I have just tried my new tripod out, it 's a Miliboo from china, designed to take 15 KG of weight and my Calumet C1 8*10 view camera weights in at 10 KG, the only fault I can find is where the tripod accessory plate slides in, it wobbles a little, may have to put a bit of packing in to take that out.
Wow, what a beast, Craig. That tripod looks very secure. And the camera also looks impressive too. Waiting to hear how you go with it.
It will be some time, I have to hook my garage up to the storm water drain pipe, have it inspected and maybe get back to building my darkroom. it will be sometime yet, i still have to get aDark cloth, Loupe. cut negatives and chemicals, etc. At the moment i have been showing it to my students along with film photography and various film sizes, etc.
Update, I found out what caused the wobble. The Accessory Plate has two different sized screws and catches on the head of the small screw, I removed the small one and it's sturdy now.
The advantage of the 8*10 inch negative is I can enlarge photos up to 4*5 foot , excellent example of this can be found in the works of Clyde Butcher and his images of the Everglades. I already have 2 rolls of 48inch wide photo paper, its a bit old but should be fun to see how I go when I make enlargements, the rolls are somewhat out of date but good to learn and play around with.
Ray here is my latest purchase for the 8 x 10. I got off of Ebay, 8 very old and used double sided negative holders, normal cost for one in fair condition is about 200 dollars, so I got 8 in very used condition for al little over 200. All of them need re-hinging with book binding tape. All the dark-slides have cracks in them, covered with black tape . Repairing the dark-slides will take a lot more effort. I will need to use my electric die grinder to grind out the cracks and then fill each crack with fiber glass resin. This should prevent farther cracking. Sand the resin down and paint it with under-coat and black paint. This should stop any light leaks through the repaired cracks. Some of the frames will need pulling apart and re-gluing. Nothing a enterprising young fella like me could not handle.
dude, those old SD cards are huge.............. something i know little about having ony started photography a short time ago but grats on your haul when i score some old vintage car parts i'm the same
That will explain it, you meant compact flash cards, they are bigger and older than SD cards. Caladina, some of these double sided film holders date back to 1921. They are designed to take a 8 x 10 inch film negative each side. I can blow the 8 x 10 inch negative up to a 4 foot by 5 foot or in metric 1200 x 1500 mm photograph with minimal grain. If a digital image is blow up this large if you pixel peep up close small distant objects become a blob of paint or ink dots, where as analog photos this large, such objects are well defined. This is one of the advantages of analog over digital.
Caladina, if you want to see such large photos, check out Clyde Butcher on you tube he shoots with a 8 x 10 inch view camera. The majority of his work is 4 foot x 5 foot images of the Everglades.
Hi Craig, Thanks for keeping me in the loop. You have the camera and NOW you have the neg holders. That was a nice find. But you are not quite there yet as they need some work. Any spare time you had will be used up now. However, you will end up with a great setup and I see lots of enjoyment coming when you finally get to put it all to good use. I'll be waiting for the next instalment. BTW, I have great respect for the journey that you are embarking on. I am way out of my depth here.
Thanks Ray if it is a journey then I have only taken a few steps, my major hurdle is building my darkroom. Before that happens, my garage needs to be inspected and passed by the council I have to have my garage certified by a surveyor, they are taking far too long to come out and inspect the footings, I have just had the guttering completed and joined up to the storm water drain and passed. Another item arrived on Friday, my dark-cloth.
It will not be fun lugging the camera, tripod, dark-cloth and negative holders around the country side. Lucky for me most of the area I wish to shoot in are a stones throw from where i park my car.
Think i'd be fitting a mobility scooter with tracks to make an all terrain scooter you can probably get atv's that fit in the back of a station wagon
I was thinking along the lines of a small cart, just pull it behind me, with a seat on it, small enough to fit in the boot of my car and space for sandwiches and thermos. I could go all out and fit a cup holder on it.
