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    Re: Paper negatives

    I too enjoyed your work. Can you elaborate on your modern day Talbotypes, it looks like you perfected the process. What toner do you use?
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    Re: To get out of ULF or not?.

    Making art might not have much to do with the paper, but teaching usually does.
    Some sort of formal education (M.ed, MFA, BS/BA ) is requires no matter where someone wants to teach. Whether or not...
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    Re: To get out of ULF or not?

    Sell off everything you have: lenses, bodies, film, film holders. Keep only your small or digital cameras and don't look back.
    There will be plenty of cameras and lenses and film if/when you...
  4. Re: Effects of B&W Rinse Waters into Septic/Drainfield Systems?

    CUT-SNIP-PASTE


    not mine neck of the woods neether!
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    Re: Bucket List of equipment

    The Hasselblad view cameras were custom made by Szilárd Szabad. The cameras were made and sold, and Szabad eventually decided to put his own name on them and call them "Szabad" cameras, instead of...
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    Re: Bucket List of equipment

    Thanks for the warm welcome, Alan. :)
    Sorry for my confusion, I thought this was a 4x5 or bigger forum ( and other smaller sizes were frowned upon ).

    I know Victor Hasselblad used to make...
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    Re: Bucket List of equipment

    Alan, no mention of their view cameras?

    OP
    A simple, easy to use, bigger than 4x5, in-camera, single-step, silver gelatin camera, like a mandelette on steroids.
  8. Thread: What is Azo?

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    Re: What is Azo?

    I wish my memory wasn't failing, but 10-12 years ago that guy "John or Johnny"? the French Canadian chemical supplier? wanted to sell me POUNDS of Glycin for cheap about a year before he was closing...
  9. Thread: What is Azo?

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    Re: What is Azo?

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    Look at TheLightFarm and search for "seawater" emulsion. It is not AZO but it is a simple Silver Chloride emulsion that seems very easy to make.



    It might be total crap, but the story...
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    Poll: Re: 7x11 and whole plate (6 1/2 x 8 1/2) formats

    I never warmed up to WP, it was too "boxy" and there must be some truth to 7x11 being close to the golden triangle because I can take the absolute worst photograph and it still looks nice. Truth be...
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    Re: RC advocates please chime in

    I have been making paper negatives on a variety of RC and FB papers for maybe 25 years. I have RC prints that are 35 years old that look as good now as the day they dried. I have had "de-silvered"...
  12. Thread: Nude

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    Re: Nude

    I have a lot of respect for photographers who are able to make large format figure studies and have them be true and honest; It is a fine line to cheezy and tasteless.
    There are lot of honest, and...
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    Wonderful image !
    Thankyou for posting this.
  14. Re: Lf gov't job opening

    That's a lot of scanning !
    ( Probably the KSA questions helped. )
    Mark Sawyer, THAT is funny 8D
  15. Thread: 8x10 lens

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    Re: 8x10 lens

    What he said.
  16. Re: Lf gov't job opening

    I feel badly for the poor people that had to read resumes from people who hadn't the foggiest notion what "HABS" meant. I wonder how many out of the 4000+ were actually qualified for the position.
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    Re: 11x14 experiences - please share yours

    A couple of Centurys.
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    Poll: Re: 7x11 and whole plate (6 1/2 x 8 1/2) formats

    I don't have a WP camera but do have a 7x11 back for a 11x14 camera.
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    Re: Making a ground glass

    I have made some plexiglass ones with a small asymetrical sander.
  20. Re: Pictorialism - Soft focus and alternate processes

    You could focus closer to you, so the lens will be able to do its
    "wide open" thing, or unscrew one of the elements a little bit, or
    introduce a ziplock bag into the field of focus (shoot through...
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