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I have used a sharpie on the glass part way thru the exposure. Other types of masking are options, too.

If the exposures are long enough, you can do a lot of 'playing' around. Take the frame...

Yes...that is how it was hung. Even had it up in my office/stockroom (tall ceiling) at the university for a long while.

There's a market for folks out there -- narrow tall photographs for people...

It has been since the early 90s since I silver printed, but I used a warm tone paper (Portriga Rapid 111) and also selenium-toned.

I preferred the slightly reddish brown color I was seeing, before...

A 4x10 B&W negative of mine was scanned and inkjet printed to about 3'x7' (vertical) for a particular space -- I still have it rolled up around here somewhere. I loved the idea...quite fun to see....

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Just upside down...or downside up...but never backwards. Although all my carbon prints are printed 'backwards'.

In use, the B&S contact printing frames are wonderful and will last one's lifetime. I have one that sees a little more use than the other and there is wear in the wood where 10 hours into a printing...

I only contact print (alt processes) these days. 120 up to 11x14.

Tracey -- the manufacturer explained this in an earlier post on this thread:



Shit happens.

What strange gods of optics declared that the the closer the camera is to an object, the further the lens has to be from the film for the object to be in focus?!!!!!

Bernice, the film and lens already alters how colors and tonalities are reproduced. Why forsake one tool for another? Consider the use of them all for every image. It just happens that the choice...

Even with shipping at the quoted rate, the sleeves are a great price. Buy a thousand 8x10 sleeves for 30 cents each, including shipping. And 50 cents each if you buy only 200.

Might be worth while giving them a call and asking them to cut it in half.

Edit -- looks like they charge actual shipping costs -- perhaps instead of folding them into the cost of the goods. It...

Thanks for the heads up. I just opened a new (NOS) box of Kodak 11x14 plastic sleeves -- sweet, but they won't last forever...perhaps I shopuld pick up some replacements while I am thinking about it.

Reminds me of the cartoon of the old dog...."Back in my day I only had one toy, and it was a stick..."

I have hacksaw blades -- don't need to go out and buy fancy stuff I don't need. The one I...

I stripped some rubilith off a frame last night -- it was set up for 8x10 and I was contacting 5.5x14 negatives (and some 5x7). As long as one has some alcohol or acetone or such to remove left...

Yeah, but a good winch will get you stuck out even further.

I used a hacksaw, followed with a file -- but I was cutting metal darkslides...more robust in the pack, bends rather than breaks, and can be hammered flat again if needed. I broke one made of more...

First -- which side of glass the mask is on will detemine the sharpness of the line/edge it casts. If on top, there will a slight diffusion...if it matters. And it will if you try to separate the...

My ex-BIL's new (to him) rig. An Aussie caravan. It looks to be fairly impressive.

I prefer to think of it as a filter reduces the light coming into the lens, but with specific wavelengths blocked more than others. THEN I start thinking about which wavelengths (colors). So a...

The f/stop value is derived from an equation: It is the focal length divided by the diameter of entrance pupil. Pretty simple, but it can get complicated with some lenses and where to exactly...

If the finger get cold, I give the breeze the middle one and wait it out. Actually, decades of photographing in the redwoods where I never have exposures less than several seconds and usually in the...

My understanding is the FujiW 300mm and 360mm IC did not change significantly with the design change that accompied the shift of inside to outside writing, but there is a significient difference in...

Congrats, Jim. Be accepted into the show is a great honor. It has a great tradition as a muli-media showcase of Sierra-inspired art for, well, 36 years. And the book is amazing.

Its all relative, depending on the filter color, colors present, and the needs of the process I'll be printing with (non-silver). Small shadow areas where I do not need detail, but are 'fogged' by...

That sort of thing, along with pick-ups stuck in the sand with the tide coming in -- people grabbing their gear out of it before it was too late. Or the fisherman with poles walking down the road as...

I already factored all that in...especially when I am planning on the shadows dropping. I check my meter, lick my finger & stick it in the air, choose an exposure, and wonder why my finger is wet. I...

I was wondering when we were going to get to actual venting!!:cool:

I have not blocked under my house yet -- too much work under there still to do. Raccoons and skunks move in -- then quickly...

A digital image from my bike ride today. About 25 mile loop, starting at 80 elevation at home, to 3000' where this image is taken. It is looking back into the river valley where I started, and the...

Varies, but the basic film/developer right now, FP4+ in PyrocatHD 2:2:100, 74F (120 and 4x5 to 11x14), with Ilford PQ Universal Developer on hand.
Water stop, Alk fixer, no HCA, water, Photo-flo
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Could the element spacing be optimized for higher magnification?

Not good frames for larger sizes (from experience). No pressure in the center.

That is my definition of (my) photography.

They were are now-out-of-date in the printing world -- you might find a similar beast made in England. There are a couple threads on DIY vacuum frames (20/4/2020 and 22/11/2019) that I saw on a...

It might be worth researching the vacuum frames for that size. I have two old NuArc UV printers with built-in vacuum frames. I am considering removing the vacuum easel from the smaller unit (it is...

Its the Fuji W 360mm that has the 86mm filter size...

I am still waiting for the release of the VIII...

It looks like the front should have more movement -- the swing looks like it should also shift. No front tilt? Easy to work with, anyway.

Out for a little hike along the river between rains. Its up a bit, but not close flood stage.
Felt good to get out!

Very nice find!! I have a very similar camera...perhaps a little later? Eastman View No.2 (below)

It has been working out very well. One makes adjustments (pun) for not having front lens tilt....