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Time for you gents to fry some silver - eh !!

In 1995 the company that I worked for pulled the the plug due to rumors of digital mayhem and personal strife between the owners. I promptly bought all that I could at fire sale prices. Until about...

Like my Durst ACS printers, Film will not die. My Blacksmith says so and he should know.

Toyo 45a --yes Toyo and it goes well with a Toyota for a backcountry roustabout. Or be a "Minor White" kinda dude and hulk the ever sexy Norma . A field camera all naked and such !! The original case...

As always it seems that life is the filter. Too much technicality becomes a filter . The masters loaded , cocked , used their brain and went on high for the moment. Soon after followed trepidation...

Riccardo, I use GE ELC 24v 250 watt bulbs -- no problem. Actually last longer.

I must look into this as I have not heard or experienced any issues with "moly". Another good lube is "Breakfree". Gun gurus like the stuff. Also from Dillon reloading is "Snake oil". It comes in a...

Look into molybdenum disulfide dry powder lubricant or as it is known with an aerosol solvent carrier( dry film moly spray lubricant). As Brian mentioned, dry chain lubes work well; chain wax from...

Thank you very much sun of sand for the pictures and your time posting them up. This will help greatly .

Hi sun of sand, I actually have 5 or 6 tins of 16d developer but have no typical development times for the period. If you can post the 1951 book, that would help solve part of my mystery, er...

I am looking for stated film speed and granularity. These films had really good chunks of silver if I'm not mistaken, but the base is not friendly to the ages(developed or undeveloped). Also what...

Dupont hi speed pan type 428 also ..

Dupont hi speed pan type 428 also ..

Anyone have the Dupont Defender film information book? Looking for info on High Speed Pan Type 428 -circa '52 and Ivora - sensitized white film - circa '53. I do believe "Ivora" was a special...

Yup, try buying nitric acid ! Only because of my business license could I purchase that acid and they ask lotsa questions. Seems that terrorists and tweakers have an affinity for nitric. Great post...

Doing shoots with backgrounds outside for many years and must say that 50 foot by 20 foot would be for the extreme professional hollywood rigging cartel. I limit my size outdoors to 8 ft wide and 10...

Tri -X 320 in freezer since 1987 --Stunning in it's capture ability ( HC 110 ). Verichrome of all vintages (1958 -1972,3 ) , just seems to hold the shadows no matter ( I use Rodinal always with VC)....

Yes, as Peter states that once you get the hang of the whole game , these words will not be needed. My take has always been to make the process work for you , you must look at your total unique set...

Ryan: There are a few things going on in this thread. First, there is a long thread on pre-soaking somewhere else in this sub-forum, where ultimately half of us believe in pre-soaking, and half of us...

You are not doing 8x10 or are you ? 45 is a different animal than 810. Hone in on 4x5. All you are looking for when using " Photo flo" is to break surface tension on the actual surface of the film...

All we would do would be to dunk the film sheet in a vertical tank of 1000 ml or so of water with 5 to ten drops of "Photoflo" 600 . All you are looking for is that your sheet of film is ready to...

I miss unloading 3 part box fulls of Vericolor III in the dark onto hangars on The Sitte Tischer Mini Mat dip and dunk. The smell of the enclosed completely dark room where the dip and dunk machine...

Dilution ratio is spot on. Sounds like you are ready to shuffle. Unscientifically we used to presoak ( actually a dunk in water with 5-10 drops of Photoflo per 1000 ml ) . This helped immensely in...

Well have finally jumped to the digi dark side for volume event printing and am using a Shinko CHC S-1245 8x10 dye sub printer. Any one have sources for the "media kit" that is needed to run this...

Just missed a 4x5 Norma and 3 lenses ... Rats !! 8 1/2 and 12 inch Commercial Ektars in the mix. Also a 120 Angulon plus a very nice cased Norma set up -- all for $662 !! I hope someone on this...

Krytox aerospace grease --good stuff Maynard !!

Nice Photograph Vinny !!

As a weekend job my wife sells Canon printers at Best Buy and all the reps from Canon, HP and Epson laughed when I told them of Kodaks intention. Like a plane going down over the ocean -- there's...

Mine like Hotwheels - no dolls in my sphere of life - whew !!

I want Grossbild !!!

Museum piece - pay the price and be ever so vigilant ; User glass - get it inexpensive and send photons by the billions through it. I love my " not to worry about" glass.

You got it made. Just hit the gym for that extra 2 -1/2 block stretch. Out here in Az the lab is over the horizon almost.

What, you don't want to be a cross-processing Lomographer? (Or would that be Lomogramite?)
According to EK, they'll still have chemicals, and it's not like there's a chemical shortage out there. ...

Two words: Suck and trash. A short description of those type of bottles.

Shipping and handling -- the new cash cow of the internet !!

Oh yeah, lotsa bloat going on there -- and the score was ...

Thanks for the correct wisdom. As a testament to simplicity I just look at all the gear I don't use that I thought would " get me there". An expensive pile that gets sold off. The tools that work...

The general monetary direction most photo gear is heading -- great bargains for buyers, not so much for sellers. Cool stuff you plucked - keep us posted.

And we went to the moon !! Making color film should not be relegated to antiquity, but then again many complex things have gone by the wayside never to be seen again . I do hope for a continuing...

You have a problem many of us envy. My problem is Durst rollpaper printers and Lucht printers.