Hello gentlemen,
After a crazy semester I finally got my copy of the second edition. The new detail and contextual information is fabulous. The update is much deeper than I was expecting.
Well done!
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- Sat May 09, 2020 3:16 pm
- Forum: Film Developing Cookbook Discussion
- Topic: Congrats Bill and Steve
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9704
- Thu May 07, 2020 7:39 am
- Forum: Open Discussion
- Topic: A simplified zone system table for field use
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11968
A simplified zone system table for field use
I'm sharing here a simple zone system table I developed after working to learn the zone system a dozen years ago. Please feel free to use it or share it with attribution. I find it quite a lot simpler and faster than any formulas or logging techniques. It is a PNG set up to print as a 3X5 card or to...
- Wed Apr 29, 2020 4:39 am
- Forum: FX Developers
- Topic: FX developers and Arista/Fomapan films
- Replies: 1
- Views: 15144
FX developers and Arista/Fomapan films
A few years ago when there was a lot of flux in the film industry — well, there still is — I went on an experimentation bender to find good box-speed developers for the Fomapan 100 and 400 films (aka Arista from Freestyle). These films are described by many as 2/3- to 1-stop slower than box speed in...
- Thu May 04, 2017 3:57 pm
- Forum: Color Film Processing
- Topic: Pushing Ektar 100 (Help Needed)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6884
Re: Pushing Ektar 100 (Help Needed)
Hi Jeremy, Generally color neg films only push well by a stop. At two stops the quality suffers hugely. At four stops I doubt there would be much usable about it. However, you may have a happy weird surprise! So the choice is "what the heck" and a four-stop push (if so, post them here). Or...
- Wed Mar 29, 2017 7:40 am
- Forum: Fixers
- Topic: An alkaline hardener for neutral/alkaline fixer?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4168
An alkaline hardener for neutral/alkaline fixer?
I have a stash of still-reasonably-good Portriga Rapid bought by my pops as early as the 1980s. (No, you can't have my address and away schedule). The lower grades are useably fog-free, the higher grades need plenty of KBr and some bleaching to get there. There is nothing else like that crazy cadmiu...
- Wed Mar 29, 2017 6:59 am
- Forum: Black & White Printing (formerly Enlarging & Printing)
- Topic: Similarities in MQ developers
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13503
Re: Similarities in MQ developers
Super cool Tim! I am interested in playing with it. Thanks for sharing your recipes.
- Wed Mar 29, 2017 6:51 am
- Forum: Black & White Printing (formerly Enlarging & Printing)
- Topic: Dry-down dramas
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9491
Re: Dry-down dramas
This isn't specific to the paper, but recently I finally picked up a very cheap ($49) microwave at Wal-Mart just for the purpose of dry-down tests (I still can't believe Adams used his then-very-expensive kitchen micro for this, probably right before nuking his leftovers). It works great and I don't...
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 3:17 pm
- Forum: Member Announcements
- Topic: Upcoming exhibitions in Austin, TX & Mesa, AZ - Opening Next Week!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9992
Re: Upcoming exhibitions in Austin, TX & Mesa, AZ - Opening Next Week!
Congratulations! Looks like lovely work.
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 3:15 pm
- Forum: Toning
- Topic: Alkaline fixers and selenium toning
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6076
Re: Alkaline fixers and selenium toning
Just a post of HT-2 test results. When using alkaline fixer, washing for 20 minutes, toning in KRST then go straight to wash I get clean HT-2 results in about 20 minutes. A clearing agent cuts that time in half on both ends to about 10 minutes, though I still wash on each side of the KRST for 20 min...
- Sat Jan 28, 2017 3:51 pm
- Forum: Toning
- Topic: Alkaline fixers and selenium toning
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6076
Alkaline fixers and selenium toning
I see that KRST has a pH of 9 -- slightly alkaline. I would think that the hypo content would wash out more effectively as it is said to do with an alkaline or neutral fixer, not requiring HCA. Haven't had a chance to do some HT-2 testing. Curious if anyone has. Bill Troop?
- Sat Jan 28, 2017 8:41 am
- Forum: Black & White Film Development
- Topic: Acufine / Tri-x - 1 stop push dev time?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6155
Acufine / Tri-x - 1 stop push dev time?
Hi Neal, I just dug up my old notes and have a time of 6min for ISO 1000 @ 70°F with intermittent agitation. I haven't run Tri-X in Acufine in a couple decades -- used it to hit 1600 or 3200 when necessary. You might try that time at 800 for a better neg. My task was to get highest speed possible, s...
- Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:21 am
- Forum: Toning
- Topic: Alkaline fixers and selenium toning
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6076
Alkaline fixers and selenium toning
A couple years ago I switched entirely over to alkaline fixers. Now I skip an HCA bath between fixer and first wash. But when I make a fine fiber print and tone it with Kodak Rapid Selenium Toner I still use an HCA bath after the selenium and before the second wash because of the thiosulfate content...
- Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:48 pm
- Forum: Black & White Film Development
- Topic: Re: TriX 400 Pushed 3200 & Hc-110
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19108
Re: TriX 400 Pushed 3200 & Hc-110
Hi Neal: You'll want to use an "unsharp mask" type of sharpening filter. The greatest errors in sharpening digital files, whether a scan or a camera capture, comes from to big of a "radius" there. That's the number of pixels on either side of the edge being sharpened that are aff...
- Sun Dec 11, 2016 8:43 am
- Forum: Darkroom Equipment for Shipping Costs
- Topic: 8x10" OC Safelight Filter
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10398
8x10" OC Safelight Filter
I'd be interested in this filter Steve. PM me with postage cost!
- Mon Dec 05, 2016 7:58 pm
- Forum: Color Film Processing
- Topic: Pushing Color Transparency Film ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12640
- Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:27 pm
- Forum: Black and White Transparency Processing
- Topic: Tri-X
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8636
Tri-X
Here you have it (I knew there was some diff): When processed as a reversal film, the resulting positive can be used for projection or for duplication. If processed as a negative material by conventional methods, the film will yield satisfactory results, although there will be some loss in speed and...
- Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:24 pm
- Forum: Black and White Transparency Processing
- Topic: Tri-X
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8636
Tri-X
No, it's not. I will sniff around after empirical diffs, but this I know from my modest 16mm film shooting: You can't process Tri-X reversal as a negative with good quality. It's got a different contrast range. How do you plan on processing? Lomo tank? Wad-in-a-bucket? Rewind tank? I use a rewind ta...
- Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:01 pm
- Forum: Using Pyro
- Topic: How I became a Pyro man.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26673
How I became a Pyro man.
I became a pyro man thanks to Steve Anchell and Bill Troop. After about 20 years of only working professionally in color, the last eight of those in only digital, I realized in about 2007 that I missed the darkroom. I also deeply missed the change of view that different film cameras offer when compa...
- Sat Dec 03, 2016 11:47 am
- Forum: Using Pyro
- Topic: SD-1c — a concentrate of Kodak SD-1 Pyro
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10439
SD-1c — a concentrate of Kodak SD-1 Pyro
Here's my 6-4X5 sheet film rack from Photographer's Formulary. It sits in an 11X14 tray and needs at least 2 liters of working solution to cover film -- 3 liters if you want to sink it deep enough in pyro like above to avoid oxidization streaks.
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- Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:08 pm
- Forum: Using Pyro
- Topic: SD-1c — a concentrate of Kodak SD-1 Pyro
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10439
SD-1c — a concentrate of Kodak SD-1 Pyro
Next time I'm at my darkroom I'll snap a pic of mine and post it here. It's red and beautiful.
- Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:05 pm
- Forum: Color Film Processing
- Topic: Pushing Color Transparency Film ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12640
Pushing Color Transparency Film ?
Heh. Flashback. In college I ran E-6 in an Arkay sink line. I'd roll up to 30 reels of chrome film in the dark, drop 'em in a rack and have to hold dark until into the color developer. On busy days it was nearly an hour of total blackness. I hallucinated often. At that much time your eyes want to in...
- Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:54 am
- Forum: Using Pyro
- Topic: SD-1c — a concentrate of Kodak SD-1 Pyro
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10439
SD-1c — a concentrate of Kodak SD-1 Pyro
Ah... I hadn't thought of that: That it is the film contact with air and not just the developer. Would one of those cool Formulary divided sheet trays work well here in enough chemical depth to keep the film sunk during a slight tray rock? For those who don't know what that tray is: I don't think th...
- Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:14 am
- Forum: Using Pyro
- Topic: How I became a Pyro man.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26673
How I became a Pyro man.
Here it is. I also fixed the permissions on the link above so that it is public. No account required.
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- Thu Dec 01, 2016 10:09 am
- Forum: Using Pyro
- Topic: How I became a Pyro man.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26673
How I became a Pyro man.
I posted a note of satisfaction about Harald's Beutler Pyro formula above. Here's a sample: Arista/Foma 100, 2X3 sheet in a handheld Pacemaker 23 Speed Graphic, shot at 100 and developed in Beutler Pyro for 10 min. 1:1:100 at 70F, small tank, 3 inversions per 60-sec. Nikon LS-8000 scan. https://www....
- Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:40 am
- Forum: Color Film Processing
- Topic: Pushing Color Transparency Film ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12640
Pushing Color Transparency Film ?
I pushed Fujichrome 400 to 800, only when it was a matter of getting an image or not getting an image. The results generally are grainy with loss of black density. You can't get a slide film faster than ISO 200 now, though. In negative films you can get up to 1600 still, and if you need the speed I ...