If I were doing something where I charged $1,000/hr. I would almost certainly be shooting digital. The Shanghai film is for people who are just out having fun and want to cut costs. If something...
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If I were doing something where I charged $1,000/hr. I would almost certainly be shooting digital. The Shanghai film is for people who are just out having fun and want to cut costs. If something...
Can it be called a "catastrophic failure" if his images were perfect?
Kent in SD
Ammonium thiosulfate is easy to get in the U.S. I'm now using it 3:1 for all my b&w film, dry plate, wet plate fixer. Have a gallon jug sitting in my basement.
Kent in SD
I started 2 & half years ago with the B&S kit and it worked well for me. Also bought the John Coffer Doer's Guide which is very good. I've been buying a lot of things from UVPhoto for the past year...
I've switched from TF4 even though it works fine. I use ammonium thiosulfate (Ilford Rapid Fixer) now because it works for film, dry plate, wet plate.
Kent in SD
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Looks good.
Kent in SD
I don't see 8x10 b&w film being unavailable in my life time. But, it is expensive. I rarely shoot film in mine, mostly shoot wet plate. I shoot a lot more film in my 4x5 Chamonix.
Kent in SD.
Lens looks like a RR to me, and would not have had a geared focus. Am I missing something?
Kent in SD
Mariposa Grove is one of my very favorite places. Sorry to hear this.
Kent in SD
I have a Kodak 2d 8x10. I'm using a Reis J250 head and love it. Extremely solid and easy to level up. It's designed to have adjustable friction that makes it simple to adjust even with my heavy...
Velostigmats are very nice Tessars. I have a 7.25 inch and a 12 inch.
Kent in SD
I use a torpedo level in two axis for large format.
Kent in SD
I shoot FP4 in just about all formats. It's easy to work with. I process with HC110. I photo outdoors almost entirely.
Kent in SD
Hetland, South Dakota
Lots of abandoned buildings in the small towns on the Northern Plains. It's been fairly warm this winter, usually above 20 F in the daytime. I don't have much trouble...
Try cleaning them with lighter fluid and tissue, then dry. I've put a thin coating of anti seize white grease on all my threads.
Kent in SD
I think a major driver of cost is image circle.
Kent in SD
I've been happy with the Fuji 210A inside-writing on my 8x10.
Kent in SD
Yes it will. I have the previous model v700 and have often scanned 8x10.
Kent in SD
Just get a Stearman Press SP-810. You can easily load it in a tent, then everything else can be done on your kitchen counter or where ever. These are fool proof and you can do 4x5 and 8x10 in them...
The fog here mostly develops when temps are in the 20s F. The result is the land turns white wirh hoar frost.
Kent in SD
Chamonix 045n, c.1922 Heliar 150mm, FP4.
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It looks like a metal Bender.:D
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Blue Moon has done mine in the past. Now I just do my own.
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Why would they care if small groups were out backpacking?
Kent in SD
Are you looking at the f scale on a very old lens that doesn't show f11? If so, remember that is the old "U.S." scale, not the modern f scale. F16 is f16, but what says f8 is really f11 and so on....
That is the part in question.
Kent in SD
I drove 300 miles west to the Badlands NP today, four hour drive one way. Pulled out my Kodak 2D 8x10 and intended to take some tin types. Set up the camera at one spot, didn't find a composition. ...
On a wet plate you generally have about 10 minutes to develop it. Much longer than that and it will dry out and the image is destroyed. It will simply dry up and the collodion curls off. Dry...
I own about a dozen, all from the 19th Century. About the only advantage I can think of is they are cheaper. I use them to shoot wet plate so lack of a shutter is not a big deal.
Kent in SD
Normal here except there won't be the big Christmas concert at the Cathedral. I'm bummed about that--I go every year. Oh well.
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This is spectacular!
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I have a Wollensak 300mm f4.5 Velostigmat (uncoated) in Betax. Love that lens.
Kent in SD
There have been no restrictions in my region, but my routine has been hampered. Usually my wife & I take three or four long distance trips per year (often overseas), but not this year. We've only...
Virtually impossible to ID the lenses. There were a lot of makers. The camera looks English.
Kent in SD
Try lengthening development time by another 5 or 10 seconds and see what happens.
Kent in SD
That usually means either you didn't develop long enough or didn't rinse well enough after developing. I rinse mine until the water runs clear.
Kent in SD
I just got four 9x12cm plate holders for a 1920s camera I'm having restored (it's beautiful!) The holders felt heavy so I took them into my darkroom and turned on the red light. Sure enough there...
Did you try a strap wrench on it?
Kent in SD
I've come to prefer the hard rubber trays with ridges on the bottom.
Kent in SD