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Re: [OM] Feeding the rumor mill

Subject: Re: [OM] Feeding the rumor mill
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:27:02 -0400
It looks like his camera might even weigh as much as my Canon bag!
:-)

Chuck Norcutt


On 9/9/2010 12:26 PM, Jeff Keller wrote:
> The large format group does group buys of the ultra large format film. Most
> of them shoot B&W then process the film themselves. Contact prints are made
> for the ULF but are quite popular even down to 5x7.
>
> Richard Ritter seems to use a panoramic format himself so the camera doesn't
> look as large but he has a picture on his home page:
> http://www.lg4mat.net/
>
> Film holders are also very expensive, bulky, and heavy. My impression is
> that most ULF photographers can but don't often load film holders in the
> field. If the cost of the film doesn't, the weight of the equipment would
> probably preclude snapshots  ;)
>
> Jeff Keller
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Subject: Re: [OM] Feeding the rumor mill
>
> Gulp!  400NC in 20x24 will cost you... (ready now?)... $86/shot.  It
> looks like Kodak needs a minimum order of $15,000 to fire up the
> equipment.  Maybe there really is a market for Canon's 8x8" sensor.  :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Piers Hemy wrote:
>> Did you not see this page on the KBC website, Chuck?
>>
>> http://www.canhamcameras.com/kodakfilm.html
>>
>> All sizes are 'available' in TriX, 400NC, Ektar and TMax emulsions. No
>> Kodachrome, dammit.
>>
>> I will leave you to find the awful details - price, minimum order, lead
>> times....
>>
>> Piers
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 08 September 2010 11:25
>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [OM] Feeding the rumor mill
>>
>> I'd never heard of KB Canham cameras before your post.  So I looked and
> was
>> surprised to see some unusual and very large sizes such as: 4x10, 7x17,
> 8x20
>> and 12x20.  Those are inches and not centimeters.  Where does one buy film
>> for such things?
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
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