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arrrgghhhh.... they should shoot some of these idiots.

Jorge Gasteazoro — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:13:30 GMT

Ok, Michael Kadillak arranged for Kodak to sell tmax 400 in 12x20 size, but at $17/sheet I am only going to be able to afford one box instead of two, so I was looking at the alternatives and all these other companies have film in 12x20 size, but with films speeds of 100 or below, one of them even has 12x20 film in 25 ASA. WHat use is this? Did they think anyone using 12x20 is going to enlarge? :pinch:

Lenses for 12x20"

Eirik Berger — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:08:57 GMT

For a long time now I have wanted to work with really large negatives and make contact prints. I havent been able to afford it until now. I think I will choose the 12x20" format, Chamonix has a "reasonable" priced camera, with 2 film-holders, in this format, I think it was about $4500. :unsure:

I see that over on the a-site there is a used Lotus 12x20 (with a 8x20 reduction back) for 12.000$, and that is completely out of my league.

I will of course take a look on the different sites with classified ads, but are there other Camera models than the Chamonix that I should consider, if I want to buy a new one?

What lenses on the market has an image circle large enough to cover this format?

Fixing bellows on a WIsner 12x20

Jorge Gasteazoro — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:35:21 GMT

So here is the story. I bought a Wisner 12x20P on E bay. I knew the person who was selling it, him being a memeber of the LF forum. He said he has not used the camera but a few times and when I got the camera it looked like it was new. So, I used the camera and was not happy with the results. Negatives had a lot of fog which I could not figure out where i came from. Well, this past week I had a workshop student and when we developed his negatives I saw the same results. We tested his camera and it had both, pinholes and lens flare.

So to make a sotry short, I then tested the bellows on the Wisner and the tape they used to make the bellows is not light tight. I pass a flashlight along the edges and all four sides on all the corners have leaks that are clearly visible. So what to do? Any ideas? A new bellows is out of the question, the moron glued the back of the bellows to the camera, besides, it would be more than I can afford. Putting tape to the corners would make closing the camera impossible, so...my ideas was to use some of the neoprene B&S sells to fix belloes, but before I do I wanted to post this to see if anybody had any brilliant ideas... :)