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  1. Re: Is it Possible To Print a Color Transparency on Pictorico Film?

    Hi Larry…
    I’ve been in the midst of doing something similar. Pictorico is too expensive for my blood I think I am going to find regular overhead film that ink can dry on ( like mal paso suggested )...
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    Re: Images of mistakes - good or bad..

    Well said!

    I don’t know if id say they are poor though they are what they are
    Mine are too plentiful to put in this donated server and found daily on my insta-happy feed and website..
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    Re: Elitist Artist Only? LFPF...

    Is this a trick question? :)

    Everything made by everyone is art, everyone who uses a camera is a photographer and of course there is a bit of elitism involved we still use film and don’t shoot...
  4. Thread: Dry Plates

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    Re: Dry Plates

    maybe folks didn’t have the answers you were looking for I don’t know if I’d call that a vendetta .. although sometimes the internet brings out the very worst of humanity…. Hope it worked out in the...
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    Re: Dry Plates

    plate sizes are always exact to the format size, the conversion septi for plate>film always takes room 1/16th +/- of an inch
    cutting glass is just score and snap and sand the edge from my...
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    well stated!
    3 clicks past wide open nearly every clean enlarging lens made is great.
    but its like everything else photographic, it's a lot of fun to make things as expensive and difficult as...
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    Re: Dry Plates

    any glass shop will do that, Im buying dozens of 4x5, 5x7 and 8x10 sheets at a time, weighs a ton
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    Re: Dry Plates

    Looks like zebra is the only maker these days. while you wait for your shipment to arrive
    if you have clean glass, a bottle of liquid emulsion a darkroom you can coat your own it's really not as...
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    Re: Finally got Office and darkroom ready...

    looks fantastic !
    I hope you have years of wonderful image making there -
  10. Thread: Paper negatives

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    Re: Paper negatives

    thanks ned !
    im almost there, back to my coffee based reversal developer .. :)
  11. Re: Walking around Midtown neighborhood, New-York City

    sounds like a fun trip.
  12. Re: Walking around Midtown neighborhood, New-York City

    maybe the OP has a Press Camera, one of those Bostick and Sullivan Hobo's, a home-made hyper-focal rig, a Lippmann / Alpenhaus / Razzle Polaroid-conversion, box camera, magazine/falling plate (like a...
  13. Thread: Paper negatives

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    Re: Paper negatives

    brush neck from the street to the bay
    7 seconds, handheld, paper, developed in room light in caffenol
  14. Re: Walking around Midtown neighborhood, New-York City

    sounds like a blast ! do you have someone going with you to run interference and hand out your business card to excited Lookie Lous ?
    Calling cards to your IG feed or website might generate sales...
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    Re: D@ glass negative carrier

    adhesive residue can sometimes be removed with either dish soap or something like olive oil . YMMV
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    Re: Density Magazine issue #2

    Magic is right !
    Beautiful work, great interview.
    Congratulations!
    John
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    Re: Conley Silent Shutter piston service

    Hi Jim
    If one doesn't have teflon spray could one use graphite dust ? that works like a charm with old deGroff pistons ...
    John
  18. Re: What's your go-to when you want pronounced grain on BW sheet film?

    Hi Mark

    Yum, TMZ+TX is delicious! That and photos of musicians in a local bar sounds like fun! If the end results were anything like the LF images u make they must be beautiful!

    No...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    there used to be someone on the old ph-aux-3-pee-O site that had some sort of museum collection of sensitive glass images. I remember him saying he was living a'top of 10,000 collodion negatives ......
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    Re: Rodinal and Stearman 4x5 tank

    that's how you are supposed to develop rolls of tech pan in Technidol ... a friend develops rolls of sub mini film like that in a tank in a jumbled ball with whatever developer he is using Which...
  21. Re: What's your go-to when you want pronounced grain on BW sheet film?

    Hi Drew
    bullet proof negative that you can't see through are like a holiday gift. they print beautifully with a 300W bulb on RC paper exposed for about 15 seconds or whatever ... nothing's blown...
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    Re: Selling prints in the digital era

    there were at least 10. much easier to intimidate photographers and try to grab up their gear.
    soon after after the last time she said no she was mugged walking home from her studio riddled with...
  23. Re: Irving Penn exhibit / San Francisco, March - July 2024

    Hi Merg

    There was an Irving Penn exhibit at the Lesley College College of Art and Design a few years back, blew my mind.
    I wish I could fly out to California to see this one!
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    I think the guy was being fancy and just meant film :). the fumes from non-safety film / collodion based film is toxic ...
    back in the day ( almost 95 years ago ) when the Cleveland Clinic burned...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    btw I have been doing photo restoration work for various people over the years. kodacolor looks nothing like reality.. not sure how anyone can mistake a photography with realism ...
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    Re: Selling prints in the digital era

    that's crazy 35mm ?
    my ex boss was propositioned many times by underworld thugs to purchase her 8x10 studio camera to make porn. that was in the 70s and 80s and she refused continuously, maybe 35mm...
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    Re: Mortensen's Glycin Variant Film Developer

    :)

    You enlarge on to developer saturated photo paper. There's a light show and then a beautiful negative. I've done it to make a long exposed in camera exposure I couldn't see the light show,...
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    Re: The digital era

    there still is a market for nude pictures. "fine art nudes" as well as porn, humans haven't evolved. if you have higher aspiration like becoming someone who sells their nude photographs for a lot...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    yup, the more use of film and celluloid, the better!
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    Re: The Bromoil Workshop

    Dan and TorontoBuilder

    Gene Laughter is smiling down at you !
    Sadly I won't be near where the workshops will be held, I've always wanted to try Bromoils and OilPrints...

    Best of luck with the...
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    Re: Fakes? AI? PRINCESS

    they haven't surpassed the weekly world news .. the bat-boy was pretty real.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Boy_(character)
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    Re: Mortensen's Glycin Variant Film Developer

    Thanks for showing this to us Andy ! I've had a recipe for MGV and wanted to use it for years, but I never have any glycin that's not mixed in 130 ..
    From my sparce-notes, Mortensen used to develop...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    You might be right .. but it's kind of algebraic from what I remember..when you use the the associative and transitive properties they'll make an airplane .. or it might make the maker a figment of...
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    Re: Selling prints in the digital era

    the trick is to sell it as commerce not art, save the art for yourself .
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    Re: The digital era

    If someone wants a photograph - hand printed, machine / digital c print, pigment/ink embroidered with hemp thread, hot cured laser toner or un-processed latent images they will pay for it. There...
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    Re: Brightness of ground glasss

    All is not lost. You can still use the lens on your camera form”macro” work. Rack the front standard out at least 2x the focal length get a ruler and go to town.
    in case you are befuddled by how...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    you get it wrong, the AI image is just that and AI image, it's not an actual fake image made from a real impression (latent image ) made on a light sensitive medium,
    it's AI generated, which is...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    true dat
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    some of the enlarger companies stopped making enlargers before the 2000s. parts and broken enlargers are available on eBay or can be rigged to work, I mean it's just a light source, focus bellows...
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    Re: Why TF-5 Fixer??

    I've used both 4+5 and got rid of both of them before I really used them. too much ammonia reek for me, I went back to sprint speed fixer and plain hypo
    have never had issues with longevity,...
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