Recent content by arn_becker

I concur with all of that; but your histogram shows significant flat areas at the black and white ends, which mine doesn't. I don't know how to explain that.

At the risk of going off-topic, I see something quite different in the Ilford sample photo. I wonder what can explain this? I right-click, copy, open Photoshop, new document, paste. Crop, remove the black borders (plus a little margin for safety). Result: And then, ticking the "Show...

You're not being negative, or not unduly so anyway; your skepticism and analysis (as well as others in this thread) is welcome in response to my initial enthusiasm.

Wait — I am not sure of that now. I think I was conflating this in my mind with some other websites I'd looked at recently. I retract this. Maybe they're scans of prints, maybe just digital scans of negatives.

I agree about the upper midtones, but when I copy and paste the image into Photoshop and look for blown highlights and shadows, I actually see a fair number of clipped pixels at both extremes in the image itself. So I am not sure I agree about the white and black points. I do agree, however...

That link has only one photo processed in Tokyo Pyro. I am not sure I see digital processing in that example, but I agree about others. Do you think the Tokyo Pyro example is digitally manipulated too?

Thanks for your thoughts and analysis. What do you think of the following translated and paraphrased excerpts from the link I gave above, https://tokyoaltphoto.com/tokyo-pyro/#yin_li_zitosuteinga_zuoru_hua_xiang Images created by silver particles and stain Staining developers, in addition to...

I was going to offer you my Leonardo although I know it's not a Zero Image. Glad you found one, and I hope you have fun with it! You should update this thread to mark it no longer wanted, I think. (I'm new here, not sure how to do that.)

I have recently discovered Tokyo Pyro developer, which seems to have been invented in the past few years. I haven't used it (more on that). My summary from reading about it online, "A new Pyro developer with very fine grain, high speed, high sharpness, and exceptional shadow detail. Best paired...

Thanks for that link! That seems promising. The info sheet is just what I needed, because it specifies that there are no frame numbers on the 35mm perforated bulk roll version of the film. Do you think that would also mean it has no other lettering along the edges? It's not specified explicitly...

I bought two 100-foot bulk rolls of expired film from eBay. One is Plus-X, expired in 1998. The other is in an aluminum canister, with a handwritten "High Contrast" label taped over the original, which was Plus-X. There was also a bulk loader with what turned out to be the last remnants of...

There was some mention of MaxMax in this thread, so I wanted to share my experience with them. I've had a disastrously bad, very expensive, very stressful experience with MaxMax. After the better part of a year during which he became completely unresponsive, I've eventually initiated a court...

Browsing around, I stumbled upon what looks like a popular mod for a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye: drill a hole in the top of the camera and set an ordinary nut (e.g. to thread onto a bolt) in it, and then a cable release can reach down to the shutter release plunger, which seems like it might have...

I have several cameras with awkward switch/lever style shutter releases and no cable release socket. Maybe the most obvious example is the Holga 120, but the Kodak Brownie Starmeter is another. Something has been tickling my mind for a while, wondering if I can repurpose some commonly available...