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    Re: starting out in Lith Printing

    1. If you can, get a copy of Tim Rudman's books on lith printing. The first is more instructive and informative for someone just learning the process.

    2. In my experience, Foma is the most...
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    Re: Pyrocat Staining Developers

    You might also check into buying bulk chemicals and mixing your own pyro-based developers. You would avoid the cost of shipping the water in which the stock solution is mixed halfway across the...
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    Re: Silent cross country walking trip with a 4x5

    The idealistic side of me has often thought of walking across America, but in my case just making 35mm snapshots as I go.

    The practical side of me wonders how this guy is going to make his idea...
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    Re: name change

    You will need a note from your mother. Mothers are sensitive about these sorts of things.
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    Re: "Beginners-Mind" (sho-shin)

    For me, anyway, it is better if I get my head OUT of the game.
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    Re: The Plural of Xpres?

    Xpresso.
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    Re: What is lost in the digital age ?

    Good points have been made so far by you, Bob, and Jac. One other point I would like to contribute is the editing process. Film photographers do varying degrees of editing before deciding to commit a...
  8. Re: Best kind of enlargement for an exhibition?

    I would rather view original photographs as printed by, or with the participation of, the photographer. Whether he/she is famous, or name recognized, or relatively unknown to me, is of little...
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    Re: Linhof Technika IV

    I feel privileged to use a camera that was made to such a high standard more than 40 years ago and which still works and looks so good.
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    Re: What do you do with old failed prints?

    My contribution to photographic theory is to employ Darwin's theory of natural selection. Many images attract my eye, some keep my interest long enough to be committed to film. All film is developed...
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    Re: Effects of developer dilutions

    Ryan, please don't take this as a criticism or put-down, it is not intended as such. But by reading your posts it sounds like you are pretty new and inexperienced to film exposure and development. My...
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    Re: drying 4x5 negs...

    A long time ago I used stainless steel hangars and tanks to develop my film. I did hang some film up in their hangars but I did not like the results: negatives sometimes stuck to the hangar when dry...
  13. Re: Farewell to EFKE IR 820. Show your images!

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    Bought a box last summer. Just figured out how to expose and filter it. Then summer ended. As did the film. So it goes.
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    Re: Old Model Technika

    Is the back removeable? If so you might be able to swap the back for a two-sided one. I shoot Linhof 4x5's but do not consider myself an expert on the brand. That said, I am not aware that some older...
  15. Re: Feeding the TAS (tray acqquisition syndrome)

    I have SSS...stainless steel syndrome. I don't know what it is, but stainless steel just turns me on. It is a good thing that women don't come in stainless steel or my beloved would be in trouble...
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    Re: print drying question?

    Several years ago I dried prints face down on screens. Some...naturally ones that I had printed for a time-sensitive project...showed screen marks. I'm not sure which paper, maybe Foma. My...
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    Re: re-using LPD?

    I keep gallon jugs of LPD at 3 different dilutions for cold, neutral, and warm. At the end of each session I top off each jug with fresh developer at roughly the same dilution to add some fresh...
  18. Re: These portable credit-card processing doohickeys Square, Intuit whatchamacallit,

    A just-slightly off-topic question, I recently became Treasurer of a cooperative art gallery. I am stunned at the ridiculously high charges our credit card processor is charging. I wonder if these...
  19. Re: Why do I put myself in these situations?

    Sorry I have to ask, but what is IQ?
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    Re: Getting tired in the darkroom

    I find that my efficiency and creativity in the darkroom begins waning after a couple of hours. I begin to make little mistakes, and get inordinately annoyed by them. It is best for me to get into...
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    Re: Best 4x5 Developing Tank

    For a long time I was a devotee of Yankee tanks. Then I got an assignment that required me to do some "portraits" of area mountains, which by necessity included skies. As I shot and developed my film...
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    Re: size of the presentation box

    Is this a one-on-one photo review that you are planning for? If so, I would think that 11x14 prints would be large enough. Then all you need to do is decide how large of a border you think looks...
  23. Re: Is “sympathy w/ your subject” a blessing ― or a curse?

    For me, the important idea is "resonance," not "sympathy," although the two are somewhat related. I seldom (if ever) complete the process of setting up my camera, finding a composition, and deciding...
  24. Thread: "Quotes"

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    Re: "Quotes"

    I read somewhere, sometime, something to the effect of" "never take up photography. It will ruin your life." I think the quote was attributed to Hurter or Driffeld, but I am unable to find it again....
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    Re: Film Loading

    I use 4x5" Ilford FP4+ film, usually I buy it in 100 sheet boxes. The box is triple, that is, there is the top and bottom that can be seen, then another "top" inside the bottom, to make a light trap...
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    Re: Negatives printed by someone else?

    There are as many answers to your question as their are photographers. Being responsible for every step of the process from creating the composition to matting and framing the finished print is one...
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    Re: New to 4x5 - Developing help?

    I have no color film developing experience so my comments apply only to that medium. The advice for tray (or Tupperware) developing is a good starting point. It is the least expensive equipment to...
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    Re: So freaking pissed right now

    So now you get to spend another day with a gorgeous model. Wish my bad luck was this good!

    But seriously, E. Von Hough's advice is well heeded. Photography is part science and part art. The...
  29. Re: Photographers Oath to swear in Basic Photo Students.

    Having spent 25 years in a position of authority, I contend that crossing the occasional line is the only benefit of being in charge of anything.
  30. Re: Photographers Oath to swear in Basic Photo Students.

    My oath would include three things:

    1. "Every picture that I make will be the absolute best that I can do, and I will offer no excuses." While a student in community college photography classes I...
  31. Re: Pyrocat-HD for Stand and Semi-Stand Development

    Christopher: you don't say how you are developing (open tray, tank, taco, etc.,) or whether you are developing sheet or roll film, but be forewarned and alert: I have developed 4x5 film semi-stand...
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    Re: "blue" concept in a B&W photograph???

    Rather than ask what "blue" means to others, I think it would be more valuable for you to ask yourself that question, then spend some creative time thinking of answers.

    The first association that...
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    Re: Building a light box

    I used 2 cfl bulbs in mine. Each bulb throws a hot spot that I wish I could even out, but it works fine to evaluate 1 4x5 negative at a time.
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    Re: Post your churches

    I hope that I haven't already posted this image here. 57 pages is a lot to wade through!

    Linhof Tech V; Efke IR in Obsidian Aqua; MGWT in LPD.

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    Re: Standard "Print Viewing Distance" Myth.

    What bothered me most about Kirk's original post was the phrase, "get away with." When I decide to make a photograph, or whether to try a new material or process, my objective is to make the best...
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    Re: Where were the Pyro wars?

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    oops, wrong wars.
    Sorry!
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    Re: What happened to the LFPF icon?

    Mozilla have decided that those icons can present a security risk and therefore banned them from Firefox. The icon itself is still there in other browsers.
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  38. Re: How do you time your film when developing in trays?

    Same with me. Airplane mode, brightness all the way down, red display on MDC. My only wish is for a setting to allow timer cycles to automatically advance without hitting the Start key with wet...
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    Re: Taos Pueblo

    Is there not also a fee for photographing certain places in Paris? Or am I misinformed, or just confused.

    I guess that the Taos Pueblo is privately owned, and therefore the owner can do what they...
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    Re: Full dark achieved, in my basement

    Having moved to another house in the last year I feel your pain, David. And your joy, Vick. I wonder if film photographers move less often than other people just for the reason of not having a...
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