bob_ashford1

Bob,

I really think you have your answer the wrong way round. The central portion of the lens produces a corrected sharp image while the out portion adds varying ammounts (depending on the number of holes in the filter) uncorrected image to produce the dreamy effect.

Bob

If you tilt the camera upwards you do not have any forward tilt of the lens panel on this model. Therefore you must use the camera on it's side (there is a second tripod socket for this) then you can use the lens boards swing to give you 'forward tilt'. If you don't know about the lens board swing press the tiny chrome tag at the base of the board upwards while swinging the board.

Colin, you built in rise boards sound interesting, please email me.

Bob.

David,

I find it very strange that you feel the need to increase

development time roughly 8% when you only add 6 drops to 2

liters of chemistry!

Cheers

Hi Paul,

May be, I'm just a cinic, but posssibly The magazine had an ulteria

motive. Look, I have not read the magazine (shame on me, but I work

out in Saudi Arabia and magazines and the like tend to get butchered

by the censors like you will never believe) but just reading whats on

this discussion list may be I'm not so paranoid...

Never believe all you read in the papers...

In B/W I can usually do not need the centre filter with my Super

Angulon 90mm f/8 but when using colour trannies I DO,

especially when they are light coloured objects around the edge

of the picture area such as light sand etc. So composition is very

important.

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Bob

I think you may be referring to the John Cone web site. Can't

remember the address off the top of my head but do a search.

Hope this helps. Also Marrutt the darkroom people have all this

stuff too.

Cheers

Hi,

I find I get the best performance from Kodak Premium Glossy.

You must have the paper settings appropriate to the paper you

are using. But, also do an extra clean cycle.

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Rehards, Bob

Hi again,

Colin is correct the MPP Mk VII does have a removable back, I

use a horseman 6x12cm back and an old Linhof 6x9cm back.

Using these also allows me to use a 58mm XL lens with the

limited drop front (single as against double on the Mk VIII).

Cheers

Hi Lee,

I have an MPP Mk VII too. Yes, thats the way to do it, but you can

also put the camera on it's side and use lens swing (which is

now tilt). You could use the camera on it's side for architectural

photos too as lens shift is (now rise and fall) is easy to do.

Bob