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We are working on it. By we, I mean Ralph and Tom, and maybe QT. Certificate issues are a pain to deal with.

Rick "with too little expertise on that topic to be helpful" Denney

That is cool.

Rick “love the relaxed color” Denney

Thanks.

Rick “who really just stopped there to use their public restroom—at that stage of my prostate cancer (not yet actually discovered), I needed a loo about every 14 minutes” Denney

Looks like a good purchase—and I had some Amazon dollars to spend.

Rick “on the way” Denney

Rick “no” Denney

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Russian Orthodox Church, Eklutna, Alaska, in 2018 before it was damaged by the recent earthquake. Pentax 645z, 45-85 zoom.

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Neil, this thread is specifically in the subforum set aside for people who want to show their work from smaller cameras. That’s why it’s called “everything else”, as opposed to “large format”.
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Most of the pics you see are under a brilliant blue sky. I feel lucky to have been there on a snowy day. (I was there again a couple of years later, and it was all much more typical).

Also along...

Catching up on photos I made in Yellowstone in 2015. I was there on business and drove through Yellowstone the last day it was open that year, when it was cold, rainy, and frozen. A couple of days...

My answer to your question is also my tip: Vuescan.

Rick “who hasn’t had that scanner in operation in forever” Denney

Why? Ansel Adams used the same method with a metronome. The person you responded to said “if no timer” and not everyone expects or needs results consistent with a high level of precision (noting the...

The spot meter supports approaches like the Zone System, where you intentionally place the brightness of specific details of the scene into target tones on your print. There is a lot of craft that...

We were scheduled to spend a week with friends on that lake this year, pre-pandemic. Maybe next year.

Rick “don’t want to run out of next years” Denney

About the time the clothes come off (removing the dark slide), stopping is...very difficult.

But before that point, the desire switch is a fickle thing.

Too perfect to attempt to preserve only...

It was me who asked him for prices. That’s been a requirement of the FS forum as long as I’ve been here, as best I can remember, anyway.
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Please remember the threads in this forum are for large-format photos. I just moved a post with roll-film photos to a new thread by the same name in the “everything else” images forum.

Rick...

I started this thread for those who have roll-film images of churches they want to show, that can’t be shown in the similarLF thread.

Rick “who might have a few entries here” Denney

Ditto the Bogen/Manfrotto 3036 or 3051 legs. I used a 3047 head with a Cambo SC for years and never had an issue with it. These are cheap on the used market, and still maintainable.

The 3046 legs...

I’m more ignorant than you, having not done it even once. But I’m thinking any processes that involve photographer-applied emulsions applied right before exposure.

But we will let that sort...

Rick “Yes, of course” Denney

Moving this thread to the new Wet Plate sub-forum.

Rick "carry on" Denney

A film-based 35mm camera differs from a DSLR in two ways: It has far fewer features (yes, even an F2), and it uses film. It basically does the same thing as a DSLR, but with film. Granted, it's an...

T'ain't nothin' wrong with asking for a new forum, or trying to figure out where a thread ought to go. But that was a different discussion than the topic in question, and we were trying to keep it...

Okay, guys--we've just created a new sub-forum for wet-plate photography. I will move this thread there, and reopen it. Have at it.

I would suggest a discussion on what guidance-type threads could...

Based on feedback, we've added a new forum to support large-format wet-plate photography.

Any wet-plate-related topic is welcome, but remember this is still a large-format forum, so please keep...

Okay, folks, don’t make it personal. We are all friends here, or we can at least act like we are.

Rick “and let’s try to minimize going in circles” Denney

Vuescan had always done an okay job of inverting color negative scans for me. I use it for the Epson and for the Nikon.

I do have scanner calibration targets and have attempted to build a scanner...

If I’m just seeing what people are up to, I use “New Posts”. If I’m researching a problem or digging into a specific interest, I might go directly to a sub forum. Our structure supports both...

Once a scan can reproduce the grain of the film, down to its shape, there’s not much more to be mined. The more it can do this, the less, say, color depth matters.

An Epson cannot do that....

Crap. I meant drum scanner.

Rick “fingers not connected to brain” Denney

Okay, folks. Let's not make the lifeguard blow the whistle and require everyone to exit the pool.

Now that I've done my moderator thing, let me return to my photographer thing.

I have an Epson...

Okay, I think I agree to not restricting it to image-capture.

Here's the risk of broadening it to all alt-processes: This is a large-format photography forum, not generally a chemical process...

Okay, this thread is branching--let's see if we can focus it. A few people are saying there is interest in a forum devoted to (my reading) DIY emulsions including wet-plate collodion.

1. Are there...

I wonder if for most applications the differences between well-executed photos made using the various 8-element (f/4 or f/5.6) 65mm wides would be particularly noticeable. I have a 65mm f/5.6 Super...

When you said "sharp soft", I immediately thought of the Softar. The Softar (the real one made by Zeiss) has bumps on a flat filter glass. The image formed through the flat parts is sharp, but the...

Isn't the f/6.3 a copy of the Kodak Commercial Ektar? [digs through old posts.] Yes--Calumet teamed up with Burke and James to hire Ilex to design a replacement for the recently discontinued...

My BenQ is not super-uniform, but I have an idea of how to compensate for its variations. But the color is reasonable and it calibrates nicely, giving me enough similarity between screen and print to...

I have an Oriental vertical print washer from the old days, but it only goes to 11x14. For 16x20, I used the Ilford method. I didn't make prints that large all that often.

I even have an old Arkay...

Rick "Discernment is always useful :) " Denney

And some of those answers are even correct.

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