I highly recommend just buying the 4X5 version instead, then making sure the fine print on the box states it's on Rubbermaid film base rather than Estar. Then all you need is a film stretcher, and...
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I highly recommend just buying the 4X5 version instead, then making sure the fine print on the box states it's on Rubbermaid film base rather than Estar. Then all you need is a film stretcher, and...
I just avoid the urban tourist areas, or peri-urban ones, these days. Too dangerous, even for Rangers. I had one friend mugged at gunpoint last week next to a popular urban park, and another friend...
If it's polyethylene sheeting, Lexel won't hold. Nothing will. That's why all those glues and caulking compounds are sold in polyethylene tubes to begin with - it's inert to them! The two ways you...
I trim the mounting tissue slightly smaller than the overall initial print size (including the white borders), then bond the drymount tissue to the back of that - an operation where a silicone...
Just try it. It might be fine. But I wouldn't hold your breath for any price break on new film. I've used plenty of 20yr old film, but kept it frozen before use.
Depends on the rigidity of the camera and its support, especially with respect to the front standard. The more weight there is, and the further forward, the more torque there is on the front...
I'm not quite sure what is meant by an "Elitist" or being an "Elite", except that it seems to be one kind of snobbery insulting another kind. Perhaps an Elitist is someone with the ambition to go...
Talas sells it for only $3.50 per individual 24" X 36" sheet (considerably less in volume). Plus shipping of course. They're in Brooklyn. That is easy.
I don't recommend anything tightly enclosed like Pelican cases, unless they themselves are in a low humidity storage environment.
I still prefer the "official" Seal silicone release paper. Might as well; I still have a big roll of it. I do use lesser kinds of release papers for laying down Formica, etc.
The bookbinding...
I just use alkaline fixer (TF4 or TF5).
Anything digital is easy to fix once for all with a heavy pipe wrench. All of it ends up flattened as e-waste sooner or later anyway - mostly sooner.
If it's just a small amount of tape residue, you can use PEC film cleaner. If a lot, soak the piece in a citrus solvent like De-Solv-It for twenty minutes of so first, then wipe that off, and if...
Fresnels might help with wide angle lenses in dim light. But they can be counterproductive with longer lenses like a 240 for 4x5. I don't like them at all.
I often use the 150 Apo Rodagon N for medium format enlargements. Of course, it will handle 4x5 too, but with a bit of illumination falloff toward the corners unless you have an exceptionally...
I never use a polarizing filter at all, except at the copy stand for cross-polarization purposes when shiny prints are involved. I like the shimmer and reflections in nature as they are. But as...
xkaes - the gold toner itself distinctly deepens the blacks, or enhances the DMax. There is no need to selenium too, unless you want its sepia effect. Sometimes I do use them in combination; but the...
I like the cooling gold toner gives. I can offset or split tone that in relation to selenium toner or sulfide brown toner. I rarely use selenium anymore.
The 63 El Nikkor certainly has a better reputation than the 50mm version. But I like a longer working distance and zero falloff toward the corners, so I actually use a 105 Apo Rodagon N for 35mm...
My own gold toning protocol is quite economical. Most published formulas waste gold like crazy. But I certainly wouldn't use any of it on any kind of RC paper.
I've gotten wonderful results with...
$11,000 was a conservative 90's price, Ice-Racer. I understated it. You'd pay way more today if one ever turned up. Nobody paying that kind of price is mistaken about its application. If they want to...
Conventional EVA foam padding adds a lot of redundant extra weight to a pack. It might be OK for little shoulder bags, but it is not only linty, but doesn't offer anything which can't be improvised...
There was a private museum somewhere around Denver holding the life work of some late frontier photographer who used a camera 4 ft wide. They had stacks of his nitrate negatives, but were ordered to...
I prefer HP5 over Tri-X any day of the week, especially if developed in PMK pyro. I've gotten soooo many wonderful prints from that combination. No, it's not as versatile in terms of scene contrast...
domaz - at least if you did pull out a P67 600mm lens, any rhino would be afraid to charge. It's as big as a cannon. My longest lens is the wonderful 300mm EDIF, and it's too much to realistically...
One problem with the earlier Fuji interchangeable lens RF's is that it's now difficult to find most of the lenses, and when you do, they're expensive. Furthermore, the system is quite heavy compared...
I got my last new camera shipped FedEx Express from Tokyo, and had it on my doorstep in less than 24 hrs! - with no extra fee. The shipping itself was only $35. But I am only 10 minutes away from a...
Don't you have it backwards, Revdoc? If you both drastically overexpose and overdevelop, you end up with an almost unprintably dense negative except perhaps on the very lowest paper grades. In any...
Celluloid can ignite. Nitrocellulose was a popular early plastic used even in toys. The "nitro" prefix tells it all. Massive collections of historical valuable negatives have been deliberately...
There is very little which can be ascribed to a signature look between brands, unless you deliberately employ some funky old camera lens on the enlarger instead for creative reasons, or put a nylon...
I replaced all my Componon S lenses with much better ones. At least they were superior to older chrome Componons. But they haven't been top tier for several decades, and never were if you factor in...
Ahh ... the wonders O'Sullivan worked with the graphic shape of the Colorado River canyon against a blank white sky due to blue-only sensitive film! Everyone admires the bold graphic blacks utilized...
Yes, D23 in general relies on a lot of solvent effect. There might be a way to tweak it with sodium chloride to improve acutance; but I've never tried that.
If you need some telephoto reach for wildlife, a basic Pentax 6x7 SLR system is something already having high repute in Africa photography. I often travel with one of those for tripod or otherwise...
Foma 400 also looked a bit annoyingly clumpy grained for me too using PMK. If you want a wonderful smooth grained yet high acutance edge effect in a fast film, use PMK in conjunction with HP5...
Has nothing to do with that.
Pieter - How many dead artists have you actually asked, whether their prints are selling or not?
Modern thin emulsion films don't reticulate well, at least without the emulsion lifting clear off. You need another extinct film, Super XX, to do that well. But the look is quite different from...
I often use a medium deep green filter in the Southwest. Otherwise all that reddish Navajo sandstone and its clay soil comes out unnaturally pale and pasty looking. Or to some extent, you could...
Different cameras evidently have different Ai software. I gave the instruction "fall" to my wooden view camera, and it fell to the ground and broke.