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    Re: Finally got Office and darkroom ready...

    looks fantastic !
    I hope you have years of wonderful image making there -
  2. Thread: Paper negatives

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    Re: Paper negatives

    thanks ned !
    im almost there, back to my coffee based reversal developer .. :)
  3. Re: Walking around Midtown neighborhood, New-York City

    sounds like a fun trip.
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    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...
  5. Thread: Paper negatives

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    Re: Paper negatives

    brush neck from the street to the bay
    7 seconds, handheld, paper, developed in room light in caffenol
  6. Re: Walking around Midtown neighborhood, New-York City

    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...
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    Re: D@ glass negative carrier

    adhesive residue can sometimes be removed with either dish soap or something like olive oil . YMMV
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    Re: Density Magazine issue #2

    Magic is right !
    Beautiful work, great interview.
    Congratulations!
    John
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    Re: Conley Silent Shutter piston service

    Hi Jim
    If one doesn't have teflon spray could one use graphite dust ? that works like a charm with old deGroff pistons ...
    John
  10. Re: What's your go-to when you want pronounced grain on BW sheet film?

    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...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    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 ......
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    Re: Rodinal and Stearman 4x5 tank

    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...
  13. Re: What's your go-to when you want pronounced grain on BW sheet film?

    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...
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    Re: Selling prints in the digital era

    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...
  15. Re: Irving Penn exhibit / San Francisco, March - July 2024

    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!
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    I think the guy was being fancy and just meant film :). the fumes from non-safety film / collodion based film is toxic ...
    back in the day ( almost 95 years ago ) when the Cleveland Clinic burned...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    btw I have been doing photo restoration work for various people over the years. kodacolor looks nothing like reality.. not sure how anyone can mistake a photography with realism ...
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    Re: Selling prints in the digital era

    that's crazy 35mm ?
    my ex boss was propositioned many times by underworld thugs to purchase her 8x10 studio camera to make porn. that was in the 70s and 80s and she refused continuously, maybe 35mm...
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    Re: Mortensen's Glycin Variant Film Developer

    :)

    You enlarge on to developer saturated photo paper. There's a light show and then a beautiful negative. I've done it to make a long exposed in camera exposure I couldn't see the light show,...
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    Re: The digital era

    there still is a market for nude pictures. "fine art nudes" as well as porn, humans haven't evolved. if you have higher aspiration like becoming someone who sells their nude photographs for a lot...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    yup, the more use of film and celluloid, the better!
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    Re: The Bromoil Workshop

    Dan and TorontoBuilder

    Gene Laughter is smiling down at you !
    Sadly I won't be near where the workshops will be held, I've always wanted to try Bromoils and OilPrints...

    Best of luck with the...
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    Re: Fakes? AI? PRINCESS

    they haven't surpassed the weekly world news .. the bat-boy was pretty real.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Boy_(character)
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    Re: Mortensen's Glycin Variant Film Developer

    Thanks for showing this to us Andy ! I've had a recipe for MGV and wanted to use it for years, but I never have any glycin that's not mixed in 130 ..
    From my sparce-notes, Mortensen used to develop...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    You might be right .. but it's kind of algebraic from what I remember..when you use the the associative and transitive properties they'll make an airplane .. or it might make the maker a figment of...
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    Re: Selling prints in the digital era

    the trick is to sell it as commerce not art, save the art for yourself .
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    Re: The digital era

    If someone wants a photograph - hand printed, machine / digital c print, pigment/ink embroidered with hemp thread, hot cured laser toner or un-processed latent images they will pay for it. There...
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    Re: Brightness of ground glasss

    All is not lost. You can still use the lens on your camera form”macro” work. Rack the front standard out at least 2x the focal length get a ruler and go to town.
    in case you are befuddled by how...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    you get it wrong, the AI image is just that and AI image, it's not an actual fake image made from a real impression (latent image ) made on a light sensitive medium,
    it's AI generated, which is...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    true dat
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    some of the enlarger companies stopped making enlargers before the 2000s. parts and broken enlargers are available on eBay or can be rigged to work, I mean it's just a light source, focus bellows...
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    Re: Why TF-5 Fixer??

    I've used both 4+5 and got rid of both of them before I really used them. too much ammonia reek for me, I went back to sprint speed fixer and plain hypo
    have never had issues with longevity,...
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    Re: my show, "Bearing Witness"

    beautiful work !
    I wish I lived closer.
    good luck with your show -
    definitely stick around.

    John
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    and one of her books. is free preview on blup,, huge photographic hero
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    Re: The Ortho Look On Pan Film

    there was a thread on faux3P330 where
    the fellow who was the cinematographer for the Lighthouse movie
    asked similar questions .. how to get the ortho look with pan film ( seems to be a regular...
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    I'll bite ..

    I make 100cc of emulsion for around $8,25. I could probably easily coat 100 feet of washi film for 8 bucks..

    I currently make a simple .. silver chloride one, takes about 20 mins...
  37. Thread: Paper negatives

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    Re: Paper negatives

    ned and paul,
    thanks for the encouragement !
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    it's brutal the cost of materials. im only shooting expired film and paper, and coating my own so I cut down on my expenses considerably
    I can't imagine if I was buying a lot of film to feed the...
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    Re: Paper negatives

    here's another
    expired Ilf (rebranded ) rcmg .. handheld in a graflex D for 7 seconds. developed in caffenol in room light (not red light)
    I met this guy after he went swimming at a local beach. ...
  40. Re: Dry Plates (handmade) - Tips & Tricks, Experiences & Examples . . .

    if I can ask, what was bad about the results, could it have been exposure related and not developer related ?
    if you can do a test strip with a plate and a dark slide in front of the lens ( when I...
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