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When you are traveling alone, you may need girl friends. This site will help traveling people to find casual love or Long-term. Before you travel to a city,...
engineclories
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Nov 9, 2007
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I,m going to make a 10 x8 camera, what I am having trouble finding out is the bellows lenght, I want to use the camera mainly for portrate and close up...
robert.fallis
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Dec 18, 2007
10:27 pm
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Well let's start with the basics, what f.l. lens are you planning on using? As a SWAG, I'd say a bellows length of around 750mm would probably suffice, maybe...
Erie Patsellis
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Dec 18, 2007
10:34 pm
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It depends on what your camera can take. Mine, for instance, has a camera extension rail that is more that 30-inches. How long a lens do you plan to use?...
Paxety Pages
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Dec 18, 2007
10:37 pm
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Bob, A "Standard" portrait lens for an 10x8 (Head and shoulders) would be in the 550mm to 600mm length. 450mm can be used for half length and 300 to 360mm for...
Richard Raymond
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Dec 18, 2007
10:57 pm
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Bob, Sorry, I didn't answer the last part of your question. For closeup photography you will need more bellows extension than for portraits for the lens focal...
Richard Raymond
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Dec 18, 2007
11:05 pm
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Is anyone who know anything about CRONOSCOPE WP10R WEIN ? Users manual ? Thanks Michel Michel Dusariez dusariez@... NOUVEAU SITE - nouvelles images ...
Michel Dusariez
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Dec 19, 2007
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:37:35 -0000, Paxety Pages <pages@...> wrote: How long a lens do ... thanks all ... bob ... -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail...
robert fallis
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Dec 19, 2007
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I think the problem of handling portraits has been well handled. Close up work is a but harder because you must define how close (what is the ratio of image...
R. Mueller
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Dec 19, 2007
5:23 pm
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Excellent reply from Ric in Nevada. Best I've read! I learned new stuff. Thanks from me too! Bob, 1:1 macro requires 'double belows extension', i.e. 300 mm...
murrayatuptowngallery
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Dec 19, 2007
10:49 pm
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One advantage of 1:1 and above, the lenses that wouldn't cover (or barely cover) image circles also double, so that 150 Hexanon will focus at 1:1 with 300mm of...
Erie Patsellis
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Dec 19, 2007
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When you are traveling alone, you may need girl friends. This site will help traveling people to find casual love or Long-term. Before you travel to a city,...
geraldjohnson48
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Jan 12, 2008
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I'm fitting a Goez lens, about 4' diameter, onto an old aerial camera.  I don't have a lens cap for the lens, and thought someone might have made one, or know...
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Jan 26, 2008
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That should be 4 in. diam.  Sorry for causing any heart palpitations. Marty ________________________________________________________________________ More new...
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Jan 26, 2008
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This should not be too hard. You must decide about materials (lifetime), but I think even some commercial ones were hardly better than cardboard. Anyway, make...
R. Mueller
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Jan 26, 2008
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Marty, If you take the lens to your grocery store, you might find a lid that would fit your lens. For instance, coffee can lids are 4" across. One of them just...
sam wang
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Jan 27, 2008
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Hi Marty, I have made plenty of odd-size lens caps over the years, basically using the same method as they used back them for making morocco lens caps, but of...
Samuel Tang
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Jan 27, 2008
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... "R. Mueller" <r.mueller@...> escreveu: This should not be too hard. You must decide about materials (lifetime), but I think even some commercial...
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Jan 28, 2008
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Here's how the pros make one http://www.skgrimes.com/caps/index.htm ... -- NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard http://www.noooxml.org/petition...
steve george
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Jan 28, 2008
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Hi, I would think a strip of heavy felt glued on the inside of your piece going around the outside of the lens.This if snug would give some holding power for...
Ra
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Jan 28, 2008
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I took my lens to the hardware store. I found a PVC pipe cap in the plumbing section and padded it out with a little self-sticking felt I also found at the...
Paxety Pages
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Jan 28, 2008
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Thanks to the several members who sent suggestions.  All together, they suggest a process that I think will work for me.  I'll let you know how it works. ...
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Feb 1, 2008
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I am gathering up materials to start another home made camera, and was wondering if anyone has tried using regular black vinyl from a fabric store to...
igrindstaf
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Feb 2, 2008
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On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:21:07 -0000, igrindstaf <igrindstaf@...> ... I wonder if the black vinyl would be light proof, I use light proof cloth, from...
robert fallis
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Feb 3, 2008
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Porter's Camera sells material specifically designed for this sort of thing: ...
Myron Gochnauer
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Feb 3, 2008
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Ivan, If you wanted a bag bellows, the vinyl simulated leather used for reupholstering chairs would work. For regular bellows, it's better to use the "darkroom...
sam wang
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Feb 3, 2008
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It does seem like everyone who has had success has used two layers of material, I guess one for support and one for light proofing. I've seem a couple...
murrayatuptowngallery
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Feb 3, 2008
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It is a matter of taste but I would be happiest to see two layers, both able to block light completely. In such a case, a tiny failure in one layer is ...
R. Mueller
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Feb 3, 2008
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Thanks everyone for the info it looks like Porter's will be the way to go and maybe save the vinyl for the outer shell for color if red or green is wanted....
igrindstaf
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Feb 5, 2008
2:06 am
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Hey gang, I have an older style Cambo compendium lens shade that I was going to adapt to my Calumet CC-400 4x5. Well I found the correct shade for that camera...
Matt Mengel
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