Greetings from Indianapolis, Indiana USA
Greetings,
Actually I feel like I have been among you for many months as I have lurked here for a long time. I am nearly 75 years old and my trip through photography has been a long and winding one. Recently I have most enjoyed medium format and have spent a number of years acquiring a very nice Bronica Sqai kit. I suppose I will never completely leave medium format but I have felt the urge for some time to see if bigger might be even better!
I have been fooling around with a Zone VI Camera (a "real" Zone VI from Vermont!) and have a large Cambo -- a really formidable camera for an old lady! I'll report on lenses in a different Forum shortly. I am in the process of restoring the Zone VI to its full majesty. I bought it on eBay for a song and it was in remarkably good shape for the price! Today I have ordered an Intrepid so we will see where that leads.
I have also recently been enjoying pinhole imaging -- and continue to build my own cameras out of every imaginable container! I live in a cottage in a Retirement Community with my Labadoodle, Puffin. She will appear in images which you will likely see at some point. I have enjoyed hearing about and looking at the truly grand Darkrooms that you folks have built! I am almost embarrassed to report that I am still repurposing my 4' x 6' ½ bath into a very nice darkroom -- with a Beseler 45MXT in an adjacent office/studio/lab that was a bedroom in another life. It now has darkened windows with weather-stripping under the hall door and black tape over all the "glowing office objects" so it has become "the dry side!"
I believe I have gone on enough -- but I really need an answer to this burning question before I sign off: I take copious notes about each photo which is associated with a carefully numbered negative carrier. When I get all the carriers into the pitch black darkroom and struggle (but finally do succeed!) loading the Jobo, the negatives get all mixed up. Often I take several photos of the same thing varying only 1 or 2 exposure characteristics for each one, so knowing which is which is really important to me. How can I tell these apart when I am all done?
Thanks (and I am glad to finally become a real group member!),
Martha
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AWESOME! Great to have you aboard Martha and looking forward to your future contributions.
BTW-I Love the fact that your "bathroom" priority sounds to be more wet side darkroom FAR more then a full fancy bathroom.:cool:
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Thanks, Randy, I see I am not the first down this street. I am now figuring out how to punch/drill/file holes into the edge of film holder flaps!
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Welcome Martha. It is great to see more women in the forum and out in the field.
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Hello Martha,
Instead coding the sheets, I'd code the spiral. You have two sides, you can cut a little notch in one of the sides and numbering the slots in accordance.
Probably this "toy grade" Infrared vision device would help you to load the sheets in the dark:
https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Gear-Ninj...ninja+ultimate
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Film is usually IR insensitive, but if you go that way please check that IR LEDs are not fogging your film, pehaps you may mask a bit the IR LEDs because you don't need all the power for near objects.
Regards,
Pere.
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Hi Martha and welcome from another newbie. Some similarities here... Gender, age almost the same, recently moved up from medium format, bathroom serves as a darkroom and your question is one I've been pondering. I'm sure we will both enjoy our adventure! Lorraine
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Welcome to the LF forum, Martha. Wow, good luck with notching your film holders. Some of this is actually entertaining.
Les
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Welcome to the forum, Martha. I will be 75 in two and a half weeks. I can almost promise you that you can find an answer to all of your LF and related questions on the forum. Enjoy!
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Thanks for the greeting, Lorraine, we should keep tabs on each other as we explore Large Format. I have already developed a template for notching all the film backs and have interested my neighbor, a carpenter age 85, in helping me with this task. Stay tuned . . . .