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Just a scan for now; darkroom is down for a few more months. My 8x10 ground glass was used to diffuse the light over the flower... but maybe the other light spots are too distracting by comparison. I have higher hopes for the colour versions, which will be developed next week.

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I'd guess that LF is going to become harder and harder for me. Right now, GG focusing is easy, even pleasurable. Lugging gear is not exactly pleasurable but it's still relatively easy. Paying for film is also okay for now. But looking 10-20 years down the road.... yep I'll probably be doing...

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There are very good MF cameras that very inexpensive. For ~$350 you can get a fully functional mamiya m645 or rb67 kit and be shooting MF slides... Consider MF RFs and TLRs as well as SLRs.

Mark that image is unique and it is wonderful. Keep it up!

Yep, the joy of viewing slides is something that cannot be denied! Let me suggest that he consider taking some medium format slides and perhaps consider medium format emulsion lifts with the fuji fp100c. That is a slidelike pleasure.

I too am going to be learning how to do c41 and E6 at home. I can get 5x7 and 8x10 developed at a local lab, but now I am doing two odd sizes... 5x8 and 4x10. And apparently the machines at the local lab can't handle that. The thing is, I am very resitant to bulk processing, I like to do...

I would ask that fotoman consider posting full machine specs for their products. If they are really and truly pulling out completely.

Yep, I am aware that the common photographic usage of the term is different from my more specialized usage. But I have my own good reasons for being picky about this, and it's an issue that is becoming more important, not less. Not the least of which, as you know, when people make prints on...

The root (or at least one major root!) of colour balance problems is that some who use colour film do not colour meter.

P.S. QG, if we're going to have an extended discussion / debate on the technicals and the merits of colour accuracy and apo and all that then let me suggest splitting that discussion off to the new colour forum. It might be too far afield for this thread and it might confuse the issues brought...

That is false. As a professional spectroscopist I know otherwise. No such thing as a 100% apo lens, period. Indeed, there are plenty of lenses that come very close, and for almost all practical purposes they suffice. But there is always a finite set of wavelengths across that are fed into...

FI4E, as a film shooter, what I cherish most about film equipment is the diversity. That diversity, from SLRs to TLRs to RFs to view cameras and others, is a major advantage of shooting with film bodies. Maybe even the major advantage. So anything that implies that we will have less diversity...

Intriguing! Very nice.

apo=apochromatic All glass has an index of refraction n that varies some with wavelength (colour). Glass for which n is especially variable across the wavelengths is said to be especially dispersive.... it disperses the colours, like a prism. Glass that has a more constant n across the...

Well, yeah, certainly I agree that there are no magic bullets. But there are three types of images that, to me, strongly feature the characteristics of the lens. Namely: images from holgas, petzval/ antique brass lenses, and pinholes (if you'll allow me to call pinhole a lens). The effects...

I still get same day E6 service in all formats from 35mm through 8x10. Lucky me I guess.

Too bad :(

Bear in mind that colour rendition is one of many important ways we colour folks decide what lens to buy or to use for a particular purpose. There are some issues like warmth or coldness of the colour rendition that colour shooters tend to worry about more than b&w shooters, very generally...

I guess the "2x" you are referring to is a teleconverter, not an extension tube. Some people confuse the issue by referring to extension tubes as "tele-extenders." An extension tube is just an empty tube, no glass inside, that you put between your lens and the camera body. It simply extends...

Sorry to inject a bit of pessimism into this thread, but... I think spillover to film is short-term wishful thinking. People who start in digital are indeed interested in exploring more unique print methods and film and so forth, but they are going to be financially clobbered when they do so...

Get some extension tubes and you'll be able to focus much closer.

Excellent!

Trondheim is a lovely city in Norway! They have an important marathon there, every year I think.

Lots of good advice here. Not to disagree with the sage advice, but... on the other hand, it's only two stops, right! It's not a disaster. My guess is that the negs will still print quite well if overdeveloped a tad. You could simply do a clip test (if your first or last frame wasn't...

Yep, again, just try preflashing. Amazingly simple way to shift blocks of tones on the curve. Just be sure that you don't overdo it or you'll get posterized grey. After getting your highlight range where you want it, a treatment in selenium might firm up your blacks and give you a bit more...

The MP is no good in humidity exceeding that of Solms. I think you'd better send it to me for safekeeping. I will send you a lovely XA that will do better for your purposes. ...j/k.... I recall that in Bali the humidity was outrageously high- couldn't tell whether it was or wasn't raining...

Thanks everyone! I had a big whopping headache after working on these for a few mins., the smell really gets to me for some reason :s Michael, regarding the fragility of the blossom... along those lines, a polaroid/fujiroid transfer may be the best print option for these, I'll see if I can...

Again, a Chinese magnolia blossom. I think this particular shot is destined for a polaroid transfer.