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those diopters are supposed to ENLARGE the image when used on a normal camera lens. Its been considered normal for the lower quality diopter adapters to cause optical issues on the outer 1/3rd of...

what sort of distortion does that cause?

Stop and fixer is pretty much universal..

The thing is, at this stage you need to stick with actual known chemicals with proven results. Avoid the caffenol, and other home made stuff. Getting...

on the premier paper safes, does anyone ever actually get the "mechanical system" to actually dispense a sheet of paper when they open it, as is claimed by the company?

have a beseler chart that shows combinations that include all three colors in the mix? I only see for multi grade printing of black and white paper as single setting for yellow or magenta each. Or...

enlarger paper makes wonderful kindling paper.

Have a shot of one of these simple test strips on the finished print? Id really like to see how they compare from test to final print for you.

Sometimes its not the negatives being at fault. Sometimes its the enlarger set up like i found out after burning through perhaps 140$ of paper. FOr a quick reference at that time, i was needing to...

alot of papers still say they have developer chemicals added into the emulsion, I believe Foma still makes that claim.

for RC paper.

What i was saying if youd read the text... the interwebz...

The sand and cliff face is much better at the plain base 2 second burn. The cliff edges do indeed seem sharper against the sky in the 3 second burn, but you have no detail in the cliff face itself....

And some people still like to harp on the evils of developing tubes. Guess some do it because they dont understand they are only for developing, and all the fun stuff with the enlarger is already...

since im using RC paper... and according to the internets...

RC has a set development based on chemicals.. developing it by visual inspection is NOT going t make good prints. They say an RC...

Why does the majority of people still use the test strip method that is the negative projected onto a sheet of paper, and the card sheet used to block it into sections?

Just looking at videos, its...

Out of the box.

Seriously, i have been re reading some of the things youve said in my other threads and have realized something.

I need to cherry pick the information that works with what im...

I think most people find it easier to make a print from a negative, when the negative itself is in FOCUS,,, espescially SHARP FOCUS>

its actually a better one for me.. i started printing in trays in the bathtub.. had the safe light on the sink, about 6 feet from the tub itself. Somehow it was still bright enough to screw up my...

im happy if they just dont crap on the toilet

saw a video on the filmomat and ran into various things...

film like a boss.. he did standard test strips and came out with a given time of 15 seconds.. then he did the old style cardboard...

a messed up calculation of aproximate conversion of shutter speed into a measurement of time..

The problem is, no one ever wants to talk about How to get the "base" time used to do all...

Im one of those funny guys who has no real room for equipment set up... so ive been using ilford paper printing tubes. delightful little things.. and the water savings is HUGE.

ALot of people make fun of the middle ages,,, but ive seen MANY 12x12 oak beams holding up stairs for 800 years with no issue. But ive seen engineered trusses collaps because a 300 pound guy jumped...

on photo.net theres a guy who did 2,000 food photos with his cellphone,, and they made him the designated "mster guru of all food and product photography". You disagree with something he says,, your...

I dont have alot of time to play around with my equipment or my cameras..

I shoot my film at box speed, i develop per manufacturers recommendations or what are considered the best options on...

the question to be asking from this video is not about "are you a photographer if you dont let others see your photographs" but.. the gquestion is

Do you really believe that NONE of her film was...

favorite myths...

photoshop will fix all your mistakes

movies like Pecker are how things happen in real life... that movie has made so many idiots with a cell phone camera, and 30,000...

Ive been self taught with the support of horenstiens little brown book of black and white photography, 3rd edition. Yes i have found factual errors in it on my own. And various bits i can get from...

teh only only ive actually gotten useful information on is pre programmed with about 100 paper types, dark room lab? and the presets are going by label either ilford RC or Fiber Base names..

and...

One of the things i wanted to start trying next year to get some better results was split grade, hence the filter set..

I have thought about those meter things that you put on the easel and take...

this may be helpful or not but....

have you considered ammo cans? heavy duty rubber seal, completely light proof... resist dropping from moving air craft... just need a darkroom to use them...

Ive been trying to figure out what to do to get a consistent process going... i can go through the motions but there is something missing that the filters are supposed to be fixing..

i remember, a...

then can anyone explian how to do the ilford stabilised replenished wash bash set up for me?

I was re reading the crappy ilford darkroom paper guide sold by ultrafine, and noticed something that i havent actually seen in ANY of my photography books.

The ilford handbook states that to...

i was thinking of using a chemical remover wash aid in my RC paper washing as a stabilised rinse bath as mentioned about in that ilford document.

But i have never actually gotten any sort of...

One of the BIG inputs, outputs, thoughts of most of the photography books i have read has been,,,, identical paper, chemicals, exposure settings ie aperture, head height, and seconds yields same...

if you use the ilford method of rinsing film and paper,,, how much advantage do you get? sure the theory it pulls extra chemical out of the paper is nice, but is there a measurable increase in PAPER...

Does anyone use a chemical rinse after they do their develop - stop - fix - rinse on PAPER?

mine came with the this way up arrow facing the cieling, but the bottles themselves, the lids were facing down. Ironically the delivery dude put the package on my door step, arrow pointing DOWN>

I was using eco pro developer until this year. And when i switched to ethol i got out some of MY own test negatives, and suddenly had to make massive changes in my exposure. SO i decided i was going...

I used foma VC with eco pro from freestyle... its not a great combination. Ethol LPD is a better choice for this paper as you can use 2 minutes of development time and your images come out...

alot of companies have been silently upgrading their papers. its causing problems for everyone