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Ilford made FP4 Special Portrait 124 'back in the day'.

150mm/f5.6 lenses are common and not very expensive. The love of German glass seemed to keep the prices of the Fuji glass down for awhile (and a lack of North American distribution), but they are...

I have a Turner Reich triple converitable that the rear element used alone is 28", or about 710mm. Not razor sharp, more like an over-used Exacto blade. Covers 8x10 easily, but I have to bring out...

Nice, Jim. I prefer lunar eclipses -- much quieter, no one else around, the rush of seeing the moon completely hidden and have all the stars and metorites jump out from the night. On 8x10 I...

Makes sense, Maris. There's a bit of art (or at least common sense) that goes into a proper test strip...which for me means big enough to be useful, and placed where one gets the most useful...

Most likely! :cool:

Instead of any significant dodging, I made the base exposure a little light, then burnt the print down selectively until I saw what I wanted. I used the base exposure to burn...

That's cool...and, right, wrong, or otherwise, working in seconds is intuitive for me (back in my silver printing days).

As an aside, I would rarely have a goal of making a 16x20 print to look...

One way is just as good as another way. There is nothing that makes one method 'superior' or "more intuitive" than the other...other than how the individual wants to think about it and what they are...

Saw a pretty cool printed-out image of a fully eclipsed sun taken by the Lick Observatory (but not at the Lick Observatory). The sun was about 8 to 10 inches in diameter on the negative. Printed by...

Welcome! Great photo!

If the paper is over-sized and/or if one used a hair drier to dry the freshly applied platinum/palladium solution too soon, then one can have the situation where much of the pt/pd solution dried on...

A challenging composition! Excellent!

It was the view from the back deck where I had my morning tea and watched the swirlies. I was a month in Wales and Northern Scotland (May/June). Blessed with unusual good weather. Traveling with...

I spent a couple weeks in Bangor - my son was renting a house in sight of the Menai Bridge while going to Uni there. It was a good place to explore from. Anglesea is pretty, the bridge was fun to...

I owned a Rajah (spelling?), which was an Indian copy of a Deardorff Special (a 4x5/5x7 camera). Design was exact. Quality was 7.5 out 10 compared to the real thing...once a major light leak was...

The tool forms the user as much as the user forms with the tool. So it is an important choice, and much depends on the type/look of the images one would like to make. For example, movements allow for...

I was a member of an artist cooperative gallery for 20 years. Worked a couple afternoons a month at the gallery and a little monthly committee work. In exchange, my work was up on the wall, and...

How many loaded holders does one take on a multi-day road trip?

My answer -- all of them (about thirty 8x10, a dozen or so 5x7, and about eight 11x14). I prefer not to change film on the road and...

Generally 5 to 6 holders...4x5, 5x7, and 8x10. With 11x14, perhaps 3 holders. I often expose two negatives for each image and even still, 80% of the time I come back with unexposed film. The other...

I used a version of John's second method above, but for several years have been using Jobo Expert Drums (3006 and 3005) on a motor base. for my 5x7s (also 4x5 & 8x10). Quite nice. The drums have been...

Definitely -- it would eat a full day, but a great way to see some of the countryside from the train (2 hours each way). Once in Nikko, we walked, but busses can take people to the World Heritage...

I have also bleached a negative slightly to reduce the shadows, re-fixed, washed, and then selenium toned. Works well if the shadows are already fully exposed. None of this works very well with thin...

Very sweet looking show! March looks to be busy, so I doubt if I'll get up your way for t he show.

Good luck!

Followed your link to some of your great Lava Beds images -- love that place!

Yes. But then everything does.

If you want to get away from the city itself for a day, take the train(s) to Nikko for the day.

The free public observation room at the top of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (about...

So far, the huge numbers of heavily manipulated digital images/prints has led me to appreciate the qualities of a handmade print even more. Secondly, I am more interested in the qualities of light a...

Yes, and an International Travel-all in there for awhile.

And a burro, too (but no photos of AA up on a pack-top roof rack). Personally, I packed mules for ten years while doing trail work and...

By all accounts he was looking forward to the digital age, so he missed that boat, too. Instead, he drove his wood-sided land yacht off into the sunset.:cool:

I know! And people still listening to live music, too, when we have ear-buds and all that stuff. Unbelievable! :cool:

And obviously Ansel's work became much better when he started using the...

Hearing "under" and/or "over" used for exposure and/or development, I tend to think of someone making a mistake.

I tend not to use contrast controls when printing alt processes, so I have to get...

Perfect!

True, but if someone says on this forum they just want to make a negative that is 'good enough', they get criticized for not trying hard enough. It's a tough world. :cool:



That is what I aim...

Have another glass...I believe you got it backwards...

Taking a reading off the white tile has the meter thinking, "Wow, that gray tile has a lot of light coming off of it! We'd better close down...

I managed to spend three weeks in Scotland last spring without rain...even the Scots were amazed...Good Luck!!

One from the Isle of Skye, and one from a lunch break...

Thanks for the read! Very cool!

Great image!

I do not think a ballast is required for that sort of bulb. None is listed in the specs. Similar bulbs are used in Tota lights.

I use 750W self-balasted Mercury vapor lamps. (dichromate)

The tallest coastal Redwoods around here are up in the 370 to 380 foot range. Took me awhile to find one that I could see the whole tree!

This was with two 4x5 negatives with a 150mm...

I am in the direction the OP does not want to head to. The redwoods I hang around under are 300 to 350 miles north of San Fransisco.

Great video/print, Andrew!

I learned from a short article in ViewCamera magazine in the early 90s. A workshop back then would have helped a lot...nothing 'online' back then. Jim and I are looking...