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It’s that time of the year for you ultra large format photographers with special size needs to place your film order.

Fred Newman of the viewcamerastore.com is taking orders for Ilford film until June 17, 2011 for this year’s run of what are now specialty format film sizes.

Check out this video for more information:

In the video, he tells the email address to be notified of this event when it occurs. I don’t want to put it here because of spambot harvesting of email addresses, but it’s at the end of the video.

Also, I don’t see a direct link on their site for more information, so use the contact info from their video if you’re interested.

This is a video of Jason Brunner giving an introduction to the Graflex Speed Graphic. In this video, Jason shows how a focal plane shutter allows the use of a projector lens. He also demonstrates the use of a spot meter and a Polaroid back.

To see speed graphics currently for sale, click here
To see spot meters, like the one Jason used in the video, click here

I found a link to this on apug.org. It’s a video showing the construction of a 40x40cm ultra large format camera. This video is by Ivan Sakharov.

A new life of an old format from Ivan Sakharov on Vimeo.