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As the title reads, the final thesis exhibit is up at Lesley College of Art and Design Under Arts Center 1801 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge. It's at Porter Square right next to the old Sears Building...

if you use the victor electric traps you might even be able to get some kirlian photographs of your mice as they go into the next realm ...

the caffenol cookbook's website isn't up anymore but you can find it here > https://www.nanianphoto.com/blog/caffenol-cookbook/
not written about in there but one can just use straight coffee and no...

reinohld made (still makes?) some great lenses! he might still have some in stock.
beautiful thing about his lenses, aside from them being machined works of art is
he also sold Waterhouse stops, so...

hi joho

if you run into a dead end there are some liquid selenium toners out there that might be of some help.
good luck with your search!
John

mind blowing stuff, blazing what looks like the switars !

I 've found just closing fstop down 3 clicks and doing a test strip, and if I am doing multiple prints from exposures that all around the same density, &c, I've been fortunate enough to know how to...

thanks Ned! :)

YES!
IC thanks, you made my day :)
I was just looking over my H8 films and wishing I still had my camera LOL
and BOOM there you are :)
looking forward to hearing how it went :)
John

excellent !
I hope when you do your tests you post your results here or if you have a website that hosts your work, thoughts, successes and failures you post the results there (too) :)
Someone...

I think you answered your question yourself. Seeing there aren't many people doing what you are interested in learning about, your experience is what one might refer to as "primary research" As you...

:) TY Peter!

7 seconds, caffenol developed in an open tray with the lights on (room light, not red light )
straight scan, inverted. brush neck cove ..

it might be worth the time, or it might be crap, you never know until you expose and develop it
and unfortunately if it was exposed and it didn't work out then it might have been time-wasted.
I...

konakoa

you might also look into misstate camera repair, they are also in RI and they, like Mike, do a great job.

good luck !
John

thanks for the info Joshua !
I have never heard of fixxons. I've been making enlarged / digital negatives with pictorico and for fun cheep, with staples brand OHC film ... sounds like fixxons might...

Hi norly

While I do not use a lot of e6 or c41 film, I have noticed when I did that it rendered colors differently depending on how it was exposed / scanned as you said. it can range from intense...

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 )...

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..

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

looks fantastic !
I hope you have years of wonderful image making there -

thanks ned !
im almost there, back to my coffee based reversal developer .. :)

sounds like a fun trip.

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...

brush neck from the street to the bay
7 seconds, handheld, paper, developed in room light in caffenol

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...

adhesive residue can sometimes be removed with either dish soap or something like olive oil . YMMV

Magic is right !
Beautiful work, great interview.
Congratulations!
John

Hi Jim
If one doesn't have teflon spray could one use graphite dust ? that works like a charm with old deGroff pistons ...
John

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...

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 ......

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...

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...

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...

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!