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I am also interested to get som information about 8x10 color processing in a Nova. With correct replenishment it would in theory be OK, but I'm sceptic about how even the results would be. Any out...

Stephen, how do you develope your color negs to achieve n-3, n-4 ?

Some words about crossowers. Theoretically, a crossower cannot be corrected by filtering. The color in the shadows are opposite...

Is there any place where the Riteway holders can be bought, preferably in Europa ? I made some search on the net, but couldn't find any address, nor address for Fidelity. Are there any other ...

Sometimes in heavy weather, I have to stabilize the car with knocking a piece of timber under the lee side. Mostly I'm having one of the tripod legs outside the car, this gives more spatial room...

At the moment of writing this, the wind outside in the night is yawling with some forty knots and the snow is flying horizontal. The forecast predicts that same weather continues. Despite this,...

I have owned both cameras. The Linhof was my first 5x7 and I used it about one year before I got a little tired about the weight and the lack of front fall. In the tech cameras you have to use the...

May I ask how it is possible to have better scans from a dense neg ? I've been producing merely thin negs just for scanning reasons, but it is true that the custom labs here have problems to make...

I have the same experience with the biggest pro-lab in Finland with 8x10 Portra. I can't find any other reason that when the film comes out from the developer in a dip and dunk machine, the...

Duplicate film is made in 100ft rolls and 70 mm wide. Before I bought a 70 mm duplicator I duplicated slides with an enlarger and a little easel that I made with a 6x9 (or 6x7, how you want) frame....

Yaakov, are you using some metol based developer? If so, switch over to phenidon based. The metol is toxic and very fast allergizing. It's more than fifteen years I used MQ developer, but still...

For most modern color films the reciprocity factor will be only about 50 percent or less with a 2 second exposure. I hope it would be more, because, with longer exposure the latitude would be...

Living here in the dark north, most of my exposures bumps into the painful range between one to five seconds. Though I've been practicing elephants and many other mammals all my life, I still make ...

...the color is kind of washed out and the contrast is not great... what a beautiful sound! Just what I suspected a little. Peter, is it otherwise OK? Is the development uniform and without...

Well, I think I'll wait a little before joining the club...it seems a little exclusive to me, specially as I am located in Finland (neighbour to Sibiria) and ebay operates mostly in USA. But one...

May I use the opportunity to ask what do I need to take 8x10 Polaroids? I found there's a color film type 809 (and 809 bulk). I guess I need somekind of a holder/processor. Is the holder and ...

210 seems to me a little short, but already a 240 works fine. I measured the distance between film and easel with the 240 lens for a 24x30 inch print from 8x10 to be just 4 feet.

Wayne, though I never done it, I can't see any reason why a density mask in the flter drawer shouldn't work. Expose a round dark object on a white background as very unsharp on some clear film. If...

I have already ordered Ilfocolor glossy material and a RA-4 kit. I will first make a test without any filtration just to see what the resolution is about. But I don't promise any fast answer...

I remember that polyester based glossy print material like Fujiflex and Ilfoflex should have a resolving power about 60 lpmm. I can't confirm it, but I have 8x10 contact prints from Portra 160 film...

Anyone out there with experience in using color print paper instead for film? A negative color picture without the orange mask should be easy to scan and the en d product could be a lambda or...

I've always had problems with newton rings in contact printing. Now I have a plastic filmsleever taped to the glass and I'm printing with the film inside it. The problem with this is that there's...

If you half the film speed, you'll have to expose about one f-stop more. Because changes in development times have more effect on the highlights, the one f-stop will give about the same amount of...

Be careful with your lightbox, I've found many of the new smaller items on the market are so bright they will make the slide looking brighter (also looking better because of good shadow detail)...

Paul, though I thoughtI know a lot about Photoshop your discovery was new to me and of elementar relevance. I've already forwarded this to many friends and companions. Thank's!

Art Panorama has a 6x17 cm film holder that fits on any universal or 4x5 graflock back. The holder comes with an own viewing device, both very solid buildt, strong and simple. I use one with a...

The new Phillips cameras comes with a clear plexiglass protector. There's no need to take it away at all, and it is very practical in cold weather because it condensates less than the ordinary...

Also Dick Phillips who makes the famous Phillips LF cameras recommend the Bosscreen as the best gg-option. He said that the folk in Bosscreen will know exactly what to deliver if you order one for a...

Because colours like brown and sepia doesn't exist as spectral colours, it can be very hard to achieve these by just using yellow/magenta filtraton. One way could be to make a filter, eg. by ...

One way to do this ,is to glue some plastic knobs on the bottom of the tray to separate the films. I would suggest to use a 5x7 tray with 3 to 4 stoppers in the middle. With this it's possible to ...

Yes, the outside dimensions are the same for doublesided plastic holders. The 9x12 cm film size is 3 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. So go for 4x5 if you can, also it's easier to operate with the uncropped...

I have used in pre exposure a yellow-brownish card of about 8x10 size. The colour of the card will decrease the blue cast in shadows. It works, but be careful and make some preliminar tests first.

Just for curiosity, I want to tell this. Last week I shot the same scene with fresh 8x10 FP4+ and old FP4 that was out of date already 1987 when I got it with buing an old Linhof.

Suprisingly,...

If you're not afraid for the finnish language, take a look at www.itameri.net Mostly pictures with 6x17 and 8x10.

This doesn't solve the problem Sal has, but is otherwise related to this thread. You can't use an anti newton glass for contact printing, the pattern of the glass will be printed too. It may not be...

In the days when only the old contrasty CPS material was made, many big labs making cibachrome in Europa preflashed the material regurarly before use. I tryed myself once, not so very serious, and ...

A simple solution for greasing screws and similar mechanical things is to use the grafit from a common HB pencil. Make some light drawings with the pencil along the threads and screw in place....

The Cokin X-pro filter holder will fit a lens with max. 122 mm external diameter. It is attached on the lens with four screws. I'ts great for graduated filters because you can adjust the position ...

All these are of course personal consideratons, but I like it because 1. It's not oversaturated, you can look at the picture without getting your eyes sick. 2. Cleaner color, much better than the...

The low contrast material CF1k creates a crossower in P-30 where highlights will be cyan and shadows slightly red. If he picture is colorful it may not be seen, but is very apparent in prints with ...

This sure goes slightly off topic, but a well known photographer here in Finland had once a poodle that he used helping view camera focusing in the field. He just commanded the dog further or...