Recent content by bambiwallace

i have many bottles of the marshalls neutral gray spotting fluid. they have turned blue, green, purple. i no longer use marhalls. the peerless set of dry dyes are stable and come in five different colors and can easily be mixed.

i have seen bubbles like this in b/w film. if along just the edge it's because of too little developer. like those in your background, it was because the student who used the reel prior to the person getting bubbles did not thoroughly wash the reel after the photo-flo. the photo-flo was dried on...

the polywarmtone emulsion tones beautifully in selenium. much prefer anything to liquid liqht due to narrow opening of the bottle. it's so much easier and preferable to scoop out only the emulsion you need and will be melting.

a friend who worked as a framer at a museum took my scratched up nielsen frame into her garage and buffed the frame with very, very fine sandpaper. she then painted it with black krylon spraypaint. it looked better than new, actually better than it looked originally.

I very much agree. I purchased a peak grain finder because I liked the ones we had at school. After I got a grant I purchased a peak one for $300. Imagine my disappointment when I realized the microsight worked soooo much better for me when enlarging color negatives and it was only $30...

Amy Blakemore. diana and robot camera photos.

in college when i was trying to decide between canon and nikon my professor told me to look through both viewfinders to determine whether or not i could see the full frame. i couldn't see the full frame on the nikon but could on the canon. i went for the f-1.

A friend with a Minox ML recently had this problem with his film. Everything was fine through exposure #23 and then all this weirdness happened. Starting with #24 and through the rest of the roll, double exposures, dark line through the middle, advance issue. This was a brand new roll of film...

thanks for all of your replies which i will send on to my friend.. for sure, wasn't the squeegee. so grateful to have this film photo community!

a friend asked me to look at his developed film. the streaks run the length of the film which is delta 100. the same person had the same issue with hp-5. the streaks are not on the surface of either side of the film. i have never seen anything like this and don't know what to tell him. he...

I've had very good luck with Sprint brand wetting agent used with a yellow 3M sponge soaked in the WA and ringed out until not soppy. I never use a sponge that is already moist when purchased. I have never had any spots with Sprint and very much prefer it to photo-flo.

vania- how do you dry your film? i have experienced something similar to the lines on your negatives that you showed in your early posts. the lines on my film were caused by excess wetting agent running down the emulsion when it was almost dry. in addition to the lines i am seeing round marks...

i will take all of your hp5

we used spotone for decades and then switched to marshall's when spotone was no longer available. what we found with the marshall's "neutral black" is that the color changes over time. we have various bottles of the "neutral black" that are now green, lavender, blue- basically unusable. i...

i would like twenty -five. thanks