Recent content by df cardwell

I just heard of Bill's passing. He was a fine friend, and an inspirational photographer. A very, very good man. Peace.

Any cyclists? A classic ride from The Birchwood up to Legs and back.

Michigan, Bob. Immigration keeps track how many Wings fans get over the border this time of year.

For a friend, a week before Christmas. We stopped walking as it began to snow, and made the picture.

'Standing' development' Rodinal can still grossly over develop film! Especially Acros. There is not any advantage to high dilutions of Rodinal over 1+50, except to slow the process down a little. You might try 1+50 for 16 minutes, and agitate it every 5th minute and see what kind of EI will...

Andy, make sure you turn the still off before you leave.

I was thinking something like that myself !

Photostock ! Birchwood ! I'm driving up Thursday am, via 96 / 127. Anybody need / share a ride ?

Years ago, I set up my Canon D30 on a copystand and used it to proof and digitize sheet film. Today, I use a Nikon D700 for both sheet film and roll film, and haven't touched my film scanners in over a year. I recently made a large palladium print from an old 35mm TX negative and pulled several...

Graphics arts material from another world. The paper contains developer, and was developed in a powerful alkaline bath, not washed, and stablised in a second bath, squeegeed and dried. This is a pre RC material, and was used when you needed prints in a hurry, but they didn't need to last. I...

Ken Ruth solved the problems years ago, and has more experience doing it than anybody.

UP-STRAP BTW, did you know you can remove the cover of the 'strap post' and replace it after attaching a length of climbing harness ? All sorts of solutions ! LOVE-UP STRAPS, though.

ANY film and developer combination used properly in order to make the picture you want to make. It is never the WHAT. It is always the HOW. Some combinations may be easier, but THAT depends completely on your vision, and how you want to work. (and there are usually many ways to use...

The truth was many were his early prints off negatives, Pretty significant improvement in enlargers from Pre-WW2 to Post-WW2 !

ic-racer: I'm sending you a PM.