[LargeFormat] Contact frame
Ken Hough
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Sat Jun 15 04:13:00 2002
My first Deardorff bought at the tender age of 15 years old was just like that!
A photo sale of immense proportion. It ran for 3 weeks. I was there
everyday. Brass barrelled lenses and cirkut cameras. The list went on. When
the widow was down to a few scraps I bought what was left. A 5x7
Deardorff no one could open and a 4x5 Super D that was stuck to the
bottom of a wood box. It would not pull out! 25.00 for it all. The Deardorff
opened and was usable as is. Even had a 135 WF ektar mounted. The Super
D was a bit harder to figure out, It was screwed to the box. The veneer on
the bottom was peeled away to reveal the screws. Why? It took 25 years to
figure it out. The photographer was also a wood worker. He was selling the
Super D
and built a box to ship it in. The "to be" owner had been told how to slide
the veneer out of the way. The screw holes went into the rubber bumper
perfectly. Yes I still have the cameras and a few other items. The original
future owner found another Super D that for the past 30 years I've Cleaned
Lubed and adjusted every 5 years. He shoots the most beautiful ektachromes
for calenders I've ever seen.
Ken
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I generally use a piece of foam rubber under all that stuff (like paper and
negative and glass). I do have a frame that is 11x17 but is sort of a pain
in the butt to use. Price was right, free. Speaking of free or very
nearly, yesterday I bought a new style dry mount press (Seal) that was very
dirty but will clean up nicely. All the electronics work(that is it heats
and the temp gauge works and all the lights come on. Estate sale
price.....$15.00 They were so relieved to get rid of it that they knocked
off $5.00 just for me asking if they would. I am back tomorrow to see if
anything else is around. I saw a Kodak 8x10 bucket that might make a nice
film washer. It was really nasty. There were some small enlargers and
lights and umbrellas but pretty rough stuff. No cameras though. My dream
as a junker is to walk into a pristine Deardorff 8x10 of course and have
the person running the sale say."Oh, that old thing. What will you offer?"
lee
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From: "Ken Hough" <k4sb@niia.net>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Contact frame
> Dear Uncle Dick
> 3/8 in plate glass is fine. The secret is the backing. Remember the old
> contact frames that squeesed everything together? The felt had no "give".
> Neither should your backing. I contact print 14x17 with a 16x20 sheet of
> glass and a piece of indoor / outdoor industrial carpet as a backing.
> There is no room for air pockets to cause the blurrieness of the image.
> Ken
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> Dear Lee,
>
> Yes, it really is my name, and yes, I really am an uncle - to an
> increasingly nervous set of nephews and nieces. I am the sort of uncle who
> fills their children up with red food colouring, starts a game of cowboys
> and indians with real bows and arrows and then leaves. I am good for
> Christmas presents but the ones I give generally make noise or need
> hard-to-obtain batteries.
>
> I have tried thick glass but I don't seem to be able the get the sort
of
> close contact between negative and paper that the 4 x 5 frame provides -
> there seem to be areas 'out of focus' as it were. I think I need more
back
> pressure.
>
> Uncle Dick
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