[LargeFormat] Shutterless Exposure Recommendations

[Ken Sinclair]

Benno

In the beginning... my mentor always wore a bowler hat in the field, when
we went out  on field trips. The bowler hat had black velvet in the "crown"
which did not actually get to touch what little hair he had left.

The bowler was held over the barrel lens (Gandolfi 8x10 circa 1905,
Waterhouse stops in barrel lens) the dark slide removed and the hand
"inserted" to remove the lenscap. The hat would then be removed out and
"downward"... made somewhat of a circle and replaced from the opposite
direction. This technique served him well for some 60 years. I cannot
really remember what "percentage" of exposure were less than one second..
but I do not recall that many that were "badly exposed"... Intuition and
experience added to the Ilford exposure tables worked remarkably well in
the days when exposure meters were a "rareity".

Ken


>I plan on getting 1 or 2 barrel lenses to use with my B&J 8x10.  I have
>never used a shutterless lens and was hoping to round up some ideas on how
>those of you who use barrel lenses control your exposure.  I often take
>fairly close shots, so my bellows will often be extended fairly far and to
>pull the dark slide on the film holder with one hand while holding something
>dark over the lens with the other sounds like a disaster waiting to happen
>for klutzy me.
>
>Thanks for the help as always.
>
>Benno Jones
>www.bjonesphoto.com
>
>
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