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  1. Re: Just bought a box of expired TMAX400 25 sheet 8x10

    I highly recommend just buying the 4X5 version instead, then making sure the fine print on the box states it's on Rubbermaid film base rather than Estar. Then all you need is a film stretcher, and...
  2. Re: Avoiding harassment when shooting in the street

    I just avoid the urban tourist areas, or peri-urban ones, these days. Too dangerous, even for Rangers. I had one friend mugged at gunpoint last week next to a popular urban park, and another friend...
  3. Re: Lightproofing: Sticky advesive for slick plastic blackout sheeting

    If it's polyethylene sheeting, Lexel won't hold. Nothing will. That's why all those glues and caulking compounds are sold in polyethylene tubes to begin with - it's inert to them! The two ways you...
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    Re: Dry Mount Tissue

    I trim the mounting tissue slightly smaller than the overall initial print size (including the white borders), then bond the drymount tissue to the back of that - an operation where a silicone...
  5. Re: Just bought a box of expired TMAX400 25 sheet 8x10

    Just try it. It might be fine. But I wouldn't hold your breath for any price break on new film. I've used plenty of 20yr old film, but kept it frozen before use.
  6. Re: How does barrel lens shutter placement affect the image?

    Depends on the rigidity of the camera and its support, especially with respect to the front standard. The more weight there is, and the further forward, the more torque there is on the front...
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    Re: Elitist Artist Only? LFPF...

    I'm not quite sure what is meant by an "Elitist" or being an "Elite", except that it seems to be one kind of snobbery insulting another kind. Perhaps an Elitist is someone with the ambition to go...
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    Re: Dry Mount Tissue

    Talas sells it for only $3.50 per individual 24" X 36" sheet (considerably less in volume). Plus shipping of course. They're in Brooklyn. That is easy.
  9. Re: Best Way to Store My Large Format Lenses

    I don't recommend anything tightly enclosed like Pelican cases, unless they themselves are in a low humidity storage environment.
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    Re: Dry Mount Tissue

    I still prefer the "official" Seal silicone release paper. Might as well; I still have a big roll of it. I do use lesser kinds of release papers for laying down Formica, etc.

    The bookbinding...
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    Re: Fomapan 200 pink : fixer change

    I just use alkaline fixer (TF4 or TF5).
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    Anything digital is easy to fix once for all with a heavy pipe wrench. All of it ends up flattened as e-waste sooner or later anyway - mostly sooner.
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    Re: D@ glass negative carrier

    If it's just a small amount of tape residue, you can use PEC film cleaner. If a lot, soak the piece in a citrus solvent like De-Solv-It for twenty minutes of so first, then wipe that off, and if...
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    Re: Brightness of ground glass

    Fresnels might help with wide angle lenses in dim light. But they can be counterproductive with longer lenses like a 240 for 4x5. I don't like them at all.
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    I often use the 150 Apo Rodagon N for medium format enlargements. Of course, it will handle 4x5 too, but with a bit of illumination falloff toward the corners unless you have an exceptionally...
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    Re: Polarizer [as in filter]

    I never use a polarizing filter at all, except at the copy stand for cross-polarization purposes when shiny prints are involved. I like the shimmer and reflections in nature as they are. But as...
  17. Thread: Gold Toning

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    Re: Gold Toning

    xkaes - the gold toner itself distinctly deepens the blacks, or enhances the DMax. There is no need to selenium too, unless you want its sepia effect. Sometimes I do use them in combination; but the...
  18. Thread: Gold Toning

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    Re: Gold Toning

    I like the cooling gold toner gives. I can offset or split tone that in relation to selenium toner or sulfide brown toner. I rarely use selenium anymore.
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    The 63 El Nikkor certainly has a better reputation than the 50mm version. But I like a longer working distance and zero falloff toward the corners, so I actually use a 105 Apo Rodagon N for 35mm...
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    Re: Gold Toning

    My own gold toning protocol is quite economical. Most published formulas waste gold like crazy. But I certainly wouldn't use any of it on any kind of RC paper.

