[LargeFormat] Large Format Events - UK Workshop and US Conference

[john frost]

Jim:

A piece of square plastic downspout may work, check for viggnetting at 
the lens board, tho.

john (:>))) My spell check doesn't know 'vignetting', guess I'll have to 
look it (vignetting) up one of these days....

Jim Hemenway wrote:

> Clive:
> 
> While it has warmed up here in eastern Massachusetts, we nevertheless 
> have a forecast of snow tonight and again tomorrow night.  Accordingly, 
> the 11x14 is still in hibernation because of the frostbite that I earned 
> with it last January.
> 
> So, I've done a little bit with the Leica R8 with fisheye and with the 
> 19mm:  http://www.hemenway.com/Castle_in_Maine/
> 
> and some with the Rollei 6008i: http://www.hemenway.com/Monadnock
> 
> I have more, but haven't scanned them yet.
> 
> Large Format:  I'm looking at a 39 inch lens for the 11x14, and since 
> the bellows extends to only about 23 inches, am trying to figure out a 
> way to use it.  A long wooden tube comes to mind.  Or, a rear extension 
> twice as long as the current one, and a longer, bigger bellows.
> 
> Why oh why couldn't I have been born rich instead of just good looking?
> 
> 
> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
> 
> 
> 
> Clive Warren wrote:
> 
>> Whenever the list becomes quiet I check the mailserver to make sure 
>> that we are still live!  So a quick sanity check to make sure that all 
>> is well.
>>
>> Wonderful little packages have been arriving here at Warren Mansions 
>> from various parts of the world - the latest was an 8" Cooke Aviar 
>> together with a iris lens holding shutter that I am looking forward to 
>> using on a 5x7 camera as soon as the lens board has been drilled out.
>>
>> Work and the f32 web site have been taking up a lot of time here 
>> recently and there is still a backlog of 8x10 processing waiting for 
>> me in the darkroom. In addition, planning for the next large format 
>> workshop has been keeping me busy. The Spring workshop will take place 
>> on May 6th to 9th in Tintern, South Wales, UK.
>>
>> Full details here:
>>
>> http://www.f32.net/f32WorkShops/workshop52004_uk.html
>>
>> If the gods smile then a trip to the US for the LF conference in 
>> California is still on the cards - any of you going?
>>
>> Enjoy what's left of your Sunday.
>>
>> Cheers, Clive
>>
> 
> 
> 
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