[LargeFormat] Is there anybody out there

[Kent Gibbs]

Dearest Uncle,

Do you have any stores there that collect old discards from people and
use the physically challenged to clean up and sell it to someone else? 
There are several around here that can be counted on to have some gems
at very reasonable prices.  Any Salvation Army stores.

You might also skulk around estate sales or offer a painless root canal
to a cabinet maker.

Kent

--- Stein <rstein@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Dear Friends,
> 
>      Uncle Dick is out here and is large formatting until he falls
> unconscious. Actually it was not unconscious, it was rigid - he
> ricked his
> back hoisting the Mighty Shen Hao around the studio and has been off
> work
> for a week. This has not prevented him from using the camera to copy
> aboriginal artwork nor has it stopped him from photographing mermaids
> in the
> studio yesterday.
> 
>     The Mighty Shen now has a new old 8 x 10 wooden back courtesy
> eBay and
> an adapter to take the wooden back of the Nagaoka for 4 x 5 shooting.
> The
> use of real Lisco double darks in both 8 x 10 and 4 x 5 and real
> Ilford HP%
> film has made all the difference to the operation. I'm afraid the
> for-free X
> ray film can now be turned back in to the maker for silver recycling
> - the
> HP5 is all I want or need in 8 x 10.
> 
>     I have been using it to make 8 x 10 contacts reminiscent of the
> 40's and
> 50's Hollywood studio gallery shots. Real period decor and props is
> prohibitively expensive in antique shops but furniture and decor
> places
> sometimes have near-enough lookalikes to provide sets. There is a
> good deal
> of silver cloth and leopardskin prints about. I have yet to find a
> Jean
> Harlow bearskin rug, and indeed so far no Jean Harlow, but I am
> conducting
> weekly tests. I do have an Audrey Hepburn and a Sophia Loren.
> 
>     Next step is to get into the back of the Shen with some old 
> telephone
> switches and make a sychroniser block for the the packard shutter so
> that I
> do not have to coordinate my right hand with the bulb and the left
> hand with
> the Quantum radio sender. I get it right most of the time but have
> lost a
> few shots to mistiming.
> 
>      Uncle Dick
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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