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Bob's advice is spot on -- spend some time with the instructions and general info about large format photography. (There is a lot on this site.) If you open the camera and measure 210 mm from the...

Yes, wonderful. I just clipped his post into the Mac/Iphone Notes file so I will have it everywhere. Thanks

It's easy enough to find 250 ml brown bottles online. The first thing I do is to decant the newly opened HC110 concentrate into four bottles filled to the top and tightly capped and then use them...

I used and liked Bergger Pancro 400 4x5 for quite a while, until I encountered a box where half the sheets were missing the notch codes. I now use HP5 in HC110 in Dilution E (21ml per liter). But I...

Thanks, Bob. This one is missing both the latches for the back movement and the button for back rotation. It's going back. Thanks again. Bill

Hey, Bob. I just bought a camera sold as a Tech V, and can't figure out how to rotate the back -- it does not seem to be the required release button. Can you tell me year and make of 2111196 and...

This is good information, Mike. I have one of these that I use when I have only 4 sheets to process, and will keep an eye out for this issue. But in general, I have been happier with the MOD54...

I use a Polaroid 900 converted by Alpenhaus, with a 150mm Fuji lens. I had to send it back once to get the RF adjusted, but since then it has worked well. The back will take Grafmatics, which I use,...

For what it's worth, VueScan software is inexpensive and works well with the Epson scanners--as well as thousand of other brands, they claim. I never warmed up to the Epson software, but I have used...

This may seem obvious or have been answered, but film is shipped by USPO every day without a problem. For this reason, I have always ordered fresh film from B&H to be delivered to my destination...

This is all great information. Thanks to everyone for their thoughts. Drew and Oren, thanks for recommending TMY as a recommended alternative for exposure at EIs above box speed; and Neal, thanks...

I know, I know, pushing film is not recommended if you love detail in the shadows. But I really want to hand-hold my 4x5 converted Polaroid 900 and I could use an extra stop. For almost everything...

Just bought one and like it. Well built--perhaps overbuilt. A real improvement over homemade clothes-hanger-with-paper-clamp system I was using.

HP5, HC110, 150mm Sironar N

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48679274491_7e234df075_b.jpgBack garden, Clifford Terrace by William Poole, on Flickr

Dilapidated barn and cross, Ferndale, CA.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48829244912_0d04060b0e_b.jpgFerndale by William Poole, on Flickr

Canham DLC, 150 Sironar N, HP5, HC110 B

Here are a couple of recent ones. Both HP5 in HC110 E.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48679440597_639f16b03b_c.jpgFlowers in a vase, Clifford Terrace, Fruit by William Poole, on Flickr

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I am nowhere near as organized or systematic as the experienced gurus in the room, but I do shoot a lot of medium format TMY, which I love. I find that it works best for me rated at 320 in HC110,...

Thanks for the ideas, Steve and Doremus. I should have clarified that the Grafmatic is solidly attached to the camera with small thumbscrews--I am not using it under the spring back. Thus the...

I am periodically getting characteristic light streaks on photos like the one below.

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In this instance, the streaks are most visible on the trees, particularly the left one.

The...

Loving this thread. Thanks for taking us along.

OP: there is a photographer in Portland who regularly shoots posed street with a Crown Graphic and a Graphic SLR, both 4x5. Worth a look if this is your interest. He is on both Flikr and Instagram....

Thanks, E. Searing. our system suggests a more orderly mind than my scrawls.

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Well, the film came from B&H, Bob, and everything looked like previous boxes. I actually haven't looked at these sheets--just couldn't feel the notch. Will pull one next time I am in the darkroom...

I was months on the B&H waiting list for Pancro 4x5. I finally got it last winter, and in loading the last of that fifty-sheet box today, I was flummoxed by several sheets without notch codes. I...

I use every tool at my disposal to get an image that moves me. That means I sometimes crop. And I edit preexposure, move stuff around when possible so the composition feels right. And not having...

Times per massive development chart.
Tanks: Paterson Roll 120 and 35mm, SP 45, MOD54 insert in Paterson
Dilution B for times 6 minutes and more.
Dilution H for films where MDC Dilution B times...

Instant heirlooms, Deardorffuser. Lovely.

Ken -

Like it! Your evocative photos make me homesick for New England this time of year.

A few from Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts, which I visited last month. TMY 120, yellow filtration, HC110 B

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1903/43530364890_b6ac2c1250_c.jpgOld Sturbridge...

I have had problems with the SP-445 tank, insert version 2, where the center rib touches the back of the film. Sometimes there is a streak that does not clear well during fixing when fixed in tank,...

Thanks, Chassis - glad you like.

Back garden, several different cameras, all TPY in HC110 B, all taken over the last few months/


https://farm1.staticflickr.com/843/43384416842_c40ed249d4_c.jpgClifford Terrace by William Poole,...

Very much enjoying all your travel work on multiple channels, Austin. So many admirable photographs.

What an evocative and enigmatic double portrait!

There's a lot going on in that photo, Jason. I like.

+1 for MyLightmeterPro, used as reflective and with the Luxi incident dome, with the caveat that I use it on an IPhone 6 and that I have not used other apps for comparison. The reflective mode...

Well, it's land, so I guess it's a landscape. Back window into the garden on a rainy day. TMY at ISO 320, HC110 (B) 90mm Super Angulon.
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Lovely! If I look at it long enough, the clouds begin to move.

That is helpful - thanks.