Hello there,
in charge of the photographic workshop of an art school in Paris since 1997 (B + W and color lab, shooting studios with flashlights and continuous lights all formats from 35 mm up to -sometimes- 8x10).
Involved in the digitalisation of the workshop since then (we knew it was coming) we now have closed the smallest lab to put big printers (that fail much more than enlargers !) and add also scanners to the workflow of the students that need it.
Analog photography is very popular among our students but the every day shrinking market is a disaster for supplies like chemicals, X-Tol, for instance...
We are now looking to produce homemade chemicals for B + W film and paper process so we can be autonomous.
I come here every time I need some informations about chemical formulas and had a lot of fun last year experimenting the film acceleration process with 8 x 10 slide films cross processed : it's incredible to see the colors appear in daylight !
Besides, I shoot films in 35 mm with Nikon and Leica and 4 x 5 " with Horseman or Sinar, only on E-6 purposed films that do not always get the right treatment.
Some exemples of my work can be fond on my old blog : kiloptyque.net (need to scroll a little to have some nice colors - sorry, lot of french inside ;o).
That's the kiloptyque, 32 films with 32 images on each strip = 1024 images with 38 meters of LED strip, a big light table
Last year I spend some time making a guillotine shutter for an enormous 36 inches aerial lens : https://hackaday.io/project/184837-how-to-use-an-aerial-36-inches-lens
the post is very long and has a lot of uninteresting details (because I explain all the fails... and it's not yet completely achieved).
For the scale, those tripods are very big ones : an old Gitzo N°4 with an enormous cinema head I thought I'd never use and a Velbon 830
I'm using Nikon or Olympus digital cameras and like to have fun with good lens like here (still french, but Deepl is your best friend) : http://www.cuk.ch/articles/5069/ and the sequel with more images : http://www.cuk.ch/articles/5674/
I made on a lathe an enormous ring to mount any reversed short focal on a Nikon 2,8/300 with an MFT camera : big rig for microphotography, 5 x magnification and very nice pictures with the Leica 1,4/50 asph.
an oyster, Marennes d'Oléron (I ate it afterwards)
in charge of the photographic workshop of an art school in Paris since 1997 (B + W and color lab, shooting studios with flashlights and continuous lights all formats from 35 mm up to -sometimes- 8x10).
Involved in the digitalisation of the workshop since then (we knew it was coming) we now have closed the smallest lab to put big printers (that fail much more than enlargers !) and add also scanners to the workflow of the students that need it.
Analog photography is very popular among our students but the every day shrinking market is a disaster for supplies like chemicals, X-Tol, for instance...
We are now looking to produce homemade chemicals for B + W film and paper process so we can be autonomous.
I come here every time I need some informations about chemical formulas and had a lot of fun last year experimenting the film acceleration process with 8 x 10 slide films cross processed : it's incredible to see the colors appear in daylight !
Besides, I shoot films in 35 mm with Nikon and Leica and 4 x 5 " with Horseman or Sinar, only on E-6 purposed films that do not always get the right treatment.
Some exemples of my work can be fond on my old blog : kiloptyque.net (need to scroll a little to have some nice colors - sorry, lot of french inside ;o).
That's the kiloptyque, 32 films with 32 images on each strip = 1024 images with 38 meters of LED strip, a big light table
Last year I spend some time making a guillotine shutter for an enormous 36 inches aerial lens : https://hackaday.io/project/184837-how-to-use-an-aerial-36-inches-lens
the post is very long and has a lot of uninteresting details (because I explain all the fails... and it's not yet completely achieved).
For the scale, those tripods are very big ones : an old Gitzo N°4 with an enormous cinema head I thought I'd never use and a Velbon 830
I'm using Nikon or Olympus digital cameras and like to have fun with good lens like here (still french, but Deepl is your best friend) : http://www.cuk.ch/articles/5069/ and the sequel with more images : http://www.cuk.ch/articles/5674/
I made on a lathe an enormous ring to mount any reversed short focal on a Nikon 2,8/300 with an MFT camera : big rig for microphotography, 5 x magnification and very nice pictures with the Leica 1,4/50 asph.
an oyster, Marennes d'Oléron (I ate it afterwards)
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