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That is what I had thought, based upon the lack of response I got from them awhile back when enquiring about their enlargers. Too bad. But at least there are still a few options for new enlargers.
How good are those brand new Kaiser enlargers?
I've been toying with the idea of setting aside film photography for a few months during the gloomy winter ahead and trying some darkroom printing of existing negatives and I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of buying/fixing old gear.
I'd be looking for something able to do 35mm up to 6x9.
I've been toying with the idea of setting aside film photography for a few months during the gloomy winter ahead and trying some darkroom printing of existing negatives and I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of buying/fixing old gear.
I'd be looking for something able to do 35mm up to 6x9.
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Scratch that. Winter darkroom printing idea set aside. No time, no room, I can outsource printing to a skilled artisan anyway. And I much prefer photographing things than printing them.
I just bought a new CD transport + DAC (this one, for anyone who's interested) and will spend the gloomy Winter evenings rediscovering my 1000+ jazz/classical CD collection on the reading chair, with a good Steidl reprint of my favourite Robert Adams on the lap. Luckily I never sold my CDs, but it's sad they've been sitting in storage for so long after my move.
Sometimes I forget photography is not the only hobby and tinkering with darkroom printing would rob me from the little time I have left for other interesting activities.
Having said that I wish Ilford all the best - what a fantastic company, and I say that as a lapsed Foma fanboy. I've just purchased another 20 pack of HP5+ in 120 together with a few boxes of Microphen. HP5+ at 800 in Microphen 1:1 will be my Winter companion when out and about.
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Deciding what you want to specialize in and then focusing on that is a great way to get ahead. Kudos to you.
We used to simply call this a 'CD player'...? Ah well. I guess high-end audio comes with its own jargon.
Ah well spotted sorry - fixed it. A transport has digital outputs only, a CD player has an onboard DAC and analog outs (almosts always RCA, sometimes also balanced XLR). I got the player.
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Right, that's how imagined it to be, but I wasn't sure and I've not read up on high end audio for a long time!
Here's another one for you. I burn my cd's to an external harddrive, which I play back thru Foobar (kernal output) using a usb to spdif converter which filters and retimes the signal. It then goes to a non-oversampling 16 bit "ladder" dac employing a discreet B1 buffer output stage.
The dac is powered by a seperate ultra linear triple filter stage power supply.
Yeah, that's another one of those terms that slipped past me. Back when I had a mild interest in audio, we 'burned' to CD's or perhaps DVD's if we're being fancy, but if your HDD burned, all you'd hear was endless cussing.
So class A really went out of fashion, finally. Energy bills caught up with the audio peeps as well?
Music goes extremely well with working on photos. I'm able to do it longer and it's more enjoyable.
Depends on who you ask and even then: Daily listening in my house is via Class D inside active multi-chassis speakers in the living-room, an already over 25 years old setup. But in my study upstairs I am listeining to single-chassis speakers hooked up to a small tube-amplifier. Both approaches are very enjoyable to listen to but the tube-amplifier is addictive. A friend already bought the same amplifier used within a week after listening to it on his own speakers. I came over with it one evening, we listened deep into the night and he was hooked. And a friend of his who is into building his own speakers was very much impressed some months later and is now also considering buying one.
It's the same as with film-photography where I dropped a roll of Portra 400 in the hand of two friends on different occasions after we discussed the nice Canon F1new and Leica Minilux (I'm not making this up, really happened) he still had in his posession. Sowing the seeds of analogue pleasure...
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I've always had a sweet spot for tube amps. Mostly in winter though.
The setup I listen through the most is a little Philips TDA15xx on a custom PCB boxed inside a small enclosure and fed from a small USB adapter. It receives an analog signal from the onboard sound card of my generic HP desktop computer. The speakers are a pair of DIY mid-high range a friend gave me on permanent loan. I think the setup doesn't technically qualify as 'hi fi' by 1960 standards. I couldn't care less.
The setup I listen through the most is a little Philips TDA15xx on a custom PCB boxed inside a small enclosure and fed from a small USB adapter. It receives an analog signal from the onboard sound card of my generic HP desktop computer. The speakers are a pair of DIY mid-high range a friend gave me on permanent loan. I think the setup doesn't technically qualify as 'hi fi' by 1960 standards. I couldn't care less.
Pure Class A. B1 is the topology (dual transistor stage with a single stabilizing filter), not the bias it runs at.
I use a tube phonostage and headphone amp.
If it serves the music you listen to and makes you happy it is good.
My dac has a true 16-bit continuous calibration TDA1387. My speakers are a pair of Acoustat Spectra 11's with modified bass modules, which are driven by a fully restored BGW 250D amplifier which sounds more like a good tube amp than solid state.
To stay on topic, I shoot little color film these days (I have a few rolls left) and leave the majority of it to my exceptional imaging Nikon D2x.
I do continue to shoot B&W film with my Nikon FM as it works better out here in the gloomy land of long shadows.
I do continue to shoot B&W film with my Nikon FM as it works better out here in the gloomy land of long shadows.
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That ole flick looks ridiculously staged, at least its vintage portions, which obviously had advertising connotations back in the day, along with props and unrealistic lady assistants walking on shoreline rocks and desert dunes in immaculately neat and clean dresses. Doesn't prove a thing about his musical tastes, if any.
I put thick R23 insulation in my darkroom walls, so it would be nice and quiet in there, and I didn't have to hear any neighbor's boombox. I guess if one wanted a particularly dramatic or theatrical print with black skies n' all, they might want to listen to Wagner. Or if you wanted some Jackson Pollock look in your print, you'd drink eleven cups of coffee and listen to abstract unrelentingly nervous Jazz. But I don't like distraction of any kind.
I put thick R23 insulation in my darkroom walls, so it would be nice and quiet in there, and I didn't have to hear any neighbor's boombox. I guess if one wanted a particularly dramatic or theatrical print with black skies n' all, they might want to listen to Wagner. Or if you wanted some Jackson Pollock look in your print, you'd drink eleven cups of coffee and listen to abstract unrelentingly nervous Jazz. But I don't like distraction of any kind.
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It sure is and that lady looks a lot like Charis Wilson if your mind can get over the 40s hair and makeup they put on her for the movie.
And I'm not completely serious about this, I do not intend to present it as a proof for anything. I just stumbled over it on youtube and the first thing I saw was Weston putting a record on before going into the darkroom and I couldn't ignore the coincidence.
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For me it's anything from Dark Jazz to Industrial Black Metal. Or nothing at all when hard thinking is involved.
If I put music on, I'll often get tied up in concentrating on the music....but if/when I get a full darkroom up and running at home I will have some sort of radio in there. BBC Radio 4 can be very relaxing.
I'm investigating valve(tube) phono pre-amps. I love the one in my 70s Harman/Kardon receiver but I have long wanted a valve amp...and now a pre-amp at least is affordable.
I'm investigating valve(tube) phono pre-amps. I love the one in my 70s Harman/Kardon receiver but I have long wanted a valve amp...and now a pre-amp at least is affordable.
This one just got upgraded to MKIV. The old version MKIII got some flak from "experts" for their smallish tranformers but I find no reason to complain about thin bass or unsufficient power.
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