Digital BW, The Print

Simon,

Thanks for the reply.

A Plungercam is actually a modified 6x6 camera that I believe Mark
Tucker invented.  If you haven't checked out his website
www.marktucker.com yet you should.  He's got more talent in his pinky
than I could ever hope for, but I digress.

His invention is glueing a lens from a loupe to his hasselblad.  This
gives a wonderfully distorted effect to the image.  He's got a page on
his site explaining it all.  I can't afford his type of camera but I
was able to pick up a Bronica S2A for about $200 and since I'm an
engineer by day I did what every good engineer does and did some
calculating and bought an achromat lens from an optics company and
built my own "plungercam". 

I just got back my first roll from the lab and they actually look like
I hoped they would.  Maybe there is hope for me yet with this artsy stuff.

Richard



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Simon Whitehead
<s.whitehead@i...> wrote:
> A drying cabinet works for us at home.  There are masses of them about 
> these days in 2nd hand shops.  Not too expensive - worth every penny 
> (cent?)
> Make sure you get a 'long' one so that it will take a 220/36 exp 35mm  
> film.  Also make sure it has a new filter in it.
> 
> Go on then - what's a Plugercam?
> Regards,
> Simon
> 
> On Sunday, Feb 9, 2003, at 20:26 Europe/London, Richard Cooke 
> <rcooke@r...> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've recently built a "sort-of" Plugercam out of an old Bronica S2A I
> > bought off of ebay and I'd like to start developing the negatives at
> > home but I've never had much luck in keeping the dust and spots off of
> > them.
> >
> > What are folks doing to keep your negatives clean and dust free?  How
> > do you dry them?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Richard Cooke
> >
> > PS. Please excuse this post if this has been covered here but I tried
> > looking through the archives without any luck.
> >
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