    I've gotten wonderful results with...
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    $11,000 was a conservative 90's price, Ice-Racer. I understated it. You'd pay way more today if one ever turned up. Nobody paying that kind of price is mistaken about its application. If they want to...
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    Re: Packpack DIY frame-finishing question

    Conventional EVA foam padding adds a lot of redundant extra weight to a pack. It might be OK for little shoulder bags, but it is not only linty, but doesn't offer anything which can't be improvised...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    There was a private museum somewhere around Denver holding the life work of some late frontier photographer who used a camera 4 ft wide. They had stacks of his nitrate negatives, but were ordered to...
  24. Re: 8x10 shooters, can HP5 come close to Tri-X 320?

    I prefer HP5 over Tri-X any day of the week, especially if developed in PMK pyro. I've gotten soooo many wonderful prints from that combination. No, it's not as versatile in terms of scene contrast...
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    Re: Camera for Africa trip

    domaz - at least if you did pull out a P67 600mm lens, any rhino would be afraid to charge. It's as big as a cannon. My longest lens is the wonderful 300mm EDIF, and it's too much to realistically...
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    Re: Camera for Africa trip

    One problem with the earlier Fuji interchangeable lens RF's is that it's now difficult to find most of the lenses, and when you do, they're expensive. Furthermore, the system is quite heavy compared...
  27. Re: Have you had to pay hefty customs fees when buying from Japan?

    I got my last new camera shipped FedEx Express from Tokyo, and had it on my doorstep in less than 24 hrs! - with no extra fee. The shipping itself was only $35. But I am only 10 minutes away from a...
  28. Re: What's your go-to when you want pronounced grain on BW sheet film?

    Don't you have it backwards, Revdoc? If you both drastically overexpose and overdevelop, you end up with an almost unprintably dense negative except perhaps on the very lowest paper grades. In any...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    Celluloid can ignite. Nitrocellulose was a popular early plastic used even in toys. The "nitro" prefix tells it all. Massive collections of historical valuable negatives have been deliberately...
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    There is very little which can be ascribed to a signature look between brands, unless you deliberately employ some funky old camera lens on the enlarger instead for creative reasons, or put a nylon...
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    I replaced all my Componon S lenses with much better ones. At least they were superior to older chrome Componons. But they haven't been top tier for several decades, and never were if you factor in...
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    Re: The Ortho Look On Pan Film

    Ahh ... the wonders O'Sullivan worked with the graphic shape of the Colorado River canyon against a blank white sky due to blue-only sensitive film! Everyone admires the bold graphic blacks utilized...
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    Yes, D23 in general relies on a lot of solvent effect. There might be a way to tweak it with sodium chloride to improve acutance; but I've never tried that.
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    Re: Camera for Africa trip

    If you need some telephoto reach for wildlife, a basic Pentax 6x7 SLR system is something already having high repute in Africa photography. I often travel with one of those for tripod or otherwise...
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    Re: Ouch! This hurts!

    Foma 400 also looked a bit annoyingly clumpy grained for me too using PMK. If you want a wonderful smooth grained yet high acutance edge effect in a fast film, use PMK in conjunction with HP5...
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    Re: Enlarge lens 150 vs 135

    Has nothing to do with that.
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    Re: Selling prints in the digital era

    Pieter - How many dead artists have you actually asked, whether their prints are selling or not?
  38. Re: What's your go-to when you want pronounced grain on BW sheet film?

    Modern thin emulsion films don't reticulate well, at least without the emulsion lifting clear off. You need another extinct film, Super XX, to do that well. But the look is quite different from...
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    Re: The Ortho Look On Pan Film

    I often use a medium deep green filter in the Southwest. Otherwise all that reddish Navajo sandstone and its clay soil comes out unnaturally pale and pasty looking. Or to some extent, you could...
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    Re: Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

    Different cameras evidently have different Ai software. I gave the instruction "fall" to my wooden view camera, and it fell to the ground and broke.
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