possible as all GG for microscopic cameras (read 135 size film) are made of plastic. Unfortunately those plastics are so soft they scratch really easily !
But in those cameras the GG is well concealed. So it can resist very well scratching. what a bout a big 8x10 GG without protection ? how long will it be usable ?
Just my 2¢ ;-)

Tachihara ground glass (plastic) screen/fresnel + gridded cover glass is a good one.

Jon

2F/2F said:

What I want is a good-quality one made of some sort of plastic material instead of glass (for my field cameras). Is this possible?

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Bruce Wehman's 8x10 camera comes with both glass and plastic ground glasses. I tried both and decided that while the glass one was a little brighter and a little clearer, the plastic one (it may have been plexiglass,) was 'good enough' as well as lighter and, of course, not really breakable. So yes, it is possible.

Mike