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Thanks, that's very interesting. So you would recommend agitating 3x during the whole one hour period , rather than one inversion every 2 minutes? The lye i will leave out for the time being as i do...

Great thanks
That's very little agitation, i will try it. i have been agitating every 2 minutes for an hour.

I did a photography degree a few years ago and the darkroom professor swore by the 1+7 id11/d76 formula as giving the best possible tonal range, obviously by mixing the individual chemical elements...

Hi,
Im sure the answer to this is somewhere on this forum, but i cant find it. I have always used ilford id 11 at 1 part stock to four parts water for about 30 minutes, agitating for the first one...

Yes, i was considering using daylight. Can you use a camera Lens as an enlarging Lens?

What light source would you use for that?

I think that my 5x7 enlarger's condensors are too small for 9 1/2" negative.
I will try the cold light head that came with the enlarger, but it is very old so i can't see it working long.

Is there an easy way to make a DIY lightsource? I have read loads of complicated stuff about overheating LEDs, but What about just a lightbulb in a Black box? My old Meopta Magnifax 4 just had a...

Good idea but my camera is huge compared to the enlarger. 😁

I'm kinda thinking that maybe the hole ( as in, the top end of the lens ) is too small with regards to the size of the glass plate?

So I need a 350mm lens?

Aha

I had the bit onto which you put the negative holder machine drilled out so my glass plate would fit there instead. The biggest sqauare they could drill out was a 9 1/2 inches square, so that's the...

Hi,
I've got an old 5x7 DeVere enlarger.
I have a Rodenstock Rodagon 210 Lens, a Wollensak Raptar 7 1/2", 190 mm Lens, a Rodagon 80mm Lens and a Meopta Meogon 50mm Lens.

I do wet plate 24cm x...

I mounted an 80mm and a 50mm lenses and they don't work. I think this is because it is a 5x7 enlarger with huge condensor lenses. Maybe i need to change them for smaller ones?

The enlarger is about 8 feet tall. And it can only make little prints? I'm getting something wrong here....

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I'm in Poland. If i get my angle grinder out and start cutting the structure up i am worried i will ruin the way it smoothly glides on the posts.

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Some years ago i bought this De Vere 705s enlarger. I had the head machined out so I could fit an 18x18cm glass plate collidion negative into it and print it. Which worked fine.well, apart from...

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Thanks.
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Hello,
After various trials and errors regarding Ilford ID11 stock solution to water ratios I settled on 1:4 and 28-30 minutes at 20-23ish degrees C. My question concerns agitation times. Is it true...

So you don"t need to flow the wash?

Yeah, well, where do you go from there?

So, if the pre-photoflo rinse has to be running water, how do you get your distilled water to be 'running' for half an hour?

I can control every step by using distilled water and by filtering. Everything that is, except the rinsing inbetween the fix and the photoflo. Does anyone actually use distilled water for this rinse?...

Hi,
I've noticed in photos of darkroom setups that people often have 2 water filters. What are they for? I installed one for particle matter but it is not enough. Everything is fine until it comes...

So , filtering the developer doesn't make it work less well?
Nor fixer?

Aha, thanks.
Can I filter the developer and the fixer with cotton wool? Does this not reduce their developing and fixing properties?

Hello.
I had real issues with dirty 4x5 film negatives.
I'm talking about just checking developed film by scanning it (not making prints in the darkroom, yet.)
The first thing I did was to...

ok,
thanks for your feedback.
bearing in mind that the shots have already been taken on Fomapan and i need to continue using the same film for continuity of the project, what dilution of ID11 would...

and the scene for the test photographs i chose especially for it's contrast as i have a whole load of negs to develop where there is a massive range, maybe 6 or 7 stops difference between lights and...

aha,
and the other neg was developed for 20 mins , a dilution of 1+3 developer to distilled water.
same temperature
agitation every 2 mins

ok,
hope these are clearer now:
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The film is Fomapan 100, 4x5
f/45 , can't remember the time, probably a quarter of a second or something like that
old graflex camera...

Hi,
I had an issue with blown out highlights. I was using ID11 developer at 1: 1 ratio with water , developing for about 11 minutes. Agitating for the first 20 seconds in the first minute and then...