A few days before the holiday began, and a camera fair in Boston Spa was rendered inaccessible by the snowdrift completely immobilising this here damnfool clement-day automobile. The most excellent Mr Cordes from Classic Photographics collected the Durst on my behalf and today we finally installed it. Dug a basic process timer out of the store, attached a new connector for the electricity to said process timer, and it still needs a couple of condensers and some spare lenses of different focal lengths (or light seal blanks) to fit in the lens carousel. It could also do with a fair amount of tlc: a good clean, repairs to the neg carrier and some new rubber bushes to the feet.
Fantastic thing though. The base does a 360 tilt-shift.
If you’ve read this far, you’ll know what these are…?
You do? Wey-hey!
Checklist for producing 5×4 photographs:
- film carriers aka dark slides or DDS (double dark slides)
- black bag or cupboard for loading and unloading them, or head-in-a-sleeping bag might do in an emergency
- pack of sheet film: comes in boxes of 10, 25 and 50. 100s are being phased out but they’re still around. You can get black & white film cheap from China, but Velvia and many types of colour neg are still available.
- beg, buy or borrow a camera. You won’t regret it.
- developing tank & chems for the black and white, and somewhere useful to send the colour neg or slide film. The jury is still out on who can do the best job of this but currently it’s Digitalab in Stepney Bank or Colorworld in North Shields. So far I think RBG in Boro has stopped doing 54. Anyone with better sources or info please let us know.
Durst Laborator 138S
A few days before the holiday began, and a camera fair in Boston Spa was rendered inaccessible by the snowdrift completely immobilising this here damnfool clement-day automobile. The most excellent Mr Cordes from Classic Photographics collected the Durst on my behalf and today we finally installed it. Dug a basic process timer out of the store, attached a new connector for the electricity to said process timer, and it still needs a couple of condensers and some spare lenses of different focal lengths (or light seal blanks) to fit in the lens carousel. It could also do with a fair amount of tlc: a good clean, repairs to the neg carrier and some new rubber bushes to the feet.
Fantastic thing though. The base does a 360 tilt-shift.
If you’ve read this far, you’ll know what these are…?
You do? Wey-hey!
Checklist for producing 5×4 photographs:
- film carriers aka dark slides or DDS (double dark slides)
- black bag or cupboard for loading and unloading them, or head-in-a-sleeping bag might do in an emergency
- pack of sheet film: comes in boxes of 10, 25 and 50. 100s are being phased out but they’re still around. You can get black & white film cheap from China, but Velvia and many types of colour neg are still available.
- beg, buy or borrow a camera. You won’t regret it.
- developing tank & chems for the black and white, and somewhere useful to send the colour neg or slide film. The jury is still out on who can do the best job of this but currently it’s Digitalab in Stepney Bank or Colorworld in North Shields. So far I think RBG in Boro has stopped doing 54. Anyone with better sources or info please let us know.
- enlarger.
Ah. That last essential item.
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