Hi everyone,
I am joining with an interest in learning more about film photography, developing and printing. I have already learned a lot just reading and posting a few questions/problems and getting generous feedback.
I have taken to rangefinder cameras, especially a Barnack iiic, an M4, and soviet Kiev 4a, and Fed 2d. I am looking forward to shooting with a Mir that I am awaiting delivery of. I also have a Pentax 67ii which had been my father and is the only (regrettably) of his film cameras that I kept when he passed away.
We have a community darkroom here in Cleveland, which got me started developing and printing. I set up my own darkroom in my condominium unit with a Craigslist Beseler 23c. I use a spare bedroom as the dry room and the only bathroom as the wetroom, breaking it down and setting it up each session.
I have been learning from Ansel Adams' books, and am currently studying and trying his suggestions of film testing, albeit without a densitometer.
I am glad to have discovered this website and the forums and the generous and encouraging members that animate it!
the picture below was taken on the M4 with a 7artisans 28mm lens, 1/30s, f/2.0, Kentmere 400, developed in Cinestill Monobath DF96.
I am joining with an interest in learning more about film photography, developing and printing. I have already learned a lot just reading and posting a few questions/problems and getting generous feedback.
I have taken to rangefinder cameras, especially a Barnack iiic, an M4, and soviet Kiev 4a, and Fed 2d. I am looking forward to shooting with a Mir that I am awaiting delivery of. I also have a Pentax 67ii which had been my father and is the only (regrettably) of his film cameras that I kept when he passed away.
We have a community darkroom here in Cleveland, which got me started developing and printing. I set up my own darkroom in my condominium unit with a Craigslist Beseler 23c. I use a spare bedroom as the dry room and the only bathroom as the wetroom, breaking it down and setting it up each session.
I have been learning from Ansel Adams' books, and am currently studying and trying his suggestions of film testing, albeit without a densitometer.
I am glad to have discovered this website and the forums and the generous and encouraging members that animate it!
the picture below was taken on the M4 with a 7artisans 28mm lens, 1/30s, f/2.0, Kentmere 400, developed in Cinestill Monobath DF96.