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Over the summer, a lot of visitors came around to our studio. Many were from overseas, outside of the UK and had come and settled here.
I decided to invite the visitors, to return to...
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Over the summer, a lot of visitors came around to our studio. Many were from overseas, outside of the UK and had come and settled here.
I decided to invite the visitors, to return to...
Street photography images with large format struck me as a wonderful way to tell a story.
If it wasn't such a slow and wobby travel tripod challenge with the corresponding slow shutters to...
Ilford withdrew active updates for their darkroom locator.
I tutor at a niche specialist darkroom in London, England - if this is still considered Europe although we are a bit busy at the...
I guess he is referring to the exacting requirement for plane parallelism of the front & rear standards to operate an ultrawide angle lens: any minor tilt, not visible on a field camera, will amplify...
Hi Vaughan,
lovely to hear another whole plate format photographer finding a solution for daylight processing.
Have you been able to ascertain how consistent the development of the...
Hi Ian
From your uploaded image, the density shifts from development look familiar (i.e. not exclusive to 510-Pyro).
I use Pyrogallol development and the competitive equilibrium [set up by...
The 30th June 2022 (GMT +0h) Early Bird Offer for 8% off for pre-order is available for anyone signing up to the Ilford newsletter - there's no stipulated restriction on overseas ordering for a...
Are you using Mido Type I or Type II?
Both have a failure rate depending on your experience with them. I've found Type I Mido holders unbearable.
The Type II fare better - light leaks...
Glorious iconic cold cathode blue light ~ my favourite enlarger head!
Other printers are usually befuddled at the anachronistic love for such a beautiful light and technique. The cathode...
Are you referring to the half-plate dimension Imperial like Nick's, or the whole plate version?
I had a whole plate version (no more) - the Sanderson worked better for stability than the fragile...
Perhaps his later digital work moves further towards his own personal synthesis of form and texture through surreal elements. Whereas his move from Pentax touting hero to digital imaging risks a...
Hi Oren,
Canham did indeed offer a whole plate custom ordered camera is a modular camera made of American black walnut with aluminium fittings designed with triple extension covering 47mm to...
It's been a tough year with creativity at risk too of going into lockdown.
Breaking out of the groundhog routine of scaling back creativity, I've found slowing to attend to the photographic...
Hi,
I've been approached to run a pop-up darkroom as a part of an arts festival. I've only ever had experience of brick and mortar darkrooms with positive pressure ventilation/air conditioning.
...
They were very popular lenses here in England at the turn of the century Josh. The factory, based in Clapham, London, had a few generations of these lenses and a significant pre-war and inter-war...
Hi Josh,
The effort for the used condition and chipping of the front element is quite special. Mine is rather ordinary - a 6 3/4inch f4.5 version which I use covers 5x4" format without...
Thanks Corran - it is a kind of "here's one I did earlier" - shot a decade ago - at night. Returning to using the lens recently, I'm amazed at how much I have been struggling with remembering how...
Hi Matt,
Fomapan is a very soft emulsion - structurally and tonally - and fairly grainy for an ISO100 film. Perhaps you can try loading a sheet at a time until you develop a layering technique...
Steven - Corran's right. Even at f22+, it is difficult achieving full 5x4inch film area with the SA XL 47mm f5.6 lens on a field or technical camera. It is possible on a dedicated plane parallel...
No light leaks, no bellow holes, no flare, no development issues, reasonably perpendicular perspective with or without front shift - yes it does looks like a suburban English back garden alright.
...
Hi Jason,
I presume you're contact printing? If you are, any lens that doesn't hang dangerously off the board works :)
Years ago I had a list compiled for the whole plate format,...
Presoaking advantages in manual tray development technique - Kodak literature:
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http://imaging.kodakalaris.com/sites...9_Feb_2018.pdf
Ilford limitations of presoaking when using fast...
Being British, the tendency to pre-soak has become standard, more as a quality control aspect of development technique for me.
I'm not sure I follow the same rationale (as above pre-soaking...
Hi Matthew,
What size of viewable image are you measuring on your ground glass?
If you measure the area of your ground glass, you can work out if you have a larger 10 x 8 inch or a 7 x 5 inch...
Hi Gabriel,
Sorry to see this frustrating development issue.
At first glance, Images 1 & 2 appear to have film handling issues - most likely from hand loading out of the film box to make...
Hi Pere,
You've mis-read and misunderstood Ilford's literature.
Read carefully:
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It's okay - you wouldn't be the first student of photography to do so.
Hi Matt,
are you shooting a smaller imaging area than 5 x 4 inch on your Sinar?
Perhaps I'm wondering why you would need to draw pencil lines to compose. Perhaps you are referring to...
Hi Alex,
Sorry I've been busy helping my local minority party stage Custard's last stand in our local election.
Q1: My preferred darkslides are made of carbon fibre. Or wood. If you think...
Hi Steve,
10 years ago I would have agreed with you, although never with as much vehemence. Your experience is provincial; mine is even more provincial against a backdrop of 100 years+ of plate...
Hi Kumar,
That's a fascinating proposal. I love the upcycling principle, bringing life back and extending the use for the late 19th century/earl 20th century plate cameras.
I hope it...
Hi Matt -
that's all the camera you need.
Perhaps a Sinar autoshutter to mount any barrel lens too :)
RJ
I use a Devere 504 although I'm sorry I don't understand any of the technicality of your particular model (my limitation, not yours).
I print half-plate negatives (rarely) and wholeplate (mostly)...
As far as I could ascertain (15 years ago), the 908 Safelight filter was no longer extant. The 15 watt light source is too weak and fails to penetrate the filter, compared to Greg's standardised...
Hi Andrew -
This is AlmostPilot's thread - I'm sure he might appreciate the heads up!
RJ
Book form plate holders come in different non-standardised thickness Steven.
The difference in tolerances and the design of the book form holder, risks having the film dislodge and whipped out...
- This is where jam gets sandwiched. It enables the adherence of the film sheet to a cut glass surface. You can use anything; preferably without seeds or chunks of marmalade orange rind.
The...
Here's my second darkroom. The first one has tight GDPR settings and isn't for sharing. This one is for public space.
It's a mess isn't it?
This is the blueprint - a 4.5 x 3.5 metre room. ...
I wonder when you unscrew the pinion racking pin,the lens can be disassembled, front from rear elements, are you able to estimate the focal length of the front and rear parts of the lens. It does...
Hi Matt,
Another welcome from London - there's a few of us here. Also a few of us who never let go of the trusted Sinar monorail too.
Large format work for fast moving communion ceremonies...
Well it's 3am again and 10 years later.
Kodak HIE now well and truly dead for longer presenting with fog problems which I've resorted to altering development to resolve. Glycin and other...