Re: Primitive Photography Book

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From: Jeff Foster (jfoster@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: 01/30/02-02:08:20 PM Z


yes there are plans for wood film holders, 2 cameras and several lens!
the film holder seem just like "real" ones.

good book for the post industry future.

Jeff

Ricardo Wildberger Lisboa wrote:

> Hi Dennis,
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>
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> Are there in this book any plans that we could surely follow in order to
> build good film holders succesfully? Are they wood film holders like the
> ones we know? Using the same mechanisms the ordinary plastic ones does
> ? Thank you for any help.
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>
> Ricardo.
>
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> From: DENNIS@klink47.freeserve.co.uk
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> To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
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> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:21 PM
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> Subject: Primitive Photography Book
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> Primitive Photography A Guide To Making Cameras,Lenses,and Calotypes
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> Published by Focal Press Author Alan Greene
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> ISBN o-240-80461-9
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> Having just read this book I can recommend it to the intrepid
> experimenters on this list.It has five chapters 1/The Film Holder.
> 2/ The Camera Body 3/ The Lens 4/ Calotype Paper Negatives 5/ Salt
> Prints By Development. With an Appendix for Sources of Supply US
> only and a Bibliography
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>
> The Author has done much research to make this book possible and it
> is very much a DIY Book where all the items needed can be made from
> scratch. When looking at the Photographs it reminded me of an
> Aperture book I was reading recently called French Primitive
> Photography they have that wonderful rustic quality. At first I
> thought publishing a book of this type in the Digital age a Folly
> but I am sure I will be proved wrong.
>
>
>
> Dennis Klinker
>

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Jeff Foster - SDA UNIX
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