Recent content by Lemmythink

Truth is when I shoot digital , like film almost, I don't put my card in the computer. I like the process. I could save money and use empty cameras but that would be too silly even for me. I will go looking for DM things now. (EDIT private messages to fellow members will not be available until...

That's good news for most my film which was box speed. Not so good for the film shot subsequently with ChatGTP advice +1 stop exposure. I was thinking pushing would give the best range of tones (higher contrast) but Chat was adamant a 'thick overdeveloped' negative was best (referencing your...

Thanks. For the rolls they have the emulsion printed on the roll. For the sheets, maybe not. Both the Foma have the same notches. I tried to separate the sheets into different boxes and sides of card inside the boxes and for different developments, maybe exposures, but been ill and that was a...

So the ChatGTP realisation was from me asking questions over a few weeks finally dialing it down to "If I'm using FP4+ how should I expose and develop it for salt prints, is there any preference between PQ and MG developer for those doing this process?" . The reply was MG would "give warmer...

LOL. Out house...Iike that one! Yes the back is like my Sinar but smaller. TBH I'm not bothered if it's an original lens or other. I just wanted a working camera.

Yep, I got it with this description to use it straight away. Also noted range finder info, thanks. Got to be honest I thought the images to be overlaid would be a lot lot stronger. Took a while to see anything moving, but that as you say might be due to it being gummy and sometimes not actually...

What if you have negs that were not made in camera for salt printing, but you wanted to use them? I don't know lots about the process but might there be darkroom methods of intensifying the image that people use? I was wondering about contact printing negative/positives on paper with a...

OK thanks. Could the shutter have been damaged by a blow? Looks like it was thrown over a gate on to a path up the side of the house (eventho I entered delivery info at purchase and have a sign to a safe delivery place at the front door- in other words they didn't even try to deliver it...

Some things obviously wrong. Should the description be excellent for such an old camera? (Lens board not fitting, loose screw in finder, loose finder, fungus - not fibres it wouldn't wipe off easy , shutter not working and lastly a rangefinder I'm too lacking experience to say). Two things I'm...

So I can't get the quote to work. Here it is from koraks above Evaporation of greasy lubricants will happen; the rate of this is dictated primarily by the chemical makeup of the lubricant. This is the question. But maybe I misunderstand. Here is my thinking: Water based/containing lubes will...

It seems fungus can be an inevitable thing the older a lens gets. I live in a damp house and try to regulate it with the help of Relative Humidity (RH) Meters. They indicate I can drop the humidity in a container with silica gel beads to their limit of detection at 10% very easily and quickly...

I took a good look at the film in the tank before I poured out the fix on the next film I developed. There was a lot of bubbles down under the surface (about 1cm or more) in the reel. I had been using inversions. I tried mimicing deep tank development and there was a lot less bubbles captured...

I removed the second film yesterday in limited lighting and it developed without any lightbleed showing at all. Thanks for the congrats. It seems the camera is in good condition (only maybe a little wobble on the front standard that might actually be normal) and I'm quite thrilled to have it...

A wooden box! Of course, if the set up is constant...why not.

Did your source explain why he chose such a configuration? 40 inches extension is quite a big camera!