I'm wondering whether anyone knows if B&W bleach such as R-9 dichromate/sulfuric acid bleach or alternately permanganate/sulfuric acid bleach used in...

I just got hold of a 90mm f/4.5 Enlarging Ektar with a bit of internal dust, a few flakes of something on the edges of two aperture blades, and maybe the...

I wrote a comparison between old Tech Pan rolls and new ones. Whoever of you who has been using tech pan rolls might be interested in reading...

How do you file & contact a roll of 120 6x7 negs? If you cut up a 6x7 120 roll into 3 strips x 3 negs it fits perfectly into a filing sheet and 8x10 for...

2 new online stores that I started up a month or so ago. I am a semi pro photog myself, and figured I may as well do this, since I and most others, shoot...

Kodak markets a color RA4 metallic paper that I like. Does anyone market a b/w version of that paper? If not, is there a chemical I can use to tone b/w paper...

Hello, I want to diffuse the light in my Omega D2 enlarger. What is the best placement of the diffusion glass, above the condensers or below, just above the...

I'm looking for thin (ideally .010 or even thinner) plastic sheeting that's semi opaque/translucent - sort of like "milk jug" color, or maybe tending toward...

yesterday night, i did my first printing, that's a test strip using a blank negative, i want to see how many seconds of exposure i at lest need to get the...

I've got some Adox 400 and I developed a roll in Adomal 1:1 70 degress F for 10 minutes agit 1 per minute. Have you used this devloper recently?

I have several plastic paper safes, in sizes from 8x10 to 20x24, that I no longer need. You can have them for the price of shipping from Seattle. Let me know...

I was browsing through B-&-H's site and noticed that there aren't many Nikon enlarging lenses left. Is Nikon also completely out of the darkroom ? == John S....

in the manual of Ilford multigrade paper, it list filterations for typical enlargers: list 1: single filtrations for grade 2 with different enlargers Durst...

i have 1.5L D-72 working solution (1:2) but only developed 2 8x10 papers so i dont want to throw it. i've put the solution in a open jar for 24 hours then in...

i got a negative carrier on hand, it gets a hole sized of 6.8cm x 5.4, is it for 120 film? i've never played with 120 format, but i know one kind of 120 is...

I recently acquired an Omega D5xl enlarger that came with a couple of glass negative carriers (35mm and 6x9) as well as an assortment of glassless ones. The...

What's the general consensus about having "paper white" in a B&W photo. Should even the whitest of clouds always be a little greyer than the edge of the paper?...

I am missing one page out of my Colorstar 300 manual. Could someone here make a copy of it for me? I would be eternally grateful, and would even offer a...

This was posted over in rec.photo.digital but I thought you guys would get more of a kick out of it than the digital...

Previously I posted another message on this forum about some problems I'm having with print to print consistensy. This is a follow up of what I have...