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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...

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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...

Well, okay, 15mL of nitric in 1 L of water is what, a ~200 mM solution? So you just make up a big bottle of that, which will be safer to work with, then you don't have to work with the concentrated stuff anymore. You can check the math... http://www.lgpnet.com/science/molarity.htm

What's the purpose of the nitric in this formula? Can you post the whole formula? If we know what it's meant to do we can probably suggest a substitute. If it's just to oxidize something then... For safety, what most of us do, who work with acids, is make a much weaker "x" molar solution...

Oh I know it's been done, but I think you will find that round and oval images fell out of favor around the time roll film was rolled out...

Kodak is agitating me a lot more than Ilford at the moment. Just saying.

Perhaps we should commission some round images and see what happens...

That's an interesting point, John; I wonder if Kodak's troubles might make Kodak cameras more collectible. Even Brownies and such.

Don't lament being too young! You can pick up amazing stuff online and play archeologist and figure out how it works. I am hoping to get one of the original telefax machines to work. I mean the drum ones that were around at the turn of the last century.

Certainly there are many exceptions, and individual compositional styles vary, but I'd like to point out that squares are often associated with more balanced, statuesque, timeless compositions. I am painting with a very broad brush, of course.

Intense. Very nice!

I wonder what people think of my pet theory that rectangles seem to correspond to dynamic compositions (implied movement and/or imbalance, sense of passing time) whereas squares tend to convey static scenes... often literally timeless and balanced compositions. Clive?