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This is very cool!

Yes well the grain is everything... it controls the edge contrast, doesn't it? Anyway, I have no need to make tmax look like fp4+ or px... I have fp4+ and px. A blog article on wanking? Ahem, technicalism.... good idea ;)

Yes well unfortunately the resolution wankers got the better of Kodak's marketing strategy and as a result we have several rather sterile films... just my own inconsequential opinion, of course, and I am aware that some people feel that they can make tmax sing.

Perez definitely can't be feeling much love now :blink: But he's certainly not the only problem Kodak has had... many issues predate Perez. As I said somewhere in this thread, a departed friend of mine who had a long research association with Kodak considered them to be basically done in the...

Mmm yep, it's great stuff. I just shot two 9.5x14" sheets of PX myself ;) well, the aerial kind. Let me suggest Ilford FP4+. You might find it closer in feel to PX than tmax.

Agreed. Which is a big part of why the simple models assumed by some make no sense. As I said many times before, and as certain people chose to ignore, you need look no further than the cigarette companies to see how to make enormous profit even in the midst of a dramatic market decrease...

Definitely true. Particularly in the case of chapter 11, some people are working overtime to reduce the perceived value of assets. Meanwhile others are doing the opposite. So you see the extremes at work. If you are a Fuji or Ilford investor, you might even employ one of the naysayers to...

I would thank you all to stop quoting certain rambling individuals! The ignore feature works quite well except for when you quote them... ;) Meanwhile, for those on facebook, you might consider "liking" this (thanks for the link, David)...

Yes, you can do it. But I think if you draw a ray diagram you may see a problem if you use a pinhole, you bring it very close to your subject, and your film sensitivity curve isn't narrow. For one thing the material in which the hole is made would need to be very thin, or you'll get some odd...

Thanks David!

And yet here you are on APUG. With that mistaken viewpoint, shouldn't you be on some digi forum? ...don't know any pros who live off film... give me a break! I recently taught a popular b&w film course in a university; I have loaned film cameras to students taking photography in high school...

After recently acquiring quite a lot of aerial roll film of 9.5", 5", and 70mm widths, I wondered how to shoot the stuff in my 11x14". You could of course make a modified back and holders etc, but a much simpler and less costly solution occurred to me: a simple paper sleeve. This is...

Because it's moot! It's blazingly obvious to those of us who shoot film and digital what the strengths and weaknesses are. People who grumble and argue to try to wind back the clock are... well, they're going to get their clocks cleaned. This isn't about bringing back a mass market for...

Ron, I suspect that there is still considerable value in some of Kodak's chemistry and hence it will be sold as part of the restructuring. Anything of value will be sold off... it has to be. Creditors simply won't take no for an answer. You'll get to see Perez's undies on fleabay, just watch...

No Aristophanes, you are the one who doesn't get it. You keep asserting conditions A+B+C+D+ etc ad nauseum to keep film production alive. Gotta have motion pictures, gotta have labs, gotta have lots of new cameras, gotta have mass marketing, gotta have mass produced chemicals etc. ... gotta...

Has it ever worked for you? Or did it arrive that way? How did you test it?

I empathize with your own situation but I don't agree with that. I don't think that's a good fire line to work on. Lab overhead, the equipment cost, the personnel cost and idle time, the shipping issues... I think we'd be much better off educating people on how easy it is to do their...

That's an excellent suggestion from Kirk. I also imagine that there'd be less issue of aging with hydrochloric- it'd store better than the nitric.

I remain bitter that reala isn't available in larger formats. Fuji-san, why?!

You can get a lot of Fuji films from Japan Exposures, including quickloads of astia 100f and 160s.

Oh good grief. Somebody please pile this thread on top of all the other almost identical ones. Sorry, but certain people have proven quite clearly that they enjoy saying the same thing over and over, for 30+ pages....

haha no worries. Feel free to ask any and all questions! Most of us are here to be helpful and not just to bash the other thing!

Yes, you can do that. Just have a look at Jerry Uelsmann's work, you'll see that all manner of surreal things are possible. Well, the look from film is far more natural in general, two reasons being the inherent nonlinearity of the tone curve and the compensation that you can get in the...

Yes b&w is a very good place to start. It's very easy and you certainly don't need a darkroom. You might visit Freestyle Photo's website and look for a b&w starter kit- you probably find film and developer, stop, fix etc in one kit. If not then you can ask and they'll guide you through. POTA...

No.

This is super easy with b&w film. Just use POTA developer. 20 stops of range. No muss no fuss.

A few ideas come to mind. One is to make a traditional dodge mask as tomalophicon described. Another idea is to go ahead and make a print to the size you want and then cut along the offending boundary in the print and make a dodge/burn mask that way. Another idea is to play with a GND under...

Fantastic! The Schackleton photos are also very interesting and dramatic.

Quality schmality; learning schmearning. Use whatevah gets the job done :)

It's very difficult to remove the shutter from an RB lens. I tried. Very hard! You don't want to try interchanging :) Well.... I did think about trying that operation for the RZ 110 lens but never got around to it. APUG member Erie Patsellis has done all manner of adaptations of RB lenses...