Search results

lol One generation shouldn't get you in trouble with the law. Two, well... that's not legal in most States.

Bear in mind that you can dupe to larger negs... just one way to get into large contacts without getting into larger shooting gear. Hey it was good enough for Edward Weston.... Assuming that it's done carefully, I'll claim that you can hop one generation (e.g. 4x5 -> 5x7) or a bit more with no...

Beautimous!

Yep, I use tmax.

Please join the colour group! Lovely.

Ah okay, sorry. So sure, you can make a dupe c41 neg from a slide. I think it'll be difficult to get it just right. For one thing I'd worry about the light source, it'd have to be bang on 5000K.

Well, whether lightjet is truly analogue is a subject of debate. I think it is analogue output in terms of visual impact and in terms of the feel of the paper and its storage properties, which is enough for me. But some folks may argue that if you get out your microscope, you can see exposure...

How about cutting your lids from delrin. I doubt you will ever find a paint that is impervious to the pH swings of the development process. Resin, maybe, but paint- I doubt it. How about polyurethane.

P.S. Let me just add that if a person wants to do a b&w conversion with virtually no generational loss then drum+LVT is the ticket. But it's pricey and not as much fun as doing your own thing ;)

Well, if you start with a colour neg then you'd have to make either a b&w or colour interpositive first, then a final b&w printing neg. You can do it for sure, but it's harder because you then have two steps over which to control contrast. Controlling contrast with colour materials is going to...

For the r72, I'd recommend trying a compensation factor of about 8-9 stops, assuming that you're in good sunny-16 weather and your scene contains fresh spring foliage. I think I developed per the massive dev chart last time around and it was fine. So, presoak and then D76 or ID11 at 6...

I haven't prepared a tutorial but here goes. First of all you'll likely want a panchromatic b&w film for best results; I use tmax. Acros would be fine, but compare spectral sensitivity charts and see what that tells you. I suppose you could decide whether you want a low or high contrast...

How about that. The tree really pops out in the light, against the dark clouds. May I suggest decentering it a bit, by a slight crop? That will create scale interest, I think, because one would notice the large tree versus the others along the horizon. (This comment coming from somebody...

Yup that looks like there was a lamp change. To take these data, one would ideally have a lamp with relatively flat output across the wavelength range, but that was basically impossible to get across the whole range from UV to IR. Now you can do it with a really good white light source e.g. a...

B&w films are less grainy than colour slide? I think not. Just put them side by side under an enlarger, it's plain as day that the slide is smoother. It's pretty hard if not impossible to use a grain focuser with modern slide films like astia. The closest I've come to that with b&w is maybe...

Ah okay. So looking at that data of yours, do you suppose we are just seeing the native halide bump?

Swapping out the green sensitizer for the IR one(s) would make good sense, since most people who shoot IR are looking to get Wood effect. If the film were sensitive to green reflections and IR reflections then it might be too easy to "blow" the highlights off leaves. Not sure why they'd want...

Oh you may be right, I haven't been following it closely. Well then...!

Hmm, I think I paid something like $23 for my last roll of HIE. :o But there's no way you should get anywhere near that for typical b&w films and processing. Get thee to freestyle for some arista or such, and yes, developing b&w is about as easy as mixing a martini. Developing &w 35mm is...

My guess is that there is an AH dye on some of the current films that could be washed off with buffered water before exposure. Also, you might actually defeat the AH layer by placing a reflective metal behind the film. Been meaning to try both (though I personally don't care halation most of...