Hi from NY

[tommy1987]

Hi,

Been browsing the great discussion for a while now and finally took the time to register.

It's great to see such a thriving community of film shooters.

I shoot mostly 35mm and medium format and primarily black and white film (Acros 100, HP5).

Having recently moved here, I'm keen to meet other film shooters in NY.

Tom

 

[MrBrowning]

Welcome.

Where in NY are you from? I'm in Binghamton area.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Welcome to APUG

 

[HiHoSilver]

I'm quite recent & green. This has been the best place I've been for learning & improving. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

 

[fotch]

Hello and welcome to APUG.

 

[darkosaric]

Welcome to APUG !

 

[tommy1987]

Hi all

Thanks for the warm welcome.

I'm in Manhattan.

Does anyone know of good local-ish places to do darkroom prints (I need to learn about it too since I'm totally new to darkroom printing)? I develop at home but I'm not lucky enough to have a darkroom.

 

[Renato Tonelli]

The ICP offers classes in B&W Photography. They have excellent instructors.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Another NYC darkroom rental option:

http://www.photomanhattan.com/darkroom-rental-nyc-s/3009.htm

This is not an endorsement or recommendation, and I have no affiliation with them. Just a search result. It probably isnt a reflection on the quality of facility or service, but one thing I did notice which is a pet peeve of mine is that they refer to 120 film as 120mm. 120 film IS NOT 120MM! 120mm is almost 5 inches! When I was learning photography 20 years ago, NOBODY called 120 size film 120mm other than the most virginal of newbies. It seems that 120 film has become enough of a strange concept that I'm seeing 120mm being mentioned all over the internet as a film size. The ACTUAL dimensions are 6cm (60mm) wide by about 720mm long. The 120 designation came from the 12 frames of 6x6cm that would fit on a roll, and 220 film had 24 frames. They didn't call 220 240 instead because the rolls were the same width, but 220 was just longer, and at the time it made more logical sense to just indicate the doubling by changing the 1 to a 2. I guess it's with the death of 220 that the meaning of 120 became more obscure.

4x5 inch sheet film is roughly analogous to 90mm x 120mm. Technically 4x5 is 101.8 mm x 127mm, but a sheet of 4x5 film is actually a tiny bit smaller than the nominal dimensions. Regardless, 4x5 and 9x12cm film holders will both fit in the same camera without modification. But 120 film is medium format roll film, 4x5/9x12 is individual cut sheets of film.

 

[Trail Images]

A big hello from the opposite coast. Welcome to the APUG site and the various forums too.

 

[papagene]

Hello and welcome to APUG!!

 

[Xmas]

Hi all

Thanks for the warm welcome.

I'm in Manhattan.

Does anyone know of good local-ish places to do darkroom prints (I need to learn about it too since I'm totally new to darkroom printing)? I develop at home but I'm not lucky enough to have a darkroom.

Some people convert a spare bedroom to full print darkroom but that requires a lot of effort.

For a dry darkroom I normally use heavy drapes at night, or block window with hardboard and Velcro.
But a walk in cupboard is even easier.
Having exposed a print you can load it into a print tube or tank and process in daylight until after acid stop when you can open tank... Print tubes were the fashion for colour paper that could not tolerate a safe light but are still available used and useful for mono paper. Processing by time and temperature will stop you snatching which I cannot resist when tray processing.

Handling 1000 foot of cine and daylight loaders only needs a medium sized changing bag, maybe called a dark bag wrong side of pond.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Handling 1000 foot of cine and daylight loaders only needs a medium sized changing bag, maybe called a dark bag wrong side of pond.

So they are called dark bags in the UK, according to your post. We call them changing bags here.