[LargeFormat] New Toy Report

[Clive Warren]

At 3:31 pm +0000 24/4/02, Pete Caluori wrote:
>Greetings,
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>A while back I asked for advise on preserving the bellows on an old 
>Speed Graphic (synthetic bellows.)  Ken Hough suggested I use Lemon 
>Pledge (this is
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>Last evening I took the Speed and a Grafmatic holder loaded with 6 
>sheets of HP5+ and paid a visit to an old abandoned ranch near my 
>house.  I developed the sheets last night, all were hand held and I 
>didn't have time to look at them through a loupe this morning, but 
>they appear very good.  Hopefully I'll print some of them soon and 
>if any are really good, I'll post them on f32.

I also use Pledge on synthetic bellows following Ken's suggestion - 
but not the lemon version.... Why lemon Ken - or should that be, Ken 
why lemon?

Great to hear that you're using the SG handheld - I have used mine to 
take snaps in the past with the flash bulbs, once found a piece of 
paper in my hatband after a party with the word "Press" on it :-)

Moving around without a tripod is very refreshing and opens up all 
sorts of possibilities that you would not normally consider. Look 
forward to seeing the photos if they pass your critical eye.

Cheers,
        Clive