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    Re: Idea for super-thin 0.3mm glass plate

    At 0.7mm it's not as thin as you would like, and it's borosilicate, but it is annealed and can be cut with practice. Not cheap, but not impossibly expensive this thin.
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  2. Re: Making DIY aperture scale for Prontor Prof. Sshutter

    300mm is close enough for rock and roll (assuming b&w) to 12". Use a caliper to measure the aperture, setting it to open one inch. This is f12. Work out the offsets.
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    Re: Building Lenses

    I am interested in any forms or groups on lens building as well. I have been working on this and have had some success. I run a kiln department for an architectural glass studio for the day job so I...
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    Re: Apostle Islands, Wisconsin

    You can take a ferry to Madiline island and drive around with the car. Unless you are a very competent big water boater, hire a boat with a captin to take you out to the islands. Even if you could...
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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    An Anthony Normandie 11x14 field camera circa 1888 w/ matching plate holder/back and a Voightlander #4 Euroscope, 150.00$
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    Re: Poll: Do you use distilled water?

    I have found anything but steam distilled h2o for ABC pyro will wreck negs. This would include presoak, developer stock and water to make for developer. I have had pretty bad motteling even with lab...
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    Re: 11x14 contact print frames

    X2 about the frames Doug Kennedy makes. The whole experience was a positive. Great frame, good turn around time and very well packaged for shipping.
  8. Re: ULF B&W film high quality/affordable rates

    Thanks Hugo.
  9. Re: ULF B&W film high quality/affordable rates

    Hugo, In what sense? Delicate emulsion? Lots of toe and shoulder? I am just getting back to some ULF work and dealing with the limited choices out there. I like fp4 but missed the order for the year....
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    Re: Glass plate holder question

    Aluminum and plastic are ok, have no idea about brass. 2 seperate things to be concerned about, silver nitrate, which eats wood and likes to react with other metals, and the collodion, with the ether...
  11. Re: Purity of sodium carbonate needed for paper developer?

    If you have enough of the soda ash you plan to use, try making up a few different batchs of developer, halving and doubling the amount of carbonate in each. Figure out which you like, and you have a...
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    Re: Dry glass Plates?

    The upside to factory made glass plates is situations where very exact enlargement factors are involved. High mag transmission electron mircoscopy comes to mind. I use to develop tmax 100 quarter...
  13. Re: Schneider Componon 300mm f5.6 on 8x10 camera?

    The performance might surprise you. I have used one for a regular taking lens for 8x10 and 11x14 and have no complaints. I should mention though that I was only contact printing, so enlarging could...
  14. Re: Quality of Chemistry From Bostick and Sullivan

    I am sure Dana and co have got the bugs out. The kits with the camera and all are pretty cool.

    There are some real bars to entry. In some ways I think it has kept it safer. Even with the kits the...
  15. Re: Quality of Chemistry From Bostick and Sullivan

    Cor, I would agree, but there have been some issues with some of the premixed stuff. Problem solving is a big part of the process, and that is pretty hard to do with everything already set.
    That...
  16. Re: Quality of Chemistry From Bostick and Sullivan

    You are doing your self a disservice using premixed wetplate chemistry. B&S sell fine chemicals. Get a good manual and mix your own, if you have trouble (and you will) you can begin to remedy the...
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    Re: New To PYRO

    I find PMK negs do well with an acid fix, a sulfite/Hypo clear treatment, and no post fix dunk in anything to increase stain. If the negs are bright green, you have way too much non image stain and...
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    Re: Gulf Coast Location

    mexico city beach, but dont tell anyone...
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    Re: Manipulated Negatives

    The cuts ups of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin may provide non photographic inspiration.
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    Re: Ether in the House ... Wet Plate question

    Before I had good ventilation in my new darkroom I poured 2 8x10 plates and stunk up the house for 4 hours or better. had to use the box in the yard till the problem was solved. I use a plastic...
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    Re: Ether in the House ... Wet Plate question

    Drew, needless to say pyro and ether are different, but irrational fear is irrational fear. Your local codes will be different than mine, we all have to do our own due diligence. No one else can do...
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    Re: Ether in the House ... Wet Plate question

    Somewhere on this form there is a thread about pyro developers full of dire warnings, crazy claims and casting of aspersions towards any who would use such ungodly dangerous stuff that will certainly...
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    Re: 20x24 Mammoth

    Are you building a giant silver box to match, or doing the tray method?
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    Re: Non-green glass for frames?

    Drew, do you have a trade name for the product
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    Re: Non-green glass for frames?

    The tru view AR is REALLY easy to scratch, if you look at it wrong it scratches. Worse than museum glass.It is coated on both sides so you are never really safe, as the museum has the coating on the...
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    Re: Non-green glass for frames?

    Tru-View Museum glass in front of wet plate, truly delicious. I once lost a piece on the table I was framing on, had to find it with my fingers cause I couldnt see it right in front of me.
  27. Re: Any Wet Platers in PHX want to share KCN

    I am a long ways from AZ, so I cant help. The difference is subtle, but if you end up buying some you will wonder why you waited so long. Tried developer w/ potassium nitrate yet?
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    Re: Does Amidol keep in water?

    I use to have a darkroom in the back of a flower shop. One day a traveling salesman came by with some stuff that he said could take the stain off of anything. I went and got a tray stained w/ amidol...
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    Re: Does Amidol keep in water?

    I have a cheap (+/- $25.00) grain scale made for reloaders that is good for tiny measurements like this. I do wet plate, so turning everything black is a forgone conclusion.
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    Re: Does Amidol keep in water?

    The working solutions are generally acidic and oxidize quickly, so I doubt it. It mixes so fast and easy there is really not much advantage if it did work. It lasts very long as powder.
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    Re: What kind of camera is this?

    Be good for black obsidion ambrotypes
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    Re: Help on those windy days

    I'll second the ice house idea. There are also some pretty light compact hunting blinds. In a pinch I like to park the truck on the upwind side.
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    Re: Packard Repair Services

    Very good to know.
  34. Re: What really happens in a darkroom? Used equipment

    It use to be a common practice in newspaper darkrooms for film to go straight from the fix to the enlarger dripping wet to crank out a print to meet a deadline. Not pretty.
  35. Re: Kodak Portrait Lens—other Dual Purpose Considerations

    I some how got a shuttered Kodak 305 Portrait lens on a 4x4 board, it was not pretty but it did work, sort of. They give sharp but dreamy landscape stopped down to f22.
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    Re: Paper for contact printing

    Another option is Arista ortho film from Freestyle, all the advantages of paper, can use paper developer, work under safelights, plus it has a clear base. and very cheap compared to film.
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    Re: Greetings from Minnesota!

    Hey Adam,
    I am across the river in St Paul, returning to shooting/alt printing after a 3 year hiatus. My new darkroom is going to be multi stage project with the first step being a crude carry the...
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    Re: Contact Printing Technique

    Set the back of the printing frame on a table, spring side down, felt backing facing up. Lay the printing paper on the felt, emulsion side up. Center the neg on top of that, emulsion side down, so...
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    Re: Lady Gaga Saves Polaroid

    They have a better chance with Lady Ga Ga than they did with convicted ponzi scammer Tom Petters.
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    Re: Large format in the Amazon Rainforest

    I traveled on The Rio Solomois shooting for a fishing book about 10 years ago. I found the first larium dose entertaining and every following weekly dose increasingly nasty with wicked real dreams. I...
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