4x5 slide film?

mrred · Jan 1, 2016

The easiest way would be positive paper, but I was referring to normal paper developed via reversal process.

davedm · Jan 1, 2016

Peter

Thanks for the response. I will appreciate if you have a process for that. It would be helpful to me when I start printing and may be to some other members.

Thanks

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Roger Cole · Jan 1, 2016

Last I checked Dr5 was not offering reversal processing again yet after their move.

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Tom Taylor · Jan 1, 2016

Although I have shot a lot of 4x5 transparencies (At one time I was determined to purchase the Noblux 4x5 projector from B&H when I had enough money to pay for it ($3K) but when I finally got the money it was discontinued and I never could find a used one on the market except for one that became available from Eastern Europe for $2K. The guy had a 0 or 1 feedback's and at the time ebay didn't offer buyers insurance for sellers with that number of feedback's so I deemed it too risky.), and purchased a few hundred 8x10 cardboard slide mounts (Blaire Mounts) while on a road trip, I would recommend shooting 6x7 instead. The cost per shot is still reasonable and you would be hard put telling a well executed 6x7 from a well executed 4x5. And you can still find projectors and slide mounts for 6x7. After projecting 6x7 you wouldn't want to go back to a light table but viewing 6x7's on a light table with a Cabin 6x7 loup aint bad.

Thomas

mrred · Jan 1, 2016

davedm said:
Peter

Thanks for the response. I will appreciate if you have a process for that. It would be helpful to me when I start printing and may be to some other members.

Reversal processing film is the same as paper....there are a lot more steps involved....dev,wash,bleach,wash,clear,wash,flash,dev,wash and optionally fix. However, the results are stunning. As far as I know, there is not a process that grabs more detail than this.

Why doesn't everyone do this? It's not out of the bottle and it does have to get tailored to your film. You still need to experiment. If you are a person that is procedural and loves consistency, you will do fine.

It's easy to learn your first song on a guitar. It just may take a while for your first sell-out concert. It will take some time honing your reversal skills, but not as long as mastering a guitar. Practice makes perfect.

davedm · Jan 1, 2016

Peter

I do B&W film reversal and I am aware of your method and results although I am following Osbahr's method right now.

My question was for paper reversal. If you could direct me to one of your process or someone else's.

My apologies to OP for lot of off topic posts.

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Tom Taylor · Jan 1, 2016

I don't understand. Are you referring to reversing a paper negative?

Thomas

mrred · Jan 1, 2016

Tom: yes

DaveDM: There was someone here I was talking with about 6 months ago actively reversing paper. We were talking bleaches at the time, so I will have to dig through my emails. If you have not seen anything posted here in the next couple of weeks, send me a PM.

mrred · Jan 1, 2016

This might be where you want to go (there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Roger Cole · Jan 1, 2016

Roger Cole said:
Last I checked Dr5 was not offering reversal processing again yet after their move.

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It took a little exploring on their web site to find it but they still say they have not resumed reversal processing. I hope they do soon as I do want to try it.

http://www.dr5.com/blackandwhiteslide/dr5chrome.html

Dear Friends of dr5 The dr5-Film Lab has closed our location
in DENVER, CO. Our building has been sold.

The dr5 B&W-slide process LAST RUN was: on MAY 2015.
Currently there is no production for dr5-B&W slide processing.
We do not have a restart date set yet for our services.
Stay tuned for service updates.

Their new location is in Des Moines, Iowa.

removed account4 · Jan 1, 2016

unblinking eye has a good reversal formula too
http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/NbyR/nbyr.html
i;ve done it with paper, but my clearing bleach , well
it wasn't the right-stuff so my results weren't very good
it wasn't hard and was fun just the same ..

Drew Bedo · Jan 1, 2016

I would hesitate to buy expired color materials that are more than a year out of date, and I'd really choke if paying for any film new or old, that has to be shipped from around the world. I don't like buying film at retail from B&H or Adorama, but I have to now-a days.

Roger Cole · Jan 2, 2016

It depends how fast it is and how it's been stored. I have color film that's been frozen since new that's still fine nearly a decade out of date (100 speed stuff.) I have frozen Provia 400X a couple of years out of date that is indistinguishable from fresh (I bought it fresh and froze it, so I KNOW it's been frozen.) But I wouldn't trust 400 that was as out of date as my 100, or that hadn't been well stored. I got some couple of year expired Elitechrome 400 from [an online discount film seller I will never again buy from] and it was garbage.

OTOH hesitating to buy fresh film from Adorama or B&H or Freestyle is completely absurd. Even if you could buy what you want locally, how do you think it gets to you? It still has to be shipped, one way or another. It's fine. I have never had a problem with fresh film ordered online, even when it was TMZ or Delta 3200 that ended up sitting in my hot mailbox in the Georgia summer sun for half the day. The time its exposed to bad conditions is just too small to matter.

Poisson Du Jour · Jan 2, 2016

Drew Bedo said:
I would hesitate to buy expired color materials that are more than a year out of date, and I'd really choke if paying for any film new or old, that has to be shipped from around the world. I don't like buying film at retail from B&H or Adorama, but I have to now-a days.

I don't understand what you are talking about. What exactly is the problem ordering film from say Japan or Thailand, Hong Kong or Canada? It's done in Australia, and there is nothing to speak of. And doubtless members here on APUG are also doing it. If you don't like the retail prices, well, tough luck: jump online and make a killing. Simple. B&H is not exactly the cheapest to buy from in regards to film, and eBay sellers really can flog the often plain silly pricing at retail level. But like everybody else, if I have to, I will buy from retail (but it's not very often).

Colour materials are fine when expired. Experience guides the user, not pessimism.

4x5 slide film?

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