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<p><strong>Four By Five Exhibition Opening Reception</strong></p>

<p>The New Orleans Photo Alliance will host an opening reception for the Four By Five Exhibition on October 4th from 6-9PM at the NOPA gallery on 1111 St. Mary's St. in New Orleans. The show is currently on display at the gallery.<strong><em><br /> <br /> </em></strong></p>

<p><em>View Camera</em> magazine's publisher, Steve Simmons, the exhibition consists of four images by each of five artists working in large format photography. Each of these twenty photographs will also appear in a future issue of <em>View Camera</em>.</p>

 

<p>Smallest and lightest would probablybe a Gowland Pocket View. They come up on E-bay and Large Format Photography dot Net from time to time.</p>

<p>If I want to publish my work online, it goes on Flicker, this website (<a href="http://www.photo.net">www.photo.net</a>), <a href="http://www.artsyhome.com">www.artsyhome.com</a> . . .or my professional website at <a href="http://www.quietlightphoto.com">www.quietlightphoto.com</a>. If I wish to enter my work in juried shows there are CaFE and Artthingy.</p>

<p>Why should a photographer put their work online with you? . . .Tell us why it would be in our interest to place our work online with your company (I intend this statement to be collegial and cordial).</p>

<p>Best wishes in your efforts.</p>

<p>Does metering off the GG work without the filter?</p>

<p>Is metering off the GG effective?</p>

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<p>Jessica,</p>

<p>I have my lenses and shutters serviced by Professional Camera Repair in Houston. This is a small family run shop that may be found online at: http://professionalcamerarepair.com/</p>

<p>They do a shutter CLA with a total tear down cleaning, and re-assembly. I have been very happy with them for ~20 years now.</p>

<p>I work with a Zone VI field camera for both color and black and white photography.</p>

<p>I focus without the filter on, then meter with the filter held in gront of the meter, then screw it into the lens and re-check the focus if possible. Sometimes I bracket the exposure and do not re-focus.</p>

<p>When I change the composition, this process is repeated. When handling the filter between shots it resides in a flat snap-lid box or round filter box in the breast pocket of my shirt. </p>

 

<p>I have carried a Kodak 2-D with a lens and a few holders in an older model LowePro Trekker. Worked well enough for me.<br>

PhotoBackpacker has a line of semi-rigid protective boxes designed for Large Format equipment; lens and cameras and holders. They carry the Kelty backpacks to hold it all too. </p>

<p>Check out http://www.photobackpacker.com/home.php</p>

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<p>Other informational resources might be the "DIY" or "Alternative Camera" forums here or on the other Large Format Photography forum.</p>

<p>Sony's new A-600 looks good.</p>

<p>I have my shutters serviced by Mike Hakeem at Professional Camera Repair on 4410 Richmond here in Houston. I am sure that there are competent technicians in most every major market. By mail: I would contact SK Grimes at http://www.skgrimes.com/</p>

<p>I would not do a CLA on my own. You may have the manuals tools and scills to do this yourself . . .have at it.</p>

<p>So . . .is this a digital view camera?<br>

I'm not sure what the video is demonstrating. Is this a component system?<br>

Does it take lensboards with other lenses?<br>

Do you sell the whole package or is this an add-on to something else?</p>

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<p> This all sounds more like it belongs in either the Medium Format Forum or the Alternative Forum.</p>

<p>All the pixels and numbers . . .<strong>is this a Large Format camera?</strong></p>

<p>Way back—in the last decades of the previous century—I used a roll film back on my 4x5. I was so marginal back then, that my camera was a pieced-together Burk & James 5x7 with a DIY reducing back. The roll film back was a 6x7 format Singer-Graflex unit that took cassets of unperforated 70mm film. I reloaded the cassets with re-spooled 220 film that was bought expired at the old Houston camera show in its hay-days. </p>

<p>The advantage to me in learning LF (and general photography for that matter) was that with Ektachrome loaded up, I could crank through shot after shot of the same composition while changing the lighting or exposure. All the images were on one roll and in the order that they were taken. It was easy to see what worked and what didn't right away.</p>

<p>Peter: Got it. Sounds like a great find and good judgment on washing the foam. </p>

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<p>You are going to put precious things into your Pelican Case. What did it all cost you? Why be cheap about what protects the stuff? <br>

When open cell foam goes bad, it can really mess up the equipment, <em><strong>Get the new foam</strong></em>.</p>

<p>Thanks everyone. Good suggestions allaround.</p>

<p>I will probably DIY one using a lrear lens cap with an eyepiece adapter and an erecting eyepiece (telescope stuff) all held together with epoxy and a hose clamp.</p>

<p>Missed out on a quality eyepiece on e-bay last night by ~$1.50.</p>

<p>Thanks everyone. I have a good grip on this now.</p>

<p>thanks for the info.</p>

<p>Someone on another site gave me a lead to a Kinko produce called "Lens2scope" that is perfict except for the cost which is $120 to $179 depending on model. Looka good though.</p>

<p>Someone on another website ggave me a lead to a Kinko product called "<strong>Lens2scope".</strong> They are available through Amazon and e-bay and cost $120 to $170 depending on model.</p>

<p>Years ago I saw an eyepiece adapter for a Tamron lens that allowed direct eye-ball viewing through the lens . . .as with a spotting scope. That was in maybe 1982. It just bayoneted onto the lens like a camera would<strong><em>. Anyone know of such an adapter for any mount lens today?</em></strong><br>

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I have just gotten an older Yashica 500mm mirror lens in Nikon mount. I'd like to use it as a spotting scope without the camera body at times.</p>

<p>Another project may be to us it for eyepiece projection in large format photography.<strong><em><br /></em></strong></p>

<p>I haven't read everything here . . sorry if this has been covered.</p>

<p>Two thoughts come to mind. Domke makes a series of padded inserts that can stand alone in about any bag. That is, they are not nylon covered slabs of velvroed foam that have to be pieced together.</p>

<p>Second thought is the PhotoBackpacker system. A series of semi-rigid padded boxes that can be put into any bag. check their site for all the stuff. Their focus is on Large format, but I've got several DSLR lenses in these boxes right now . . .work great, and go into any bag (low-profile, stealth packing.)</p>

<p>Years ago I saw an eyepiece adapter for a Tamron lens that allowed direct eye-ball viewing through the lens . . .as with a spotting scope. That was in maybe 1982. It just bayoneted onto the lens like a camera would. <em><strong>Anyone know of such an adapter for any mount lens today?</strong></em></p>

<p>I have just picked up an older Yashica Mirror lens and want to use it as a spotting scope. Another project would be eyepiece-projection in large format photography.</p>

<p>A front mounted shutter would be on solution. check E-Bay for lleaf shutters used in large format photography. . The oscilloscope lenses have a good enough shutter and can be inexpensive. Ubscrew the lens elements from the shutter and mount it in front of your pinhole.</p>

<p>Alternativly: Remove the glass as described above, and mount a pinhole into the shutter as Ansel Adams did.</p>

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<p>What about one of the Polaroid 110 conversions to pack film? </p>