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    TLR lust

    As for composition, there is nothing that says that you must always print the entire negative. Most users of TLRs know that eventually there could be 8x10 or 5x7 prints and you have to leave some space to accommodate that. Since the negative is so much bigger to begin with, cropping is not the...
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    TLR lust

    If you just want to experiment and see if a TLR is right for you, then you could go with a Yashica to find that out. Having owned a Yashica 124 G way back and then moving on to Rollieflexes I can say that the Yashica made decent images but that the light meter wasn't that useful. The Rolleis...
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    Twilight of the viewing filter

    As I mentioned elsewhere on this forum, I have long had a Kodak Wratten # 90 mounted in a Gepe glass slide mount for a B&W viewing filter. It works well but yo can't hold it up to your eye for long as I find that my eye adjusts pretty quickly to the filter and it no longer is of much help in...
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    January 2024

    If you could fine the Wratten #90 gel you could make your own, as I did. That should be cheaper than the Zone VI original at $90
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    January 2024

    Rather than buying that viewing filter from Zone VI I had my local camera store (remember those?) order me a couple of Kodak Wratten # 90 gels and mounted them in Gepe glass slide mounts. For 4x5 I masked off a part of the filter so that I had the same aspect ratio as 4x5 and drilled a hole in...
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    Why Fujifilm survived--and Kodak didn't...

    I've been tempted by Fuji's cameras and lenses but I've stuck with Pentax since my investment in lenses is considerable and I have been happy enough with their cameras. I have appreciated their willingness to allow old lenses to work with new cameras, and they also have been pretty good about...
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    Why Fujifilm survived--and Kodak didn't...

    As a working pro from the mid 1980's on this rings true to my experience. Kodak made some great products but they weren't very good at listening to their customers. I loved that they brought back Kodachrome in 120 in the last 1980's but they decided that only one lab (in California) would do...
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