andrew_pell

Thanks for the alternative suggestion - Oakworth isn't a million miles away.

I managed to get hold of some ø80mm aluminium round and have a friend who has a lathe so that's another option to try if he can get the correct pitches set up etc as it's a manual machine.

Andrew

Dan,

I'll have to give Ian (Broadhead?) a call - I've spoken to him before at various shows and hopefully they're going to Focus on Imaging in Febuary. They might have something off-the-shelf...

Andrew

Thanks for the info Jay - the only fly in the ointment is that I'm in the UK and things might get a bit expensive sending items over to the US (especially the lens as it's "solidly built.")

I can hopefully provide my own material and have a couple of local machinists I can call on who should have the capability...

I've already bought an M39 adaptor from Odyssey Sales and that wasn't the cheapest of things (50 GBP all in) and tried getting hold of one from somewhere else for the Boyer but they sent the wrong one :-(

The incorrect one is of a flat plate design 1/4" thick with an internal and external thread so has a lot less operations to manufacture than the M39 one (cup design with knurled edges etc).

I might hold on the incorrect one for now in case it fits any of the other lenses I have when I check.

Thanks

Hello all,

I'm trying to fit a 150mm f4.8-16 Boyer Saphir enlarging lens to a De

Vere 54 enlarger (not a 504) and am going to need an adaptor flange

turning. I know this seems obvious fitting an enlarger lens to an

enlarger but the only info I can find about Boyer on the web is for

taking lenses (and it still doesn't mention thread sizes :-( .)

Can anybody confirm that the lens thread is ø1.75" x 1mm pitch and

for that matter, the enlarger is ø2.5"-16TPI 55° BSW?

If they aren't these sizes, does anybody know the official sizes as

I'm getting nowhere on the net?

Thanks

Hello Gavin,

I'm also in the UK and found that Intro2020 - www.intro2020.co.uk (used to be called Introphoto) are the importers - these things aren't cheap - I was quoted something like 320 quid plus the dreaded VAT for a 3010 - eek!

I might have sourced one second-hand which is a bit cheaper (if the store can find it :-( ).

I've already got a motorised base and reading some of the earlier posts it looks like it's possible to use the tank without a Jobo processor so I shouldn't have to spend even more money.

Andrew

PS are the tanks "sealed" or just light-trapped during operation, i.e. are they a daylight tank once loaded? Presumably the bung on the pump seals the tank so that the lid can be pressurised off when you want to get in?

Thanks for the reply Bill - I ordered a set from the US Calumet site and asked them to contact me regarding the shipping costs - I didn't want to pay $5 export charge and $40-odd Fedex charge for a $6 order.

I got an email saying that they would sent them in an envelope for $1 s&h charge. Thanks to Calumet for understanding the situation.

I've now got 2 stickers from the States probably for less than 1 plus s&h charges over here!

Now got to go out and practice with the readings... :-)

Andrew

Unfortunately Calumet UK doesn't list the sticker and the US site says they are expecting stock sometime at the main warehouse. (Went through the order process to find s&h costs is 41 dollars for a 6 dollar order :-( - what's up with putting 2 stickers in an envelope and using a stamp?)

B&H haven't replied to an email I sent and I can't get onto the View Camera site (was Darkroom Innovations?) to see if they supply...

I'd heard mention that an Ansel Adams gallery sold them - does anybody have any details?

I can't seem to find anything about Zone VI Studios - was it swallowed / sold out totally by /to Calumet?

Thanks for any further info...

Andrew

PS this looks like the start of a wild goose chase...

Thanks David - looks like I'll have to give them a ring to see how up to date the website is. They list a sticker for the Soligor meter (ZN6530) which looks like it should fit the Pentax digital as it's straight (I thought the Soligor took one like the Pentax analogue meter?).

The part no. from the US Calumet is ZN6536 for the PDSM.

Andrew

Hello all,

I've finally taken the plunge and bought a Pentax digital spotmeter

to hopefully get round my gripes with a starlite and was wondering

where to get hold of a Zone VI sticker for the barrel in the UK.

