Well, having recently asked about 13x18, and its relationship to 5x7 and to
half-plate, I started thinking about other 'minor' formats.
So, is anyone still making 9x12cm film?  Or is it in the same situation as
the 'postcard' 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 format that some Graflexes (and others) ...

i wanted to try this film in 4x5" format.
efke pl100 is available in 6x9cm, too, and since i do have some of
those film holders, it would be interesting to use them (i didn't pay
for those holders).

This is only meant to spark interesting conversation, as did "Legendary
lenses) in r.p.e.d/35mm.  I like to read and understand people's
outlooks on both equipment and shooting.
Fortunately, 4x5 lenses of good quality are relatively inexpensive.

It would seem that with 4x5 and larger that there's nothing digital
(within a practical price range) to compare with a nice contact print.
This shot (http://www.brendemuehl.net/images/modelshot.html) was
"split" print.

Let's get this out of the way 1st, I know I can shoot at any shutter speed
with my leaf shutter on the Schneider lens.
I got a PC sync cord for use with my old Canon 277T (circa 1983?) flash, and
it will also work with my Nikon SB-600 flash, I'll be using my Schneider

I've had a 5x7 camera for over 20 years, but it's an ancient
Kodak, not easy to use and weighs a ton, so has come out only
very rarely in the last several years, with my Arca-Swiss 4x5s
being the largest format I use most of the time.

The other day a coworker of mine brought an interesting camera to work.
My first impression was that it was a Graphic View, but the design was
rather rough, not like other GVs I've seen.  Here's the story he told me
in a nutshell.

Schneider - Kreuznach Symmar 1:5.6/210  1:12/370
The lens is mounted on a Linhof shutter that appears to have two sets of
aperature markings, that look something like this:
 12    16    22    32

Not long ago I acquired one of the most beautiful books I've ever had, a
book on Charles Sheeler. (_The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American
Modernist_, by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Gilles Mora and Karen E.
Haas.) Gorgeous, just gorgeous photos, of subjects ranging from

I seem to have two of these Xenars and an Ektar - came 'with' other things -
and was thinking I'd just sell them.  I have a Rodenstock Sironar-N 100mm
f5.6 that has more modern coating (the Xenars are single coated) and wider
coverage, and is in a more accurate shutter (the others ...

Steve Hinkley the photographer that is... he was displaying his prints at the local
farmer's market, and WHAT astounding work, the prints were color and really large.
He uses an Ebony SV45Te folding bed camera.  The images on the website are
rather small and insignificant compared ...

To get a conversation started ...
Has anyone devised an approach to use one's DSLR's Histogram to
determine a basis for zone calculations?  Is it at all useful?
Collin

Hello there, I'm new in town...and I need help!
I have 4x5 Calumet camera. I need polaroid holder for it. from my
research in the web I found out that i need the polaroid 550 pack
holder. I have the Polaroid 405 holder, but it is too thick for my

To remove lens/shutter from lensboard. Where should I buy one? The
local Ace Hardware, or where?

Based on a very small sample of what I've seen on eBay and a few ads in
Shutterbug, the selling price (and presumably the value as well) of, say,
4x5 view cameras ranges over a 5:1 range with IIRC Omega on the low end and
other, more prestigious, names on the higher end of the ...