Glad to see the biography included their exploration of the peaks of the Ruwenzori in central Africa. Chogolisa (Bride Peak) in Pakistan was where one of my nephew's climbing partners, John Climaco,...
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Glad to see the biography included their exploration of the peaks of the Ruwenzori in central Africa. Chogolisa (Bride Peak) in Pakistan was where one of my nephew's climbing partners, John Climaco,...
Yes, that's more the composition I'm familiar with in the Washburn shot, devoid of the piranha look.
I think both Sella's camera and the backpack frame which carried it are still preserved in...
Oh, that's one of my favorites too. ... but not as posted on the web .... It looks like there is a massive toothed piranha-ogre face on the glacier below, about to devour them! I never noticed that...
Ho hum. You just reinforced my claim that D100 has an unswept curve favoring highlights. But you have to overexpose it rather badly to get it to shoulder off. Still, to gain as much of a usable...
Both those books are among my favorites. Sella once got that glass plate camera at high as 23,000 ft on Chogolisa in the Karakoram. But one of his famous stitched panoramas of the Baltoro Glacier in...
Delta 3200 is really more like 1000 speed (officially - read the fine print in the tech sheet); I rate it at 800 for PMK. It has a very long toe. Don't keep it stored a long time before use either. ...
Like those view camera ads which show the standards and bellows contorted to the extremes, in a manner nobody really uses. But studio technique is a world away from field usage anyway. One can employ...
Bingo. Barnbaum also placed the shadow values bellybutton high, but then would resort if necessary to drastic compression or minus development. That left the highlights muddy; so he'd restore the...
The ability to build significantly more contrast with longer development is mainly a function of the film itself, not PMK versus more ordinary developers. Films like FP4, D100, TMX and TMY are...
Nope. Wrong again. Typical solvent developers do just the opposite and erode edge acutance, especially with films like HP5. Again, the proof is in the pudding. And in this case, it has nothing to do...
I really admire good watercolor paintings. But artists in the past didn't understand paper conservation issues very well, and you run in to a lot of brittle yellowed paper; so oil paintings tend to...
You're a Wyeth fan, a sentimentalist? Figures. And, uh, oils were being used for centuries before Wyeth. I actually preferred NC Wyeth, the cowboy painter head of the clan. Which oil paints were you...
The grain is smooth and blended, but ironically, along with an enhanced almost etched look to the edges. This pertains to modest levels of enlargement with HP5 which sheet film printers can...
I'll just await Interneg's peer reviewed scholarly article in, "Lead into Gold Scientific Journal". Until then, I'll continue to believe what my eyes, densitometer, and hundreds of actual prints...
Churchill was smoking a cigar and Karsh had the audacity to yank it out of his mouth. That's what elicited the stern frown in that shot. He also took a second shot of Churchill, but smiling with...
"Non-Sacred Places"
Don't argue with me. That's the easy part. Try convincing the film instead.
If this is all just about background compression, you might end up owning a long heavy tele and seldom actually use it. Usually it's the other way around, involving the challenge of taming the...
Here you go again, Interneg, making a claim utterly contradictory to not only how film manufacturers made different films with distinctly different curve structures for a reason, but also...
TF-4 seems to be the Neanderthal species approaching extinction due to the presence of a more efficient species. Just like Neanderthals, it tended to settle down too much, and was resistant to...
Foma "200" is the only "straight line" film still on the market, although TMax films at least come close to that designation as well. So one can get distinctly better shadow gradation out of Foma 200...
Prior to the TMax revolution, it seems every Kodak b&w sheet film I tried had a decent retouching tooth. Just the newcomers like Tech Pan were slick. HP5 went through at least three reiterations,...
Largely agree, with one exception. D100 distinctly has more native toe than TMY or TMX, but less than TX. To match the practical linearity of TMX100 you need to boost the shadow exposure of Delta...
I have a 760 Apo Nikkor process barrel lens. It's big and bulky and ridiculously sharp, but would require a huge no.5 shutter; yet it's not as bulky as a tele covering 8x10 would be. Enormous image...
It is simply more expensive to make a precisely machined accessory with good optics and a replaceable front surface mirror. As the complexity of features goes up, like a tilting head and longer...
I was out washing the car and didn't even notice. Only a small bite out of the sun here on the West Coast this time around. The most I've ever personally seen was around 80% - critters and shadows...
How much bellows extension do you actually have with your 8x10? I sometimes use a Fuji 600C on my 8x10, which is a lot more compact than any tele. Long lens work is a lot easier with 4x5 format,...
Well, have a nice time, Jim. I'll be slightly lower down in the canyons and back roads of the hill country instead.
Zzzzzzz .... snore .... zzzz.
I might watch U Tube if you tell me how to link onto your Fishing tutorials. I think you need better bait.
Just as true today as back then. If I mixed up with and without solutions ten minutes from now and printed the same image using each respective developer, it would still be a valid statement. ...
Michael - Benz restrainer (vs KBr) DOES typically print shift image color cooler. This has been known for a very long time, and I've personally experimentally known about it for decades in relation...
Yes, and the expansion/contraction differential between moulded acrylic aspheric elements and real glass is probably the reason the functional size of such "hybrid" lenses is rather limited.
But...
Much of this " formula this versus formula that" debate ignores how the respective emulsion layers of a VC paper shift in relation to each other not only with respect to exposing light color, but...
All kinds of specifics which they once had on public file have now been mothballed by Schneider, but might be still accessible with some serious digging. Back during the incident itself, I actually...
Hi again, Mark. I'm obviously not an engineer myself. But as a materials provider, I interacted with the owner of Tinsley Labs several times a week, probably the most advanced maker of aspheric...
Of course it's not fair to compare the capabilities of a price-is-no-object custom contractor which has specialized in high-end aspherics for decades with consumer optics, even from Leica, which is...
The flawed cementing issue was said to be related only to the earlier serial numbers of the 80 XL and 110 XL, not the 210XL. Schneider replaced them for free only up to a certain cut-off date; so...
It has a bad reputation for long exposures for a reason. You'd actually have to do a lot of work to factor in how just a few common contrast filters affect that. I gave up on Foma 200 for quality...
The "real reciprocity" of Foma 200 is so abominable that you might want to avoid long exposures with it entirely. You'd have to make a tabulation for every different contrast filter you might use,...