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    Re: Gold Toning

    Having never tried that semi-matt version before, I recently bought a box and made some prints on it. It's a really ugly surface, with none of the advantages of, say, Bergger's semi-glossy finish...
  2. Re: Durst-Pro-USA EST1500N Power Supply, does anyone have experience with one?

    Leigh is no longer alive.
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    Re: Hard Time Photographing During A Snow

    Andy, the warm tone on that XTOL negative isn't a result of the developer being old. Both negatives are of relatively high density. XTOL has always given warm tones in high density areas. It's...
  4. Re: Chamonix 4x5 film holder. How to tell if Film exposed?

    Interesting. I hadn't gone to the Chamonix page recently and didn't know its 4x5 holder are now plastic. When Riteway 4x5 holders had similar dark slide interlocks, they weren't compatible with...
  5. Re: Detailed Comparison of Chamonix with Phillips Compact II

    I checked years ago; it was 7.8 lb. "naked" with the original ground glass and without the ground glass protector. I've a Kirk quick release plate attached that has a ribbed rubber pad, which I...
  6. Re: Detailed Comparison of Chamonix with Phillips Compact II

    Chamonix's Alpinist X has a reversible back:


    https://www.chamonixviewcamera.com/cameras/8x10alpinist

    Scroll down a bit to see it. That's the version Ben Horne is using now.



    I replaced...
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    Re: 5x7 TMY - Great Holiday Deal at B+H!

    Originally, B&H listed this sale as "expiring December 31, 2023." A day or so later, the price hadn't changed, but that note was gone. As of today, B&H still has 12 boxes at the discounted price,...
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    Re: HP Combi-Plan 4x5 tank and agitation

    I don't know the brightness or spectral characteristics of that app on your phone. I'm lucky enough to have a Zone VI Compensating Development Timer. I place its probe in the water jacket tub my...
  9. Re: Any Real Reason To Favor One Particular Lens Line?

    :D
  10. Re: Any Real Reason To Favor One Particular Lens Line?

    Additionally, while many seem to complain about that size, it is in reality a significant advantage with the shorter focal lengths if one regularly uses filters. Other brands tended to make their...
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    Re: Jobo 2509N reel problem

    I have multiple 2509n reels and Jobo tanks they fit in. Those marks appeared no matter what variation of agitation I tried. My solution was to purchase a number of HP Combiplan T tanks and set them...
  12. Re: Chamonix 4x5 film holder. How to tell if Film exposed?

    In that case you need five dots per holder. One of a color that indicates the film type on each side of the dark slides' pull handles and a white dot to indicate "unexposed" on only one side of each...
  13. Re: Chamonix 4x5 film holder. How to tell if Film exposed?

    There are so many chances for tolerances in camera backs, holders and film flatness to accumulate in the wrong direction that I wouldn't put them there. The link you provided indicates those dots...
  14. Re: Chamonix 4x5 film holder. How to tell if Film exposed?

    Why would you put it there? The dark slide orientation is the only thing that changes when a sheet is exposed. Marking the holder itself would tell nothing about exposure status. Unless you're...
  15. Re: Chamonix 4x5 film holder. How to tell if Film exposed?

    When I worked with Hugo to get Chamonix into whole plate, he accommodated my suggestion that the holders' dark slides have white dots on one side of their protruding pulls. I've no idea whether they...
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    Re: Keystone Correction

    Wet prints are why I just bought a 45mm f/2.8 Nikkor PC-E for my F6. The bonus is it's also usable on my D810 for scenes where depth of field challenges require tilt and non-static subjects make...
  17. Re: Let's talk 8x10 B&W Film brands and musings.

    Nope. HARMAN makes Bergger paper, but it's never been involved with PANCRO 400. The latter was coated by then-Inoviscoat.
  18. Re: My Plans for Combiplan Developing Tanks

    Hi Bob. I've also recently set up a three-tank Combinplan-T line per Eugene Singer's article and, despite replacing washers on the valves with ones you recommended some time ago, occasionally have...
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    Re: Dry Mount Tissue

    No change in the six months since I replied to this thread. Inkjet prints I've made up through ones on 13x19 paper, whether stored in boxes or taped to backer mat board, under a window mat and...
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    Re: 5x7 TMY - Great Holiday Deal at B+H!

