Recent content by Mikey Antonakakis

Omega D5500 carriers look like this. They are not interchangeable with the D5 unless the D5 is retrofitted with the special cassette. If you got some of these, probably best to resell on ebay. I'm trying to clear up a couple details on D5500 negative holders/carriers. In the Omega...

Awesome, thanks for all the help! I'll come back with a scan or two at some point :)

Update: First development went pretty well! (single roll of 120 Portra 400) Still need to scan to really judge if things were good or not, but at a glance while drying, they are reasonable looking negatives to my amateur eye. (film was also exposed over a year ago so there may be non-development...

Thanks to you both! #4: do you just use water for fix, or mix in any chemical? #5 & 6: I am planning to use the filtered tap water for intermediate rinses (between bleach and fixer, and between fixer and stabilizer), and I’ll be using the stabilizer included in the Fuji Hunt kit, mixed with...

Not sure if I should start a new thread, I’d be happy to if this is too off-topic or too old of a thread. I’m looking to clarify a few small details before I start using the Fuji Hunt C41 kit with Jobo CPE2 with Lift. Question 1, age of kit: Purchased almost 2 years ago and didn’t open the box...

You can check the voltage to the bulb (carefully), if you have a True RMS volt meter. I’ll come back a bit later with the spec.

Small update: first of my two D5500s has made some black and white prints :) So far, a single 4x5 and a single 6x6 negative have been used (been spending my free time amassing darkroom supplies/accessories and restoring a Yashica-12), but working great! Enlarger sitting on the floor of my...

Definitely a lot of wiggle room in scanning, that's for sure! But I am working on adding a full analog fork into my current hybrid process, I've been getting a wet darkroom up and running (I restored an Omega D5500 and have been amassing other darkroom accessories at a rate that is alarming my...

Only included the Gold as an extra data point for that lab and a little more context for my impromptu mirrorless scanning with newly-acquired cheap light table - maybe it doesn't indicate anything, but the markings on the film border look thinner on the Gold, maybe an irrelevant comparison. The...

Thanks again for the feedback @koraks! Yes, that's essentially my scanning workflow with both Epson Scan with V600 (4x5 and 120) and VueScan (Coolscan V ED for 35mm). For Epson Scan/V600, I positive scan to TIF, set output to 0-255, and input black and white points based on max/min of the...

"Final" measurements for the shutter, 5 readings at each speed, at two aperture values, after replacing my photoresistor with a much faster response phototransistor, and with camera fully assembled. Basically all speeds with pallet engaged are running a little fast - adjusting the pallet...

Thank you for the assessment, it sure seems like development issue to me now. I remember thinking as I pulled the roll out of the final rinse "hmm, density doesn't look terrible, but sure looks monotone..." So digitization noise makes sense. Maybe I will scan samples from both rolls again to...

Ah, my apologies. I will see what I can do there, I don't have a light table at the moment but I should be able to use my phone.

I should mention both rolls were shot with same camera and lens (Canon EOS A2E with 50mm f1.8 II), under similar "pretty sunny in Colorado" conditions. It occurs to me, though, that it could be exposure and/or scan/conversion issues - there are some other shots on the Ektar roll that look a lot...