Heck I passed up a two week field and darkroom class that my coworkers set up with Ansel Adams because I shot 35mm slides and was so smart because I knew that the Zone System only worked well for sheet film! Now lets talk about serious ass kicking!
The CPA and CPA2 will not take the Expert Drums and perhaps not the 2500 series, while the CPP and CPP2 will handle both and have better temperature control. I use the 3010 Expert Drum for 4"x5" sheet film and it was recommended by FreeStyle and Per Valquartz. With the CPP2 and 310 Drum I get...
I found that not only is XTOL a fine grain developer the tonality is much smoother and the developer is very forgiving. Mistakes in pouring too slowly or improperly or mistakes in timing do not cause the film to have problems. I recommend it to people who are just starting out for those reasons.
It is often reported that XTOL gives a speed bump but I have never noticed because I just use it and do not do the technical analysis that is being demonstrated here.
The name for the present photographic movement may well be "The GWC Movement" or to be more politically named "The PWC Movement" which is an outgrown the democratization of photography with the development of the cell phone camera.
Where is this going? There are many threads dealing with what is or is not art that lead no where other than showing that people have different opinions and none of them will change one iota at the end of the discussion. This thread is about photographic trends not about trees falling in a...
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