Recent content by Ballinderry-Michael

Thank you for that. I watched it and am now off to develop yesterday's roll of Rollei IR.

Sorry to come in late on this with a pedantic "correction". Vellum, as used before books were printed, was calf skin; and parchment was sheepskin. The modern materials are named for their surfaces' resemblance to those.

Your camera's not equipped to read DX codes, is it?

I've found that 5 minutes in Ilfotec HC 1+31 or Bellini Euro HC same dilution give acceptable results. I expect that HC-110 would do the same. It's "Rollei", by the way - not "Rollie".

On the principle that fooling the system sometimes works, try opening the page by typing just "unblinkingeye" and then Ctrl+Enter.

I still use my 20+ years old Epson F-3200. It got a bit of a new lease of life when I switched from Epson's software (latest available versions compatible with the model) to Vuescan. For flatbed work, I have a simple Canon USB-powered scanner which cost me less than £30 a few years ago. It can...

Just out of interest, what does "Made in Germany" mean?

Thank you for that. I don't use a smartphone, by the way; so option 2 will have to do me.

A small question in connection with two-step verification: I normally just stay logged in. Your post persuades me to enable two-step. Is it best in that case to log out each time I have visited the forum?

I'm very puzzled by this thread. My Ilford extractor, which I've had for at least 15 years, has never failed me. I probably need to use it five or six times a year. It works on the same principle as the one in foc's video and is still as good as new. It came with spare "blades", which have never...

Pedant warning: The correct expression is de minimis - Latin for "concerning the smallest things" There's also a legal maxim, "De minimis non curat lex" - the law doesn't concern itself with trifles. Because the word "de" puts the word it applies to in the ablative case, "minima" (the...

That's my experience as well.

There's a nice animation here showing precisely why the wheel is distorted. That should help avoid further speculation.

I don't possess a high-grade inkjet printer. Until a local lab (in Lurgan. Co. Armagh) closed, I'd take colour work to them in the form of digital files to be printed on photographic paper. They were nice to me, an amateur among their mainly professional clientèle. I understand lab prints on...

An unusual snapshot by Kertész is of four of his wartime fellow soldiers amicably shitting together. This poor scan is page 21 of Kertész on Kertész, BBC 1985. His comment is at the bottom of the page: I hope he thanked his friends for sitting for him. An ordinary photograph; but I think the...