Re: [Cameramakers] Opaque Projector

2002-09-05 Thread SOEL96
regarding the first surface mirror-- american science and surplus usually have a decent supply of these, usually around 10-15 dollars, and they ship. http://www.sciplus.com/ joel ___ Cameramakers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Cameramakers] ? regarding apertures -- schematic..

2002-08-27 Thread SOEL96
Hello fellow afflicted; I was wondering if anyone on the list might have a schematic laying around for leaf apertures, e.g. enlarging lens apertures (remember the opening credits of the early 007 movies, with james bond moving around and the aperture following him? : ) anyway, i am

Re: [Cameramakers] Polaroid back for 2x3/define colorgraphic?

2002-08-15 Thread SOEL96
Hello! Might you also be able to do this to the Polaroid OneStep type (One step 600) ? I am thinking it might have some frankenstein-camera applications i.e. pinhole photography. The one tricky part might be placement of the exposure 'eye', or the disabling of it. Although, as pinhole photos

Re: [Cameramakers] guesses...

2002-05-01 Thread SOEL96
hi! I saw a program on PBS eons ago (or maybe it was scientific american?) about the darkening you have with your lenses-- the phenomenon is called, 'Photonic Impaction', and apparently can be reversed by sending light in the opposite way that it had before, dislodging the photonic sludge...

[Cameramakers] Strobe Modifications-how about a softbox?

2002-04-09 Thread SOEL96
i wonder what a softbox would do to your exposure? im not familiar with the brownline system, but I know that adding a softbox would a.) give you a more even spread of light, get rid of the hotspots that digital cameras hate and b.) you can get cheap ones from Britek (look in the back of

[Cameramakers] keeping old leather Bellows soft

2001-12-12 Thread SOEL96
hello folks-- as both a budding cameramaker/tinker and learning book paper arts @ columbia college chicago, i have come across some useful things, among them what to do with old/badly damaged leather in bindings. to prevent the evil things that oxidation and just plain drying out can do, a thin

Re: [Cameramakers] RE: Cameramakers digest, Vol 1 #132: thought on Fluorescents.

2001-06-14 Thread SOEL96
..as i was making negs in a copy camera today ( a NuArc18 x 22 bed-- the kind you can get knocked silly in the head by the focusing screen if you aren't careful!), i thought of a possible solution for your flickering problem: a) fluorescent lights like to be on more than not-- they use less

[Cameramakers] Ilfochrome question/ P4 processor in midwest?

2001-06-08 Thread SOEL96
hi all-- does anyone know if there are any P4 processors that are up running in the midwest region? (P3 and P4 are the new names of what they used to call cibachrome processing-- i am not sure why there are two different versions, the p3 or p4..) the one i have access to @ columbia