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  1. Thread: Gold Toning

    by Drew Wiley
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    Re: Gold Toning

    My own gold toning protocol is quite economical. Most published formulas waste gold like crazy. But I certainly wouldn't use any of it on any kind of RC paper.

    I've gotten wonderful results with...
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    $11,000 was a conservative 90's price, Ice-Racer. I understated it. You'd pay way more today if one ever turned up. Nobody paying that kind of price is mistaken about its application. If they want to...
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    Re: Packpack DIY frame-finishing question

    Conventional EVA foam padding adds a lot of redundant extra weight to a pack. It might be OK for little shoulder bags, but it is not only linty, but doesn't offer anything which can't be improvised...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    There was a private museum somewhere around Denver holding the life work of some late frontier photographer who used a camera 4 ft wide. They had stacks of his nitrate negatives, but were ordered to...
  5. Re: 8x10 shooters, can HP5 come close to Tri-X 320?

    I prefer HP5 over Tri-X any day of the week, especially if developed in PMK pyro. I've gotten soooo many wonderful prints from that combination. No, it's not as versatile in terms of scene contrast...
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    Re: Camera for Africa trip

    domaz - at least if you did pull out a P67 600mm lens, any rhino would be afraid to charge. It's as big as a cannon. My longest lens is the wonderful 300mm EDIF, and it's too much to realistically...
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    Re: Camera for Africa trip

    One problem with the earlier Fuji interchangeable lens RF's is that it's now difficult to find most of the lenses, and when you do, they're expensive. Furthermore, the system is quite heavy compared...
  8. Re: Have you had to pay hefty customs fees when buying from Japan?

    I got my last new camera shipped FedEx Express from Tokyo, and had it on my doorstep in less than 24 hrs! - with no extra fee. The shipping itself was only $35. But I am only 10 minutes away from a...
  9. Re: What's your go-to when you want pronounced grain on BW sheet film?

    Don't you have it backwards, Revdoc? If you both drastically overexpose and overdevelop, you end up with an almost unprintably dense negative except perhaps on the very lowest paper grades. In any...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    Celluloid can ignite. Nitrocellulose was a popular early plastic used even in toys. The "nitro" prefix tells it all. Massive collections of historical valuable negatives have been deliberately...
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    There is very little which can be ascribed to a signature look between brands, unless you deliberately employ some funky old camera lens on the enlarger instead for creative reasons, or put a nylon...
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    I replaced all my Componon S lenses with much better ones. At least they were superior to older chrome Componons. But they haven't been top tier for several decades, and never were if you factor in...
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    Re: The Ortho Look On Pan Film

    Ahh ... the wonders O'Sullivan worked with the graphic shape of the Colorado River canyon against a blank white sky due to blue-only sensitive film! Everyone admires the bold graphic blacks utilized...
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    Yes, D23 in general relies on a lot of solvent effect. There might be a way to tweak it with sodium chloride to improve acutance; but I've never tried that.
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    Re: Camera for Africa trip

    If you need some telephoto reach for wildlife, a basic Pentax 6x7 SLR system is something already having high repute in Africa photography. I often travel with one of those for tripod or otherwise...
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    Foma 400 also looked a bit annoyingly clumpy grained for me too using PMK. If you want a wonderful smooth grained yet high acutance edge effect in a fast film, use PMK in conjunction with HP5...
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    Has nothing to do with that.
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    Re: Selling prints in the digital era

    Pieter - How many dead artists have you actually asked, whether their prints are selling or not?
  19. Re: What's your go-to when you want pronounced grain on BW sheet film?

