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The only dark cloth I have ever used is a sheet of felt purchased at Jo Anne fabrics probably 34 years ago. it cost about $3 and I have never had issue with it leaking light, not working and/or ...

here you go ...
http://michaelandpaula.com/mp/html/Azo_Main.html

definitely worth its weight in gold !
I got my 300R bulbs at grangers and never looked back... whatever you use its gotta be...

not sure which enlarger she has ;)
whatever it is its big ... and all of us LF'ers know bigger is always better !

I know this is the LF forum and all but I don't really differentiate portraits by their formats. I just like looking at portraits, love looking at photographs of people, not sure why, its fun cause...

Sadly real life has kept me sometimes reading and less often making a post. That all said I'm not using a camera to make photographs very often these days .. I've been more involved with non-obscure...

sorry I missed this until just now
no need for expensive unless you can't find it where you live
cheep arm and hammer super washing soda is fine, and converting baking soda
by heating it in a...

I've pretty much given up ...

yea. that works but it doesn't give me the bulletproof negatives I enjoy. :)

usually small claims courts have a ceiling of what you can sue for. sometimes its 1500, sometimes its 2000, and in some states you need to have a lawyer involved. ... AND people with a judgement...

8 oz. of water
4 tsp of instant coffee (cheapest gut rot is the best )
2 tsp of Washing soda
1/4 tsp of vit c powder

doesn't bother me.
there's always been goofballs selling and using cameras, since like 1839 onward.. :)
if his viewing+buying audience isn't bright enough to do a little research on like IDK...

Delmar box camera .. not sure what lens is in it
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6CR9UpgzBl/?igshid=lzt1j7af20e1
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5RWqrmgEHk/?igshid=nalij36t9n4n

39.6 stops?
8D

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s just the world we live in.
The author died years ago..

not sure why he is a rip off artist. most every photograph has already been taken already there is very little that is new.
I did like the lady with the Kirby vacuum cleaner she was doing a good...

look at what Joe van cleave is doing or has done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbYm3Y-Gaco
what your camera is .. is the pre-curser to the afghan camera.. but your camera used a proprietary paper...

Hi Larry

I haven't with J Lane Plates but I have with other dry plates ( that I coated myself ) and paper negatives. works fine
you just have to figure out what exposure you need and the best...

sumatranol130 ( or Dsumatranol ) 8.5 minutes or split...

dektol 1:10, 5 mins, Dsumatranol ( 20cc stock dektol + sumatrnaol ) 5 mins
or ansco 130 1:10 5 mins, sumatranol130 ( 20cc stock ansco130...

still not anxious and have started making my own emulsion again .. I haven't used up all my film though ...

+1

people were doing things before that whether they were able to be fixed to light to not, but exposures were very long. I think the word commercially viable is the key.. ( well besides the...

I was doing a research project on Coal Gasification and using the last remaining gas holder house ( and the remnants of the coal gas plant it belonged to ) as a microcosm for the pre 1870s industry...

Hello Stephen
Are you planning on printing these images ( this image ) ? Will it be printed on paper, backlit on film? separation negatives made and a trichrome gum print? Gum over PT or silver?...

Randy and Steve
Thanks for your suggestions ! When I find the time I will attempt to do this long awaited adapter. Just have to find the time...

Thanks again!
John

I have had a century 8A for ages but never had more than a home made (foam core and foam core+waxed paper ) 11x14 back for it. It's worked great, but I figure I might try something new.
A few...

hey randy

the fun thing about using hydrogen peroxide for reversals is you DON"T need to use the high percentage one but you can use the cheep stuff found at the dollar store or big lots or...

Hi Bobab

The trick is to NOT make knockoffs. I might have missed something in you post, but how is using a digital camera to make photographs that are knockoffs any different?

Drew: Many people have published their experienced with Ansco 130. Not so-so but works about as good as fresh. Perhaps rather than suggesting without experience something doesn't work you should...

Kevin:

Mixed Stock Ansco 130 will stay useable for over a year. Open tray about 30 days. I've developed film and prints in Ansco130 that was well over a year old and the film and prints looked...

great stuff !
and it is great to see another person as crazy as me
just doing contact prints the sun without chemistry :)

I love being absolutely clueless and every day learning something new
Im always blown away at the stuff like this I learn about.

Thanks for adding to my education !
John

you might be thinking of dry collodion plates ( mr towler talks about them on around page 232. ...
https://archive.org/details/silversunbeampra00towluoft/page/n6/mode/2up )

have fun Peter. lots...

I am, and waited like 10+ years before I went. Post there regularly.. IG can be inspiring.
Recent work (mine) is from 5x7 cyanotype glass plates. I've also been making a
silver chloride silver...

I 2nd one of their lens caps ! Steve made one for me many years ago. He made me a lens board collar
for a Vitax and a lenscap. It was truly a work of art. When I picked up my things (I am local...

Hi Wayne

Years ago Bostick and Sullivan made something called a HOBO, you could hand hold it if you wanted or throw it on a tripod.
I think it came with 1 lens, was pretty bare-bonz.... [both 5x4...

if you look at the beginning of the hose the that fills you see that the hose looks like it is leaking so not enough water
is going through into the tube so it doesn't fill enough to dump. I think...

just to follow up ..
heard from mike,
he took my order and shipped it
within 1 day :). thank you for all your
encouragements and experiences !

stay well stay in the darkroom, enjoy your...

Maybe someone else can remember his website's name, but there used to be someone named Mark Wangerin ( I think?! ) who was an 8x10 photographer who specialized in portraits with a Verito and...

Thanks Steve !

Yeah I ordered from him in the Fall, but its a different world now. ...
I'll stay patient and keep my fingers crossed.

Wishing you good social distancing !
John

Anyone recently make an order with Artcraft, or is he offline for the time being ?
thanks !
John

hi Scott

never mind, it was the way you photographed it !
John