Professional Picture Framing equip for sale

THIS EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN SOLD AND COLLECTED BY THE NEW OWNER

For the past six years I have done a lot of my own picture framing and the time has come where I have this equipment for sale. All the equipment is professional level,  consisting of a MORSO F TWIN-KNIFE GUILLOTINE and a MINIGRAF 3 bench top v-nailer + compressor.

I am selling this equipment as I no longer have the room or the time to do the framing myself. All the gear works perfectly.

The Morso guillotine comes with a custom made stainless steel left hand side frame support that attaches to the machine(not seeing in picture). The Australian Retailer Anton’s sells this item new for around $4000. Details of this machine can be found here.

The Minigraf 3 I bought off a framer in WA that Christian Fletcher used to share the gallery space with in Busselton. (Small world hey). This was sold by Anton’s and to buy this new is about $3500 and details can be found here. I have a range of v nails for this machine as well that will be included.

Making and putting together your own frames saves you a huge piece of the profit with your sales and I bought my frame direct from the same wholesales that all the framing galleries bought from. The likes of Anton’s, Hughes and Marks. All I did was set up accounts with them.

I got all this gear at a great price and I am selling it for the same. $750 per item or if you buy both $1200.

Local pickup (Central Coast, NSW) or I can pack to send via your selected courier.

Any questions please email me at info@mattlauder.com.au or call on 0414 374 533 at anytime.

THIS EQUIPMENT HAS NOW BEEN SOLD AND COLLECTED BY THE NEW OWNER

Fotoman Cameras Ceasing Production

Today I was talking with Scott the owner of Main Line Photographic’s (who is the Fotoman Retailer in Australia) regarding selling my Fotoman 6×24 and he told me some interesting news that the company “Fotoman” is ceasing production on all its camera’s and disbanding.

On the Fotoman web site (under their Q&A section) they talk about still offering full support and parts for their cameras and the future of the company etc.

As us film shooters know the Fotoman 6×17 camera was and still is for the time being while stocks last, a great option to shoot the format with the Schneider lens without breaking the bank. (Linhof uses the same lenses and a new one will cost you $12 grand where the Fotoman with the same lens is around $6 grand). Then you have the Fotoman 6×24 like I have that pumps out a crazy sized tranny (22.4cm x 5.6cm).

If you are interested or were ever looking to get a Fotoman get in quick while stocks last apparently they are depleting quickly.

Forresters Beach, Central Coast

Just got a swag of film back from the lab. Totally forgot I took this shot as my film has been piling up since February. So it was a nice surprise.

This one is taken at sunrise on Forresters Beach, Central Coast, NSW.

Fuji GX617 on Velvia 50 (of course).

Enjoy.

Freshwater Beach, Northern Beaches

The other day I had the opportunity to shoot in the late evening at Freshwater Beach on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. This is taken from a lookout at the northern end. The light didn’t hang around for long, just long enough and that’s all you ever need.

I have included a few actual pixel extracts from the shot. The resolution and shadow detail is amazing and totally kills the detail I can get from my 6×17 cameras on Velvia 50 slide.

 

This image is a 9 image stitch on my Canon 5D Mark II. Shot at 50mm it gives a close field of view as my Fuji GX617 with the 90mm lens. This images final size is 14895 pixels x 4965 pixels @ 240dpi.

I had stitched it in PTGui initially but I found the blending of the water very harsh, but in CS4 the blending was perfect. The other alternative would have been to output the files in PTGui and hand stitch and blend. But I try to avoid this if I can, take so bloody long to do, especially when your not running enough RAM or processing power.

Surfs Up – Avoca Beach

Thought I would shoot something other than landscapes for a change. Surfing is huge here on the Central Coast (where isn’t it). So I rocked up to Avoca Beach on sunrise and found a nice rock shelf to perch on and I snapped away. I’m no expert but this swell seamed pretty big, probably a benefit from all the bad weather we had over the last few days. Give it time and my future surf posts will have all the lingo.

Met this bloke Steve (above) he seamed to catch all the good waves. I also managed to shoot this sequence of a stack below. All shots taken with 70-200mm f2.8.