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Just arrived was "A Winding Road" from our friend Ilya or "Bedrof" in Russia. A nicely captured country side road or path with a nice tone and distant layered effect of the hills in the background

A true test of the print paper and the dry mounting I did to the backing paper. I'd be interested to see how much damage it suffered!

8 cards in, out of the 15 so far. A few have come in envelopes and a bunch were exposed to the bumps and grinds of the postal system and have a few scars to show from it, others made it through without a mark.

Mine hit the post office this morning! They're on their way

David, thanks so much. This darkroom is really a sum of all of the things I have found along the way more than a designed to be that way... I've kinda gotten obsessed with buying old pro-level darkroom stuff at pennies on the dollar. The sink must have been a fortune new, but when I took it out...

Last camera was the Tachihara 45 Fiel with Schneider 210mm, Last "film" was Kodak Endura RA4 paper in lustre finish, filters required to balance colors 85A, 85B, 50YCC, 10YCC, 40MCC. Developed with an older working solution Dektol in total darkness, then fully exposed to light and Kodak RA4 Dev...

Sign me up for 15 cards. First time signing up, so I'll send in my address.

In good cosmetic and good working order, just needed light seals on back door, Nikon FM. Was free for whoever came and picked it up on FB marketplace. I liked the ad and waited a couple of weeks for someone else to take it. But after no-one came along, I had to save it, I mean how could you...

I have the DeVere 504 and the Omega D5 in both color head and condenser heads running at the moment. I have managed to re-home a few like the Omega C series that I used to have.

The fumes very much depend on how you handle the chems. I definitely would suggest some form of ventilation as the RA4 stuff isn't too nice and you can develop a sensitivity to it. If you are using drums and holding your dev/blix in smaller containers the fumes really aren't too bad. With a...

Not sure which photo you were referring to, but I think it is the curved stainless steel tray. It is a Mitchell / Heath "Color Canoe" for up to 16x20 inch sized prints. One tray for all of the chemicals, so you pour in, rock it back and forth then pour out, rinse and then the next solution...

Maybe this image will help, this is a floor model enlarger, braced back to the wall at the top. The white board was stolen from a drafting table and bolted onto the steel frame that the enlarger has built into the table. With the floor model, this board can be moved from the floor level up to...

I agree. Developing B&W film, whether sheet or roll is a relatively simple affair. Having a machine do it for you does not add any miracles, it just takes away the mundane tasks. Add all of the complications like expired XRay film, or unknown film and deciding which development chemicals to use...

So I do have to close the loop here and identify a few things. Yes there was still a free DeVere enlarger, and yes I did grab it off of Doc W. Thanks again! never leave a stone unturned, there may be just something under there. Free isn't really free. I had to get lens boards, master negative...

OK here is one even better, Fujimoto for $50. Seriously! https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/710836866750388