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I've got something like 10 - 20 rolls of Efke IR820 in 120 in my freezer. This sorely tempts me to start using it.

I would never ride a motorcycle that I had touched with a wrench.

A man has to know his limitations. Mechanical things are one of mine. I ride, but I don't wrench.

Agree, great idea, love the look!

60w light? How long as the exposure and at what aperture?

EDIT: Never mind, I saw the name of the light above. It's actually 60 watts of LED which would be as bright as something incandescent with...

Absolutely stunning!

Wow! Awesome!

Getting those high values to separate like that is not easy. Well done.

Maybe, but the marginal cost per shot is still so low compared to film, even 35mm, that it's in another universe and pretty much irrelevant.

Memory cards also have a finite, though very large,...

Lawrenceville. We're practically neighbors!

And they are all doing it digitally now and spraying a lot more because they see the results and choices immediately and can spray constantly for essentially zero marginal cost.

Come back to film...

Marginal cost per shot is much higher in 35mm (though lower than in larger formats) and then there's the lack of instant feedback. Both tend to encourage one to take more time to get it right and...

Film isn't too expensive for most people, or wouldn't be if they didn't (probably) want an absurd number of images combined with instant gratification. The former is expensive and the latter...

It's good to be single. I buy what I want when I want and as I want. Harrumph.

Then again, I do have some self control. I have a house and no squalor, and not nearly all the toys I'd like.

Actually Freestyle has the powder too. Comes in a can - at least what I've bought always did and that's what they show:
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Note that the powder and the liquid are different concentrations. The liquid is twice as strong as the stock you mix up from powder. It works the same if dilution is adjusted accordingly - follow the...

Well for one thing, I always pre-soak my films in my Jobo, and Foma is the only film that yields green pre-soak water when drained. Arista.EDU Ultra looks exactly the same.

I can't recall the...

Its long life (as I said, I don't normally stretch it THAT long...) was one thing that really appealed to me since I print infrequently and often not that many prints. But I've come to prefer it for...

I'd forgotten about this camera having been out of photography for a while. Now I'm interested in both - the 4x5 and the 8x10. I really need to replace my aging and barely-functional Technicka III...

If you want a long lasting paper developer, try Ethol LPD. I once went back into the darkroom after a long hiatus, found a bottle of working strength (LPD lasts so long it's just a waste to discard...

I love this one. I can almost imagine some water spirit nymph rising out of the water.

I might have agreed with that as a general statement absent an example to discuss, but I really like that second one. Soft focus for some landscapes lends a "dreamscape" kind of quality that I find...

Everyone else has covered my reasons and some more.

Bottom line, 1) do you LIKE shooting film? Or 2) do you have a business or artistic reason why film is better suited for some work you do?

If...

Finished thread and agree - if they are back to shipping the stuff they always did then all is back as it was. I will buy film and paper from them if they have something I can't get elsewhere or I...

But they have a vast selection, they ship anything, and they've always been prompt, courteous, and honest with me and never tried to blow smoke up my ass or pee on my shoes and claim it's just...

"We don't ship ground" - well that adds some explanation that sounds more plausible.

They've been doing this for years, blaming shipping regulations for all the other stuff they wouldn't ship but everyone else would. I would be much less bothered if they just said it was too much...

Yeah at over eight bucks a sheet for HP5, seven for their film and I was afraid to look at color.

No thanks.

Yes that's great and the prices aren't even bad considering today's prices in general and the market though I suspect shipping one would add enormously to those prices.

Won't be a problem in the bath of your own hotel room. ;)

Multigrade versus graded isn't really important. What makes the difference here is the paper surface. Glossy, both RC and FB, are very obvious under a safelight and the RC is obvious in complete...

At least one person has tried freezing Fuji instant and reported no problems at all as long as it was stored horizontally when frozen. The article is on the net somewhere. It was linked in one of the...

"I've never had a problem with pinholes on Foma. It is, however, easy to scratch when it's wet of you don't handle it carefully."


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Not really. The emulsion is very soft when it's wet but doesn't produce pinholes that I've ever seen. Just handle with due care until it dries. Once dry it's just like any other film. I do use the...

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Awesome!

Well I have two - three if you count the little Bogen X-35 35mm model back at my parent's house in Tennessee, but I only have one set up in the darkroom. The other D2 is more for spare parts as it...

Ugh, I hate the "edit time out" thing. I posted the above from my phone, didn't notice the autoincorrect changing "of" to "if" (it does that nearly ALL the time. I don't know why Apple seems to...

Got my copy a few days ago and finally had time to give it a first look. Great stuff from Mark. We knew that if course but it's good to see him get done recognition.

And I like this darn magazine...

Thanks. Even the most deluxe pig warmer I found would work great - 18"x18" square would work great for up to a 16x20 tray I think, and has a thermostat to maintain anything between 40 and 105F in 2F...

Wow, $350 USD at current exchange rates for what amounts to a hotplate with a thermostat. "They sure are proud of 'em" as we say here in the south. Still cheaper (and no doubt cheaper to ship across...

Thanks.

Anyone know if those are available in the US?

You can do RA4 at much lower temperatures too with increased time, but these would enable consistency. (And you'd actually only need one...

Are those a certain brand of heater that have thermostats?