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An interesting post on the LRB blog this week about a new booked entitled "Shipwrecks" featuring the Gibson's of Scilly Shipwreck collection at Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Most of the large format...

I'm in Italy in the fall on a shoot - and was wondering if anyone has any intel about the kind of equipment that's in Rome–Fiumicino International Airport "Leonardo da Vinci". I'll be carrying sheet...

Thanks, Oren - I always forget about the Wayback Machine - much appreciated.

+1 for the sous vide device. I've been using an Anova model (https://anovaculinary.com/anova-precision-cooker/) for about four years. Temperature is rock solid, easily adjustable, and fast. It...

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Does anyone happen to have a copy of this Jobo Bulletin? Bulletin 034 refers to 009, but the Jobo-USA site doesn't have the 009 PDF.

Many thanks.

Thanks, Drew - really interesting.

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I recently received a number of 8x10 negatives that were shot in the mid-60s. Many of them have been masked out so that they can be printed like this:

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The negative has...

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I came across an issue of the Jobo Quarterly that features an article by Chuck Farmer where he discusses developing film with pyro in the Jobo tubes:
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Bill - you might want to check out this thread:

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?110178-Hydroponic-lamp-for-UV-printing-light-source

I've put together the unit that...

Sandy - they do mention that both the X-Rite ColorMunki Photo and the Datacolor SpyderPRINT would work for the PiezoDN process - neither is as expensive as a new i1Pro2 (though I see that used...

Sandy - I'm experimenting with Jon Cone's PiezoDN - and as part of the workflow for both linearizing .QUADs and building ICC profiles, it's recommended that a spectrophotometer be used. I've been...

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I’m interested in buying a spectrophotometer and have been looking at the X-Rite ColorMunki Photo and the Datacolor SpyderPRINT.

Does anyone have strong opinions either way about...

Thanks, everyone, for the comments and thoughts. My series IV Velostigmat is a f/6.3 version.

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Thanks, Dan - good to know. I'll give it a shot.

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A good friend recently passed along a bunch of lenses to me. One of them is a Wollensak Velostigmat 12" Series IV in a Betax No.4 Shutter. I only shoot 4x5 - and so was wondering...

Sorry - I should have mentioned that I emptied the tubes.

Thanks, everyone. I just got back in the darkroom yesterday - and had no problems with the resulting negatives. Stand developed in Pyrocat HD - no problems.

I'm developing HP5+...is there emulsion lift on B&W film?

Unfortunately, I can't leave the tubes open.

So, I was just about to process six sheets of 4x5 in BTZS tubes when something personal came up - and it turns out that I won't be able to get back into the darkroom until Monday. I had already...

And the subject should be "Antique Pictureology" - where are my glasses?

For the Canadians in the group - a new business based out of Nova Scotia. Apparently, Dale is a CDN distributor for Artcraft. I haven't purchased from him - just came across this on Facebook today....

Send a note to John and Murray at Nymoc in Toronto - I've used them to order chemicals here in Canada and they've been great to deal with. I know they stock the stuff for Pyrocat HD: ...

There's an interesting article on Baldwin Lee written by Mark Steinmetz (also a great photographer) last February on Time's Light Box...

Thanks for the good ideas, everyone - much appreciated.

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I've been doing some semi-stand processing in BTZS tubes - with times ranging from 11 minutes to over 50 minutes based on the neg.

I'd love to find a digital timer that I could...

I'm just starting to do it - processing FP4 in Pyrocat HD. I was inspired by the work that Steve Sherman and Sandy King have done and thought I'd try it myself (there's a fair bit of stuff on the...

I've purchased a bunch lately, probably more than is good for me.

Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris - the Met had an exhibiton of his photos last year. The book is excellent, especially...

Thanks, everyone, for the great info - I"m looking forward to trying out this lens.

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I've got a chance to acquire a 120mm Nikkor AM-ED - and while I don't need a lens like this for field work, I have read that some have raved about the Nikkor AM-EDs as enlarging...

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I'm using a 1:1:200 dilution of Pyrocat HD.

How quickly does the dilution need to be used? I ask because I've been working with WD2D+ for a number of years and that stuff starts...

Yes, I used to store my negatives in the Printfile 4-sheet per page - but that was a while ago and my workflow works better with individual sleeves rather than the 4 per page. Thanks anyway.

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I put my 4x5 negatives into single Printfile sleeves. These sleeves go into a Printfile tan flip-top box.

Just curious if any of you store Printfile 4x5 single sleeves in any...

Thanks, Tim & Drew for your thoughts.

Drew - if it's not too much bother, would you be able to post a couple of pictures of your set-up when you have a moment?

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I'm exploring some options for more ventilation in my darkroom - and was wondering if anyone know of or has experience with a ventilation arm - the kind that could be swung around...

Steven.

You might look at this thread:

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?107360-Another-UV-Light-Box-(16x20)

Jim Sidinger put together a UV lightbox a couple years...

Has anyone used Sprint Systems End Run Print Brightening Converter?

Just curious about your results.

Over at the FADU forum, Tony pointed out a really interesting short film about Chris Killip up on the NYRB:

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/gallery/2014/jul/22/chris-killip-skinningrove/

Worth...

I received the Stanford Albums and the Charles Marville book that Thomas mentioned in the last couple of days - both are really, really worth having. As far the the Marville book goes, I struggled...

Yes, I should have been clear - I was thinking about print development work rather than developing negatives. Hadn't thought about discarding Dektol after each use - I've been mixing it up 1:2 and...

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I have some 20x24" trays that I'd like to start using more often. The thing is, pouring the chemicals out at the end of a darkroom session can be tricky - the trays are heavy (even...