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The last thing you want to do is go looking for a new person before the sh*t has hit the fan. It'd be really hard to find a competent new CEO who wants to begin a new position prior to chp 11. Better to pin the tail on the donkey and then get a new person once it is clear that there will be...

If I were habitually shooting people with the 7ii/7/6/6mf in a "portraity" way (for lack of a better term), I might perhaps be inclined to adjust development for lower contrast. But for a scenic / documentary / ethnographic context, the mamiya RF lenses just rock. No question about it. I also...

You are describing the rz!!! The rz has a 110/2.8 lens that is very sweet and very nice. Aside: I use the 110 on my rb in fact, but it only works for near focus (portrait is ok) unless you do some further modification, and there is no shutter control. All you have to do is pull two little...

Buy bulk films *now*. Well, I take that back, it depends on your currency at this moment. For the US, it's sensible to buy now. Our damn currency is far too strong and getting stronger. Our trade deficit is going to be historic by the time all is said and done with the Euro.

Everybody wants you to keep your stuff. Well I don't know, I have two rooms of the house jam packed with stuff that I seldom use. It's not good! :confused: If there's anything worth hording right now it's film :) If unused gear is tying up your cash that you might otherwise use to get the...

Some calcualtions will get you in the ballpark, but there are other things besides inverse square that matter too, so it's always best to do a test print. Just go ahead and project, seek out some portion of the projected image that contains the tones you want, and do a test on a small...

I was able to get a pretty big batch of Slavich from freestyle just now. Just call and ask what they have left. Great stuff indeed, I am stockpiling quite a lot of double weight matte grade 3.

Good to see some legal progress being made. Chp 11 is good for Kodak.

Isn't that the case now, anyway?

I also prefer the 6 to the 7, in spite of concerns about a fragile winder and so forth and the lack of the superfreakignwide lens. The other slight letdowns of the 6 are the lack of multiexposure and the 75mm lens isn't fast. But the collapsibility of the 6, and the square format make it my...

Curious. Show! I wonder if it is some odd optical effect due to two negs being close together.... isn't the extra film coated on both sides? If so then I guess one emulsion will be sharp and the other not... and then... I don't know. Try printing it! Interesting.

D-types were a dead end in my opinion. I don't think there'd many offshoots from that at all. It's a very limited technique. Anyway, photography almost certainly started with leaf prints, long before Scheele and all the rest. Starting with leaf printing, on the other hand, I can well...

Veery different cameras. Apples and oranges, really. If you need the versatility e.g. to do tight portraiture and landscape, then you have to go with the hassy or a similar MF SLR. But for scenic, documentary, landscape, travel, the 7 is very hard to beat.

Ah!!! Required reading! It will really bring the landscape and history to life. The sagas are quasi-factualized novels that present ~1000 years of Icelandic history. In the sagas you will learn wonderful things like what went on at Thingvellir, who bared her breast to ward off a native...

Eat skyr! Buy sweaters and sagas and a Sigur Rós CD. There is an English newspaper for Reykjavík that may help on city life: http://grapevine.is/Home/ How long will you be there? My best advice is first to go soak in the Blue Lagoon and contemplate the meaning of life. There is a lot...

Well why not first dupe the thick neg onto something much more sensitive e.g. film. The problem here is that you have an ~ISO 3 material. You can dupe it to film and rate that film at whatever you please.

I doubt it's discontinued. My sense is that they are trying very hard to stake out the 645 market. No worries, the rz will be available for a long time.

Lauren has a big enough bit to drill for oil.

You can shoot 6x8 on the rb too ;) (but not on the rz, it turns out)

It's all good. Thanks.

As I scan over this thread (and scanning in this manner is something that I do quite often and without apology), I feel compelled to use my digits to tap my encouragement into the keyboard. I hope that my digital encouragement brings you some humor.

Whatever solvent you desire, I am fairly certain it can be kept from drying or a reasonable period. Unless it is especially volatile.

Well, that's okay, you can probably maintain enough humidity or you can use a solvent that doesn't evaporate very quickly. Simply storing a plate in a cool box with some water in it will keep it wet indefinitely.

You could be more meticulous than I and do step wedge tests and nail everything down very well. I should do that, as much as I blab about this. But I honestly haven't had much difficulty getting good enlarged negs just by exposing a few test strips. Granted, I am probably more interested in...

Spin coating will give very controllable thickness. But I kinda doubt that you really want to expose this in camera. I think you'll want to try it under an enlarger first. The exposures may be unreasonable for in-camera work. At least the photopoly I have played with needs quite a lot of UV...

What about projecting the image onto a sparkly cine screen and re-photographing it? If that slightly diffused, sparkly look is really what you want...

Not sure why you'd pick f/1, but otherwise it sounds good. As I just mentioned, my own approach is just quick trial and error. Your approach will be better, once you work out the details. I had the idea just to take a camera in the darkroom, project the slide on a standard surface (grey?) and...

Yes, I suppose that you could, but what I do is just sacrifice one piece of film and make test strips from it. And then I determine optimal exposure and development just like I would for paper. Not for contrast control. It won't work like MG paper, if that's what you're asking. But there...

Very nice. Thanks Simon! I just bought several boxes of 11x14 hp5+.

I make enlarged b&w negs from colour slides on panchromatic b&w film (e.g. tmax). Works nicely. Easy.