what is the last thing you developed or printed

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Mustafa Umut Sarac

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darkosaric said:
Around 10 small prints (cca 10x30 cm) from Noblex camera that I tested:

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Negative was cheap Polypan F, in Rodinal 1+100, Fotokemika emaks grade 2 paper.
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What a lovely pictures ! I loved them very much , photographing humans is the greatest thing you can do in a city plus museum pictures and the churches , architecture. I love american style pictures but no colorado stones in Istanbul or Warsaw
 

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I just wonder, how you manage to keep your camera that steady to get the first shot?
 

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In the last two weeks I've processed about 40 rolls of b&w 120 film, 10 rolls of C-41 120, 10 rolls of 35mm b&w, 2 rolls of 35mm C-41, and 2 rolls of 35mm E6 in C-41 X-process.
Lots of film from adventures, and now I was up in Northern Minnesota this last weekend, and I've amassed another 22 rolls of film to process... Good thing I've got lots of chemistry at the house.
 

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After a quicky modification, I ran a role of 120 through a No. 2A Brownie box camera. I was quite surprised that all eight frames came out just dandy. A little on the soft side, but for making contact prints this would be fine.
 

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4x5

1 postcard RC Pearl

5x7

50 Photo Rag
25 FB Chamois

8x10

25 RC Glossy
25 RC Pearl
125 RC Satin
50 FB Glossy
25 FB Matte
85 FB semi-Matte WT
30 Photo Rag

11x14

20 RC Pearl

Just to catch you up
 

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Today I'm going to process two rolls of Fuji Neopan 1600, three rolls of 120 Ilford Pan-F+, and two rolls of 120 Fuji Neopan Acros.

Maybe I'll have time to make some contact sheets too.
 

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Michael R 1974 said:
Jebus. Where do you guys find the time to shoot all these pictures?
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At Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's home in Spring Green, Wisconsin. In Door County, Wisconsin. On the North Shore of Lake Superior, Minnesota. Along the Mississippi River, St Paul, Minnesota. And a bunch of portraits.
That's where I found time. How I found it is another story. I make time for it.
 

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I'm enjoying an opportunity to work with photography quite a lot at the time being. Come November 1st school starts for me again, and I won't have time at all until about a year from now.
Just making the most of it when the opportunity comes along. Wish I could print more.
 

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Simon R Galley said:
Hey up Stone......

How are you enjoying printing ?

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It's amazing!!!

It's intense....

Is exhausting....

I've used EVERY Ilford paper you produce except the cool tone FB/RC stuff.

My favorite RC is the Satin, and the second would be the Pearl.

Sadly except the first semester, it's all FB and apparently FB is the only accepted "fine art" paper, so...

My favorite FB paper? I am having a hard time finding what I like...

Paper TEXTURE is very important to me with the FB... The FB glossy is the only paper that shows any surface texture but I don't like the glossy reflection, under glass it's 2 reflections, very distracting when looking at a print.

I REALLY like the Art 300 paper you make in conjunction with hahnemuhle, however it's the opposite problem, TOO MUCH texture.

I wish you could make something like the Hahnemühle rag paper but less texture.

I've settled on the Ilford FB warmtone semi-matte for now.

I hear the newer cooltone fixes faster and washes faster and develops faster? Or something like that, I know people don't want to change the WT at all, but faster developing times and fix/wash times would be great, hope they improve the WT times without changing the rest since I'm sure that would upset everyone (even though it would be nice if the speed of the FB matched the speed of the RC so cheap test exposures could be made on RC before using the more expensive FB.

I've tried using the paper speeds to adjust for time when switching and it's futile because even though one is 100 speed (with a filter) and one is 50, doubling the time (or halving the time) doesn't EXACTLY match the test.

Those are my thoughts.

As you can tell I've been printing a LOT.

Today I made 7 prints for school on Ilford FB WT and two prints for me on Ilford Art 300 paper, all 8x10.

I've also tested Oriental paper (which seems to be EXACTLY like Ilford... Just saying...), and a FOMA paper, sadly I bought the wrong kind, I'm waiting on another shipment of the correct FOMA paper that I wanted to test. FOMA is MUCH slower than Ilford which I don't like, but the texture seems to be kind of what I'm looking for, but it also needs SIGNIFICANT pre-ordering/planning because it's shipped from Germany direct so I'm told and takes 2-3 weeks to receive vs Ilford at 2-3 DAYS to get.

Also, care to donate a whole set of 12x12 variable contrast filters to my cause for my new 8x10 Saltzman enlarger that I just got?

 

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I told you... to some its the best ( or equal ) part of monochrome photography.

Pleased you are enjoying it and testing far and wide.....

Simon. ILFORD Photo / HARMAN technology Limited :
 

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Stone, instead of above the condenser / below light-source filters, use the under-lens filter set. They work very well. Alternate ideas could include large sheets of blue and green gels, one sheet of each, and split-contrast printing -- but you would be completely on your own in coming up with an exposure technique.
 

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Simon R Galley said:
I told you... to some its the best ( or equal ) part of monochrome photography.

Pleased you are enjoying it and testing far and wide.....

Simon. ILFORD Photo / HARMAN technology Limited :
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The feeling of my hands being part of the process the entire way from start to finish with no one else doing any steps and no computer making decisions for me is probably the best feeling.

It is time consuming, especially since I have so many photos in my stock and haven't been printing along the way so "catching up" is exhausting.

But I do agree, it's a part of photography that most miss out on these days and I'm happy to finally have the access and beginning skills!

Cheers mate

~Stone
 

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This has been covered on the LF forum, I'm doing a restore of it (originally owned by a famous Photogrpher and has an amazing history that involves Diane Arbus!) but because of all the negativity lately on APUG I've kept that discussion to the LF forum, suffice to say, personally I gave it a try and I DO see a degradation in image quality when putting the filter below the glass, so I will have to find a set of the 12x12 or get them one at a time VERY slowly. Hah!
 

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Stone,

I'm very happy that you are printing and having a good time with it!
 

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Thomas Bertilsson said:
Stone,

I'm very happy that you are printing and having a good time with it!
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Thanks!

Dare I say I have challenged myself to re-print a few of those negs I sent you, and to do it better than you, I may just have accomplished the goal

Better is of course all objective, but I am grateful to have seen what was possible.

Thank you.
 

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Stone,

Even though you are being a bit rude and disrespectful with your comment, I'm glad that you have a way of printing just the way you like it. It's always going to be a compromise to send your negs to somebody else, because they can't read your mind.

Keep it up. Have fun. Stay humble.
 

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Ugh,

My "joshing" is often missunderstood by many.

It's called "busting balls" and is not meant to be rude, it's the "manly" way of saying that I appreciated your efforts and that the prints were so good I had to challenge myself against them. If they were crap, I would not have bothered with the challenge.

So, it's a complement of sorts, sorry if that's not clear.

Be well,

~Stone
 

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Hatchetman said:
Generally, people in the Upper Midwest do not "bust balls."
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Yea I keep forgetting that...

They do however say "nice things" as insults, which I just learned haha! "Bless your heart" apparently isn't nice, who knew?

The CT/NY/Boston lives I've lived have certainly given my personality an "edge" that only those from these areas can fully understand I think. Gotta watch that with myself.
 
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