Now that FP100C and C45 are gone, we need some other way to make field proofs. Personally, if I go to the trouble of traveling to a location and setting up a photo, I want some way to make a field proof besides the ground glass. I'm sure I have poor technique and everyone else is perfect, but I still forget to stop the lens down, forget to drop the speed graphic bed, have shutters that stick and bellows that sag into the light path. I have the polaroids to prove it! So what options are there:
Take a developing tank and changing bag in the field and develop a negative. I am pretty good at interpreting negatives. The problem is it takes 10 minutes or more and you need some water. Maybe a fast monobath might make this worthwhile. You could shoot RC paper for easier viewing but would have to correlate more for film speed. You could dispense with the idea of proofing and just develop your intended final negatives in the field...but how would you dry them?
Digital camera to take a picture of the ground glass.
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