[LargeFormat] Newbie alert - ? on using a strobe

[Delano Mireles]

Lauvone and Les,

thank you for the answers and suggestions.  I've been putting in new 
posts for my fence and haven't had a chance to follow up.  I'm hoping 
tomorrow will fare better for breaking the equipment out.  I'll let 
y'all know

Delano


On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 02:04 PM, Les Newcomer wrote:

> A couple of things to try....
>
> double check the asa setting on the flash meter.
>
> set the shutter to X.
>
> And while these shutters will sync at any speed, give it the benefit 
> of the doubt and set it to 1/50 1/60.
>
> Set the aperture wide open, Remove the ground glass back.  ( Yes 
> remove the back. Several people  on this list can certify that I'm 
> certifiable including Uncle Dick, just trust me).
>
> Unhook the the sync cord.
>
> with one hand hold on the cable release,   use the other  to adjust 
> the dark cloth  over your head and try to focus your eyes on the rear 
> of the lens.  Trip the shutter.
>
> Depending on what the ambient light is, you'll see something faint or 
> nothing at all.
>
> Now hook up the flash cord and do it again, just be sure the dark 
> cloth is keeping out as much light as possible.
>
> You should see something obviously different,  if it isn't then 
> there's  synchronizing problem.
>
> If it is  then reassemble the back shoot some film at the metered 
> aperture, and one wide open.
>
> And another with the metered aperture, but set the shutter to bulb, 
> turn off ambient lights and fire the flash and shutter manually  
> (open, FLASH, close)  Mark this one as it will determine whether the 
> meter is off.
>
> See what develops.
>
>
> On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 01:06  PM, Delano Mireles wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> a friend of mine has lent me his old B&J 4x5 w/Rodenstock 135mm.  I 
>> attempted to take some shots for the first time last night and was 
>> not successful at all.  Now, the lens does have something that trips 
>> the strobe.  So, using my L-358 I took a corded flash reading of 
>> 1/125 @ f22 with my Bee.  I then set the lens according to this 
>> reading then proceeded to take a couple of shots.
>>
>> After developing the negs I turned on the lights to be disappointed 
>> by seeing a blank neg.  It looked like there was nothing on the negs 
>> at all!  After this happened on 4 frames I went back and took a 
>> regular incident reading and shot two more frames 8 sec. @ f22 and 
>> had > success.
>>
>> I'm just assuming that the first run of negs were severely 
>> underexposed and that's the reason why the negs came out clear.
>>
>> There is something I am obviously missing here and I come to you for 
>> any ideas or suggestions as to what could be the case here.  The lens 
>> does have a "tab" that can either be set to "M" or "X".  I have no 
>> idea what these are and how they factor in.  I did try both setting 
>> and to no avail...
>>
>> Thanks for any insight you could offer this newbie!
>>
>> Delano
>>
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