Donald Qualls
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I bought a four foot length of 12 inch wide shelf stock and two more brackets to add a shelf in my darkroom -- now all my liquid concentrates and mixed chemicals are on the new shelf and more out of the way.
A new-to-me Pentax KX. It's scheduled to arrive tomorrow, if FedEx can be believed. It joins my K1000, MX, ME Super and LX in the lineup. I've just started shooting again after years of digital, and I'm getting the urge to collect more and more Pentaxes (I've always had a soft spot for them).
Off topic a bit, but is that rug a Karastan? We have one with similar patterns (except circular patterns more elongated- elephants feet we were told by the rug cleaner). Karastan made machine woven wool rugs in Boston. They no longer use wool (synthetic fibers only), but still make rugs.
A 12" Incra two planes ('L' shaped flat and edge) rule for precision marking boards for 5" x 7" wooden pinhole camera build.
The Incra stuff is nice. Is this camera build in anticipation of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day? It’s coming up soon, last Sunday of April. I’m not building a camera this year but I have been out shooting pinhole to get warmed up.
Roger
I picked up an Accura film-plane focusing groundglass for 35mm cameras of the bay.
Supposed to be a good way to calibrate a rangefinder.
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That's sweet!!!
I picked up an Accura film-plane focusing groundglass for 35mm cameras of the bay.
Supposed to be a good way to calibrate a rangefinder.
Just arrived today: a 50 sheet box of 8x10 Arista.EDU Ultra 200.
I've always wanted to try this stuff. Any idea about it's spectral response? Recently, I've been into films that lean into the reds more. Thanks!
It's actually an ortho-pan (it is red sensitive, but not much. Using red filters with it is not recommended - you'll be adding 3+ stops even with a Red 25). It also has some of the worst reciprocity failure of any major film out there. As in exposures beyond say 10 seconds are not recommended. A metered 10 seconds after compensation is around 10 minutes. and it gets much much worse from there. Oh, and the actual speed of the film is 100 not 200.
So why do I use it? I use it mostly for studio portraits or full daylight exposures. I do platinum/palladium printing with it, and it is beautiful for that. It builds density very quickly (recommended processing time is 7 minutes in Pyrocat HD 1:1:100) and the density curve has a very long straight line. That makes it easy to get all the contrast you need for many alt processes.
It's actually an ortho-pan (it is red sensitive, but not much. Using red filters with it is not recommended - you'll be adding 3+ stops even with a Red 25). It also has some of the worst reciprocity failure of any major film out there. As in exposures beyond say 10 seconds are not recommended. A metered 10 seconds after compensation is around 10 minutes. and it gets much much worse from there. Oh, and the actual speed of the film is 100 not 200.
So why do I use it? I use it mostly for studio portraits or full daylight exposures. I do platinum/palladium printing with it, and it is beautiful for that. It builds density very quickly (recommended processing time is 7 minutes in Pyrocat HD 1:1:100) and the density curve has a very long straight line. That makes it easy to get all the contrast you need for many alt processes.
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