    Modern thin emulsion films don't reticulate well, at least without the emulsion lifting clear off. You need another extinct film, Super XX, to do that well. But the look is quite different from...
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    Re: The Ortho Look On Pan Film

    I often use a medium deep green filter in the Southwest. Otherwise all that reddish Navajo sandstone and its clay soil comes out unnaturally pale and pasty looking. Or to some extent, you could...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    Different cameras evidently have different Ai software. I gave the instruction "fall" to my wooden view camera, and it fell to the ground and broke.
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    Some of these enlarging lenses probably utilized apertures already developed for sake of graphics lens application where different aperture styles were significant. I've encountered specific reasons...
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    Re: Selling prints in the digital era

    All most people know today is what they see on the internet or a cell phone screen. But even in the past, only a very small percent of the populace went to places like museums or select galleries to...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    Sequoia lumber was useless for anything but fruit boxes; it splits ridiculously easily, and many of the trees shattered when they fell.

    xkaes - that looks more like a Bob Ross painting of Mt...
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    Re: Packpack DIY frame-finishing question

    Oh, I just spotted this. Most acrylic polyurethanes simply dry. Just allow a few extra days after seemingly dry for a margin of error - a week or so should be ample. It depends on the humidity.
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    Re: acros II 4x5

    It's nonexistent - they never made it in any size of sheet film. I loaded my last 7 sheets of regular 4x5 Acros into holders this afternoon.
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    At least most enlargers can be repaired in a basic shop, and potentially last many decades longer, unlike digital gear, which seems to be engineered with rapid obsolescence in mind, or at least...
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    Re: Why TF-5 Fixer??

    TF5 is not odorless; it still has a tiny bit of ammonia smell, but certainly not as much as TF4. I buy about 6 months worth of these at a time (formerly TF4, now TF5), and use it for both film and...
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    Re: The Ortho Look On Pan Film

    You're not going to find deep cyan filters, and the ones that do exist are prone to fading.

    An easy practical solution would be to simply stack a medium dark green, like a Hoya X1, with a common...
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    Re: The Ortho Look On Pan Film

    The most appropriate filter would seem to be a 57A : "absorbs much red and some blue". Stronger than 44 and 44A, with significantly better fade resistance. Whether or not you can still find one...
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    Whenever practical, I prefer a longer than "normal" focal length rather than shorter. I have did own a 135 Rodagon for use on an old Chromega D2, and it did a decent job, but prefer the 180 Rodagon...
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    Even this forum probably represents only a fraction of sheet film users. I wouldn't place too much emphasis on only a relative handful of individuals only we ourselves have known. That can be said...
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    Re: Who can do a CLA of a Durst Head?

    It's delicate fussy work, and probably expensive. I did my own. You have to get to the filters to see if they're merely smudged up, or if some of the dichroic coatings have started to spall, and the...
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    Machine gunners like Avedon with his assistants probably shot more 8x10 film for a single project than I will in my entire lifetime. But there are plenty or much more wealthy people around who could...
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    Re: 5x7 enlargers?

    The nice thing about a 5X7 head and diffusion system or mirror box is that you tend to get more even illumination on 4x5 film without resorting to a ground convex diffuser matched to a specific lens....
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    Two hundred bucks ain't nuthin' these days. Take a look at 8x10 color film, which is now running around $40 per SHOT if you factor in processing. Well, I wisely froze a stash of that back when the...
  37. Re: Big snow coming to the Sierra Nevada this weekend

    What made this Sierra blizzard the past several days notable wasn't so much the depth of snow (though some places got 10 feet in just one day), but the force of the winds. Up to 190mph gusts were...
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    Re: Digital timer for Durst CLS 450?

    Isn't that only a 250W colorhead? There are plenty of affordable used Gralab pushbutton timers available which can handle that with sufficient accuracy. With color separations you generally want...
  39. Re: Where can I find "regular" LED lights with a CRI 95>?

    Amazon? I highly doubt it. True high CRI studio and stage LED lighting is very expensive, and often rented rather than outright purchased. Most stuff that claims over 90 CRI is more likely under 80;...
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    Re: 8x10 Colour sheet film

    And what kind of color film? An unexposed but developed sheet of color neg film will come out overall orange, while in the case of chrome film it will come out clear (but so will ordinary black and...
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