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WillRiggs
Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Statesboro
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: Graphic View II and tintype... |
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Hello all!
First post here as I just got my very first graflex AND first view camera/large format. I'm very excited to get started, and will be getting it hopefully late next week, or perhaps the week after.
Now for the meat of the question...
I was hoping to, at some point, try tintype/wetplate type shooting later on. I really wasn't sure how the GVII would handle this, and if there were any special items that would help me in my cause.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=290240772739&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=019
that would be the camera I purchased, and I'm also getting three more holders from him.
Thanks a ton in advance, and I hope to be a beneficial member to the community at some point!
-Will Riggs |
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Les
Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 2682 Location: Detroit, MI
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Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:22 am Post subject: |
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Sorry for the ignored post. The answer is "probably not very well"
The biggest reason is ferrotypy is a wet plate process and I doubt you'll be using standard film holders to get the plate to the camera, so you'd have to adapt/adjust the ground glass to the register of the new holders.
Then you've got the mess factor. I restored the cameras they used at Greenfield village 25 years ago. The process is messy and the chemicals will stain, corrode and probably make a mess of the back of a GVII fairly quickly.
Any lens will work with tin type photography, though if you want the look of a 19th century tin type I suggest you find a nice Petzval portrait lens with Waterhouse stops. An older brass "magic lantern' lens will work (it's the same Petzval design) but won't have an aperture to adjust. _________________ "In order to invent, you need a good imagination and a lot of junk" Thomas Edison |
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