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The first important thing is your maximum extension of your camera... A 300mm lens requires 300mm (about 12") between iris in lens to film plane to focus to infinity, while close focus (1:1) is...

Flash powder is more exciting!!! ;)

Steve K

This is a how thread (or maybe what to avoid)... Note other thread running "Giving voice" is why (concept)...

All this and more in your photographs, all together!!!

Steve K

Is it presenting what we know about an object, something different on this look, is the object a metaphor for something else, or maybe the object is meaningless in context etc...

Let's compare it...

Let's define camera and process separately...

Camera needs all steps in perfect working order to even expose a sheet without error... Then, exposure decisions how to expose subject to normal,...

Depends what you are shooting and from how far away...

I shoot a lot of tabletop with a lower wattage CFL or LED bulb in darkened areas, and easy to get more light by exposing longer... Low heat...

I don't like squeegee as excess water moves toward edge of squeegee and leaves a line at ends...

I prefer final dip of print into very dilute foto-flo solution and using a very slightly damp photo...

Yea, as an architectural/interior photographer, the trick was to use available lighting well (as the interior lighting layout was part of the design of room) and fill in the "holes" of shadow lurking...

I had heard that, even if just one thread...

Steve K

I have always told students "You have to know the rules before you can break them"... You can't bank your career on "happy accidents", so you can direct the process to give it what it needs when you...

Double sided X-ray film is made to build contrast with it's two layers, but still can produce normal contrast depending on developer/development...

Steve K

I have seen surplus lenses with that mount, and I think some old cinema projection lenses had them...

A Pentac is fast enough for projection...

Steve K

Good example of what I tell folks about tabletop propping... One can pick up an object and another in the other hand, and ask what kind of "conversation" can occur between objects... Two heads are...

I'm here 'cuz I remember starting out too long ago, and not knowing where to go and where it could take me... I found some mentors that really helped get the ball rolling for me... Often, there is...

How about Kim Kardashian squeezing into that historic Marilyn's dress and ruining it!?!!! :(

Steve K

Welcome, and have fun on your journey!!!

Steve K

There's a phenidone and metol version... Phenidone uses 1/10 gm, but metol uses 1 gram per liter... Phenidone is considered a safer developing agent and stock stores well... The downside is it is...

Could be worse... Read an article on PetaPixel yesterday about vids on TicTok on scratching lenses with rocks for effects... Some started with a clear filter, but some gal had to scratch front...

Look up POTA developer formula... This was used with Tech Pan (a line film) to develop to continuous tone, a very weak developer... Off the top of my head, the metol version was something like 1gram...

What a splendid magical place!!!

Great you are shooting large(r) format again!!!

Keep it up... :)

Steve K

A couple of 9V batteries might fit in the battery compartment wired series for 18V, or just for solenoid, the single 9V should power it...

On flashholders, 3 1.5 V cells would power solenoid +...

For a convenient pinhole for this large format, you get to use a larger pinhole... Suggesting to take an old, cheap D mount movie lens and remove the glass elements... Then mount barrel on lensboard...

To conjure Drew, I'll add that factors can change due to prevailing conditions and subjects... Like using that deep red on a "blue light" day, in open shade etc... That red filter will cut anything...

Correct!!! My bad... Didn't count one of my fingers...

Steve K

Those lead lined bags are a big reason for them to open your non carry-on luggage...

Carry on, and let them scan the film... Easiest path of least resistance for them... I have seen more film...

Vintage units often have issues, like mirrors de-silvering, loose mirrors etc... Or the scale is slightly off... Check out modern units for better luck...

With a little practice, you can learn to...

Reading dark filters through different meter cells is asking for trouble... Different cells have a different response than film or transmission at their extremes, and from experience readings and...

Well, the pivoting mic clip is under 10 bucks, and the (useful) boom stand can be $20-$25 new, with fairly precise swivel/rotation positioning, so a good buy... But some stands are better/worse, so...

No stitching, if you bond the seams with wet suit cement, they are very strong... If you apply a thin layer to both surfaces to be bonded, wait a minute or two, then press them together, they are as...

A convenient way to hold the flashlights are using the "clam shell" type of clips used to hold microphones to stands (the clam shell type has spring jaws that will hold a variety of mic sizes and...

Tax dodge/scheme???

Steve K

Bigger is better??? :0

Steve K

With ammonium thiosulfate fixers, if the stock solution is too strong they tend to precipitate sulfur... Once diluted, they are safer from it...

If you look at off the shelf rapid fixer dilution...

Studio veteran here... Getting me into the pro studio again would be like holding a kat over a bathtub... ;(

Now, most clients are professional and great, but too many stories of (pro pun)...

Despite benefits, a freestanding enlarger is heavier/difficult to transport/move in a space when needed to...

A bench enlargers printing area is always at the same (ergonomic) height to work, but...

I have been informed that CF is quite toxic in the manufacturing stage with it's ultra fine toxic dust that some poor soul will be exposed to making that lensboard etc... Not enough benefit for added...

Old flash commandment;

Aperture controls the flash exposure, shutter controls the ambient light exposure...

Steve K

Keeping camera + operator dry is a solvable step, but there is a bigger issue for sheet film shooting... When the film is exposed to the damp environment, it absorbs the moisture unevenly and can...

The first Cibachrome process was the nicest, but the big problem was not letting the two solutions to meet, or it produced a deadly gas... (There were lab workers that had died from this reaction...)...

The reason for pH adjustment with fixers is that it helps them operate iin their most efficient environment... Different plain solutions will operate somewhat, but due to solution carryover etc, they...