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Got my "Gandolfi - Family Business" DVD today from Silverprint. It really is an essential purchase for Gandolfi completists. The brochure alone contains photos and info I have not found anywhere...

Here is my Wisner Expedition 8x10 in the studio yesterday, I was making Impossible 8x10 instant prints.
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I used Fotospeed Fotodyes:

https://www.fotospeed.com/DY15-Fotodye-Kit/products/1295/

I found them quite hard to use, there may be easier methods ... or maybe hand tinting is always tricky!

I've just been looking at Winger's website, marvellous! The hand tinted ones reminded me I did this hand tinted one. It's a Fujifilm FP-3000B print, scanned and printed larger and paler, and hand...

Here is my Wisner 8x10. Not the most historic camera (made in maybe 1970s/80s?) but very practical for everyday use. I've been shooting Impossible 8x10 instant film with it, plus trad film. The...

Ah, thank you, good to know.

Sure dpn, here's some of my other stuff:

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I like it!

That yellow duotone film is good isn't it? I suspect it might achieve better tonality when scanned and turned into black and white than the black and white film does!

Here's one I...

There is currently a 4x5 Gandolfi for sale on eBay in England (November 15, 2016):
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Great to see expired Polaroid film still working. A few posts back there were some comments about the white tabs breaking on Fuji instant film. It's true, the first few are definitely too tight. I...

Hey asx810, my processor did that for a while, and then starting working properly again. No idea why. But don't give up on yours.

Hope everyone is enjoying using New55. Here is a slight update to my New55 instructions. The update reflects the fact that the New55 team has now produced some great instructional material. They...

Love those Fujiroid emulsion lifts, fantastic!

Although I mainly shoot LF, sometimes I just feel lazy and want the easiest film option. That's when I bring out my Pentax 645nII medium format camera. Autofocus! Okay, maybe that's cheating, but...

Your Mamiya RZ67 is producing impressively sharp results!

I have a Polaroid 600SE which I believe was actually made by Mamiya, but I don't think it's quite that sharp.

By the way (okay, this is probably lowering the seriousness of the thread a bit!!!) I like using Instax mini as a party camera. It's just a silly bit of fun, but the ladies love it...
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In terms of new type Roids, I wonder if New55 counts. It's designed to replace Polaroid Type 55, so its definitely in the Roid family, but it's more semi-instant than instant. You have to peel it and...

Here is a New55 print and a New55 negative scan. I find New55 quite tricky to use but I like it.

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A video showing how to use New55 is now available:

http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/6vn9xpx95l

You might just be able to make out my Gandolfi 4x5" in this photo.
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Thanks Gandolfi for posting the amazing picture of 10 Gandolfis. I have a 4x5 Precision (black, which they called ebonized and charged extra for, although actually I prefer the usual wood ones) and a...

The guys at New55 have now endorsed these instructions. They have suggested a couple of tiny changes, which I have made. So here is a slightly updated version:

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Two other videos here that I had not seen before, news items on Gandolfi:

https://youtu.be/lyEpbzPojmc

https://youtu.be/LyBEnSWghGE

Plus for the sake of completeness here is the other one...

Thanks for your useful comments. I have just worked out I can compress the New55 pdf and make it small enough to attach here.

The photos are a bit fuzzy in this compressed version but the...

Actually I have just worked out I can compress the New55 pdf to make it small enough to attach, so here it is.

The photos are a bit fuzzy in this compressed version, but the instructions are still...

New55 instant film

By the way, I have written a pdf of instructions on how to use New55 instant film, so if anyone wants that, pm me and I'll email it to you.

(Because I photographed the whole...

That's interesting. I still haven't managed to find that film anywhere, how did you get it?

I have written a pdf on how to use New55 instant film. It has plenty of step-by-step photos to make the process of exposing and developing New55 as clear as possible. I hope it might useful to anyone...

Yes, I'm thinking of returning in better weather to use the Gandolfi. Except it won't be in the shot then of course!

Here's an old picture of the Borland Road workshop for comparison. Any other pics would be greatly appreciated.
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Here is 84 Hall Road (now 84 Cheltenham Road - it was renamed because there were too many Hall Roads in London). This was the Gandolfi workshop for quite a brief time before they moved to the main 2...

I went and photographed the Gandolfi workshop today despite bad weather. This is 2 Borland Road, the workshop where Fred and Arthur Gandolfi made the cameras for decades. My 4x5" Gandolfi seen in the...

Great to hear you got a Gandolfi. I plan to go to the workshop and photograph it soon ... bad weather and other commitments keep getting in the way, you know how it is ...

Thanks for the info, I'll look the video up. The photo has the odd top and bottom bits because it is an experimental 4x5" instant film called New55 where you have to peel the neg from positive.

Wonderful to hear from you!

Have you seen the film "Gandolfi Family Business"? I know it exists, but I haven't figured out how to see it yet.

I think computing was probably a better career...

Thanks for that clarification, much appreciated.

Ah, thanks. Interesting that the son Louis Gandolfi (grandson of founder Louis Gandolfi) is mentioned as being involved in making cameras in Andover, I haven't heard of that before.

As an aside,...

Here is a picture of the houses on Shelbury Road according to Google street view. Exactly the sort of houses I would have expected really. I might do a "drive-by pilgrimage" some time.

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That's excellent info! Do you know the date of the magazine?

Thanks for the dates, very useful.