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Well then I apologize for saying it ;) The thing is, direct sun portraiture is rarely attractive even with print film; with slide, yikes. Maybe that also goes without saying.

A basic issue is that the colour temp in the shade is different from that in the sun. If you have a mix, you are not going to solve that problem with any filter. It will shift both. The best slide film for mixed light, hands down, is astia. Hear me now, believe me later. Other than that...

Rudeofus, is your output analogue (ilfochrome)? Or are you planning to project these? Otherwise I'd shoot normally on astia and slightly adjust warmth afterwards. Oh and provia 100F blues up on me all the time, if the colour temp is the slightest bit off of 5000K. Astia does much better for...

Offhand no, it feels light to me! I can weigh it for you but... it's light.

Hoi Thomas, welcome!

Yup, some time ago I posted some shots here from panatomic x dated before my birth and they were fine. The film was stored at room temp. A bit of fog but no big deal. I've also used coated plates from the late 60s, they give low contrast but... kinda cool actually. Anyway, you know, Fuji has...

Why not just make up half rolls from the 220. Easy to do, you just need an extra spool and some paper (which I typically keep when I develop rolls myself). With the 120 backs I use, the lack of backing paper hasn't produced any problems when running 220 through. That's not a guarantee, mind you!

I have the 45 N and like it. But in my opinion the 55/2.8 is superior in terms of colour rendition. If you shot b&w though, you won't see much -if any- difference. Given the closeness of the prcies, I'd say go for the newest lens.

It's unfortunate that the backing for the instant b&w films is so horribly non-transparent, otherwise you could flip it over and do a contact print to make another neg. Also, my various attempts to get the emulsion off the b&w films have not worked, so far. With the fp100c it's easy, but not...

Bite your tongue! Look at the work of Vermeer and contemporaries, much analysed by Hockney and others. For the past 350 years or so, quite a few*** painters have emulated limited DOF. You won't really see how much of a revolution for painting that was until you look into the pre-Vermeer work...

I agree with Mike. I'll just add my usual speech, which is this: look, MF is generally more specialized than 35mm. Use that, to your benefit. What annoys me is when somebody alleges that a single MF camera it the be-all / do-all / best-in-show. It's nonsense. A major reason why I went from...

Flat as in tonality? Or in terms of depth perception? Tonally flat is easy. First it's the lighting (lots of fill), then it's the film/dev choice (you'd want lowish contrast index and maybe even an expired film), then it's the print grade and the type of print e.g. silver or Pt/Pd or...

If you come over I can probably assemble some folks. We had a nice mini-APUG summit in Charlottesville last year and it'd be nice to do it again.

Well don't frown! I don't mean to dissuade you... just dress accordingly ;) and have a good time. It is a beautiful area and if you stop in to a bookstore you'll likely find plenty of visual material to motivate you. And yes, now that I see you are from Arkansas, you'll be totally fine! It'll...

??? He wants to slit larger film...

P.S. Most of the things I mentioned already exist in some form, the technology simply hasn't trickled down to the commercial camera level... and won't for quite some time.

Ah yes Biltmore. Thanks. A good destination.

Well, SLRs will disappear for sure (and good riddance, in my opinion). There will be (and some would argue, already are) electronic viewfinders that make mirrors and little viewfinders obsolete. The very high end EVFs are way too costly for now but that will change. For some time I have...

Yeah I think the 90 C probably should have a floating element. The 90 KL does have one. But that shouldn't affect center sharpness- it's mostly an edge sharpness issue when shooting wide open. Since there is no AF :p on the RB, you might think first about your focusing technique and GG and...

Yes indeed... very hot, very humid. Frankly I'd be pretty uncomfortable there in July. Consider sooner! Or later! Lots of bears, that could be fun. It's been a while but I recall being very impressed by the Smokies near Asheville NC. I drive through WVa regularly and there are many times...

What are you unimpressed with? Sharpness, contrast? Bokeh? Heavy tripod doesn't mean much at all; tripod coupling can be just as important as the actual weight of the tripod. Did you use MLU? Always use MLU on the RB if you can. Even on a heavy tripod, if your coupling is a bit dodgy, you...

Well, I have to disagree back at ya! You can see some differences between different kinds of gear, but... sharpness and contrast? Tonality? Colour rendition? Nah.

Scott, I took up monobath just to combat some difficulties I had with 11x14. I haven't had time to do a comparative study but when I do, I will report here. The main benefit that I see of monobath is that it is rather insensitive to agitation, because the dev take place so quickly. So alleges...

Well, you do not want to use flickr (or even the APUG galleries) as the way to judge... the downsizing and pixelation tends to make everything look equally bad. (Some would say "equally good" but I tell you, the crap that I see on my screen is nowhere near the impact of an actual analogue...

I could be wrong but I think the 70mm width was originally meant to be double perfed.... so, same image area as 120/220, but with sprockets on both sides.

Hmm. For printing colour neg to b&w paper, the digibase (maskless) film might do a bit better than the normal colour neg film I tried. I might give it a go. But if reds and greens play an important tonal role in the scene, then you'll likely get much better results printing colour slides to...

Thanks! I am bugged by the slight asymmetry now :s I think I got some better versions. Anyway, I am looking for ward to working with the b&w. Did one on ortho (which should darken the green relative to the blues). If that doesn't work then I'll blue filter the slide and enlarge it to ortho...

Enjoy LF Lori! It's not something you can half-ass, you need to jump right in and commit to it for a bit, work through the compulsion to tilt, swing & shift the crap out of everything (everybody revels in the new degrees of freedom!)... and then settle down and begin really to enjoy it.

You're certainly welcome John! This is the first one I've shot, it was a rather alien encounter.

Yes, AF is the most overrated feature for me as well. I do like focus confirmation, however.