Greetings,
Actually I feel like I have been among you for many months as I have lurked here for a long time. I am nearly 75 years old and my trip through photography has been a long and winding one. Recently I have most enjoyed medium format and have spent a number of years acquiring a very nice Bronica Sqai kit. I suppose I will never completely leave medium format but I have felt the urge for some time to see if bigger might be even better!
I have been fooling around with a Zone VI Camera (a "real" Zone VI from Vermont!) and have a large Cambo -- a really formidable camera for an old lady! I'll report on lenses in a different Forum shortly. I am in the process of restoring the Zone VI to its full majesty. I bought it on eBay for a song and it was in remarkably good shape for the price! Today I have ordered an Intrepid so we will see where that leads.
I have also recently been enjoying pinhole imaging -- and continue to build my own cameras out of every imaginable container! I live in a cottage in a Retirement Community with my Labadoodle, Puffin. She will appear in images which you will likely see at some point. I have enjoyed hearing about and looking at the truly grand Darkrooms that you folks have built! I am almost embarrassed to report that I am still repurposing my 4' x 6' ˝ bath into a very nice darkroom -- with a Beseler 45MXT in an adjacent office/studio/lab that was a bedroom in another life. It now has darkened windows with weather-stripping under the hall door and black tape over all the "glowing office objects" so it has become "the dry side!"
I believe I have gone on enough -- but I really need an answer to this burning question before I sign off: I take copious notes about each photo which is associated with a carefully numbered negative carrier. When I get all the carriers into the pitch black darkroom and struggle (but finally do succeed!) loading the Jobo, the negatives get all mixed up. Often I take several photos of the same thing varying only 1 or 2 exposure characteristics for each one, so knowing which is which is really important to me. How can I tell these apart when I am all done?
Thanks (and I am glad to finally become a real group member!),
Martha
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