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    4x5 tray processing

    Thank you for your response to my post. The system you describe is pretty much what I had in mind. The Arentz book even describes making a divider system by using suction cups and Q-tips stuck to...
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    4x5 tray processing

    To tell you the truth, I will be a very low volume operation, and was planning on processing one sheet at a time. So there is little danger of scratching the film. I really thought it would be...
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    4x5 tray processing

    I just bought the Dick Arentz book "Platinum & Palladium Printing." He has a cha pter on film processing. He himself seems to lean toward tray processing, becaus e he useses an unusually large film...
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    FP4+, FX2, Rodinal

    Thanks all for the responses. I don't know where my head was at. Naturally the best idea is to do a side by side comparison. I'm not in this for money or glory. I am in this for enjoyment. There is...
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    FP4+, FX2, Rodinal

    I have been reading the "Film Developing Cookbook," and thought I would like to give one of these combinations a try. From what I have read, the FX2 will probab ly be a little sharper, but have more...
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    landscape film speed

    Thanks for all the input folks. I know this may be sacriligous on a traditional site like this, but I plan to be scanning these negatives, rather thank make silver prints. I just heard of a problem...
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    landscape film speed

    Just getting started in LF. Looking for my first film to try out. Will be mostly doing landscapes, buildings, and found objects. Putting a camera on a tripod ha s always meant to me that I could use...
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    lens shades

    With 35mm I have always used a lense shade outdoors. Of course the lens shade ne ver got in the way of the lense controls. When I see photographs of large format photographers in books and magazines,...
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    Film choice

    I have been away from darkroom work for years. Back then it was 35mm, so for B&W non action subjects there was a lot of PanX being shot. Tuesday, my new 4X5 cam era is due to arive, and now I need to...
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    focusing aid

    I am just getting started in LF. I have been reading past posts on focusing with a loupe. There seems to be agreement on about 4X or 5x and the fact that the qu ality of the loupe is not really that...
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    Flange focal distance

    Thank you for your responses. They confirm what I had thought to be the answer. What prompted my question was some information I got from the Schneider lense site. The specification for the...
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    Flange focal distance

    There seems to be more to choosing a lense for a large format camera than there is in 35mm. I have come across the term "flange focal distace" in some of the le nse specification literature. What...
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