Calumet in the UK doesn't list them (they used to) but they and B&H

Photo do in the US.

I know I could make up a numbers label myself but wanted the version

with the tones already on so I can get a bit more experience placing

zones (my pc printer isn't up to the job of doing it).

Does anyone know of anywhere over here that might stock them? (Robert

White doesn't as I asked when I bought the meter). If it comes to it

I might just fire of an order to the US and see what happens.

Thanks in advance

Armin

.....unless you want to take low light subjects and then the Starlite's a pain in the butt.

I've got to wake mine up by taking readings from brilliant highlights for minutes before it'll even think about giving me a reading from somewhere darkish and then I don't completely trust it. I also find it doesn't want to play ball down to the EV spec as shown in the catalogues.

It's great for flash and incident readings but a pain on spot and seems to be flimsy - mine's been back for a cracked screen and battery compartment latch after very little use.

I've come to the conclusion I'm going to have to look at getting a Pentax Digital for architecture (main interest) and use the Starlite for outside / bright shots or flash which I don't do a lot of.

Paul,

From the 10" extension rail I have (too much grief getting the camera out from under a load of bits to get the standard rail ;-) ):

Outside diameter: ø37/37.1mm.

Key width: 7mm o/all.

Depth of key + rail: 40.6mm.

Key is on top when assembled (or same side as bellows)

Does this look like somebody's trying to make their own?

Andrew

PS how do you get the formatting on plain text to leave the paragraphs as you want them?

I mainly take LF pictures inside cathedrals in England as the gear's too heavy for much else (P2 kit & 058 tripod). Most people keep away apart from the one's who are photographers who sometimes ask things.

If the "general public" talk to you, they ask if you're on commission doing the next Pitkin guide for the building (a series of guidebooks with spot on pictures in them - mostly). If only I was that good. You can get some really daft questions that show they haven't a clue and then they get the compact out and the flash goes to take a picture 70 yards away - not a prayer and it'd be a miracle if they get anything on film. (OK, religious cliche's ending :-) )

I try to keep myself to myself in the places as they are initially there for worship and sometimes Vergers will offer to rope off an area so I can get a shot but I haven't felt I could do it yet.

I've had people looking across as though they're casing the place waiting for me to go under the darkcloth - one teenager made me distinctly edgy until he came up and said he was doing a photography course and was interested in how I was doing things.

Over here you generally pay a few pounds to use a camera and they expect you to have a compact, at most an slr. I get some suspicious looks when I turn up with the gear as you feel they are desparate to prove you're professional and charge you the appropriate rate - I've started carrying my business card to hopefully prove I'm not trying to dupe them (I'm a mechanical engineer so the technical camera side of LF interests me). I didn't have the problem when I used my Bronica.

I don't generally take town scenes due to being a bit paranoid about some of the inhabitants of the local areas (Yorkshire). It's probably me but I'd rather be safe than sorry...

LOL at Pete - just like it always is ;-)

The most infuriating thing I used to experience was on long exposures, I'd put a black card in front of the lens if someone walked into the shot. You could see people stood 50 yds away thinking you were a prat for doing it and finally sombody asked why. I'd have loved to have told them it was because I was waiting for some idiot to get out of the way as they were stood in front of the lens but didn't want to start an argument. It's a nightmare trying to get just 10 small minutes of clear aisle without some "person" wandering across. Pleeeeze God!!

Enough of the ramblings...

Andrew

Try the following equation:

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Corrected time = 1.15567 x (Metered time)^1.4379

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This is from curve fitting the Ilford data in the leaflets and is

virtually spot on for this level of accuracy (r squared = 0.999).

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One Ilford guy at a show couldn't believe that anyone could find out

their "trade secrets" like this but it's fairly easy with a bit of

time and a spreadsheet / decent calculator.

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Hope this helps (or at least lets you create your own graphs / tables)

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Andrew