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I agree completely with the points Joanna makes. The NT is a charitable organisation that was setup to protect our national heritage, it must be allowed to raise money through commercial activities...

As an amateur photographer who enjoys photographing at the UK coast I'm struggling to find adequate words to describe how angry I am at this! :mad: The National Trust has a campaign to buy up...

Hi Steve,

Let me prefix my comments by saying I'm a fan of Linux - I've used it both professionally and at home for over 12 years, have professionally developed Linux kernel drivers and currently...

Welcome Emo!



Yup, thats what I've done - as you say if you don't need the specific advantages of a DSLR this is a good compromise.



I'm skeptical about this. Most of the advances in...

Lots of really nice images in this thread. We live in a flat part of the UK that doesn't get snow very often - often in winter it can be quite grey and dull. The other side of our village there's a...

Joanna,

Today Leach have announced that they are pulling out of developing, http://www.ephotozine.com/article/One-Vision-Imaging and transferring all their lab business to "One Vision Imaging".
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Here's another from my recent visit to Staithes, North Yorkshire in the UK.

http://www.perkins.org.uk/npn/cownab_sunset.jpg

Ebony 45s, 110xl, 8secs @ F22 on Velvia 50.

Staithes is an old fishing port on the North Yorkshire coast, UK. It remains reasonably unspoilt, a lovely place for a few days rest!

I made this image towards the end of a day that had seen the...

I think you just need to watch the relative whiteness of the paper to the mat board - less of a problem with traditional prints, but the whiteners in some inkjet papers I find doesn't go with the...

gothic folly - built around 1770, this has no purpose except to look impressive on the skyline from nearby Wimpole Hall, near Cambridge. It was built as a ruin - stone on the side facing the hall and...

Hi Eugene,

I'm not sure of the material I was using, as a few sheets were given to me by a local college as part of an evening course I was doing. I have since then bought a box of PermaJet...

Dear Amy, I am very sorry to hear of your great loss. Whilst I never met or spoke to Ted, I learned a lot from reading his very helpful posts - his good nature and enthusiasm shone through his...

The programs now on BBC iPlayer if you're in a different region.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00b318m.shtml

I do like some of his images, coming from Norfolk I can relate to his salt...

Hello Chris (and Ben),

Welcome, I'll sure you'll have fun. I sold my D200 and various lenses last year to switch to 4x5 (for mainly the reasons you mentioned) and haven't regretted it one bit. I...

Hi Mike,

I'll email you offline to discuss 160s, but I did struggle with a bit with Vuescan for colour negatives - I have since found Silverfast suites me better for the 160s. I'm using the V700...

Hi Mike,



A stunning image - I really like your work, especially the Temporal Coast series - very inspiring!

Jonathan

Hunstanton on the North Norfolk coast, UK, is nowadays known for its caravan parks and amusements. However near-by is Old Hunstanton with its stratified cliffs of white chalk on a red limestone and...

Just a quick update - tried the demo version of Silverfast Ai last night, it does what I want. The attached image is not a direct comparison between Silverfast (top) and Vuescan, but its good enough...

Kirk thats exactly what I'm looking for, thanks!

Jonathan

Joanna, I'm currently scanning with the build-in profiles in Vuescan for negatives, letting it assign them and convert to ProPhoto on export. I'm not too worried about getting it absolutely spot on...

I'm struggling a bit with my scans of Fuji Pro160s and wondered if anyone could offer some advice!

I've been happily scanning Provia and Velvia using a V700 and Vuescan on a MacBook. I've...

Steve,

If the printer is only 8 months old you should get HP to replace it. I bought my first one about 18 months old now, and its been replaced by HP 3 times since then. HP were good at replacing...

Actually you're not too far off the truth there :) - this is my little car, but of course I'd argue that all the other cars aren't real...:D

Well we are currently paying the equivalent of around $8.30/US Gallon here in the UK. There's a lot of folks here who would dream of $4/Gallon!

I pass a stretch of the river Cam on the way to work each morning, and a couple of weeks ago we had some thick freezing fog. I found these trees by the river bank:
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Rob,

Don't forget to look at the V700, which is more than £100 less for essentially the same scanner less the full version of Silverfast and the wet mounting tray if I remember correctly. We have...

David, it doesn't come in a stuff sack, but fits easily in the outer pocket of my NatureTrekker with room to spare. I'll try and weigh it for you later.



Ted, yup its not exactly cheap over...

I can second Baxter's recommendation for the Paramo dark cloth. I've only had mine for a couple of weeks but its already proven its capabilities. I had struggled with using coats and tried the very...

I've solved the problem - taping the transparency to a sheet of plain paper means the printer can now "see" there is material to print on. I guess it needs to be opaque for the optical sensors in the...

Wow this is an old thread, but I'd like to recommend the work of Harry Cory Wright, based in North Norfolk. http://www.saltwater.co.uk/

He uses a Gandolfi 10x8 with colour negative film (and no...

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help? I'm just trying to print a digital negative to try some cyanotype prints, and I've hit a basic problem with my HP B9180.

I'm using Mac OS X (10.4) and printing...

It doesn't seem to stack up against testing by David Ward:

http://oceansofinstants.blogspot.com/2007/06/king-is-dead-long-live-king.html

David's side by side comparison of old vs new showed...

The print head maintenance happens 24hrs after the last use on mine. If I need to print something late at night I just make sure I open and close the speciality media tray in the morning to stop it...

Daniel,

I've also got the 2521 tank and 2509 reel. I'm hand rolling the tank instead of inversion - I have a strip of wood about 1/2" thick, 2" deep and about 2-3ft long on the table top. The tank...

There's quite a good write up here: ;)

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/bellows-factor.html

And the "QuickDisc" is here:

http://www.salzgeber.at/disc/index.html

Jonathan

Just to add a bit of optimism here, my son Tom (aged 16) is just starting his A-level courses at a sixth form college (ages 16-18) in Cambridge U.K. and they have a very well equipped darkroom,...

Marc,

We have a RSW45 and use a Nikkor-W 210mm with the 35mm extension top hat. It focuses to about 3m. I tried holding the lens board a further 35mm forwards and reckon it will focus about...