I saw an ad for a 500 buck small geared tripod head that looked a lot like an Arca Swiss C1 Cube. I bit. Here’s what it looks like next to the C1: It appears to be reasonably well built, but there’s no yaw possible below the pitch and roll axes. It needs to be… [Read More]

As you know if you’ve been following along in this blog, I’ve been working on ways to digitize film. I once has an Imacon Precision II scanner, but Hasselblad stopped supporting it. My thinking has been to use a GFX 100 or GFX 100S and Schneider and Rodenstock macro lenses. I’ve done some work the… [Read More]

I’ve been working away on developing a way to digitize black and white silver negatives at high quality using a GFX 100 and/or GFX 100S (I’m going to call this operation “scanning” although I’m aware that that term doesn’t really fit). I’ve reported on this blog about some of my testing of appropriate lenses. I’ve… [Read More]

In the 1980s, I bought an Arca Swiss 8×10 camera. The standards attached to a monorail. I had some tripod heads with Arca Swiss clamps. I went to my local camera store (RIP, Keeble and Shuchat) and asked for an adapter so I could mount the 8×10 on the head. My friendly salesman explained to… [Read More]