Recent content by bewilson

I still mourn the loss of Velvia-50@40 and Fuji Type 35 printing material.

I'm looking forward to these discussions!

When I look at my landscape work I find my best shots are all using a portait lens. It just works well for composing closer and distant features. And if the scene doesn't compose the way you want it, you move 'till it's right. As an artist friend of mine (Michael Steele of South Dakota) told...

I have a 25-year-old Berlebach Report 3032 tripod (much like the current model Report 432 tripod) that has a built-in ball head. It's been moving pretty stiffly for years (decades) and I want to losen it up a bit. When I first got it the ball head seemed a little lose, but that went away pretty...

I gotta say, some of the stunts in the video go far beyond anything I've ever seen. I live and shoot in Utah, and I've seen lots of people, but no one brought a crane! Here's a paragraph from an essay I wrote 20 years ago on shooting in Bryce Canyon National Park: The "best light" I was...

I don't think it's a fingerprint; nobody has lines that linear, and they always loop around the tip. Even monkeys and koala. It's likely a chemical on your gloved finger with a higher surface tension than its attraction for nitrile. Maybe you touched the chemical, then waited a bit before...

I found the video I saw. It's American Experience, "The Wizard of Photography" from 2000. Here is the YouTube link, starting to the scene I remembered: Clearly they are pulling the emulsion off first, then floating it onto a plate. But it's a recreation, and might not be the way it was...

What I remember from a documentary I saw decades ago was a 100-photo paper strip being developed, I think cut into frames, then by hand underwater the emulsion placed on a glass plate for a contact print to be made, then washed and recycled. I thought the camera was a Brownie, because it was a...

My innner chemist just got interested. Looking at https://www.ready.noaa.gov/documents/TutorialX/files/Chem_henry.pdf which shows how much each gas dissolves into water, here are the relative solubilities of some common gasses that aren't acidic nor basic: Gas Solubility (molar/atm)...

Welcome! I look forward to seeing your work.

Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome and good wishes. The admins just combined my old APUG account with this one, and I went from a newbie to an old timer in a day.

I'm in Utah. Just rejoined the forum. So, the Utah forum isn't dead, just down to one post every two years. See you all in 2028!

That's kinda exiting to hear. I'm looking forward to that.

Boy, that's good news to me. I presume that means I print the color negative on a single-layer paper (single-grade)?

Thanks for your comments, folks. I'm looking forward to B&W. I pulled out most of my LF gear last week and found that I had loaded my film holders 15 years ago with Velvia. So the first step for B&W was removing all that unexposed film. Unfortunatly my stuff was not stored in a freezer, so I...