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I don't think you get them up there, but there will plenty of opportunity to shoot them here in Virginia. They can be very loud on their 17 year cycle. I'll do a macro 4x5 when they come out.

One thing you learn in carpentry, and life, is that if it looks good, it is good. If your prints look good, don't worry about the other stuff. If you can see alignment issues in your prints, then you...

Nice. I love some Heliar, and the HR-U seems to work well for portraits.

I have trouble seeing grain in x-ray negatives sometimes, and just focus on an edge.

I use plain hypo, and mix d-23 and d-76 as needed. My darkroom is essentially a closet, and I use an Intrepid 4x5 light source on a old Crown Graphic mounted on a copy stand because I couldn't fit a...

I have a 1935 pre-anniversary speed graphic. Somewhere on graflex.org I saw a sentence saying that many people preferred the pre-anniversary because you could very easily add movements in a...

Yes, I was never going to take the shanghai. I've had a box sitting around for a year and not finished it because I was getting such inconsistent results. I've never really shot HP5, but like both...

Interesting that they changed the emulsion, but not the name of the film. So is one expected to use the old development times for the new film? Any idea when they made the change? I have a box of...

Thickness of the plate doesn't matter, as long as it fits the holder, as the emulsion side of the plate faces towards the lens. 4x5 plate holders are relatively easy to find. Many have been converted...

I think you are talking about pre-coated dry plates, not wet plates.

Are you stopping with acid stop? I vaguely recall having problems with pinholes once when I was stopping with water and shifting to an acid stop fixed it. Just a thought.

Thanks. That sounds like good advice. I do plan to take stuff so I can develop black and white, and may try to have the color developed locally or ship it home, as I too have had bad experiences...

Thanks Angus. My understanding is that the 90mm on 6x9 is the equivalent of a 35mm lens in 35mm, and I spent some time in the mid-nineties wandering around central Africa with an Olympus XA with a...

I agree. But in this case the dedication to the craft conflicts with the family agenda. If I were going alone, I would certainly only shoot 4x5.

Yes. I suspect my wife will take a SLR with a 200 zoom and I'll pick up a 2x teleconverter for birds and such, but don't really care that much. A lot of the fun I have is printing, so a good negative...

These would be good, but I would rather have something less expensive for a trip like this.

No. I'll just chase them...

Nice! I'm interested in the earlier models because its quite tempting to have a longer lens for portraits. I looked at the other formats online, and for some reason they are all much more expensive...

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind as I shop.

Well, I'm sure my wife will take either a digital SLR, or her old OM4, and I bought my daughter a Rollei 35, so that kind of stuff is covered. I have tons of good wildlife pics from the 80s in 35mm...

Anyone have experience with the Fuji GW690? Its 6x9 and has (I think) a fixed 90mm lens. I assume that is a normal lens for 6x9? Seems like something like that would give me some good negative, and...

I do have a Busch Pressman C that might work, but I guess I would then need to find a small Adapt-a-Roll film holder, and could only find 4x5 holders on the bay. If I took that I could also take some...

Interesting. All medium format recommendations. I'll have to think about options, but I do know I will not be taking a Hasselblad! Maybe something Soviet...

I will visit my son in southern Africa next September, and am struggling to figure out what camera to take. My wife and daughter will be with me, so I am unlikely to have loads of time to set up and...

For test strips, I normally use 8 seconds, 11, 16, 23, and 32, mimicking the f stops on the lens. That means if I have a 23 second exposure and want to make it 32 seconds for more time for dodging...

I made one. Just built a light box to sit on top of my B&J Watson 5x7. Works fine (if a bit clunky), on the rare occasions I have wanted to enlarge 5x7....

So, what I gather from this thread is that Blurb is the best option, considering price and quality? I've been thinking of doing photo annuals for my kids, so this could be useful.

I have a Stearman and an old Yankee tank, but I usually use a Patterson Orbital. They are hard to find anymore, and for some reason no one has made a knock off, but I think they are the most...

Well, that uis quite likely, hic...

Think of it this way. Your meter loves middle gray in a very deep and very unnatural way. Say you have four tiles on a wall in direct sun; one white, one light gray, one dark gray, and one black. You...

If it is consistently two stops different, then I would suggest calibration is the problem, and recalibration (set the ASA two stops lower) would solve most of your problems. Its like a scope that...

I love this one especially, as it showcases the unique depth of field of pinhole. I think it would be quite difficult to duplicate this look with a lens. Pinhole, more than anything else,...

I agree. People used to say it was complicated, but when I finally read it I found it quite simple, if a little dry. He was a very famous teacher, so you would expect his text to be clear. I gained a...

Buy all new kit for your darkroom, mount that puppy, then tell you wife "Honey, I fixed up the darkroom to celebrate our love!"

I made an 8x10 back for my Kodak 2d, which came with a 5x7 back. All I did was use a 4x5 back as a model and scaled it up. The only critical dimension is that the film plane in the holder and the...

Looks homemade to me.

Sorry. Just a joke.

The enlarger was invented in 1843. Google it.

If you can make a 16x20 print from 35mm, then you ought to be able to make a 220x280 print with that beast (if my math is correct). That is 18.3 feet by 23.3 feet. You are the man, brother!

A old wooden studio camera on a wooden studio stand would work quite well for you purposes, I think, as you don't really need movements on a portrait camera. It sets a tone, and fits the wet plate...