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    What's The Real Aim For An Artist?

    For many the real aim is to attract the best babes.
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    enlarger light fall-off

    I agree that the above post is likely the problem, but it can also happen if your lens plane is out of parallel to the negative stage. If this is a problem, your lens may not have sufficient...
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    Bit of fun - 'Extreme Large Format?'

    Chris:

    Could do,could do, but I suspect these Kenworth purists would pop an airbrake at the idea of enlarged images. "No," they'd likely sniff, "I prefer Azo & contact prints."
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    Bit of fun - 'Extreme Large Format?'

    Chris:

    Why monkey around with kiddie pools when you could use a cement truck as a kind of Jobo unit?
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    cliche in landscape photography

    Ok: I'm in a quarrelsome mood & figure my philosophical rantings are as valid as the next guys.

    I think A.A. had it wrong with his famous "the negative is the score, the print is the...
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    Toning on films

    The toning of negatives is especially useful as a replacement for +1 expanded development. Instead of developing to +1, (which can result in unwanted grain in small format negatives intended for...
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    Large Format Pinhole Camera

    Dave:

    Out of fascination, can you remember what the length of exposure was under "sunny 16" conditions?
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    Buggy Darkroom

    The high frequency sound producing devices don't work.
  9. Correcting Enlarger Light Fall With Homemade"Center Filter"

    There is no question but that light fall-off toward the edges is a fact of enlarging. But is it not equally true that the same phenomenon occurs in the camera? If so, the "thinner" densities of ...
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    T Max user questions

    Hello all:

    I've been working with T max 100 film for a while now & have 2 questions to put to experienced users:

    1. It appears to me that the traditional advice about using yellow filtration to...
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    Is B&W Print Contrast Affected By....

    All of the things you mention can have an effect... why don't you describe your experience with particular working methods & give everyone a better sense of what may be troubling you.
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    Zone system film development/exposure

    Thankyou all so much for your thoughtful responses. This is a fantastic site and without question, the contributions are more informed than any other net based resource.
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    Zone system film development/exposure

    As a relative newcomer to zone system control of exposure & development I've tri ed, rather incompletely, to understand the strong emphasis placed on making nega tives that will have a range of...
  14. Primer on Compensating Filters for Black and White Film

    Your use of the filters described will definitely make a difference, but it's also useful to observe that "Ansel Adams skies" are very much part of the world he photographed. High altitude (less...
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    Yellow Filter to counter shadows

    Yellow filters lower blue values, as you mention. Shadow light contains a significant proportion of blue reflected light and so will definitely result in lowered negative densities where a yellow ...
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    TMax100 ; reciprocity characteristics

    Bob:

    I'm very interested in your adjusted figures. They don't correspond at all to the Kodak supplied data & I'm wondering what kind of testing underlies these numbers.

    ernie
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