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    printable interleaf paper

    Anyone have a recommendation for a paper, inkjet-printable, to use as a thin interleaf sheet in a portfolio presentation of photographs printed with an Epson 4800 on Ultra-Smooth Fine Art paper? The...
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    When is the next Pt/Pd seminar?

    Bruce,

    Leonard is right that Pt/Pd is fundamentally a simple process. Especially if you work directly from in-camera negatives (the only way I do Pt/Pd). You can certainly do OK jumping in with...
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    studio wals color

    Janko,

    Moveable panels made of light wood frames covered with white background paper are a good idea. You control the size of the working "room" at will. Be sure that the ceiling is painted a...
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    8x10 Wide Angle Lenses

    The 165mm Super Angulon has been delivering superb results for me for twenty years. It is very big and heavy, but has all the resolution you could ask for, excellent overall image quality (more...
  5. Writers & Calligraphers, Photographers & Darkrooms

    The photographer Nick Nixon is also a teacher and lecturer. When I heard him lecture, his most often repeated refrain was "all photographs are fiction"--and he's right.

    It's really just a...
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    Schneider Super-Angulon 165

    The 165mm Super Angulon is an excellent lens. It has generous coverage for 8x10 with lots of room for adjustments. There is fine definition and contrast across the whole image field. It's very big...
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    film larger than5x7

    5x7, 8x10, 7x17, and 12x20 HP5-Plus are my mainstays. TMY or Tri-X would work too. I have not been happy with some of the other film options coming out of Europe. I've encountered unacceptable batch...
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    "Pocket Spot" Light meter....any comments?

    A student brought one of these to a workshop a while back. It proved highly accurate (checked against my standard Minolta Auto Spot F). It is astonishingly small but built solid and strong. However,...
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    Harrison Jumbo film changing Tent (11x14)

    I don't shoot 11x14, but the Harrison Jumbo is has plenty of room for handling 7x17 holders in the main section, without needing the side pockets. For 12x20 the side pockets prove useful, and the...
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    Ilford ULF status

    Six weeks ago I ordered 12x20 Ilford HP5-Plus from B&H on a "special order" basis with promised 2-4 week delivery. I just spoke with a service rep who said he checked with the buyer and was told that...
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    240 options for 8x10

    Just yesterday I printed a recent picture made with the 10" Wide Field Ektar--perhaps I should say *very* wide field since the negative is a 7x17. The picture looks across the edge of a cliff through...
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    "New" HP5 Plus

    From the Ilford release: "Although the packaging changes are significant there has been no changes to the emulsion or the technical specification of the product."

    That's partly reassuring (grammar...
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    "New" HP5 Plus

    About two and a half years ago, there was a dramatic though unannounced change in Ilford HP5 Plus film. The new material had much lower filmbase+fog levels and a longer straight line, making it...
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    Exposure notes and keeping track of films

    One thing that helps keep track of shots is to make a digital snapshot with a pocket camera after each large format shot. Since I travel with three or four different formats I include a part of the...
  15. Creo Smart, Eversmart and iQSmart scanners?

    And how big a negative can be scanned?
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    Small wide angle lens for 5X7

    I have a 90mm f/6.3 Grandagon (vintage about 1982) that covers 5x7 with excellent quality but very little room for movement. The f/4.5 version had a wider image circle and might be a good find on the...
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    Question about Avedon's Portrait work

    The seamless was usually hung on the side of a big RV that he used to travel for the project. Camera was an 8x10 Deardorff, and I think I read that the lens was a 360mm Symmar. Film was Tri-X. The RV...
  18. Weston exhibit at the Crocker in Sacramento

    This is a do-not-miss exhibit. A wonderful set of prints. In the case of Weston, "Vintage" prints really means something. I saw this collection at the Portland, ME, art museum a while back and was...
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    Commissionned new lenses, foolish ?

    Jan,

    Coated dagor lenses mounted in modern shutters would be good for short focal lengths on ULF cameras. Coated artars would be fine for "normal" focal lenghts. These designs were manufactured by...
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    the horror of scratched film

    Along with using a larger tray and plenty of solution, tip the trays forward (a piece of 1 inch PVC pipe works well). Gravity helps keep the stack of sheets at the front of the tray. I routinely do...
  21. Thread: relamping

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    relamping

    The GE "Reveal" turns out way off the mark. A 60 watt metered 100 degrees Kelvin warmer than a standard 60 watt bulb, with a strong green tint that would need 20M filtration to fix. 100 degrees is a...
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    relamping

    Dave, thanks for the "Reveal" brand lead. I'll look for it and get color temperature readings.

