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In the winter I always wear a fedora when photographing. In the summer I wear a ratty cowboy hat to protect my face and neck from the sun. But that's also cuz I'm bald. The nice thing about larger...

I have the C1. From looking at the second pdf from the links at the bottom; I'm wondering if I would get better results wearing a white dress shirt and tie. Like the three men grouped around the...

Thanks for the link! Since Young Camera Company is no longer making ground glasses, I just bought one from that guy in France. Recently dropped my C1 and while the camera was fine, the gg was not....

This is interesting. I'd used Rodinal in the past, but stuck with HC 110. Then a couple years ago switched to Rodinal. I've done a lot of zone testing at 1:50 and 1:100 for contraction and expansion....

When KEH were here in town I sold the TravelWide along with the 90mm Schneider to them, along with that Zero 69 pinhole, Sony A6100 and my 6x9 folder. All those formats that seemed cool to try but...

You keep notes and put them with the negs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJt0E4MiO6E

There was a room at the Stedelijk in 2002 that was lined with their series of factory buildings. Direct frontal shots of old garage warehouses. I remember struggling since the photographs were place...

I was just in Berlin and they required an N95 mask on the trains, but nowhere else. People weren't wearing one anywhere else, but were very compliant on the trains. In fact some transit authority...

Yes, it's good to think about what one can accomplish with such a camera. My Ebony 4x5 suffices for traveling and general use. But I'm not doing that with 8x10. So I identified certain use cases for...

Since I live in Seattle, when the time comes, I'll be taking a ferry to Bremerton to get it from Ries and getting that 10% discount. I also like the idea of buying something from a company here, as...

I was making a joke about covid.

For myself, the biggest stumbling block to RA-4 printing is the demise of public color darkrooms. I rent and don't have the space for a color enlarger and don't see myself using drums. I was going to...

I had the Intrepid first release. I found that to be too tweaky to use and sold it. I hear they've fixed a lot of that stuff on the new ones.

My experiences with 8x10 taught me that vibration...

I won't be out until Sept/Oct and by then this will all be over. Right?

I just wear a mask and wash/sanitize my hands and accept the rest. The anecdotal part for me is that I used to get two or...

I'll be flying out for this. First retrospective of theirs I'll have access to since seeing the one at the Stedelijk museum in 2002. Of course, there's so much to see in NYC that this will obviously...

With hand check they might open one of the packages since they can tell you've resealed them. So, send it back. On my trips my final day will include a trip to the post office to send my film off for...

I suppose you could ask if those are the new CT scanners they have and if so, ask them for a hand check. Generally, a hand check is usually an agent swabbing right there in front of you. A long time...

For years I've just let my film (Porta 160 and Trix 320 in 4x5 and Portra 800 and Trix 400 in 120) go through the scanners in my bags. My film holders go under the plane with my tripod and everything...

Do not get the cheap Kaiser. That is a tweaky pos where the camera attaches to the stand. I'm looking at the Beseler because of my dissatisfaction with Kaiser and at $250, the Kaiser wasn't that...

Nothing says "welcome to large format" like a bunch of old curmudgeons saying that someone should go digital because they're not doing it "right." Even if that person attains their goal of making a...

I think you'd have to use a cyan filter since that's the opposite of red. But there's probably someone here that's actually done it as opposed to my speculation.

You mean twice as much? Since the Ilford:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/24605-REG/Ilford_1813157_Ortho_Plus_4x5_B_W.html

is $57 for 25 sheets and the Fuji:
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What's wrong with the Ilford Ortho? I've shot that and developed in HC110. Rollei makes an ortho film that you can get at B&H. I'd use one of those before I'd mess around with X-Ray film.

I mentioned this to a friend and he sent me the Cinestill unit. Sorta like someone took one of those cooking deals and redesigned it specifically for photography. Pretty cool.
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I was at a friend's house printing on Lodima with a 45w bulb. Print times were ~10 seconds with EV 9 showing on the baseboard. I can't remember what type of bulb it was though. I assume it was...

I looked at the list and didn't see any anxieties until I realized that as a Kodak shooter (Portra and Tri-X) that Kodak going out of business makes me anxious. Sure, I could shoot something else for...

@reddesert Thanks for the tips! I'll get some steel wool then, I don't want to damage the camera.


That second plate you point out is the best one. On the bottom of the C1 is two holes, 1/4-20...

Yep, good that he was willing to explore and haul that gear around.

As for the C1, I'm still mulling the tripod plate scenario. I need to see how a Majestic attaches to a tripod. I'm worried it's...

For this setup I'm adhering to Edward Weston's rule: "Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic."

The problem with that is the base of the C1 is 6.5" x 5" and looks like so:

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Which is smaller than the the Kessler. I looked into a Majestic head and it's pretty cheap used. Might be the...

I wish this entire mess could be separated or teased out into threads like, "How to get scans using a copy stand" and "You'll have to pry my Epson from my cold dead hands: A guide to scanning" or...

Well, the Z2+ that I currently own has a 132 pound load capacity. The trick is finding an AS plate with a larger base than the typical narrow plate. Maybe I'll contact RRS and see what they say....

On an impulse recently, I bought a green monster on ebay. It has a fair amount of corrosion, mold like and some rust. I had a vague idea of stripping it down, but don't trust myself to put it back...

Thought I would loop in the other thread in where someone posts a picture of their copy stand setup for scanning via mirrorless digital camera:
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Thanks! I've been shooting film and printing in various color and B&W darkrooms. As the last color darkroom closed in WA last year, I'm finding that I'm having to print color in LA. Which is leading...

Pere - I think you misunderstand, I don't pay someone in NYC to scan my negatives. I rent a Flextight by the hour and scan them myself (in 3F). The scanner is much easier to use than the Epson and...

I'm very interested in this thread. In 2013, I had a show with 21 prints, mostly 30x40 with three at 40x50. I scanned them in NYC on a Flextight in NYC and though I had no experience whatsoever with...

Bummer, since I just got an 8x10 camera I was planning on buying one of his washers...I have a 4x5 washer and love it.

I did a whole show (18 prints) doing pretty much that. After the first couple, I used some presets in the FlexColor software and that got the negs inverted and most of the way there before I pulled...

I just got an Intrepid 8x10 and just got 10 sheets at the old price. Guess I'll need to start looking for another film, which is a bummer since my whole career has been with TXP 320 in 4x5. I hate...