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Thanks, Merg! Still want to see more of your work the next time I'm in the bay area. My BW portrait looks awesome in my den!

I just wanted to invite anyone in the Minnesota / Iowa area, or those of you traveling through, to the opening of my exhibit at Bethany College. This is the first solo exhibit of my Great River Road...

Gregory,

Thanks for the kind words about my work. In response to your questions, I'm really not sure what I'm going to do now with film and paper. I'm in the middle of a book project and for the...

Patricia,

I've shot over 500 sheets of 8x10 Efke PL100 - all of it for contact printing on Azo. This was my standard film/paper combination for some time. However, I began to run into batches with...

As part of the traveling exhibit Azo -> Contact -> Print which is currently on display at the Paul Paletti Gallery in Louisville, the University of Louisville is holding a panel discussion on...

Neil - no plans yet for the show to move west, but we've seen some interest from other galleries so you never know. We'll post here if the show moves on.

I can't speak for View Camera overall,...

Yea, that was our fault. The deadline was tight and the scans we provided View Camera simply weren't large enough file sizes for the magazine. I guess that's what happens when you give a bunch guys...

The show: Azo -> Contact -> Print. An Exhibit of Large Format Contact Prints moves to the Paul Paletti Gallery in Louisville, KY this weekend. If you missed it at the Metropolitan Center for the...

I just realized that I said the opening was this sunday - it is actually a week from this sunday (Jan 8th). The dates are all correct. My mistake.

Best,

Scott Killian
www.scottkillian.com

A large group show opens this sunday at the Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts in the Washington DC area called:

AZO -> CONTACT -> PRINT

Paul Paletti of the Paletti Gallery is curating...

I tried IR goggles to develop film by inspection and it works great. As a result, it certainly won't fog paper if that's what you mean, but I'm not sure how it's an advantage over just using a...

Kirk,

You're probably right. I'm going by memory from his biography by Mary Alinder where I thought it said 900+. Doesn't really matter, point is that it isn't exactly scarce.

The monetary value of something is not built on scarcity alone. Adams printed nearly 1000 copies of Moonrise - more than any other print, yet it continues to be his most valuable. Conversely, some of...

If the only thing that matters is the result, then shouldn't the pages from a book be just as valuable and collectable as an "original print"? I understand the logic behind this sentiment, but it...

I have this lens and often stop down to f/64 with no apparent issues with sharpness. Then again, I only make contact prints. Edward Weston routinely stopped down to F/90 and beyond, even making his...

I've been working for the last year on a photographic project consisting entirely of 4x10 contact prints. This is for a monograph I am publishing on the Great River Road (the road which follows the...

Robert,

"Take a print that will last 500 yr. and turn it into a print that will last 50 yr..."

This isn't exactly true. Most of the damage that happens to prints (aside from poor fixing and...

Thanks, everyone. Show went well. Good turnout and some sales. Appreciate the words of encouragement.

I have a show opening tonight at the Weyers-Sampson Gallery at Thiel College in Greenville, PA. (About an hour from either Pittsburgh or Cleveland). I'll be exhibiting 30 photographs, most of them...

I've developed many 8x10 negs using stand development and Michael is absolutely right. The film needs to be upright to avoid bromide drag and uneven development. Make your own tubes out of ABS...

Thanks Sandy, just what I was looking for. Completely agree about differences in density needed for Azo vs Enlargement. The times I was looking for are for my 120 negs which I enlarge. Standardizing...

Sandy,

Have you or anyone else determined 1:1:100 development times for Efke 100 (PL100) for enlargement printing? I've seen many other films online, but haven't found this one.

Also, in my own...

I've shot quite a bit of Efke 25 with most of the exposures in the 1" - 2 minute range. I used the same reciprocity times I've seen for some other films like J&C 200 and it's worked fine for me in...

I just returned from there about 2 weeks ago and have been there before. Best place to stay when you want to explore the extreme northern part (Eureka Dunes, Last Chance Range, Racetrack Playa,...

Grand Canyon has a heliport. You could try using one of the helicopter tour operators like Papillon that operates out of Phoenix - perhaps they would let you get off at the canyon.

Perhaps a stupid question, but I've read with interest lately about cruises in Alaska and also Antarctica which have left me wondering if it would be possible to make sharp exposures with a large...

Goldfarb - so YOU'RE the one who must of won Dagor77's auction for the ancient book on negative retouching!

If that's the case, I'll send you my bottle of Crocein Scarlet so you can take care of...

I have the Nikon M300. Great lens. Tack sharp, small, mounted in a Copal 1 shutter, pretty good sized image circle - doesn't get any better. If size, weight and image circle are important, then this...

I hope my original post isn't taken to mean that I disagree with Kodak's decision or results in another digital vs film debate (which has been beaten to death here). As a user of film, I'm personally...

Uh, I meant to say a "bad time" to ask for Tri-x Readyloads.

Kodak made an interesting announcement this week: http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/25/news/companies/kodak_shift/index.htm?cnn=yes

Kodak has announced that they will no longer make significant...

I've driven this many times and there are countless places to go along the way. Since this is your first time, the two classic EW haunts would certainly be ideal: Point Lobos and the Oceano Dunes....

Anybody try the Inglis Cross-Jet archival washer? This was recevied a rave review a couple issues ago in View Camera Magazine and I can't find any additional information online. The guy was quick...

32 and glad to see somebody else struggling to get accurate developing times for Delta 100 on a Jobo. Patrick - if you figure that one out, let me know!

Thanks for the advice, but I'm not interested in going the digital route for a variety of reasons. I have a top of the line Mac, am fluent in PhotoShop, etc... However, LF photography is a hobby ...

Thanks in part to comments on this board, I recently purchased an Ebony 45S, my first large format camera. Although I have limited experience with other field cameras, I'm very happy with this...

As a direct result of feedback from Paul and other Ebony aficionados on this board, I recently purchased an Ebony 45S - my first large format. I must agree that these cameras are everything people...