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Title: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: LT on May 03, 2012, 02:08:26 PM
Fresh off the plane from China:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7241/7138721699_e0db82c459.jpg)

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8012/6992635814_c94b04cec5.jpg)

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7187/6992637214_d65106965b.jpg)

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Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Suzi Livingstone on May 03, 2012, 02:16:41 PM
Mmmm nice  ;D
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Paul Mitchell on May 03, 2012, 03:07:09 PM
I bet that there's someone in the Taylor household that looks like the cat who's just got the cream... hope you enjoy using it as much as I have with mine.

Paul
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Francois on May 03, 2012, 04:09:28 PM
Mmmm... Bellows... my favorite (in that Homer voice)  ;D

I can imagine all the jumping around that happened when this was left on your doorstep :)
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: LT on May 03, 2012, 05:52:38 PM
thanks guys - and I got a job yesterday ...

new job, new camera - I'm doing somersaults here :)
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Urban Hafner on May 03, 2012, 05:56:18 PM
Well, congratulations are in order, I think. Both for the job and the camera!
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Knaster on May 03, 2012, 06:00:17 PM
Wonderful, Leon! I can relate to all this - I got a job myself (after being out of one for ages and ages) the week before last and tonight I am taking delivery of a small baby, err... I mean LF camera, namely a Sinar Norma.

Life can be grand sometimes. :)
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Britt Aximon on May 03, 2012, 06:30:08 PM
Congrats Leon. It is a beautiful camera, you will have som much fun with it. And congrats to the job as well!
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Sandeha Lynch on May 03, 2012, 06:53:46 PM
Haha - Well done !!   ;D
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Miles on May 03, 2012, 07:00:00 PM
Hats off good fellow.
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: jojonas~ on May 03, 2012, 07:01:27 PM
waow! :o you're on a roll leon! congrats~~~ ;D
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: mickld on May 03, 2012, 07:41:10 PM
Great news. That camera is just gorgeous looking. Have you posted a video review yet?  ;)
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: sapata on May 03, 2012, 07:50:44 PM
Congratulations for the job and camera Leon! :)
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Mike (happyforest) on May 03, 2012, 08:38:33 PM
Congratulations on both.

Mike
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Miller on May 03, 2012, 08:44:46 PM
Nice toy and congrats on the job hustle....

Talking 4x5, yesterday an assistant of Lord Snowdon picked up a Polaroid 4x5 back from me... Says its getting strapped to his Linhof kit today... 82 years old and still shooting I guess and at least its seeing the light of day instead of shacked up in my cupboard...
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Nick Moys on May 03, 2012, 09:59:28 PM
Great stuff. Hope you enjoy the new job as much as I'm sure you will enjoy the camera. :)
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: original_ann on May 04, 2012, 02:49:02 AM
Congratulations on the job and camera, Leon!  What a beauty!  What's going to be your lens of choice?
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: LT on May 04, 2012, 07:15:39 AM
Thanks for the warm wishes :)

ann - I mostly use a 150mm for 5x4 but this camera lets me focus my 65mm super topcor so I'm looking forward to some mad-wide 5x4! Even the harman Titan is less wide than that! It's a lens for 6x9 but the image circle will just cover 5x4 so I'm told. Exciting.

Miller - you always have the best anecdotes! Just being an octogenarian Polaroid snapper would have been cool enough, but Snowdons assistant too? Excellent.  
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Andrea. on May 04, 2012, 07:55:14 AM
Congrats on both counts Mr Leon. I do hope the latter will not get in the way of the former! 8)
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: kenny on May 04, 2012, 08:26:31 AM
Congrats on the new camera and new job Leon!
Please do a podcast review on the Chamonix, I'm sure a lot of us are really looking forward to that!  ;D
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Late Developer on May 04, 2012, 08:31:46 AM
Fabulous news on both fronts, Leon. Hope you soon settle into the new job and that the Chamonix is all you've hoped for.
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: astrobeck on May 04, 2012, 09:00:10 AM
Cheers on both counts!
We should all have a beer at the local pub.....

Anxious to see how you get about with it.
 :)
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: This-is-damion on May 04, 2012, 10:03:14 AM
Very nice mr taylor
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Suzi Livingstone on May 04, 2012, 12:27:09 PM
Congrats on the new job Leon!  ;D
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: LT on May 04, 2012, 12:55:55 PM
thanks again all.

Here's a tempting taster for Ann  8) :

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7104/7141687355_18f1f0ca5c.jpg)
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Francois on May 04, 2012, 01:59:06 PM
It's a lens for 6x9 but the image circle will just cover 5x4 so I'm told. Exciting.
And if it doesn't, you'll get that much sought after vignetting  ;D
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Paul Mitchell on May 04, 2012, 02:27:54 PM
What sort/make of lens panel is that Leon?
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: LT on May 04, 2012, 02:35:10 PM
Paul - it's a converter from 80mmx80mm to linhof size..  The lens is in a panel for my Horseman camera.  I wanted to be able to use it for both LF and MF, so I got a linhof size adaptor.  I;ve put all my LF lenses into a horseman panel, and I use this adaptor with them for LF.

works well.
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Ed Wenn on May 04, 2012, 03:01:45 PM
I had no idea you were getting a new camera. Straight out of the blue.

 ;) ;)

Seriously though, it looks great and I know you'll do great things with it. Job too. Excellent!!
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: edthened on May 04, 2012, 05:31:34 PM
Och Leon, yer sutcha jammie jammie dodger,  .............................................................an am awfie pleezzed fir ye tae, so ther  :)   8)
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: LT on May 04, 2012, 05:43:08 PM
och, thanks neddie, so ther  8)
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Karl on May 04, 2012, 06:01:03 PM
wow
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: LT on May 11, 2012, 08:18:35 PM
... and it covers perfectly.  Even allows for a (very small) amount of tilt :)

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8025/7177773596_bbe8a6793f_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Diane Peterson on May 11, 2012, 10:08:25 PM
Congrats Leon, on both the job and the camera! Wonderful news on both fronts!
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: sapata on May 19, 2012, 12:16:56 PM
Though it was interesting to share Leon...
http://www.scoop.it/t/wet-plate-collodion/p/1782427228/chamonix-4-5-wet-plate-holder (http://www.scoop.it/t/wet-plate-collodion/p/1782427228/chamonix-4-5-wet-plate-holder)
Title: Re: Look what the postlady brought me today ....
Post by: Knaster on May 20, 2012, 12:32:50 PM
Here is another wetplate holder for 4x5:

http://www.incameraindustries.com/ (http://www.incameraindustries.com/)

looks a bit more "industrial" (sturdy) and there is also a 8x10 version. But I sure would love a 5x7" version...  :)