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Evans was an early master at creating a sense of interior atmosphere and space. He made platinum prints. A modern master who works with a lot of old cloisters etc
in a rather dramatic style with...

I don't know about that coverage stuff. My 305 Apo Nikkor will cover 8x10 at infinity with plenty of wiggle room, my 360 and 450 with mountains of it. I don't own a ULF camera, so can't even guess...

I always do RA4 one-shot, and mix up only enough for a daily session at a time. How much chemistry you need per print depends on several factors. One is the
efficiency of the drum itself relative to...

Rollfilm backs can be fussy to use. They are bulkier and heavier than a regular filmholder, so can tug on a weak back due to simple gravity. This smaller format is
also a lot fussier to focus on the...

I prefer longer times so that the part spent during fill and drain of the tube is a smaller percent of the total. I do 2min (which includes 10sec for drain) at 85F.
To adjust your filtration I...

Wind is a constant issue around here, or deep deep shade in the redwoods, or sometimes I wish to freeze the motion of water. So I can think of a lot of reasons to
carry a fast LF film. And TMY has...

Both Thor Heyerdahl and Gavin Mendes got rich by writing books espousing their utterly ridiculous hypotheses about migration, which they allegedly "proved" by simulating the voyages. Seems that no...

Well, Hamish Fulton got some serious museum representation a few decades back for his otherwise utterly boring road shots of long walks. I have no idea of what
this current fellow's motives or...

Most fresnels are made of butyl acetate, which is relatively brittle. It doesn't cut like polycarbonate. Score and snap might work but it's risky, and applying clamping
pressure on the fresnel to do...

Some of us have been participating in group orders of custom-cut film too. So you can't just walk down to your corner Seven Eleven and expect to casually up a
box of large sheet film in the cooler...

I generally choose a film first for its curve characteristics and specific spectral sensitivity, then for speed. While I often shoot TMY in 4X5, there are times I find
the grain a bit too apparent...

Heck. Eskimos have been known to eat frozen mammoth meat. And all kinds of people will stuff an elk or deer or butchered cow into a freezer. That's not called
hoarding. What's the big deal with...

Forrest Gump? When he finally speaks, it will be, "Those spike feeet on my Git-zo were a pain in the butt-tocks!"

I'm getting superb results with Ektar for landscape use, but I'm printing optically, so don't have to worry about how a scanner might reinterpret the information. It
is very important to use color...

Depends what decade you'd want to target. There were made over quite a span, and inflation and dealer markup would amount to more than a 100% variable.
Also depends on the exact lens formula. They...

Ektar will have approximately one stop more on either side than most E6 FILM, Portra 400 still more, and Portra 160 the most. How much of this latitude is actually
usable depends on a variety of...

Well if my freezer wasn't full of film and printing paper my wife would buy an extra holiday turkey or two and put it in there (and has), or several big bags of frozen
shrimp. Obviously color paper...

The inflationary increase of film in my freezer has paid for that freezer many times over, and that's just in the past few years! Freezers aren't all that expensive to
begin with, as long as you...

One cannot simply walk up closer to everything, and even if you could, the perspective changes, and the composition might not look the same at all. And cropping in after the shot equates to a degree...

Different people have different ways of looking at the world, so going around rating one focal length "better" than another is largely nonsense. And once you start
using a particular lens, after...

Surveyor tripods.

TMax develops in any conventional developer, including just about any pyro developer I can think of. The TMaxRS developer is a fine one for sheet film, and will
give a straighter-line...

Let me bust a myth. Yes, large format color film is expensive, but only if you waste a lot of shots. And if you shoot color neg film and print it yourself (RA4) it is
quite affordable. You pay out...

I've always considered Keith Canham's wooden 5x7 to be the "sweet point" is his selection. A very nice machine indeed. Finding an old Deardorff in good shape might
be a challenge. Keith's design...

8X10 just has a lot more surface area, but then you enlarge it less, so any spots look smaller. Trying to retouch out a down feather, however.... I once watched some poor wretch at work spotting one...

Do you ENJOY spotting negs and prints?????

Public transportation to Yos Valley is no problem except during a big snowstorm when buses can't get thru. But there are skier options during such times. You could
also just trying teaming up with...

Fredrick - Yosemite Valley is accessible year round, though there seem to be a few days each winter when the snow can be an issue and tire chains might be required. The road uphill past Tuolumne and...

You had me worried with the title of the thread for a minute .... I thought that the Inquisition had gotten Jim. Galileo got into a lot of trouble for designing fuzzy lenses in the first place.

The main variable is how much enlargement you need relative to the subject matter (it's a trade-off with depth of field considerations). You can get away with
very small f-stops in a contact print...

You take your chances. I wouldn't risk it. But one thing you can do is add an inside liner consisting of a thin disposable black plastic bag. These not only help as an
extra light barrier, but also...

You carry several empty film boxes, one each labeled for N, N+, etc., for when you sort out your exposed film in the film tent. You don't need a lot of filters. The
red will be useful, but you...

The most spectacular Chumash cave you can generally get to with an ordinary passenger car, that is, within a mile hike, but it's officially off-limits between Mar
and July due to raptor nesting, and...

Did you catch that PBS episode by the late Huell Hauser on the Big Creek project? Had some pretty good reminisces and home movies of the early days of Florence Lk, plus view of the new big...

Hmmm .... wasn't there some talk about an impending Millerton Dam collapse?

... or if you want something a little more apocalytic, Hwy 33 to the west of Bakerfield, with forests of oil rigs. Right over the Elkhorn Ridge from there is Soda Lk and
the Carrizo Plain. The...

Oh heck yeah, John ... I can think of a lot of reasons to avoid Bakersfield & LA (and Fresno too!). It's obviously starting to get hot. But those backroads that meander the coast range over toward...

I routinely use TF4 for just about everything, but in a pinch have substituted hardening fixers in conjunction with PMK and haven't noticed any difference.

I was given one twenty-two feet long. The bellows was so big you could step inside it like a tunnel. Beautiful machine. I cannibalized it for the lenses, vac easel,
etc. Sadly the rest of it went...

No difference in that respect anywhere. Parcel carriers typically demand spill-proof packaging, or distinct hazmat labeling and surchages for certain things, and
might demand ground vs air shpmt. ...