andrew_frith

gorgeous!!

thanks jay..i'll be giving this a go.

 

-andrew

Jay, I have some 7302 and would be interested in your recipe and times.

 

thanks

-Andrew

They have'nt been in business for a number of years.

 

-andrew

i have a 16.5" red dot artar that i had skgrimes remount in an older copal 3...i use it all the time on my 8x10...i use it for both landscapes and it doubles as a good portrait lens too if u have enough bellows...

ive been interested in how people are cutting up large size film effectively? how do u do it without scratching emulsion etc? what tools are recommended for cutting large size film? rotatrim?

Hi..hoping that someone has experience with a Devere 8x10 Vertical

enlarger..its has the 108 Dichromat head (8 x 250W halogens).

 

I recently was perhaps crazy enough to bring this beast into my

darkroom. I got it from a big print operation that had gone to

lambda's etc so they wanted the devere out of there. It was in good

condition and working fine, and I personally saw it in operation. It

was carefully disassembled and transported back to my house. It has

been re-assembled and an electrician helped me hook up a 30A 250

volt circuit for it.

 

Power seems to be running fine to the enlarger. blower is blowing,

hand controls are moving the motorized stages up and down the

column. But the lightsource is issuing a high pitched tone when the

focus switch is turned on. Power seems to be getting to the head as

the filtration dials are illuminated.

 

>From the manual i have, in the troubleshooting section, it says the

high-pitched tone indicates a lamp is blown. So i used an ohmmeter

to check each bulb and they all seem to be OK. I do have a set of

replacement bulbs, but as the current set are all looking ok on the

meter, does it make sense to swap them out? seems like something

else is going on and triggering the warning alarm?

 

If anyone has experience with this enlarger is there anything that i

should be looking at?

 

thanks

-andrew

I have both the front and rear cell for a 7" goerz double-anastigmat

(seriesIII no.2)....i dont have the barrel for it..just the cells.

the lens threads are 45mm, any ideas on what kind of shutter i might

look out for to put these in? does anyone else have this lens?

wondering how theirs is mounted?

thanks -andrew

Adam, is there more than one version of the 610 apo-nikkor? mines is f9...i checked with my cheap electronic calipers and mine looks more like 105mm...thread pitch looks like 1.0 i think...

 

-andrwe

thanks for the tip george..ill check that out

 

-andrew

i have a 180mm carl zeiss jena goerz dagor (thats a mouthful!)..that

i want to mount on a lensboard..from my measurements, it looks like

i need a mounting flange thats 43mm diameter and i think .5

thread..any ideas? is skgrimes my only hope?

 

thanks

-andrew

Just wondering if anyone has used screw-in filters for a 610 apo-

nikkor? if so, is it a 105mm filter size? thread pitch?

 

thanks

-andrew

hi...i think a 210 dagor F6.8 will cover 8x10 ok when stopped down wont

it? what would be the angle of view (not coverage) for this lens on an

8x10 neg? i'm looking for a quite wide lens to go between my nikkor

SW150 (which is really wide - 106degrees field of view it think) and my

semi-wide fuji250...

 

thanks

-andrew

please count me in on the 'pass the platinum' around idea..i contact print 8x10 on AZO which i have been pleased with and have seen platinum prints in galleries but would love to have a hands on look side-by-side of platinum with my AZO's...

 

how do i join the list to get in on the action?

 

best regards

-andrew

thanks for all the information everyone..love seeing those brochures :-)

Hello...i'm looking for a dagor 12" or possibly bigger for my 8x10 camera...i want to get the version that has about 87 degrees field of view...i've seen different and conflicting information that some dagors have 87 degrees field of view (series iv?) and some have 70 degrees field of view (series III maybe?)...i know both versions have big image circles that will easily cover 8x10...what should i be looking for if i'm after the wider field of view in particular..i've also read other stuff about dagors (for example, keep away from berlin versions)..anything to be aware of would be appreciated...

i'm addicted to 8x10 contacts on AZO...michael smith and paula chamlee should be arrested for dealing that stuff :-), once u try it you can't get enough of it..do the pyro neg thing too..i think i need a fix..where's my amidol?

 

-A

my copy had definite printing quality issues but in defense of the content, i have been recently trying to figure out the caltar lens naming and kerry's article was very informative and relevent to the information i was looking for and i've also been recently messing with packard shutters and that article was very helpful too..

 

-andrew

i got a nikon SW150 on ebay about 6 months back for $725...nice

lens, 400mm image circle, 106 degree field of view..before that i

had a 165 angulon (not super-angulon), which is tiny and mine

was in a compur 2 shutter which worked flawlessly...kinda

covers 8x10 but i would'nt recommend it for serious 8x10 work..it

was only $350 odd dollars however...

 

-andrew

What exactly is the procedure they use during a hand inspection of boxes of sheet film? this summer i carried 8x10 boxes of HP5 and ektachrome from san francisco to london as carry-on and i had to put my backpack full of film boxes (mostly sealed unused but one or two boxes unselaed) thru the xray machine every time there was an carry on inspection spot...the sheets i have developed seem ok but i'm always nervous about the xray machines...what do the inspectors do exactly when u show them sealed film boxes or for that matter unsealed boxes? do u have to have you film tent with u or something?

 

interested

-andrew