Recent content by ac123

Yeah, who knows what the relative scale actually is. I can't believe I've been printing this long without knowing this. Thanks for the assist though. Guess I'll be in search of a new working color head.

Generally: Ektar 100, Crystal Archive CA, Silver Pixel RA4 Chemistry, in drums in a jobo temp bath. What I mean by making Cyan corrections is trying to correct the picture in the cyan/red direction, i.e. moving both Y+M knobs together (not touching the Cyan dial). For example in this picture...

I've been working off this color head for over a year, and have been having some difficulty with color settings seeming oddly difficult or not quite working as intended. I have started to suspect that there may be something going on with the Magenta filter, because most of my prints end up in...

Reviving this thread real quick.. I managed to speak to someone in the paper dpt at Fuji this week after trying to place an order for some Maxima roll paper from B&H and having them let me know that it's on backorder: As of this date, Maxima paper is out of stock at fuji, the rep said it was...

That worked! Thank you - strangely enough I think it was having trouble connecting through my Thunderbolt Dock. For some reason it's now only recognizing the scanner when I plug in directly to the USB-C ports on my laptop. Maybe a software upgrade switch up, who knows. It did have me...

Realizing I never properly thanked you Koraks, this was the most helpful advice I've been given in RA4 printing and it sped my process up considerably. The "large swings" approach really helped me understand how each negative + enlarger combo is truly specific to its own relative color swings...

Haven't touched it in a week and it suddenly won't connect to my Mac (v15.4). Does not show up in vuescan or epson scan. Was previously working fine for years and I have not moved it from where it sits. The scanner itself seems to be working fine (powers on like normal, initiates, green light...

Thanks for this Koraks, this is really helpful, will give it a go. In regards to the numbers being relative... since the CC adjustment scale seems to be so far off from the "starting points" given for this enlarger, would you recommend using this method at extreme ends of the scale, then...

Yeah, it's been quite confusing, but also this is the only color head I've used, and been printing on for a year and a half. I suspect this is not normal adjustment range but was not sure, since the suggested starting points were already so far apart. Printing on Fuji Crystal Archive Type II...

I've been printing RA4 for some time using my Beseler Dual Dichro S (23c II), though lately have been feeling frustrated at the amount of test prints I've been going through before reaching a neutral or usable color cast. In the manual for the dual dichro, it states the starting point as 50m...

Thanks for all the help here. I was successfully able to make a 16x20 with this drum and 230ml of solution. One thing I noticed compared to the Jobo drums (which I usually use for smaller prints) is that this drum drains out of the bottom of the tube? Since I'm hand-rolling the drum on a table...

I recently acquired this 20" Cibachrome drum and was hoping to use it to process 16x20" RA4 prints by hand-rolling the tube on a tabletop. I was looking for help in recognizing what type of lid this is? It looks somewhat like a light trap (which I use on my JOBO drums to process ra4 prints)...

Yes, thinking I would turn the machine off overnight, and turn back on in the morning to heat the room temp water back up to working temp This just eliminates having to dump/refill the tank directly every session since I don't have the Lift.

Question for any Jobo bath users - is it OK to use this machine to warm the temperature of the water from room temp (around 70 deg F) to the 84 deg F that I usually print at? I was under the assumption from something that I read online that you should only use this machine to raise the water...

Thanks for all the input here. It's probably been around 3 months that they've been stored like this (not my typical storage time but I had to replace some equip). It's likely just a cause of sitting too long in bottles that may not be perfectly airtight. I may try to strain out the...