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Adorama Variable Grade Black And White Paper
Tom Fuller  |  Oct 01, 1999  |  0 comments

To those still on the quest for an affordable, good quality black and white paper, the time has come to sheath your reading glass. Adorama Variable Grade, a medium weight RC available in glossy and Mother-of-Pearl surfaces, meets the requirements and may...

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Bergger BPF 200 Film And Prestige Paper
Tom Fuller  |  Feb 01, 2000  |  0 comments

As French-made Bergger black and white film and paper meet virtually every requirement of the exacting large format worker, "Fine Materials for Fine Photography" would also be a suitable title. Bergger BPF 200 film, available in a wide range of...

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Do It Yourself
Build A 1600W Studio Broadlight
Tom Fuller  |  Jun 01, 2000  |  0 comments

Our do-it-yourself project this month is a studio broadlight particularly suitable for portraiture. Unlike point source lights diffused with fabric coverings, this mammoth fixture uses 16 100w bulbs, arranged in a grid within a wooden box, to flood...

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Do It Yourself
Build A Low Cost Film Drying Cabinet
Tom Fuller  |  Feb 01, 2001  |  1 comments

Our project this month is to turn a hanging garment bag into an effective film drying cabinet. Although this is just barely a Level 2 Project (see the April 2000 issue for an explanation of my DIY complexity scale), it requires the wiring of an AC...

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Do It Yourself
Build A Perspective Control Lens
Tom Fuller  |  Oct 01, 2000  |  0 comments

Our project
this month is a Perspective Control (PC) lens for 35mm cameras. This optic
is often used by architectural photographers to eliminate the distortion
caused by tilting a camera upward to include the top of a building.Th...

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Do It Yourself
Build A Variable Extension Tube
Tom Fuller  |  Jan 01, 2001  |  0 comments

This month's project is a variable-length extension tube for close-up photography. It provides several inches of magnification adjustment without the need of an expensive and cumbersome macro bellows unit, and allows virtually any lens to be...

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Do It Yourself
Build An Ultra Wide Shift Camera Part 1
Tom Fuller  |  Aug 01, 2000  |  0 comments

This month we have a Level 5 project (see the April 2000 issue for an explanation of the DIY complexity scale) that I've broken into two parts for convenience. This part describes the concept and the basic camera design, with next month's Part 2 covering...

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Do It Yourself
Build An Ultra Wide Shift Camera Part 2
Tom Fuller  |  Sep 01, 2000  |  0 comments

Last month we covered the concept of this undertaking, building a pancake-like camera with considerable lateral movement for ultra-wide angle photography on 6x7cm, 6x9cm, 6x12cm, and 4x5" formats. This month we will go over the assembly and finishing...

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Do It Yourself
Build An Underwater Camera Housing
Tom Fuller  |  Sep 01, 2001  |  0 comments

I've been thinking about this month's project for years, but its complexity kept me from presenting it until now. The features of current AF SLR cameras allow the design to be greatly simplified and made practical for the home workshop...

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Do It Yourself
Build Your Own Recessed Lensboards
Tom Fuller  |  Apr 01, 2000  |  0 comments

For our project this month, we will be making very inexpensive recessed lensboards for large format cameras. As a commercially-made board of this type easily goes for over $100 and our homegrown version costs about $10, I especially want to point out its...

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