I wrote a post in October 2018 (originally written in 2016 on Medium site) on the Gibellini ACN45 4×5 large format camera. My ACN45 was one of the first cameras made by Alessandro Gibellini. It’s solid, works great, and just beautiful to look at and to use. It’s a bit heavy so when I was traveling, I usually took the lighter weight Chamonix F1 4×5. About a year and half ago, as the Chamonix F1 had some difficulties handling the large Cooke PS945 lens (which is the lens I use the most), I decided to sell the Chamonix and bought […]
Monthly Archives: May 2020
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So with nothing much else to do (who am I kidding? there are plenty of Things That Need To Be Done, but I don’t wanna…), I built myself a guillotine shutter for the Pinkham and Smith Visual Quality IV No.2 lens. Notes: a Guillotine shutter works by gravity – a blade with a slot opening drops and the film is exposed during the time the open slot is traveling down in front of the lens. A Packard Shutter is one of the other few ways to use a shutter with these larger lens (the PS VQ IV is 3 1/2″ […]
While the Hasselblad Flextight scanners still produce some of the best scans available, it is unfortunately a product line that had been discontinued. The software has not been updated for nearly a decade, and there have been a number of people asking for help to get their units with Firewire interface working under Windows 10, with no definitive answer that I can find. I have recently gotten a new PC running Windows 10 Pro. The good news is that my Flextight 848 scanner works perfectly after some digging around in the new setup. There are different models of Flextight scanners […]