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Haven't seen The Artist yet but the snippets I've seen look very good. I just hope they don't, you know, come out with a 3D colourized version in a few months :confused: I suspect that we'll see more back-to-the-future cine in the coming years. There has been so much 3D / CG / blue panther...

Most of the nominated films were shot on film, weren't they?

Do I understand that this is meant to be a learning exercise? If so then why not go ahead and overexpose and then reduce development a bit and then see what your negs look like, i.e. look at the contrast index. Chances are you just need to tune the grade of your paper. Multigrade makes a lot...

That's true Bruce, there haven't been any direct accusations of mental illness... yet :)

Cool! Now throw it in gently boiling water, wait till the emulsion loosens up, and pull it off and put it down on a piece of smooth paper e.g. glossy inkjet paper. Trust me you'll love it!

Ach sh*t I thought we were done with the silly back and forth. People! Let... It.... Go. And shoot more film ;)

Great!

Yes well unfortunately St. Ansel was in a small minority and the same water has been used to process a lot of crap too. Plus you have to bear in mind that the air you breathe was once in the lungs of Stalin and Hitler and other deplorable characters... not just Jesus;) But you might be on to...

Oh no, the fabric motion is the best part of the whole shot!!! It evoked that great Steichen shot, for me, and some of Ian's work posted here. The horizon didn't bother me one bit; what did bother me was the lighting, which makes her nose glow and also makes a feature of her spine. Anyway...

For what it's worth, I am now experimenting with some outdated but carefully stored aerial +sex and it is very nice :) I paid next to nothing for it (thanks Mark!) and it's superb. Not a lick of fog. I agree that fp4+ is the film to try; with a bit of experimentation, you can probably get...

ZorkiKat (and others), what happens if you shoot RA4 paper in the camera and then contact print that to RA4 paper? Curious.

There is one concern when you use a small portion of the image circle- stray light. The dimpled bellows eliminate most of that issue, but... just something to keep in mind if you notice that there is overall lack of contrast or fog patterns.

Welcome! You can always use a larger format lens for a smaller format, but I fear the bellows length you would need for this particular lens. You'll have to figure that out, as mentioned above, and give it a go. For 4x5, 360mm is already quite long; I was using a 360 lens with a tele design...

I love the motion in the fabric and its sheen, and of course the porcelain skintone.

It's still available in 135... http://www.japanexposures.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=33 I don't see it in 120, sorry...

I think it's a great idea Jordan! Make it happen! And I hope that you will get some positive suggestions for how to pull this off. This really needs to happen.

I heard in another thread that Neopan SS is very close.

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Many things you can do. You can contact print to film, then enlarge to paper negs and touch those up on the backside in a perfectly analogue way. You can scan, fix problems, and have LVTs made, if some of the negs are really precious. Etc.

This takes artistic risk to a whole new level! Goodness... a lot of possibilities with this idea, but some people will probably find it very disturbing! To me it is a very interesting concept.

Very cool! Glad to see claybord getting more attention, I think it's got some great possibilities. I also tried varnishing and it does wonderful things. The other thing that adds a very interesting quality is encaustic wax. Beautiful image!

There is an informed school of thought that suggests you should get the camera with the the most flexibility for initial lessons, and that'd be a monorail like the Norma. It is a perfectly good learning camera, if you plan to work methodically through perspective correction and Scheimpflug and...

I agree that several of the ZFs appear to have the best "wide open" performance. Alas they are pricey, but you may find that with the introduction of the ZF2s, the slightly older ZFs may now be affordable. It's funny, people who think they need the very, very best performance will throw money...

Very interesting. Keep going with this kind of thing!

Moiz, for the subject matter described, I think a field or press camera would be a more appropriate purchase. Are you looking to do any kind of architectural photography requiring a lot of standard movements? Let me suggest a speed graphic, or if you don't require many movements at all, a...

I see no meaningful differences between 35mm and 120 reala. And yes I have both.

Excellent!

Well, you're pretty much on your own in most areas, but in my area, I have stapled two 5x8's together and had them E6 processed as 8x10 :cool:

I was going to recommend Burtynsky, but he's already been mentioned. So I won't mention that you should revisit Burtynsky ;) Actually, I think it's important to look at things that challenge you.

Thanks! Eddie, look for the MM1 recipe, that is an easy monobath to make and the chems are easy to get from the formulary. The only tricky bit is getting a good even mixture but I can give some tips when you're ready or you can search the forum and get the full story. There is a book by Haist...