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atomicthumbs posted:
I have already commented on flickr but wanted to comment here as well. They're great, love the different shades.
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atomicthumbs posted:
I love all of these. The last one owns, though.
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Feb 22, 2013 13:45
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Inf posted:Feeling pretty drat good right now. My first home-developed roll of B&W film is hanging up to dry at the moment. I was so stoked when I saw those images as I pulled it off the reel. Just posting this photo so maybe some of you can remember that feeling from your first times too. It's pretty awesome. It never goes away, actually, especially if you don't develop same day as you finish the roll. 
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maxmars posted:It never goes away, actually, especially if you don't develop same day as you finish the roll. Shoot, I've cancelled nighttime plans more than once just so I could develop a roll the same day I shot it.
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Feb 22, 2013 16:08
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 More Ektachrome Panther 35mm.
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If someone can read Japanese, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like Fuji is planning to raise the prices of its film about 25% for the next batches: http://ffis.fujifilm.co.jp/information/articlein_0022.html
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QPZIL posted:Shoot, I've cancelled nighttime plans more than once just so I could develop a roll the same day I shot it. That's what I did last night. Sleep, or stay up until 4AM so I could scan my freshly-dried film? Easy decision. Totally sold on home development, though. I'm now looking into getting the chems and maybe a hot water bath so I can do C41 as well. I've used the local 'pro' photo lab in Austin for about 5 rolls so far, and 4 of them have come back with at least a few DEEP scratches on the negatives, not to mention a shitload of dust. I'm really not sure why not loving up the negs is such a difficult task, I managed to produce a perfectly clean scratch-free roll on my first try developing at home despite my inexperience making everything super clumsy. I can only attribute this to the lab tech just not giving a gently caress. None of the shots are worth writing home about, but I'm still super stoked that I took these photos, then I used magic (chemistry) to make them appear on the film:     
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alkanphel posted:If someone can read Japanese, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like Fuji is planning to raise the prices of its film about 25% for the next batches: http://ffis.fujifilm.co.jp/information/articlein_0022.html The first table is a list of products that get updated packing sizes. (Rolls lengths, number of rolls per package, number of sheets per package.) The second table shows updated pack styling. New packs, all 135 rolls are 36 exposure only: PRO400H in single roll 135 packs, 5 roll 120 packs. Provia 100F in single roll and 5 roll 135 packs, 5 roll 120 packs, 20 sheet 4x5" and 8x10" packs. Velvia 100 and Velvia 50 ditto. Acros 100 in single roll and 3 roll 135 packs, 5 roll 120 packs, 20 sheet 4x5" and 8x10" packs. Second point mentions that all products in table 1 will have a price increase of about 25%, so yes that part is right. Third point seems to be about PRO400H marketing within Japan being changed or something. Fourth is discontinued products. I'm not entirely sure I can summarise that table. It seems most 135-24, 220 and 5x7" things are going out. Velvia 100F is going out in 135 format, but staying in 120 and sheet formats. The changes come into effect from April.
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nielsm posted:The first table is a list of products that get updated packing sizes. (Rolls lengths, number of rolls per package, number of sheets per package.) The fact that there was Velvia in 220 still being made was news to me!
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alkanphel posted:If someone can read Japanese, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like Fuji is planning to raise the prices of its film about 25% for the next batches: http://ffis.fujifilm.co.jp/information/articlein_0022.html Yes, I checked and that seems about right.
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Sons of bitches, don't gently caress with my Acros!
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Crap, pretty soon my freezer won't have room for any actual food.
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nielsm posted:Third point seems to be about PRO400H marketing within Japan being changed or something. It's saying that PRO400H was originally marketed and sold internationally while only on a limited experimental basis in Japan, but now with the changeover from PRO400, it's being sold normally in Japan.
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I picked up a Pentax ME Super on eBay for pretty cheap. I need to test it to make sure everything does actually work well, but so far it seems there's some junk in the actual viewfinder. I cleaned off the mirror and it's still there as little black marks. Could it be mold? I've never actually seen camera mold, but it seems like it may be inside the actual viewfinder mount.
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hcenvirons posted:I picked up a Pentax ME Super on eBay for pretty cheap. I need to test it to make sure everything does actually work well, but so far it seems there's some junk in the actual viewfinder. I cleaned off the mirror and it's still there as little black marks. Could it be mold? I've never actually seen camera mold, but it seems like it may be inside the actual viewfinder mount. It may be dust or gunk stuck to the focusing screen. A lot of old cameras have parts and greases that deteriorate over the decades and wind up stuck to stuff like your mirror/focusing screen. It can be a huge bitch to clean a dirty focusing screen if the particles don't just blow off with a rocket blower. Googled real quick and found this: http://www.kyphoto.com/classics/forum/messages/6900/4757.html?1120986543
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Yond Cassius posted:Crap, pretty soon my freezer won't have room for any actual food. I caved and bought another fridge.
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Feb 23, 2013 11:09
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Portra 400   I've been shooting exclusively portra and ektar with color film, any recommendations for something new to play with?
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Oprah Haza posted:I've been shooting exclusively portra and ektar with color film, any recommendations for something new to play with? What kind of look are you going for? Fuji Reala is great for a more natural-looking colour like Portra 400NC. Fuji 160S is similar to Reala but easier to find, although I hear it has been replaced with 160NS, sort of like how Portra got rolled into one as opposed to having VC and NC.
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HPL posted:What kind of look are you going for? Fuji Reala is great for a more natural-looking colour like Portra 400NC. Fuji 160S is similar to Reala but easier to find, although I hear it has been replaced with 160NS, sort of like how Portra got rolled into one as opposed to having VC and NC. I think I'll pick up some of that Fuji 160 and Across 100, thanks for the recommendation!
