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No problems with USPS Priority Mail from east coast to west coast the past six months. Never beaten-up, always very fast.

One little nine-and-a-half Dagor 240 is all I've got, so by default my fav for 8x10. Dislike having to "choose" between lenses, why I just use a 50 in 24x36 and used only a 100 in 6x6. In my...

For framed plat/pall prints, after comparing everything including the awful non-reflective plexi stuff, I found "Tru Vue Ultra Clear" glass the next best thing to bare-naked over matte surfaces....

Used the J600 combo for years - light, reasonably stable and a very easy carry broken down but like any tripod short of big and heavy it was a tad rubbery. I'm not too good on my feet these days so I...

Gamma (the old Astra Photo Service) was always excellent when I needed them over the years. Their website looks "busy" but as to their film work still at a high standard - not sure. Worth a try.

Heard the same as David, did the same, negs do the same. You can probably forget the second bath and never look back.

JJ - I'm selling a new-condition Ries combo:

A100-2 TRIPOD (6"crown) extends 42-60" and as low as 20" in secure lockdown. No wiggly-jiggly center column ... the trade-off being you need to reset...

I occasionally borrow a family digital. One is a slim, 2 yr old Cybershot, the other a 1 yr old boxy-ish Canon 5-pixel with extending tele, to-the-forhead rangefinder and turnable screen. It is...

Frank ... you really are a Dirty Old Man. ;•)

Ask a stupid question, get an intelligent answer - shows how much I don't know. Hardly any time saved in the field I now see, but to have the first digital bullet out of the barrel hit the bullseye,...

... if I taught a begining photo class, I'd absolutely encourage my students to use digital hand cameras (although i've never owned one), simply because the volume of work they encourage, and the...

Very interesting Jim! You're in the middle boonies and you've setup and done your homework, both the creative part and the technical part - agreed those stages are beyond digital, for now. And you...

Photo-graphs or pixelated-images, either, when we sanctify the picture printing process as holy grail and the seeing-of and taking-of the picture as mere foreplay we almost always end up with boring...

Way to go Ken, and a good close-up, never something I've done particularly well. You've already got a good reference book, but I found two of the books mentioned here to be more useful everyday...

Manny: " Hey look, that guy over there's surveying for one of them new condo developments."

Mo: "Naw, he's one of them old-fashioned giant-camera weirdos."

Jack: "Shoot, all that trouble for a...

Several 8x10 p/p contact prints matted 16x20 in 3/16" narrow-face Nielsen frames. I double overmat with a 7.5x9.5 cut over the image and a 9.75x11.75 cut for the overlay. For me, this breaks the...

Quote, Paulr: [I] ... Struan talks about some of the unique capabilities introduced by digital technology. I've become interested in the other side of the coin: the unique capabilities of traditional...

Heads up. On USA Channel, Dec 22 at 9pm EST, a new "Monk" episode will be shown, first in B&W, then the following hour in COLOR. No great creative photography, certainly not 'still', but a casual...

8x10 contact prints aside, I happily crop to what I think the image should contain - be it LF or 35mm. More often than not I usually end up with a five-by-seven-ish image.

Christopher- I've thought about using a recorder for the last two years what with my hands suffering some neuropathy, but even with 100% dexterity this is just a terrific idea with all we must...

Aside from a framed matted print being signed and identified with copyright/location/materials used per one's personal routine, I always stamp and pencil the visible backboard with all the info...

A single (but heavy-ish) bag for 8x10 has worked very well for me too but yeah, even after tagging my f64 as a reminder not to forget the tripod I have forgotten to look at the tag and thus forgotten...

Alan: "How many of us knew, that when you put extreme pressure on a film emulsion it will develop as if exposed to light?"

Not me, Alan. Always assumed there would be jagged cracky lines near the...

David - about how far might that be? I get so creeped-out over fog my old Gralab sits face-up in a pulled-out drawer ... where I can't hardly see the second hand swinging. Used to have it on the wall...

Leica O. No rangefinder, no electricity, carries in an incredibly-slim leather case or slips in a pocket. Fast and easy once you get the hang of estimating distance and exposure. Not quite there yet...

And once you have generally focused and framed your subject close as you wish, move the entire camera/tripod combination forward/backward to fine-focus. Incredibly easier, once you find a secure way...

Strictly 8x10 BW, plus 35mm RF.

Not just for you guys back in the woods, JW.

Cruising sailors from Newfoundland to Tierra del Fuego and everywhere inbetween have sworn by this stuff forever. Even rubbed it on the portlight...

Matus - FACE UP tray-developing equals 1) No scratches ever 2) Maximum developer action and even development.

If you use a DEEP tray like a Cesco-Lite, just a liter of working developer can be...

Matus - Definitely develop in oversize 8x10 trays for proper agitation. And I would suggest developing ONE SHEET at a time at first. It's good to get the FEEL of things, SEE a successful negative...

EdK - TF4 (w/pmk) last 7 years. Smell not an issue for me. I'm comfortable with a normal fix time (lower risk of overfixing w/ alkaline) and a vigorous-but-shortened wash time.

"Why don’t photographers just sell their images as one off? Like an original painting, drawing, flute, guitar, motorcycle, etc."

Scott! Truly a pregnant question!

Great subject matter aside,...

Right on concerning sentences one and two. Three is cute but wrong, for such reasoning means my wife's old Olympus Stylus is more usable than my Leica....

....wait! hey! I take it back...

Made zillions of super8mm frames of trips, new daughter, family back in the early-early seventies with a Bolex. Thought I was quite the cinematographer. Edited/spliced the heck out of reel after...

"Well it was Gordon Hutchings at the Albuquerque conference that stated without hesitation on point when questioned on this subject by me that after personal conversations with Michael Smith and...

Can't stop myself.

PYRO WARS, aka the Steve and Sandy show.

Please let the inadvertent snappiness and blatant developer commercialism end.

I know nothing compared to either of these two...

Jerry - so here we all go again with many different successful routines. Me, I do one-at-a-time, 8x10 face up in a 11.5 x 14.5 smooth-bottomed tray, timing similar to yours: presoak 2-4 minutes at...

Alec - Enough of the pondering. You are going to get an 11x14, there is no doubt your gut has decided it is YOU. To sneak up on it, waste your passing life - would be a waste.

And with that big...

J LEE - Two, I think, would stand the gaff: HCB, who's moments are on the genuinely real end of surreal. Eugene Atget, who, I swear, must have painted rather than photographed....just plain surreal....

Alec - Eight years ago, after much reading (no computer) I cold-turkeyed straight from 35mm into 8x10, for p/p contacts, which I love. I don't think you need to "work up" to ULF, but as has been...