Large Format Photography Australia

Hi all, I don't know if it is just me, but lately I have had difficulty accessing the forum. It appears that various spiders/bots seem to crawl the site, the site hits its load limit and prevents anyone else from getting on. This seems to be happening more often than I would have expected. If you're...

Hi folks, With the help of the hosting company, I think I have tracked down the problem (the sessions table got too unwieldy because some spider/bot hammered the site with 7500 parallel sessions). I've turned down the maximum number of sessions possible to 50, at which point the site will automatica...

Hi folks, Apologies for the down time today. The website was suspended due to excess database resource usage. I don't know what happened (the site has been functioning smoothly for me for nearly a year), but hopefully it was just a temporary hiccough. If it happens again, I'll leave a message on the...

Hi folks, Like everyone, I get a lot of spam email. Unfortunately, this site also generates quite a bit and any legitimate requests get lost in the din. I've just cleared out all my spam from this site, so if you have submitted a request and don't receive a personal email from me, please try again. ...

A similar post was made today (same title, probably the same content). I've nuked the post, deactivated the account, and banned the email address. Whoever the poster was they registered the account a year ago, so if they're that patient, it is unlikely this will stop them unfortunately. cheers, -steve

Thanks Maris and Mick and Alistair and Oscar.

As Oscar mentioned, he's passed the reins to me. Many thanks to Oscar for looking after the forum for the past six years, and for all the help in getting me up and running. The transition should have been transparent, but please let me know if you have any issues. Similarly, while I'm not planning o...

Thanks Maris - there are quite a few interesting articles on Japanese manufacturers on that site, like: Sakai Special Camera Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (the manufacturer of Toyo cameras): https://chiiden.net/?p=5176& Toho: https://chiiden.net/?p=4333& Sekonic: https://chiiden.net/?p=5812 Copal:...

Hi Nathan,

Glad it all worked as planned - I'm amazed you got them so fast!

cheers
-steve

Hi Nathan, I did a little googling and found that it is common to run 82V lamps on 110V supplies. I don't know why it works (I can't get the numbers to work out, but my AC power theory is rusty). I do trust KHB though, so if that is what they say as well, then it sounds like it's right. So yes, the ...