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Oprah Haza posted:Portra 400 Great pictures
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Yond Cassius posted:Crap, pretty soon my freezer won't have room for any actual food. HPL posted:I caved and bought another fridge. This. I use the freezer part as a meat/bread locker for Costco hauls and the fridge for chemicals/film. At about ~$25 at a secondhand store, it's been one of my favorite purchases here in Japan 
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atomicthumbs posted:
wait that cant be the haze layer at the top of those two pics?
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guidoanselmi posted:wait that cant be the haze layer at the top of those two pics? I think it’s the haze‐free layer.
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Platystemon posted:I think it’s the haze‐free layer. Yep. The vantage point I took it from was above all the Bay Area's fog. Normally you'd be able to see the bay under the furthest layer (between the far mountain and the closer hill), but not that morning.
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I just picked up this cute little bastard from a camera shop in Dexter. I love the size, and it's got a nice heft. Also, it's neat to have nothing but distance estimation for focusing - I'm taking a quick guess, dialing it in, and shooting. It's really fast.
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There's some residue at the bottom of the container I was storing my old fixer in long-term. Can't really get down inside it to clean... can I re-use it with fresh fixer, or no? Edit: could always try really hot water, but I'm trying to minimize the amount of liquid waste I have to throw away here.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:There's some residue at the bottom of the container I was storing my old fixer in long-term. Can't really get down inside it to clean... can I re-use it with fresh fixer, or no? I'm not sure, but I think it might be silver precipitate. It might dissolve a bit into the fresh fixer and make it slightly less effective, but not so it should be a problem. But you probably shouldn't try to wash it out and pour it down the drain, for the same reason you shouldn't pour plain used fixer down the drain: Silver's bad for the environment. I'd suggest just keeping using the container for another portion of fixer, and when that's exhausted too, turn in the entire thing at a recycling station or similar.
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nielsm posted:I'm not sure, but I think it might be silver precipitate. It might dissolve a bit into the fresh fixer and make it slightly less effective, but not so it should be a problem. Find a chemist friend and try to extract the silver.
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Or get yourself a silver magnet: http://www.apug.org/forums/forum146/68135-silver-magnet-silver-recovery-device.html
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Spedman posted:Or get yourself a silver magnet: Maybe it's completely legit and I've been reading the Bitcoin thread for too long, but literally everything about that sounds like a scam. Especially the bit where some dodgy silver refiner jumps into the thread from nowhere and never posts again.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Great pictures Thank you  .
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big scary monsters posted:Maybe it's completely legit and I've been reading the Bitcoin thread for too long, but literally everything about that sounds like a scam. Especially the bit where some dodgy silver refiner jumps into the thread from nowhere and never posts again. It's a little bit of both. I have one. The device works, but one important thing to understand is that home darkroom use extracts entirely nominal amounts of silver. Kodak says that black and white film generally contains about 4 grams per square meter (Tri-X a little more, TMax a little less, etc). Guesstimate that half of that stays in the film. Twenty rolls to a square meter (assuming an even split between 135x36 and 120) and thirty-one grams per troy ounce means you have to shoot about 300 rolls to recover one ounce of silver, or 9500-ish rolls to fill the Silver Trap. I'm not exactly sure how much US Imagineering (the manufacturer) pays out for silver. I understand it's a pretty crappy rate, even by the standards of precious metal buyers - back when I was in school, the lab used one and said that it basically bought pizza for the end-of-semester staff parties, until they started taking it to a local jeweler. Then they could afford to invite some of the students, too.  Silver costs a bit over twice as much now, so maybe they can invite all the students!I still say it's worth it, though. I've noticed that, with reclamation, I get about 50-75% more life out of my fixer before it's totally worthless. Besides saving money on chemicals, it means fewer trips to the hazardous waste disposal site, and that's worth something on its own.
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I'm curious if anyone has any first hand experience with Ilford's black and white reversal process, outlined in this document (PDF). I want to give it a try sometime this year, but I've started sourcing the extra chemicals and the trouble is trying to find smaller quantities of the stuff. I'm probably not going to do it more than once or twice so I really don't need 500g of potassium permanganate laying around the house, let alone a litre of concentrated sulphuric acid.
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Why don't you just go with the Foma reversal kit: http://www.fomafoto.com/index.php?p...uemart&Itemid=1 Looks like its only €32, plus they specifically make a reversal B&W film too.
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LFK posted:I'm curious if anyone has any first hand experience with Ilford's black and white reversal process, outlined in this document (PDF). Photographers' Formulary has everything you need in small quantities, including 10g containers of potassium permanganate and 100mL containers of sulfuric acid!
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Spedman posted:Why don't you just go with the Foma reversal kit: MrBlandAverage posted:Photographers' Formulary has everything you need in small quantities, including 10g containers of potassium permanganate and 100mL containers of sulfuric acid! Looking through that site I found this: PHOTOGRAPHERS FORMULARY GRADE 2 EMULSION "This fixed grade black & white emulsion is a light sensitive, silver chlorobromide emulsion which can be applied to various supports such as glass, ceramics, art paper, fabrics and plastics." Looks like I might be doing my own glass plates this year, too.
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 DSC00059 by boydy88, on Flickr  DSC00044 by boydy88, on Flickr Couple from my Yashica Electro. Came from my third roll of home development, way too fun!
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xposting from medium/large format thread The Library, Scarsdale NY by JaundiceDave, on Flickr  Garage, Hartsdale NY by JaundiceDave, on Flickr  Rear Wall, Hartsdale NY by JaundiceDave, on Flickr  Grand Opening, Greenburgh NY by JaundiceDave, on Flickr
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