    The Colortran is interesting but sounds like it would increase light intensity, which I don't want,...
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    relamping

    Does anyone know a source of blue lightbulbs in *low* wattage? I don't want powerful "photoflood" bulbs with a blue coating, just regular low residential wattage (60 watts or so) bulbs with higher...
  24. What is the largest camera you can carry on your back?

    As just an ordinary size guy (6'4", 200#) I'd concur that the problem with toting a 1220 outfit is just finding the right, well-designed, backpack to put it in. The weight is reasonable for moderate...
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    building a camera case

    A 7x17 Korona happens to fit perfectly in the kind of hard case designed to carry a 4x5 monorail camera. Just remove the two partitions that catch the rail. You can pay a lot for a high-tech model...
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    DIY film holder for flatbed scanner

    I've found that the negative (I'm doing 5x7's) can be placed directly on the glass of the 4870 without loss of resolution. The difficulty is a tendency to get newton rings. This can be reduced by...
  27. Large Format Scanner for B&W Alt. Photography

    The new Epson 4870 flatbed does a very good job with negatives up to 5x7 inches. Quality surpasses that of slide scanners from just a couple years ago and the price is a real bargain at about $450....
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    11x14 Wollensak Velostigmat WA for 8x20

    Linas,

    That's neat! It should be an even more useful lens on the smaller 7x17 pan format, and still plenty wide at that size.---Carl
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    Film shifting in holders

    I've found this problem is apt to be caused by sudden change in humidity, causing the film to expand and buckle. Morning shoots in the fog are especially vulnerable. As the moist air warms up, film...
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    Classic photographers

    Brian,

    I haven't seen that Benson essay: I'll have to look it up. The only real discrepency with other notes on Strand's technique that I've seen over the years is the Korona instead of Deardorff...
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    Classic photographers

    He used an 8x10 Deardorff throughout his very long career. He also used a 5x7 Graflex camera, and did most of his portraits with this. Some of his famous early work (including "Blind") was done with...
  32. EI and Times for Tri-X 4x5 (320TXP) in PMK

    For negatives intended for platinum/palladium printing, I use 11 minutes at 75 degrees for 4x5 TXT exposed at ei 160, processing a stack of sheets in a tray. You could start at somewhat less than...
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    mounting mammoth cameras on to tripods

    Reis tripod heads also have a spring-loaded mounting screw. This makes all the difference mounting a heavy camera. I have no trouble with my F&S 12x20 on the Reis.---Carl
  34. 165mm Super Angulon - Filters & shade suggestions?

    On the rare occassions I use filters, with the massive 165 SA I tape a 4" gel or acetate filter to the back of the rear element, inside the camera. A reasonable alternative to the huge filter you'd...
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    JandC Classic Film 400 vs. 200

    Has anyone tested these films for producing long scale negatives suitable for Pt/Pd printing? What's the filmbase-plus-fog level like? Has anyone been using it long enough to see if it is consistent...
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    What's you favourite developer for FP4+

    First, you'll find you need to give FP4 a lot more exposure to get it to mimic the "light" you found pleasing in Tri-X. I've found that ei. 32 with reduced development is needed to open the shadows...
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    "new" HP5 Plus

    Sal,

    I got a large batch of 7x17 just about a year ago. The expiration date on the boxes is "Jun 05"

    8x10 film that I've bought during the past year also shows the lower fog and straighter...
  38. Differences in roll film/sheet film emulsions

    You could try asking at the Kodak web site, but my impression is that TMax films are the same in roll and sheet versions. Tri-X is not just different in ei rating, the whole curve shape is radically...
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    "Real"Coverage of 150mm G-Claron

    G-Clarons gain a great deal of coverage when closed down below f/22. This makes the longer ones favorites with ULF users. At f/45, a 355 covers 12x20 with room to spare. A 305 covers 7x17 with more...
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    "new" HP5 Plus

    The question about film speeds brought up a number of references to the classic characteristics of Ilford HP5 Plus film.

    I have observed that sheet HP5 Plus has changed, starting about a year ago,...
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