Permawash will reduce wash times dramatically with fiber prints, as will any other sulfite based wash aid. There are many wash aids on the market:
Arista Hypo Wash
Clayton Archival Wash...
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Permawash will reduce wash times dramatically with fiber prints, as will any other sulfite based wash aid. There are many wash aids on the market:
Arista Hypo Wash
Clayton Archival Wash...
Along with careful lighting to bring up shadows in general, it looks likely that a fairly broad light was used for the principal frontal lighting. The heavy retouch makes that just guess since most...
As far as I can see it, it all depends upon the size of the light source as seen from the printing paper, and also upon the height of the dodging tool. An angularly broad source would force you to...
I'm usually a big fan and supporter of Kodak, but from what I have heard, they seem not to have consistently given reasonable notice for critical products being discontinued. Perhaps I have read...
Why not? I can't see why raising a dodging tool a few inches would cause any problem, but maybe I'm missing something. Can you elaborate?
Talk mike that means it's time to get a couple more freezers....
I once shot something - unintentionally - at some 10,000 or 20,000 or some similarly stupid underexposure. There wasn't a heck of a lot of anything on the neg, let alone shadow detail.
Some developers are better for getting the greatest shadow detail out of a given exposure. Xtol for one. A couple of Crawley's FX series are supposed to get just a little more out of a negative.
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A couple of random responses to your queries.
This is the right forum.
Any change of exposure will change the amount of information that can be recorded in the deepest shadows. If you have a...
Shaved as in filed open so that the edges of the negative show ala Dianne Arbus?
I could have guessed that, had I engaged my brain. I don't know why it didn't occur to me.
And why the relatively slight variation between formulas. Which does what best?
Are both variants Halcyon and Halcyon R replenishable with same 25 to 50 ml per roll?
How big are you printing?
You can't get much better for the combination of grain and reciprocity than the TMAX films and for reciprocity the king is Fuji Acros film.
Best thread here in a long time. Bravo!!!!!
I wonder if putting your powdered amidol in the freezer would be helpful. Lower temperatures seem to retard chemical reactions. I am assuming that the degradation of developing agents - oxidation...
Thanks for that reference. I hadn't seen that company. I immediately passed it along to an interested person who is running out of POP.
Whatever happened, you are almost all the way there. The one half of the image looks quite good.
If you shoot test rolls or test sheets to work out the kinks in the process, it's less...
At near the bottom of this long web page: www.fredparker.com/ultexp1.htm there is a very inclusive list of exposures related to the sunny sixteen rule, from extremely bright light to starlit night...
You beat me to it. That's just what I was thinking.
Some of the less expensive films often have defects according to postings by people who have used them. I stick to Kodak, Ilford and Fuji for that reason. Economize by making up your own contact...
If the temperatures in your car trunk stay that cold, your film will stay in very good shape. However, if you park your car in the sun, and if the temperature in your trunk goes way up, your film...
It sounds like you may still be sorting out film processing. If I'm misreading your post, my apologies. But, if you are somewhat new at it, I'd urge you to batch the solving of all your questions...
Purple stains on TMax films indicate too little fixing and/or too little washing. Tmax films both require stronger fixers, and use up those fixers faster than old style film. I have had good...
There are no "one - size - fits - all" answers too your questions. Depends upon which type of chemical (developer, stop, fix, hypo clearing agent, toner, etc, at what dilution, how much film or...
The basic reason for NB agitation has less to do with minimizing oxidation than having fast, efficient, repeatable, automated agitation. Whatever reduced oxidation that may happen is a side benefit.
Dump the photo flo after each session. No sense adding crud after all the washing's done. Photo flo's too cheap to worry about. I just use a half capful for a small tank and more for larger...
I too have just bought a rosy products washer. It just arrived and is a thing of beauty. Haven't had a chance to test it out yet, but it's made very well and I am very happy with it. A gold...
It's all too easy to pull the film holder away from the camera back a little when withdrawing the dark slide. I try to press in a bit to keep the film holder firmly in contact with the body of the...
Dead ordinary film and processing. No magic bullets. Good lighting, appropriate exposure, and his portrait skills are what made a Karsh a Karsh.
Dealers seem to have a way of saying something is discontinued when they themselves just can't be bothered or when the supply chain can't be bothered. Happens over and over. Rumors about...
I'd really like to see 25 or 50 or 100 sheet boxes of 8x10. I appreciate that Kodak is under terrible pressure and that any decision on large film will leave someone unhappy, but if they read...
When you use the word alternate, it brings up the possibility you are talking about alternative processes. But, then again, maybe not.
Are you referring to making ordinary contact sheets with...
The only item you and yours need to handle differently is used - silver laden - fixer. The wash water is so dilute it does not matter. The fixer by contrast has a high concentration of silver and...
Why fix it permanently. Set it up to be removable so you only have it there when needed.
You could sell the big packs off to a photo class. They have to buy big boxes of chems. Maybe they could pay you a discounted amount that you could then use to buy more reasonable package sizes...
Jay,
We have related but distinct points. Before all else I'm concerned about a tendency to define the range of acceptable photographic solutions too narrowly.
What I'll call a purist...
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Isn't it possible these opinions are based on one aesthetic viewpoint? Not a bad viewpoint, but just one of many creative possibilities.
I'm thinking back to some...
There are a couple of ways to lessen contrast. No reason you couldn't preflash the paper to get the highlights to show. There are a number of threads on flashing paper. That's maybe the first...
This has been a good discussion here.
The concerns expressed about selenium toner disposal could be addressed to a very large extent by how one uses selenium toner. I'm mostly referring to Kodak...