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Thanks for the support. I knew I could count on you all.
And, BTW, I have recently (after lurking for soooo long in envy) joined the ranks of LF'ers. I'm waiting delivery of a Cambo 540, 4X5 with a Fujinon 135 lens I bought from KEH this week. Pack of T-Max 100 arrived today (along with several packs of TP), so the flow of questions will start as soon as I get my hands on it. Soon as the budget swells back to life I'll start getting other accoutrements and more and different types of film to play with. Looking forward to my first tray processing session, but only contacts prints for now (the enlarger is one of the other accoutrements). Jim |
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Jim Phelps wrote:
Thanks for the support. I knew I could count on you all. And, BTW, I have recently (after lurking for soooo long in envy) joined the ranks of LF'ers. I'm waiting delivery of a Cambo 540, 4X5 with a Fujinon 135 lens I bought from KEH this week. Pack of T-Max 100 arrived today (along with several packs of TP), so the flow of questions will start as soon as I get my hands on it. Soon as the budget swells back to life I'll start getting other accoutrements and more and different types of film to play with. Looking forward to my first tray processing session, but only contacts prints for now (the enlarger is one of the other accoutrements). Jim Jim, if you haven't tried it yet, be sure to spend the $20 for the Photographer's Formular traditional cyanotype kit. I've got one, and though I haven't done anything with the arrowroot starch (for sizing unsized paper), I've been pretty happy with at least some of the prints I've made; when I have a negative with the right contrast, and combine with using or not using contrast enhancer (potassium dichromate solution) in the sensitizing mixture, I get very nice prints with exposures around five minutes in midday direct sun. Best part is, they don't require a dark room; you can sensitize and dry the paper under incandescent room light (though dimmer is better, given enough light to see what you're doing), load the paper and negative into a contact printing frame, and then proceed out into the sun for a few minutes (or leave the frame a few inches from a fluorescent light overnight, but I prefer sunshine). If you don't like the dark blue color, tone the dried print in cold, strong black tea for an hour or two to turn the print to a dark eggplant or almost neutral black, depending on length of toning, while highlights go very slightly tan. You don't need Arches Platine, either, though I won't quibble that it might be the best; I've gotten good results from Malay-made watercolor paper I got in a comb bound pad of fifteen sheets, 7x10 inch size, at Fred Meyer (basically a combination grocery and hardware store), in the one-aisle art supplies department. Prints from 9x12 cm are just a nice 3x4ish size, similar to the prints I used to get from the drug store when I was a young teen in the early 1970s. -- I may be a scwewy wabbit, but I'm not going to Alcatwaz! -- E. J. Fudd, 1954 Donald Qualls, aka The Silent Observer Lathe Building Pages http://silent1.home.netcom.com/HomebuiltLathe.htm Speedway 7x12 Lathe Pages http://silent1.home.netcom.com/my7x12.htm Opinions expressed are my own -- take them for what they're worth and don't expect them to be perfect. |
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Jim Phelps wrote:
Thanks for the support. I knew I could count on you all. And, BTW, I have recently (after lurking for soooo long in envy) joined the ranks of LF'ers. I'm waiting delivery of a Cambo 540, 4X5 with a Fujinon 135 lens I bought from KEH this week. Pack of T-Max 100 arrived today (along with several packs of TP), so the flow of questions will start as soon as I get my hands on it. Soon as the budget swells back to life I'll start getting other accoutrements and more and different types of film to play with. Looking forward to my first tray processing session, but only contacts prints for now (the enlarger is one of the other accoutrements). Don't you have a Jobo machine? All it takes to process 4x5 in a film tank is the Jobo film reel 2509N. Nick |
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"Jim Phelps" wrote in message ...
"jjs" wrote in message ... "John McGraw" wrote in message om... Dear Michael S. All a person can do in any discussion group, AA meeting, or whatever, and still maintain their & the groups integrity is to offer their experience, their knowledge or opinion. [...] You get my vote for the strangest post of the year. No, I am beginning to believe the only way to get rid of the irritation here is to ignore and not give him what he wants. I think it would be beneficial if you, Udie and I stop playing on his soapbox. Every time one of us give him what he wants (attention), then he has an audience. In the r.p.darkroom newsgroup he started two of the longest threads with as many tangents as possible in recent history. I was as responsible as anyone. I recommend the following. It'll only work with discipline and solidarity. We can answer a post to one of the weirdo's post, but we should strip his comments out. Only address the comment made by the "non-scar'd" one. It became obvious to me in a rather simple post over in r.p.film+labs when someone was having trouble understanding over/under exposure. I answered, Michael Covington answered and we both said the same thing basically. Nice to have two corresponding opinions. Three hours later along comes scar, and says the same thing. Why? Well it dawned on me. He likes seeing his posts. He likes the attention. We need to pull the soapbox out from under his feet. Oh and Udie, I'd rather draw and quarter. Jim Jim Phelps is utterly worthless. If you what yo were talking about you'd still be useless, because you're a prick. |
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Most of the knowledge you might have, or be capable of sharing with
others, is lost because you are a bad teacher. If you want respect, you need to earn it. I am surprised that one could reach such as age as yours, and never have learned that. |
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Gordon Moat wrote: Most of the knowledge you might have, or be capable of sharing with others, is lost because you are a bad teacher. If you want respect, you need to earn it. I am surprised that one could reach such as age as yours, and never have learned that. Its really the best policy in this case. Glad to see your here as well Gordon, "Your knowledge" will be considered an asset to this group. -- LF Website @ http://members.verizon.net/~gregoryblank "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918 |
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Jim Phelps is utterly worthwhile. Keep posting Jim!!! -- ? ? ? ? LOL |
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Gordon Moat wrote in message ...
Most of the knowledge you might have, or be capable of sharing with others, is lost because you are a bad teacher. If you want respect, you need to earn it. I am surprised that one could reach such as age as yours, and never have learned that. I am an excellent teacher, as a matter of fact, and I have been told this in so many words. |
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"Nick Zentena" wrote in message ... Jim Phelps wrote: Thanks for the support. I knew I could count on you all. Don't you have a Jobo machine? All it takes to process 4x5 in a film tank is the Jobo film reel 2509N. Nick Yup. That's in that list of 'accoutrements'. I bid on some on that auction site. Guy even had the loader for sale. But, it wasn't in the cards for me that day. I'll keep looking. |
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"Nick Zentena" wrote in message ... Jim Phelps wrote: Thanks for the support. I knew I could count on you all. Don't you have a Jobo machine? All it takes to process 4x5 in a film tank is the Jobo film reel 2509N. Nick Yup. That's in that list of 'accoutrements'. I bid on some on that auction site. Guy even had the loader for sale. But, it wasn't in the cards for me that day. I'll keep looking. |
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