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" You can always go back and photograph it again " .

A Zerostat gun . I've had mine since the 1970s. Originally for my vinyl records. Piezoelectric, shoots ions at the record and neutralizes the static charge.

Also works in the Darkroom.

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In the old days …. a little red lipstick was used on the back of the negative to dodge ...…. still works

All the above suggestions are good advice.

I always dry and warm up the reel with a hair dryer before loading the film …….... even if it is a dry hot day.

I have an ancient device known as a tape recorder.

I made a 30 minute recording of myself as a speaking stopwatch ........ I just play that in the dark.

Works very well.

I have an ancient device called a tape recorder. I made a recording of myself as a speaking stopwatch ........

I just play that. Works a treat.

Hello Iga ..... thanks for your interest.

The actual wrist-watch mechanism is about one inch across. Shot with Leica M240 and R series 60 macro lens with bellows. I do not have the equipment to...

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carbon transfer print

I have one of these in the darkroom .... https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1413175-REG/metro_datavac_117_117629_electric_duster_500w_with.html

I find it good for blowing out film holders,...

Nowadays I only enter photos in Club competitions to show the others what I have been doing lately. It is my way of exhibiting my work.

I leave my ego at home on competition nights. And the judges...

When developing film in trays in total darkness I like to keep track of the time as development progresses.

I have an ancient device known as a " tape recorder ". I made a tape of myself as a...

I hang mine with a film clip top and bottom from a thin rope stretching across the inside of my shower recess.

Beforehand, I turn on the hot water to the shower and turn the exhaust fan off. I let...

The Fred Picker method for determining your own personal film speed and film development time, as well as the " Proper Proof " ( with your equipment ...... exposure meter, camera, shutter,...

My agitation system is continuous for the first 30 seconds, then 4 inversions each minute. This is only because 4 is my lucky number ..... it could just as easily be 3. It is essentially the method...

I have been using replenished xtol for a few years now. When I went up to 4x5 and 5x7 I found that the volumes of developer I needed were so large ( tray or tank/inversion ) that I could not...

Hello Bob

I have not tried Kallitypes ( yet ), but have been researching the process. This article is saying that a Pt or Pd toned Kallitype is essentially the same thing as a Pt or Pd print...

Maybe between us we have the last two kits in existence .........

Anyway, my thoughts are that if they still work ( and I expect they will ), their preservation is probably due in part to them...

Thankyou for starting a most interesting thread. I find myself in the same boat, wondering how best to use my old Colorvir.

I have a full Colorvir kit left over from years ago before I " went...

I know this is an old thread ..... but I am thinking of using a Jobo 2840 with the film clips mentioned above to develop 5x7 film ( 4 at a time )

Using a CPE2 Jobo, or some other means of...

Yes .... I have pledged too .

It is exactly what I need. I really want this project to go ahead !

With a little water in a ziplock baggie.

My students wash them a bit more when they get home and dry them face up on dry towels, or hang them from pegs on a line.

Bob

I am delighted to read this ..... I had come to the same conclusion and thought I was the only one.

I have a good vacuum easel I'm setting up. Currently trying to work out which printer/ink...

Pinhole ..... with camera movements, sometimes extreme, interrelationship of objects can be changed. e.g. that rock in the left foreground can be made bigger and the right foreground smaller.
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I use an old golf cart ... the sort you pull behind you. They are made for pulling through the " rough "....

I swooped on one that someone was throwing out. Great thing is it has a fold up seat...

I'm 5'6" and I have one of Bruce's P3 backpacks in the right size for my height. Bruce went to a lot of trouble and was very careful when I bought it that I ordered the absolutely correct size for my...

My 4x5 cameras are a Speed Graphic with Optar 135mm lens and a Sinar Norma with lenses which I think came originally from a Linhof Technika ………. 65/8 Super Angulon, 135/5.6 Symmar and 210/5.6 Symmar....