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I use Rapid Fix, i.e. ammonium thiosulfate, without any added acid. It works fine.

If you need to keep the developer for awhile, investigate the versions that use glycol. I just developed some film today in Pyrocat MC in glycol that I bought a couple of years ago. Everything...

Welcome Tiago!

Lily, my cão da Serra da estrela, says "hello" as well.

He did a great job repairing my Kodak 2D for a reasonable amount and in a timely manner.

What's the advantage over using a dslr with a standard panoramic head?

A number of people on this site have built their own cameras. Search for their threads for ideas, and you can always private message the builders if needed. Making a decent LF camera is not easy,...

But make sure to use someone who knows what they're doing. I needed to have a large color print made locally. A couple of places had large inkjet printers, and so I took a file to them. A bad sign...

There is a before and after retouching example in one of the books on Hurrell. It's a picture of Joan Crawford. I can hunt it down tomorrow. They also show his typical lighting setups.

You do great work, Sergei! Where did you get the film?

That sort of thing, replacing skies in photographic prints, has been going on for well over 100 years. For more extreme manipulations, consider the work of Jerry Uelsmann.

A beginner approaches a task with on open mind. They do what feels natural to accomplish the task, but being a beginner, they don't do the task well. In order to improve, they learn technique from...

My point was that you talk of mastery and clear explanations but then you call one of the greatest 20th century philosophers a "smart ass" after spending a few minutes reading about him on Wikipedia.

I'm partial to a Toyo 45AX. It's rugged, easy to use, and reasonably priced if bought used. I've settled on it after trying out many different cameras, including many more expensive ones.

$150-$200 in excellent condition.

I have one. I use it as Evan suggests.

"But nobody wants to admit it and instead say "cool" or "gotcha" when they know in 10 minutes they're just going to bastardize and fake it."

Kinda like your mastery of the importance of...

I roughly masked each area using the quick selection tool. There are pretty hard edges and so that worked well. (I'd have to be much more precise for high res work.) And then I used a curve...

Here's a version with some very quick Photoshop work:

Larry,

May I post a version with a little Photoshop done to it?

That method will allow you to pick the best channel to make the BW image out of. Often it's the green channel.

It seems like a scanning issue. I don't have the same scanner but a fairly comparable one, a Screen Cezanne. I wouldn't have any problem getting all of the needed detail in one scan. I'm sure that...

Well, that's good, as there's a lot of detail there. Bring both shots into Photoshop. Drag the background layer from the new scan onto the old scan. The new scan will appear as a layer. You can...

Larry, you can certainly scan for the shadows and combine, but I'm surprised that you can't get it all with one scan. The density range of most BW films is pretty low compared to some slide films. ...

Larry, I would try scanning the first shot again. Regarding detail, look at the film on a lightbox. If you can see more tonal detail in the shadows than you have, then you should be able to pull it...

If you can describe the characteristics that you're after, we could make suggestions. For example, color or bw? Do you want fine grain or more prominent, but maybe super sharp, grain? What kind of...

I agree wholeheartedly that one should check these things out for oneself. Like many, I've tried 5000k and 6500K, and many in between. I can see my viewing booth from here. Looks a bit yellow...

That's really nice, Ed!

Excerpt from Real World Color Management by Bruce Fraser, Chris Murphy and Fred Bunting:

Target White Point
The white point of the monitor plays an important role for your eye. As described in...

On the other hand, Bruce Frasier, a dyed-in-the-wool CMYK print guy, recommended 6500K. If you're printing for a 5000K light booth, then you might prefer using that setting, but otherwise it's a...

I would use 6500K, Gamma 2.2.

Kirk is spot on!

It's not really about gamut. Your monitor will meet it's specs with either and 8-bit-per channel workflow or a 10-bit-per-channel one. In other words, if your display is rated for 100% of Abobe...

I'm not following. What does Thunderbolt have to do with it? Aren't we talking Display Port? Note that the overwhelming number of screens used for image editing haven't been higher bit, and those...

You _might_ be able to get a higher bit image via a Display Port, but only assuming that your application, OS, video card and monitor all allow that.

Ben, I've got an older F8 90mm SA. That should work, right?

If it was me, I'd get the Asus Kirk recommended from a reputable source, such as Amazon. I'd try it out, calibrate it, and use it for a few days. Odds are, it'd be fine. If so, done, if not, then...

Air-dried glossy, fiber-based, silver gelatin prints are not as shiny as glossy inkjet prints. I dry mount the SG prints. RC glossy sg prints have about the same gloss as glossy inkjet prints.
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As I said before, you will have problems using FB paper in a regular Nova processor.

Regarding paper surface, while I love rag matte inkjet papers, I've never seen a matte silver gelatin paper...

I greatly prefer FB over RC paper, but I'm not sure you'll be able to easily develop FB in your Nova. They made a special holder and slot processor for that.

I'm with Alan. That's a terrific photo.