[LargeFormat] Hello all

[Danni Suskin]

Hello and welcome from me too.

I have a Saunders LPL 4x5 enlarger, but no longer use it at all. I have gone digital - using the BetterLight scanning back.

Danni

 Dan Suskin
     ...... leaving only footprints



>

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Les Newcomer" To: "f32 Large Format

> Photography Mail List" Sent: Thursday, May

> 29, 2008 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Hello all

>

>

>> Most of us have a 4x5 enlarger, well we had A 4x5 enlarger, then

>> like  those that rescue racing dogs and old horses, we started

>> "rescuing"  other enlargers when their owners cast them aside to

>> go over to the  dark side.  And like those that rescue racing

>> dogs, the enlargers  started to breed.  New ones showed up

>> unannounced while old friends  withered and died and their bones

>> scatter across the basement...

>>

>> Okay that went a bit far.

>>

>> Most of us have 4x5 enlargers, some have 5x7 and 8x10 enlargers,

>> And  I suspect few of us have migrated to a scanner in stead of

>> an enlarger.

>>

>> les

>>

>>

>> On May 29, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Tom Kumagai wrote:

>>

>>> Hello

>>>

>>> My name is Tom Kumagai and I am a new LF photographer. :D

>>> (amateur,  of course)

>>>

>>> I have been photographing nearly 30 years (since 10 yr old) and

>>> I  carry at least one camera every day the most of my life.

>>> I buy 100ft bulk-load Tri-X every three months or so, and I

>>> don't  even count how many 120 T-Max rolls I use per month

>>> (I am an IT engineer and work late too). Yes, and yes, I am

>>> addicted to photography.

>>>

>>> I found a nice Nagaoka Woody 4x5 folder at an used camera shop

>>> named Lemon, in Ginza Tokyo, only for 35,000 yen recently, just

>>> fell in love with it and needless to say, I brought  home with

>>> me. My point of interest in LF cameras is its ability

>>> to control perspectives and I do kind of prefer monorails for

>>> that  purpose, but a 4x5, even with limited movements,

>>> being this compact and light-weight is really nice to have. I

>>> also  bought myself a standard 150 Fujinon, 6 film holders, and

>>> a box of Neopan Acros.

>>>

>>> For a monorail, maybe I will get either Sinar or Toyo, used,

>>> and  add a monorail-to-linhof converter board,etc.

>>>

>>> I do darkroom myself, I do monochrome almost exclusively, I

>>> don't  have 4x5 tank (though somehow I have a 2x3 tank...)

>>> so i will be using trays for film development for a while.

>>>

>>> By the way, how do you people print? My small darkroom cannot

>>> allow  me to upgrade my enlarger (up to 6x7, made by Fuji,

>>> and it's a nice one too...). You all have a 4x5 enlarger?

>>>

>>> Cheers

>>>

>>> Tom

>>>

> Welcome Les and Tom, I'm glad to see some activity on this list

> after about a full year!

> I shoot several sizes but in sheet film mostly 4x5 and occasionally

> 8x10. I have an Omega D2V which will go up to 4x5. I've been

> planning to make an adaptor to allow using my 8x10 Agfa camera as

> an enlarger, I can do it without modifying the camera itself I

> think.

> I am not familiar with the Nagaoka camera but there is much

> similarity in view cameras. Most of the differences are in the

> number and extent of movements available. Old ones are IMO as good

> as new ones unless you are doing very critical studio work where

> duplicating set-ups accurately is necessary. That stuff is mostly

> done digitally now anyway. Fuji lenses are excellent although not

> very well known outside of television.

> Six holders is enough to start with. I don't know how many 4x5

> holders I have, I think I was collecting them for a while.

> I have two 4x5 view cameras, an Agfa/Ansco Universal View, actually

> a 5x7 camera with a factory 4x5 back on it. I also have the 5x7

> back. I also have 4x5 backs for both of my 8x10 cameras, four Speed

> Graphics and a Graflex Super-D. Also a Calumet CC-400, a nice

> monorail camera that will do anything the more expensive ones will

> do but has no glamour whatever.

> I was introduced to 4x5 and Speed Graphics by a highschool teacher

> who was also a press photographer. He taught me a lot of tricks

> including how to use a Graphic as a weapon!

> I process in either trays or print drums. I have an old Nikor tank

> for 4x5 and use that, its quite good. I contact print anything

> larger than 4x5. I also have adaptors and holders for 5x7 but

> haven't shoot any so far.

> Acros is very good film. I mostly use T-Max or Plus-X although I've

> used other films in the past. I shot of lot of Agfa APX-100 when it

> was available. Good stuff, I miss it. I mostly shoot B&W but

> occasionally shoot color although that is usually 35mm or 120.

>

> I hope we can stir up some more action here, I thought the list was

> dead:-(

>

> ---

> Richard Knoppow

> Los Angeles, CA, USA

> dickburk at ix.netcom.com

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