Have you made at least 500 negatives? Even if you have, a handy checklist is still essential. AND SLOW DOWN, TAKE YOUR TIME
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Have you made at least 500 negatives? Even if you have, a handy checklist is still essential. AND SLOW DOWN, TAKE YOUR TIME
Use plain Listerine to kill the fungus.
It wa hte US Mail that rejected images with so much as a single pubic hair visible. Thus the magazines had no choice.
After active teaching for 64 years and continuing to mentor for, up until now, 15 more, all I have to say is I've found every instance with every student to be different, and often challenging. At 95...
Through my 40+ years using various pyro developers, i found Pyrocat HD to be the best for general use, and for experimenting with old films. I don't know what you mean by "seriously" outdated film....
You won't be able to apply much more torque with the wrench you bought,They flex too easily.
I have a heavy duty one which cost me about $150, 40+ years ago that I don't see advertised today....
Until I recently closed my darkroom, I had probably been printing longer than most people have been alive -about 85 years of printing.
For each paper, I established a development time based on that...
The elements may be reversed, OR they may have been dismantled in order to clean the interior surface and then remounted out of order, or without internal bushings to establish correct separation of...
After about 40 years of use, my aluminum framed screens are as good as new. I need to add them to my list of equipment for sale.
Not quite 100 yet. I was born in 1929, not 1923.
That is the process I used for years. I also saved springs from them.
When I began printing in the mid 1930's, the number of coated silver papers available was truly amazing. I don't remember seeing a portrait that wasn't printed on a textured warm tone paper. I still ...
I used 7x17 for many happy years. 8x20 was just too large and clumsy for me to handle comfortably even in my 50's. At 90 i decided it was time for me to go smaller and finally located a 5x12.
As...
I cut lightweight cardboard to the shape needed at the time.
I use Reverse Osmosis water from a system which supplies he darkroom and the kitchen.
There isn't enough room here, nor do I have the time, to list all of the misinformation which passes through this and other sites. Having been involved with LF photography since 1938 or 39 I have...
Micro-Mark sells a collection of small screws & bolts.
I used a 7x17 for many years until problems associated with age caused me to sell both of mine.
My favorite lens was, and still is, a 10.75" Dagor at f 22. I rarely found it necessary to alter the...
It's wonderful to know your healed and back at it. I enjoyed our many conversations, but sadly it's now time for me to say goodbye. The darkroom is closed and I'm in the process of selling all of my...
I spot everything with watercolors.
I used to make my own selenium toner. it required simmering poisonous chemicals for several hours. i did it outdoors on breezy days. when i went ot to check on it, i wore a gas mask. it isn't worth...
I still own my pre1939, 5x7 Deardorff. The pictures look exactly like my camera. It still has most of the identifying decal on the rigt side.
Stick with what you know. HP5+ can make beautiful portrait negatives.
Just scrub it with soap or detergent and water, then rinse well. We took care of hundreds of these cases at the college.
This isn't a suggestion as to what to do but the first coated lenses came about because a photographer or photographers in the late 19th century noticed that lenses that had been used a lot in a...
Put the PAckard on the front and use ton the 4x5.
If you want a glossy surface on fiber paper, it must be dried emulsion down on a very clean, very smooth surface. When I did this I had ferrotype tins. These were chromium plated sheets of steel, or...
This is what I would do after setting the iron to a medium to low temperature.
It's not unusual for me to spot a new web site, look at the 1st page and decide, for any one of many possible reasons, it is of little or no interest to me. I move on.
That is plain old bellows sag. The top of the bellows is in this image, not the bottom.
Simple, cheap solution - place a sponge under the bellows to hold it up. I've had todo this for at least half...
A 150 Dagor for 4x5.
I use dental x-ray clips. Free from friendly dentists who have gone to digital x-ray.
Although I still own a few 4x5's, they rarely get used. I'm saving them until I get too old and feeble to handle the 5x7, 5x12 and 8x10. Maybe next year when I'm 95.
I had forgotten about Sterchi's. Memories from childhood.
They are great if you take the time, probably 3-5 minutes, to read the manual and follow it precisely. If you can't do that, they will soon be junk.
I've owned and used an early Cherrywood Toko for more years than I can remember. During this time I've had several other 4x5 wooden field cameras including a True Baby Deardorff. The only one I...
I'm not you, but I certainly wouldn't head there without at least 2 of my LF cameras- 5x12 (7x17 if I still had it),and 8x10.
Most of mine are made of Finnish (not finish) plywood.
I have used dental clips for 30-40 years. They are hard to beat. When used during development I place one on each corner. My source has always been dentists who are moving to digital x-rays, thus...