[pinhole-discussion] Free Walzburg Horizontal camera

2002-10-18 Thread Beau Schwarz
Thank you all for the quick response. I have been paying $50 a month for storage. I keep thinking I would get a chance to assemble it and use it but no luck. As it is sort of a live dinosaur from a past era, I just can't see parting it out on Ebay. When I bought it from the original owner, the

[pinhole-discussion] Walsburg horizontal camera, Free !!!

2002-10-17 Thread Beau Schwarz
Hi, I have a Walzburg Horizontal camera. It has a 16' bed, 12' bellows, 30"x40" vacuum back, elect. Packard shutter, remote powered rise/fall/shift, rotating lens turret, Front/back lit remote operated movable stage, several boxes of outdated lith film, but no lens. I picked it up on ebay about

[pinhole-discussion] Using Baking Soda in Dektol?

2002-04-25 Thread Beau Schwarz
I finished my first of pinhole paper negatives last night. For developer, I used 1 oz. Dektol and 20 oz. water as a one shot developer; each neg. was processed for 90 sec. in a tray using constant agitation. They look pretty contrasty. Someone in the group mensioned Baking Soda, I think, to adju

[pinhole-discussion] Paper Negative Developers?

2002-04-11 Thread Beau Schwarz
Hi! Based on a View Camera article, I've thought about trying D76 as the developer for paper negatives. However, in looking at a Kodak Dataguide, Dektol will develope 120 sheets of paper while D76 will develope approx. 16 8x10 sheets of film. So the question is how many sheets of paper will a g

[pinhole-discussion] Teaching Pinhole Photography to 7th Graders

2002-03-17 Thread Beau Schwarz
WOW! I wish to thank every one who responded to our request, both on and off the list. Based on the info we recieved, Ilford Multigrade RC paper is the easest to work with. Based on an atricle in View Camera (Sept/Oct 2000), a film developer (looks like Ilford D-11 is a creaper alt. to D76) is

[pinhole-discussion] Teaching Pinhole to 7th graders

2002-03-09 Thread Beau Schwarz
Hi, My wife has given me the opporitunity of teaching a class of gifted (meaning 'divergent thinkers' in teacher lingo) 7th graders to build and then photograph with pinhole cameras. The proposed budjet is $50 to $75 and the length would be 3 to 4 weeks. I have done this 3 times before with 3rd

[pinhole-discussion] Pinholes and third graders

2002-01-09 Thread Beau Schwarz
third graders are usally 9-10 years old. It's the turn around grade where the kids minds start to work and they start processing some of the information they learn. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: h

[pinhole-discussion] pinhole cameras and 3rd Graders

2002-01-07 Thread Beau Schwarz
Hi, I'm one of the lurkers in the group. I've tried doing pinhole cameras with third graders a couple of times. Once when the schools' art teacher wanted to learn about them. Another time I worked with a third grade language/math teacher (my wife) yho used it as math and language grades (they