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Thanks to everyone for responding, I think I will try using the bleach solution first to avoid spending more money on misc. chemicals.

Hello again all,

Recently my hypo-tray has taken on a very unpleasent smell... sort of like wet rotten eggs...

I am usually fairly good about cleaning out my trays, but managed to leave this...

All I really have to say is that as someone who has had a computer around since they were six and has to constantly use a computer to write papers, keep in contact with people, and shop I just get...

Does anybody know the width of the whole a lensboard for a Copal 0 shutter?

That reminds me, I have no clue what ISO Super-XX is supposed to be rated at.

Does anyone know what the ISO is and have development times for it in either HC-110 Dil B or Pyro PMK?

I am sorry to see that what I have said has created such a bitter argument over semantics. I feel that the actual discussion I was trying to start, which had more to do with Humanity in the arts and...

Mike,

I don't live in NYC, but I could easily catch a train for $25. Although I couldn't be a frequent partner, I would love to go on a photo excursion some time.

I just bought a large variety of expired film off eBay for really cheap.

100 Sheets of Plus-X from 1988
75 Sheets of T-Max 400 from 2001
25 Sheets of Super-XX from 1973

I am not sure what I...

Wow that sounds excellent Paul. I am glad that my $300 isn't going to have to have some funny looking 3rd foot.

Thanks

I was out doing some some photography last night because of the full moon and somehow lost one of the metal spikes along with its rubber foot on my Gitzo 1226 Mk2 tripod. I thought I found a...

--Clearly a computer is much different from the earlier machines used in photography (enlargers, etc.) and this is a significant difference; even if the final image may look similar.

The fragment...

"The question is, where do you draw hard lines, and say these two things are different processes but the same medium, but this thing is a whole different medium? To say something's a whole different...

"We're all the industy's bitch, when you get down to it ..."

Unfortunately this is true, but in a way this is also an advantage. We have companies that are always coming up with new medium for us...

Paul,

Just want to thank you for posting everything you have. It is all insightful and very much true.

I think the whole issue here has to do with the digital boom, if any of the old processes...

Well I'm glad that some people don't think I am entirely insane.

What is important to recognize is that not everyone who believes that digital photography and traditional photography should be...

Thanks Gene, getting my fiber prints to lie flat has always been an issue. I will definatly try that.

Paul,

I suppose you are right, I did get a little side tracked there. :)

It just seems like all too often the discussion is not focused on what the important issue at hand is. As films die off...

Paddy,

Well they were right weren't they? Printmaking and painting are different mediums and are both still alive today. I don't believe that digital should not exist, but that doesn't mean I...

There has been alot of talk on this thread about the definition of "photography" and what a "photograph" actually is, but I think this approach really misses what the actual important difference...

I have a friend who is going to Lyme Academy of the Arts and wants to set up a darkroom in his apartment he is renting, he really needs a 4x5 enlarger seeing that he will access to the cameras but...

They will still probably use some sort of view camera with a digital back for the movements, won't they?

I meant end of "traditional photography" ... I guess digital was just on my mind

It seems funny to me that everyone laughs about the end of digital and makes comparissons to all the other processes that died off: collodion, tintypes, daguerrotypes, etc. But last time I checked...

Wayyyyy off topic but I just have to know....

Jim Reed, are you Jim Reed the printer?
If so I helped you move into your new apartment with Cal... just thought it would be funny if you were the...

When you put the film back into the view camera you can't see out of the back either so..... whats the difference?

There will always be a future for film photography.

Although the majority of people are switching over to digital there will always be people who prefer the look, feel, and process of traditional...

If I remember correctly from reading the Ansel Adams books, when he talked about pre-visualization he wasn't talking about a composition which he would then go and hunt for, but rather he was...

Thank you both for your answers.

I strongly agree that I don't need to be meticulously saving all of my prints dry-mounted etc.

However, I do like to make sure that the prints that I...

You may also want to consider what your Enlarger is sitting on, when I was doing 30x40 enlargments from my 4x5s the images kept coming out soft because I had mounted the enlarger on a table...

Being the poor student that I am, I can't really afford a dry mount press (and yes I know that you can get great deals off eBay if you look, but that is still too expensive) and for a while I have...

What was frustrating you about printing the 4x5s?

I have been considering covering a large area of wall in my bedroom with cork so that I can constantly have my latest prints on display, then when they start to get old I can take them down, slip...

Thanks for the suggestions John. However, I don't think I can afford a $50 kitchen knife for cutting foam, considering this isn't something I do very often. I will most likely use a box cutter with...

Thanks everyone for your advice, I think I am going to buy a new serratted knife and try freezing the foam before cutting it.

Robert ----
The Halliburton cases were well used and already have...

Seeing that I will be heading off to college half way across the country in the next couple of months, and since my family has decided to fly instead of drive, I need to start making some...