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All very good points, I guess "good" is pretty subjective. I'll take it out and shoot some photos to see what it looks like, thanks guys!

During christmas everyone wanted their picture taken with my "old camera". I finally got my scanner so I can now actually get high quality scans of my LF photos.

Crown Graphic with a Kodak Ektar...

I got a large lot of gear recently, and while it started bad it ended up working out really well, anyway one of the lenses I got is this Nikkor-W 135mm F5.6. It had an extensive amount of fungus but...

I got one of these in a lot of other gear I acquired, I didn't expect too much but to my surprise it works. However it consistently reads a stop lower than my Sekonic L-778, which has served me very...

Hah, it certainly can get pretty expensive, I've been using FPP frankenstein rather than my preferred ilford films since it's about half the price. I do like it though, that picture I posted was...

Lol, he's my brother and I didn't ask him to use his picture so I didn't want to post his face. I didn't think the dog would mind.

Oh I have been! That was mostly a joke, really I'm hoping for a bright sunny day to shoot some plates with more light, I haven't had much luck with the long exposures with my home coated plates.

I...

Well I managed to get 2 pictures out and develop them, there's actually something on them, but it's heavily fogged and covered in artifacts, not sure what would cause anything like that. I used HC110...

Thanks for the info guys. I found the instruction sheet and will try and develop a couple sheets to see what's left. I bought a stearman press tank to economize on developing with small batches of...

I modify these holders to be used with glass/metal plates. They're bulkier than a modified film holder but since they dont really have a use anymore they're often very cheap.

Sometimes they even ...

I have and have read those 3 books a few times, though I should probably brush up again. Sadly I'll be missing the darkroom printing part, at least for now, but I'm going to scan them and probably...

Hello everyone!