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Determined to sell this to someone who cares about fine contact printing. Price now reduced to $150 or best offer. Please contact dschwa8059@yahoo.com

Beautiful 8X10 contact printing frame made by the Lotus camera company of Austria. If you know the company you know the workmanship behind this lovely wooden-frame contact printer. Retails for $375, yours for $200 plus shipping. Contact dschwa8059@yahoo.com/

Focus scope for enlarging - useful for getting absolute focus in the darkroom. Yours for the price of shipping. contact dschwa8059@yahoo.com

1200 sheets of AZO paper in unopened boxes. 600 are F2s, 600 F3s. Kodak stopped producing AZO years ago - it was the premier contact printing paper for large format for years, the favorite of Michael Smith and Paul Chamlee, among others. These boxes were stored in a closet which may have gotten warm over the years. That said, AZO is well known for its resilience to environmental abuse. I am GIVING these away - you pay shipping only. As is, no returns. contact dschwa8059@yahoo.com

Eight 8X10 film holders for sale. Four are Fidelity Elite, four are Lisco Regal. Dusty and scratched, but quite usable. $30 a piece plus shipping - $200 for the entire set. An amazing bargain for anyone with an 8X10 camera, or anyone thinking of getting into the craft. No returns. Contact dschwa8059@yahoo.com

B&W film taken, color still available

All sold, thanks!

FREE: 3 boxes 25 sheets Ilford Delta 400 8 x 10 b&w paper, expired 2002; 1 pack 25 sheets Bergger Prestige Variable NB b&w expired 2007. As is, no returns, you pay only for shipping. Contact dschwa8059@yahoo.com

FREE: 11 rolls of expired (2008-2011) T-Max 400 film, 5 rolls expired 100 UC rolls, 3 rolls expired 400VC rolls, 1 box expired Polaroid 690 ISO 100. As is, no returns. You pay shipping only. Contact dschwa8059@yahoo.com

<p>Great choice! Enjoy it! I would second Eric's comments, though -- the camera is just a tool, the real photography takes place in your head! </p>

<p>Just to add my own two cents. I learned on a Wista DX. I haven't used the Tachihara or Shen Hao. I thought the Wista was just fine. The only drawback I found was a relatively limited bellows draw, which has implications only for close up photography. As an aside, you may be able to find a used Deardorff at a comparable price -- I haven't used one, but they are supposed to be quite fine, and probably do not have the same limited bellows draw. But to your question -- yes, I learned how to do large format on a Wista and was quite happy. </p>

<p>Thanks for the advice, all! My guess is that the film is fine, and certainly worth testing given the high price of film these days. But we shall see!</p>

<p>Bruce -- I had a similar reaction, although I am always impressed with the advances in digital printing. Truly amazing stuff on the walls, particularly at Epson. For some reason, HP did not have their usual impressive display of new prints. </p>

<p>Larry -- Is there one that is well suited for fogged film? </p>

<p>Thanks to you both! </p>

<p>I have decided to go back to my large format camera after some years away, and have four boxes of unused

Ilford Delta 400 8X10 film that have been sitting unrefrigerated in their boxes for some time. The expiration date

on the package is January 2002. Of course the only way to see if they are fogged is to test a sheet or two.

Here's the question -- is the best test simply to develop an unexposed sheet and see what it looks like?&nbs

p; Or do I need to expose it by photographing a fairly high contrast&n

<p>Just heard the news myself. Sad, of course, but what a life he led, and what images he created! </p>

Metro Imaging was doing a wonderful job of scanning back in 2000 - 2002, when I was using them. Don't know what their prices are like now, tho.....but they were always very professional. I used the Clerkenwell shop.

An anecdote from themusical world:

Admirer to Isaac Stern: "My, that Stradivarius sounds so beautiful."

Isaac Stern to admirer: "Yes, and isn't it nice that someone is playing it, too?"

Try Lens and Repro in NYC -- they are quite reputable, and often have Deardorff's in stock.

I bought one many years ago, and still have it. I never found it particularly useful -- in fact, it is the kind of thing that seems to make things easy, but actually prevents you from learning how to do it yourself. After about a month, I stopped using it, and used my eyes and brain -- a much more effective combination. One of the most difficult things you have to do in B&W photography is to learn how to see a setting in monochrome -- learn how to do it yourself, with no aids, and you'll have made a major step.

Laura

I have been taking photos for 20 years, and there are only 10-15 that I would show anyone else. It takes a very long time to learn the craft. and having looked at your own portfolio. I think you have some wonderful things to say photographically. Just keep on doing you thing!

I do. I have seven cameras obtained in the course of 20 years. All film, except for a point and shoot digital I use for snaps. The other six are large format, medium and 35mm. Why do I keep using film? I like it. I know how. For the longest time, digital output could not compete with analog -- that's not true anymore, so I have some of my negs scanned and printed by digital labs. Very good results. I am loathe to buy anything better than a point and shoot for taking the image -- the technology is improving so rapidly that I worry I am buying at the steepest part of the technology curve -- next year, all your digital cameras will be left in the dust by gigapixel sensors. That kind of thing. It took me a long time to buy a CD player, just for this reason. Anyway, I'll play with my film cameras for the time being -- no one is working on producing a better medium format film camera than a 500C/M Hasselblad, or a Leica M3 -- much less my Kodak Masterview 8x10!

I would personally add Paul Caponigro to this list.....

I don't know where you live, but one of the best technical camera mechanics in the world is Mike Walker, in England. google him on Walker Cameras, and you'll probably get right to his his site. I would bet that he can make what you're looking for pretty quickly.