    Did you order any, John? If so, what was the expiration date on the film you received?
  21. Re: Kodak Chemicals coming back under Photo Systems inc.

    Multiple threads on forums included images of the bad packets; all said "Made in Germany." I conclude PSI was not involved with those, and that Sino Promise transferred production to PSI as part of...
  22. Re: Foma classic 131 VC FB matte - Print color

    The thread title is "Foma classic 131 VC FB matte - Print color", yet you're comparing its surface shine to "glossy" papers. Do you mean that even the Ilford and Bergger matte papers are shinier...
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    Re: Anti Newton Glass on a budget

    Because of a response in this thread? Don't even think about it. Your contribution was fine. Keep it up.
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    Re: What's going to become of photography?

    Bryan!

    :D :D :D
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    Re: What's going to become of photography?

    I have no dog in this fight. I don't sell photography and, other than a short time doing weddings on the side while a student in the early 1970s, never have. I also don't pay any attention to...
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    Re: What's going to become of photography?

    Nope. Dictionaries are the arbiters of meaning. Rationality cannot be dispensed with. Unless one is pontificating about "art." :D
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    Re: What's going to become of photography?

    Nope. Definitions change over time, tracking how the things they define morph. However, whereas there can be a reasonable discussion about whether or how much "AI" functionality ought be acceptable...
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    Re: What's going to become of photography?

    It's not? If anyone can decide what "art" means, why can't anyone decide what "photography" means? You know, all that "it's their own truth" "stuff." :D
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    Re: What's going to become of photography?

    Much as I'd like to deserve admiration for some special skill or speed, the explanation is much simpler. I'd already quoted Paul. After answering Brian on the "Go Advanced" screen, I copied/pasted...
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    Re: What's going to become of photography?

    Because posters invoke the meaningless word "art" in thread after thread, making useful discussion of anything dependent on an a common understanding of its meaning impossible.



    It's...
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    Re: What's going to become of photography?

    From the realist's dictionary:


    Art: anything anyone wants it to be.

    Proving that "art" is a useless, meaningless word. Anyone can be an "artist." No one is an "artist." "Art" is...
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    Re: What's going to become of photography?

    Depends on who "we" is. :)
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    Re: Fujinon CM/W 450mm f8

    You're so easy to get worked up. :) That had nothing to do with lenses. :D



    Absent hard data on how much of the 450 C's specified image circle was used to make the originals, that the prints...
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    Re: Fujinon CM/W 450mm f8

    My earlier attempts at the scene attached above with a 450 C were exposed at f/45, just like the successful one with the 450 CM-W. An image circle of 486mm is less "massive" than one of 520mm. And...
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    Re: Fujinon CM/W 450mm f8

    Apparently it's a result of my using large movements where others don't. The image I attached is one that the 450 CM-W was purchased to make after previous inadequate attempts using the 450C.


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    Re: Fujinon CM/W 450mm f8

    I have no problem. :) Those who ask questions and are potentially mislead by members who disparage my answers without paying attention to the details ("edge of the specified image circle") might...
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    Re: Fujinon CM/W 450mm f8

    I have the 450mm f/8 CM Fujinon W, 450mm f/12.5 Fujinon C and 420mm Fujinon L. The 450 C is, in my experience, greatly overrated for 8x10 use. The outer inches of its specified image circle are...
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    Re: What's going to become of photography?

    OK, I'll play. AI will either increase interest and participation in "traditional" photography, decrease interest in it, or have no effect whatsoever. "The topic at hand" is one that, while not as...
  39. Re: NWS warning on travel to Death Valley & the Mojave National Preserve this weekend

    No link shown. If your quote is accurate, the NWS really screwed that one up. Should be "It cannot be overstated..."
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    Re: Hilary is Pissed Off

    I'm not so sure about that. Sunday forecast there is the same as here in San Clemente: heavy rain, one inch during the day and another one to one and a half inches at night. The kind of thing...
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