In stock complete new back fitted for Burke and James 11 14 with full insert set also GG reame and glass for this back. Also very good if you are wanting to homebuilt a camera, here are the two most difficult pieces done. Simple mount and easy to do. May fit a lot of 11 14 cameras with adaption ir as is. $550. Email me RM@starcamerac&#
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The decade I was active in the field it was sometimes 20 events a year and I tried to bring all the comforts I could, backup supplies and plenty of food. My pack up on Sunday was legendary. Many times I felt as risk for a heart attack or stroke. Considering the prep work during the week, packing the van, the Looooong drive (no CW stuff in south jersey)... The setup, work, teardown and looooong
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Sean, nice work and a solid correctly designed design....and YES curse this getting older thing. You're not alone, we all feel it in many ways. Ray
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Buy a used Chevy Astro Van. You're shooting yourself in the foot trying to do camp and gear in a little car.
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dont even think about messing with making dry plates until youve had years of work in wetplate and understand the chemistry and how it works. almost no one today is capable of making good dry plates 'at home'.
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Mark is the best teacher in the world for this and anyone who is sick and tired of incorrect help/advice/problem solving will do very well to take a workshop with Mark and LEARN IT RIGHT>
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pyro takes some getting used to. it works slower than ferrous sulfate develop, since the chemical action is different. not good at all for positive images, since the image has no whiteness to it. all your stuff turns black when you use pyro. the actual grain, if you can call it that, of a negative is much smaller when pyro is used, so for superenlarged images it can be a help.. otherwise, ju
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soak the element in kerosene for a few days/weeks. eventually they will slip apart. you done need cement to reinstall, just clean and put into the cell. haze on the front element is not as bad as haze on the rear.
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Well Jacques you certainly win the "who used the first bellows in photography" contest. but, for all intent and purposes, the act of patenting an item in the United States of America and Mass Producing that item in a factory under patent is what I am referring to.
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Thanks Jacques for that clarification. But, for all practical purposes, Lewis introduced them. In 1851, The Lewis introduced what is believed to be the first camera to incorporate a folding bellows (US patent no. 8513, 11 Nov. 1851), which was reputed to have been made from Mrs. Lewis' black taffeta dress. It was the first commercially produced bellows camera in the United States. On
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Sean you are so correct regarding reenactors/vs. image size. You do have to keep in mind though that likenesses were done with the intent on sending them home. Just like today, and even more so if society did not demand photo IDs...who really ever carries a photograph of themselves? Certainly not troops in battle. I do think most of the sixth plate and ninth plate tins were taken and then sen
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yes, trade secret. But, Im in business making these things for nearly 15 years. Probably done at least 300 bellows.
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Yeah Chris, you really COULD have a gold mine there, photographically speaking. A Lot of units would love a mini tactical along with a carefully planned group photo session. Seems like a great "If you build it, they will come"
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The use of Bellows in cameras started with the Lewis camera in 1856. It gave an added extension, and allowed a photographer to do one to one copies of a same sized dag plate. That was, after all, the only way to make a copy. Unless you plan to do macro, or one to one still life photography, the bellows just isnt needed with a camera of moderate format, the sliding box works just fine. bello
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Chris, you have a big back yard there./ why not organize the Battle of Bumsquatch Flats, and invite about 200 rebs and 3 yankees. A keg of beer, some 'mason jar stuff' and Heck, you dont have to GO anywhere!
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have you checked John Craigs website?
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GONE. Keep tuned in....theres a New Invention in the works which will revolutionize wet plate holders.
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I have a roll of exposed 16 mm that was in a 1923 hand crank Kodak Cine A I bought, want to try that??
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Nope. They dont look like relatives. My wife grew up in Germany and thought the buildings looked 'german'. Pretty neat though, a real time capsule.
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Fly Thank You Very Much for doing the work here. He pulled images off a roll of film that appears to have been shot during world war 2. My wife seen them, and said the buildings reminded her of those in Germany. OK< Here We Go!!!!!
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I ***AM DONE**** making deardorff adapter backs. There will be NO MORE from me, ever. PERIOD.. Ever. I will continue happily to make adapter backs for any other camera, but NO MORE DEARDORFFS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~There is one left. Only one. If anyone wants it, its here on ebay. This is the LAST ONE. Ever.; Period. Ever.
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at the great mythical door to the wetplate voyage.....there should be a booth where you are REQUIRED to buy a Manual written by just about anyone. .....and if you dont buy the Manual, then you cant enter the magic kingdom.
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thanks, glad to help. PS if you want info from me, its found on this forum and no where else. Ray
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WOW/ Thats amazing, and a great result too! much more interesting having a military theme in there! Now, I dont know where this came from, Dad was a collector of these for years, it MAY be family, Im not sure. My great uncle was a photographer too, and I have his 1905 gear but this too may have been one of his cameras. Im sure I can identify faces if its family. Fly, many many thanks for
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any achromat can work as a camera lens, size is relative, you want a lens with a focal length about the diagonal of the plate measurement. Then, mount the lens so that the curve faces the film, flat forward. You need a stop with this, minimum size is 1/3 the lens diameter and place that one lens diameter in front of the lens. paint the lens barrel inside, and the stop, flat black, if you can,
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After 10 years of heavy use I had no ill effects. However, I decided to stop doing it as active as I had done, partly because the camera construction business took off and is very good....and partly because of the fears the OP listed. IF YOU HAVE TO WONDER ABOUT IT DO NOT DO IT. take up coin collecting instead.
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go for it!!
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get a new vehicle :-) I had a chevy astro van, on the right side...it was clear space up to the front passenger footwell. I could fit IN the entire 8 foot 2X4 ridegepole for my tent, then all the other long crap, the other poles, backdrop, fly poles..all on top of that. chevy van is one hell of a reenactment vehicle. never NEVER broke down or let me down...2 of them.. for a decade.
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just watching the stock slide and slide.... .42 cents down from nearly 100 not too many years ago.....it seems very possible another great name from the Photographic past may just 'fade away'. I feel bad I didnt help more. yes, I had them spool out 2000 feet of 16mm film for me, double perf it...at about $450 ....but no, no film purchases, I suppose 35mm is now totally dead in the water, for
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