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Hi Christoph, I visited Heidelberg in 2001 at the tail end of a business trip-- it was August, so there were not a lot of people in town. Very charming and walk-able city.

We didn't visit every...

Very nice! I've never been to Manasquan though it's not so far from where I live.

My favorite movie of all time. I remember as a kid, watching it at home with my Mother. She would giggle at some of the jokes, which I did not understand at the time.

Like Casablanca, one that...

I would suggest that the best course for you, once the techniques are "under your fingers", is simply to make a lot of prints. You will eventually learn what to pull out of your bag of tricks in a...

Very nice!

Telescope with a tracking motor. With the right telescope mount, only one axis of rotation is needed.

Drew, I think it depends on things like what developer you use and how you "rate" the film. For me, placing shadows on Zone III and using box speed ISO results in anemic density there that is hard to...

Agreed with the above that the middle tones and highlights will pretty much take care of themselves if the exposure is set correctly for the shadow areas, if one is using modern film (e.g. Ilford,...

I was plagued by spots like this at one time. The cause was dust on the unexposed film, whether from the factory or my film holders, I cannot say. If one makes darkroom prints where the PS clone...

That's a helluva picture, Vaughn. Beautiful.

Yes. Most lenses have image circles far larger than the film area. All that extra image circle is illuminating the inside of your camera and bellows and fogging your shadows. Even if it's cloudy. You...

The idea is that you can vary the contrast by using only Y or M but the exposure to keep middle gray the same will change. So I always use the two-filter method, using the values that Ilford provides...

Alas, how true!

Well, at least we know them when we see them.

Two photographs at a pond by the Batona Trail, near the small pinelands town of Chatsworth. Drizzle and clearing weather were about equally balanced that day.

The first, while I had the camera set...

It's been a while since I've developed color negative film, but I'd guess that this is a processing issue-- uneven development or fixing, cross-contamination, something like that.

What sort of...

Very nice, Gabe. Impressive that you could hold that dynamic range with Provia. The light must have cooperated with you!

Photo-Flo in distilled water for the final rinse. It only takes a minute. You will avoid many problems this way.

Hello to you too. The Norma is a beautiful camera and should serve you well.

I've never had an especially close call with my equipment, but there are a couple of pictures of mine that give me a bit of vertigo when I recall where I stood to make them. A slip, or a loose rock,...

I don't know of anyone who uses a spectrophotometer but some landscape photographers who do color work in the woods use a .05 magenta filter to take out
the green tinge that the light picks up from...

The basic power supply is just a 250 watt, 24 volt transformer, so it should be feasible to find an equivalent on the internet if an OEM one is not available.

My negative carriers also covered a...

Save some money for film and paper for printing. Experience is the best teacher! The materials are not getting any cheaper, but they are less
expensive than your time, and you can't buy any more of...

I bookmarked it-- just in case!

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Black Run

"The art of photography is the development not of the film but of the photographer."

+1 to that.

Both are very nice. I'm guessing that the computer screen doesn't do a very good job of doing justice to that particular process (or any for that matter).

Some of the suppliers of glass bottles offer the black bakelite caps with polyethylene liners. Those are very nice. I always get a bag of them if the bottles come with caps that have the paper liners...

Let me add my thanks to the moderators, and the contributors, for making this Forum one of the best sites of any kind on the internet and without peer among those photography-related. Long may it...

That's a beauty, Colin.

Thanks, jp.

I had this problem with my darkroom which is in the finished-off back half of my garage, with a door to the back yard on one wall. The door is rarely used, but just the same leaked light like crazy...

I lived on Aramingo Avenue in Philadelphia, in the block between Memphis and Anne Streets, until I was 10 years old. It
was not very far from this place.

We used to take the bus up to K&A to go...

Thanks, Ben.

I tend to agree with Doremus here. I see changing the printing contrast as analogous to pushing the brightness curves around in Photoshop (something I did quite a bit of before I went back to wet...

From 2016: It was mid-March, and the last snow was dropping off the trees as I made this picture. I just got around to making a satisfactory print from it.
...

Good to know. Who sells it 20 pounds at a time?

BTW for very high contrast situations, I dilute stock D-23 1:3 with water (using 100 ml of stock for one sheet of 4x5) and develop it in a tray...

Of course, once you know what they are, you can research commercial used equipment sites to get an idea of their retail value.

Pictures are important-- condition is critical.

Doremus: The engineer in me appreciates the clarity of your explanation above, which I fully agree with.

If someone is getting results that suggest that something else may be going on, I suspect...

Assuming that the problem is dust spots that print black (I'm a bit confused as this point in the actual complaint), that happens when and only when dust is on the film when it is exposed. The...

Whatever your technique, the picture here is lovely.

It's all about the print.