large format to small format

[removed account4]

...i over exposed my negative of the sun by several stops but never experienced any moisturization...

mediteranian?

 

[k_jupiter]

Getting back to the original off topic;

Place your LF negative in the enlarger, turn the 150mm lens around so you can delarge to postage size image, print on cheap assed kodalith and develop in Dektol 1:25. Contact print onto another sheet of kodalith knockoff with a sheet of diffused opaque plastic (for maximum sharpness) and print as normal with your printmaker35 and a cheap old fogged 50mm Wollensak lens.

I'ld say you would get close to Leica quality with that.

tim in san jose

 

[k_jupiter]

contacted a machinist and they might take on my project
but i have a feeling it won't work unless i do something outlandish too
its not enough to mate 4 different lens cells that dont go together
but even the machinist was doubtful it would have any bearing on
the grain, or texture or contrast of my 8x10 film and making it
more like cheap 35mm ...
i live near an airport, maybe i will ask them to xray my film a few times
its only a few hundred dollars a box

he asked if i wanted to go amorphic
i guess he wanted to adjust my cells
or something radical, not sure what i will do now
that he is asking serious questions ..

Why the hell do you need a machinist if you are using toilet tissue tubes and duct tape?

 

[Dinesh]

Why the hell do you need a machinist if you are using toilet tissue tubes and duct tape?

For crying out loud, please use the search function before you ask a question that's been answered before.

 

[removed account4]

Why the hell do you need a machinist if you are using toilet tissue tubes and duct tape?

hi tim thanks for your suggestions.

i am truing to waste as much money as possible. id use paper tubes and tape,
but i dont want to be too much of a cheapskate ...
sure we have to eat but mac/ cheese and ston i mean ramen noodles are cheap ...


kodalith? can i get that at a pharmacy? i have to get pseudo-fed there these days behind the counter
i sometimes get my stop bath there. i dont wants o buy my films too many different places,
i get awfully confused when i have to make too many stops.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Kodalith is a type of headache pill that they use on the South Pole. It gives a cool image, especially in the winter time.

 

[Dinesh]

Kodalith is a type of headache pill that they use on the South Pole. It gives a cool image, especially in the winter time.

I thought Dwaynes stopped developing Kodalith in 2010?

 

[removed account4]

I thought Dwaynes stopped developing Kodalith in 2010?

can ot be developed in PEEro?

 

[markbarendt]

can ot be developed in PEEro?

Wow that was your 15,000th post.

And you were wrong I'm sure.

 

[winterclock]

Anything can be developed in PEEro if you add enough baloney.

 

[markbarendt]

Anything can be developed in PEEro if you add enough baloney.

Or Coffee

 

[markbarendt]

and vitamin C

 

[Dr Croubie]

I've done Kodalith in Rodinal, 200+1. That ultraconcentrated rodinal and a few drops of water really brings out the blue in the skies (once I airbrush them blue)

 

[markbarendt]

I've done Kodalith in Rodinal, 200+1. That ultraconcentrated rodinal and a few drops of water really brings out the blue in the skies (once I airbrush them blue)

Why blue?

 

[Dr Croubie]

Why blue?

Because if your skies are red then you're holding the camera upside down (wasn't this the original problem?)

 

[markbarendt]

Because if your skies are red then you're holding the camera upside down (wasn't this the original problem?)

So then if I turn it 90 I get green?

 

[Dr Croubie]

So then if I turn it 90 I get green?

Only if there's trees around. There's not many here in Aus, it's all red dust and blue skies, one or the other.
If you're up in the Northeast US in Autumn (or fall, depending on how much you've been drinking), no matter which way you turn the camera all you'll get are red and yellow autumn leaves. Just don't point it straight down to get blue from those lakes you get up there, that's the easiest way to have a Fall.

 

[removed account4]

Because if your skies are red then you're holding the camera upside down (wasn't this the original problem?)

hi dr C

well, that was my original problem of last year or the year before ( broken camera ! )
but it is compounded upon because i want my uber larger format negatives
to look more like negatives from my pen ft or my friend's minox. the pen FT's
small negatives have a beautiful bouquet to them, small as they are, when i get them enlarged
it looks like a nor'easter sometimes but if i am rolled back a few yards its sweet.
the grain and textures, and microcontrast, and contrast and tonality all work inconcert ...
with my 11$ a piece sheet of film ( i only use the best ! )
they just have tonality, no grain, no microcontrast, the nor'easter's not there!
when i try to reduce them or enlarge them. people told me to join the
amidol azo chuckwagon for the 3D without the glasses, but its a nobrainer
its not quite the same and i wish it was.

ive done everything **I** can think of except change my format back to a small one.
heck the selling point of large format is that is so much better than everything else because
it is so large, expensive, german lenses, expensive, bulky, slow, hard to get a sharp image
hard to process the film, you know, BETTER IN ALL RESPECTS.

i get out of my iron lung every once in a while and usually my butler does all the exposures
and processing ( although i keep in close contact via cctv walkie talkies and VC )
i enjoy my hobby ( his hobby ? ) so much that i don't really want to go back to a leica
micro formats are for chumps, you know what i mean...

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Pants!

 

[markbarendt]

Down!

 

[removed account4]

fellas
im not in a nudist colony you know

 

[markbarendt]

Wow, outside the colony that takes balls, errr, ummm...

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

fellas
im not in a nudist colony you know

You have strange ideas of pants. I always wear Lucky brand jeans when I process film.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

What a fascinatingly transparent thread, John...



Ken

 

[eddie]

ive done everything **I** can think of except change my format back to a small one.
heck the selling point of large format is that is so much better than everything else because
it is so large, expensive, german lenses, expensive, bulky, slow, hard to get a sharp image
hard to process the film, you know, BETTER IN ALL RESPECTS.

I had the same issues, John. I tried everything... stand development (but I got tired and my knees hurt)... rotary (in the washer with my dirty socks)... agitation (went to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Technically it was stand agitation 'cause I stood on line, waiting for my number to be called). Wet plates... dry plates... paper plates... microwave safe plates...Nothing worked. The cameras got in the way. So, I ditched the cameras but still use film. Problem solved!