[rollei_list] Re: The Photographic Reality
- From: Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:37:42 +0000
On 23 Feb 2010, at 06:14, Mark Rabiner wrote:
But 5x7 sheetfilm will probably be the first to go.
You'd need to be cutting down 8x10's.
[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner
Where there is a demand, there will be product. I still have
about sixty
sheets of half plate which I bought from MACO a few years ago, at
least fifty
years after the format died.
Laurence Cuffe
Is plate the same as glass plate?
I hear Tmax 400 is still made in glass plate.
Mainly for some astronomy shooting I think. But don't know.
I'd not like to part from this planet without ever shooting a glass
plate.
I'd just not feel right in the netherworld.
[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner
Half plate is (4.75" x 6.5") and I was using sheet film. I bought it
from Mr CAD in London, who now stock an EFKE product at 25 and 50
ASA. This was for a holiday in france, where I had an old woody
camera from the turn of the century, and was using three plastic
tuber-ware boxes in a changing bag to develop the sheet film.
It was very civilized. I was sitting outside our chalet as the dusk
fell watching the sunset light dropping over the ruins of the moorish
village at the mouth of the Ardeche gorge and shuffling sheets inside
the changing bag at the same time. A glass of a nice red from the
market in les Vans at my right hand, Duck breast marinated in
chestnut paste and juniper berries quietly sizzling on the grill.
Proof prints were contact printed in a picture frame using the room
light once it got really dark
You know what? Photography isn't always about the image, some times
its just the whole experience that counts.
All the best
Larry Cuffe
Mr CAD are good for oddball film sizes, they supplied me the
16"x20" for my agfa repromaster, mark 3.
Glass plates are a PITA. I've shot some in the back of an old
polaroid swinger camera, but unless you get all your solution
temperatures matched up just right the emulsion frills like crazy.
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