IMPORTANT: Also remember that mixing the stuff from dry ingredients on the kitchen table is a serious way to kill your nervous system. There was at least one London professional printer in the...
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IMPORTANT: Also remember that mixing the stuff from dry ingredients on the kitchen table is a serious way to kill your nervous system. There was at least one London professional printer in the...
A while ago we had a problem at work involving a mercury vapour light-source that was no longer supported. There is an optical-contractor who solves that sort of problem for us (one company service...
I use standardised contacts as a 'sort of' metering, then a partial print at the estimated values, then adjust from there. Approaching every negative as though you have never printed before, as per...
That could even be true, or at least have a positive correlation, if one limited the total spending to materials consumed... Maybe?
Way back last century, I had to make enlargements from 35mm slides at work and the usual method was to make an interneg by projection (ie. using an enlarger to project the image, not a...
Fotoimpex have finishing tools available for their own products, and are an Ilford reseller. Might it be worth asking them if they could do the trimming job?
With such a small room I would paint the whole thing black, above benchtop height. The light bouncing off the paper during exposure needs to not be bounced back on the easel from the surroundings,...
If the OP will be going to London, then I can suggest Photofusion.
https://www.photofusion.org/darkroom
Or Foma Excel, all the same thing really though the anti-dust design of the Adox/Fotoimpex product is impressive. At least in Europe, these alternatives are available in one liter packages as well...
As an alternative to repair, I picked up an old and somewhat brittle Combi tank in a jumble-sale and ended up using only the internal film-holder. Effectively a sort of dip-and-dunk deep-tank system...
Byjus appears to be an Indian company, but whether this website belongs to them is unclear. The address is registered via GoDaddy, so the owner details are not immediately available.
About ten years ago I got various film and paper supplies at BE Foto in Prague. They have a darkroom department and were helpful, ordering an unusual paper from Foma with a nextday delivery. It is...
I did a bit of a Google and came up with this link . . .
https://www.ebay.com/itm/225159693757
Too high for my budget, inevitably.
If one wants an orthochromatic product for making the negative, for the spectral differences or because one wants to process in red safelight, then ortho film is available in all relevant sizes. ...
I have always wondered how being 'see-thru' improved the washing, but perhaps it makes it easier to discover the quality of the water flow-pattern using the ink trick.
My only positive idea is...
Small (and not so small) fans for coolling are utterly standard things for PCs and servers and are widely available. They are also cheap and, even better, reliable. Why build a new light-source and...
This short video explains how that AZO-replacement paper came to be. Interesting stuff. The photo-chemists and tech people involved were/are the new Adox.
Now I understand why the photo of the rather interesting camera is upside-down -- it's because I am in the opposite hemisphere! Obvious really. Good luck with your bellows quest.
In addition to my post far above somewhere, I am one of those who does not have a drymount press, nor room for one even if it was a gift. For larger prints I give an extra 1/4" border all round,...
It should be reduced or eliminated by trimming a millimeter off the 'wavey' side. It was explained to me as being some sort of effect from stresses at the edge of the paper-roll when it was...
I found it quite practical, and also cost-effective, to put a pack of the Kodak product (a single powder in a large sachet) in an airtight jar and weigh out the appropriate mount for the session when...
In the UK, you can look at any of the online photo-retailers.
For example . . .
https://ag-photographic.co.uk/24v-250w-elc-2053-p.asp
And if that is out-of-stock long term, try from the EU ....
Thank you for your answer! Does this mean that if I use a 120 color film I can put it in the enlarger and make a normal color print with this kit for example?...
Over here in Europe, I have tried the Foma version as well as the Adox one, both in the small one liter size.
Both seem to work well at the developing side of things and to last well in storage --...
Coincidentally, my Fujinon EX 90mm f5,6 makes noticeably more attractive images (to me) than my Componon-S. I will have to compare it with the 150mm Rodagon (at the same enlargement size) one of...
I think the OP is seeking information on using RA4 paper as a paper-negative. With black-and-white materials (and 'some' experimentation) the paper-neg can be contact-printed on to another piece of...
A 1.4kW battery? Wouldn't that be really heavy? The Wide cameras available in Europe have used normal AA cells for about fifteen years or so, and I managed to find an unloved secondhand Wide for...
I have a much smaller Jobo, CPE2, without a lift but it seems to me that removing the tilting loads from the machine completely would be a good idea.
One could make a frame, even a sheet of 15mm...
Small diameter plastic plumbing pipe is cheap and has pushfit corner connector (the sort usually used with glue, not the self-sealing type as they are annoying to separate after use).
Would the cabinet having an internal finish which attracts dust actually be beneficial in this case? A wipe down with a damp lint-free cloth a few hours before use, then any dust that gets through...
I will be flying to UK from Schiphol (the small and over-busy Dutch capital-city airport) in a fortnight, the ability to get film and paper hand-checked at the Dutch airport (they use the 'new' type...
There is an eleven minute untitled video floating about the internet, of a Reuters(?) pressroom (ie.hotel room and bathroom) in Nicaragua in 1990, seemingly made as an internal home-movie sort of...
Coincidentally, today I discovered a drawer at the electron-microscope table contained five individual 5x7" sheets of 3000asa Polaroid film. The Polaroid back and the camera attachment for the SEM...
In the 1980s I worked at a lab in a town with several large civil-engineering companies nearby. We used to get a regular stream of print requests from them using huge negs that were from...
If you can get car repair/filler paste (typical brandname, Isopon) then lightly wipe the lens thread with an oily cloth, put the lens through the mounting board in the required orientation, pile up a...
Light-leaks. Are they at the end of the filmholder where you insert the darkslide> It could be that you accidentally move the back as you do so. Alternatively, the leaks may be at the other end...
Also remembering not to use so much force, with the vice, that the housing of the lens is turned in to an oval and/or cracks an element. A couple of V-shaped bits of wood to spread the load around...
The long-running project by Salgado, called 'Genesis', started being shot on film (mostly 120) and ended up with digital. For the digital images an imagesetter sheet-film-sized interneg was made for...
When the video finished, I immediately went back to the start and watched again. That person (and late husband), location, facilities and history are inspirational.
ETA: Thank you to Mirko and...
This place has a secondhand and special-offer section, though I think they moved it to their ebay store. They have the Nova-Darkroom products, in case you want new stuff too....