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Joshua, he said he didn't want a color head. He's apparently just looking for an LED replacement lamp to the old opal bulb. Any of those beehive style heads are going to be dependent upon either a...

You'd probably have to test that postulate for yourself. Those bulbs aren't very expensive anyway. But how do you intend to accommodate VC papers?
With a filter drawer?

Are you talking about roll film? I know that original FP4 sheet film had a rather fragile surface. They even interleafed the sheets with thin paper for extra protection. Even the current FP4+ is...

Wash water temp is nowhere near as crucial as development temp. You don't want it warm enough to weaken or frill the paper emulsion, nor cool enough to not work efficiently. I wouldn't go above 75F,...

Antique brass wood screws can be problematic and non-standardized. Sometimes you have to grind your own screwdriver tips to fit, or carefully file flats on round-head screws to allow a small plier...

My apologies, Vaughan ... I confess I grew up in the woods near people named Jim Dandy, Harvey Fred, and three brothers legally named Bat Hamilton, Cat Hamilton, and Rat Hamilton - literally.

Meyerowitz routinely did 8X10 full-body color portraiture with a equivalent focal length (10 inch) commercial Ektar. I had a 250/6.7 Fuji W that covered 8x10 just fine, in terms of image circle, but...

Hardware store bubble levels are awful. You don't get something for nothing. Anything consistently decent is going to either come from an industrial supplier or a machinist supply house. But Greg...

Oh my! I have a really surreal dumb luck 6X9 shot to develop today. I was preparing to shoot a very interesting gold rush era white school building amidst an old oak grove one morning a couple weeks...

We're right on a major raptor migration route flyway, but get local short distance commuters too, like Osprey. Coopers hawks are frequently around looking for tree squirrels, sometimes Goshawk too....

P645 minus. Smaller than the smallest 120 format. We're speaking of centimeters here, not inches. But at only 1:1 or 1:2, there are a number of other close-range corrected lenses which should do...

Owls are fun, EXCEPT screech owls! - those can sure prevent you from sleeping.

California was not like Wyoming. You own the land, you own what's under it. But I'm sure once oil was discovered there, there would have been no limits trying steal the property from someone,...

My grandfather gave up 22 acres in southern Cal because he couldn't afford to pay the taxes on it, and was dying of TB. That was in 1907. It was worthless land anyway. He had bought it sight...

It's more likely an older GC process lens originally waterhouse equipped from the start. There were all kinds of GC options depending on the intended market. Occasional use of them for enlarging was...

To be fair, you'd have to optimize the 4x5 film plane flatness with a vacuum film holder. Skipping over several other pertinent variables, including lens choice, there is also the fact that these...

What I paid for a large freezer was considerably less than a single box of 8X10 color film costs today.

You'd think GC's would have slot closures too. Maybe in this case someone at some point in time removed it.

A Waterhouse slot would indicate an older barrel version of this lens intended for graphics applications. Be aware that older Copal 3S shutters have a different fit from later
no.3 shutters, and...

Ain't it fascinating how much of our appreciation of even "monochrome" prints is dependent upon color vision? I'm fanatical about how even "ordinary" silver gelatin prints are specifically toned -...

Well, we have some seasonal uptick butterfly activity here on the coast too. But I consider the mountains my real home, and there a couple weeks ago, down in the canyons at least, both the...

Mal - Digital color has never caught up yet with what darkroom color has been able to do for more than 75 years in competent hands. In fact, the finest digital printmakers I know, among the world's...

Why would prints be less critical? - I guess that you could redo them if you don't like the results, unlike film. But unnecessarily wasting paper can get expensive. But the ideal developer...

I doubt I'll do any color printing this season because it tends to get intensive, I'd need to buy fresh chemisty, and I'm about to start up serious remodeling again. With black and white, I can just...

I certainly don't classify any darkroom effluent as "gray water" useful for watering plants outside. Pets can be affected, or perhaps yourself working in the garden. Maybe final relatively clean...

I had quite a view from my 3rd story lab window of bloody riots in the late 60's and early 70's, and even heard Molotov cocktails go off every other day it seems. But I did a pretty good job avoiding...

Ain't it nice to be in yer 70's when it's socially acceptable to be cantankerous and pull a shotgun out of the sling and pepper somebody's butt with rock salt for asking why you're taking pictures...

domaz - trekking poles are nowhere near rigid enough to be realistic LF tripod legs. If they were, they wouldn't make very good shock-relieving walking poles. There are monopod style walking poles;...

All depends. I recently had to put up with howling wind for several months on end, not just in March like usual. Got a lucky break on last week's trip, with very little wind the whole time. Then it...

He's dealing with potential subject movement where even a stop faster film speed might give him an advantage in 8x10 work, much like wind conditions involve.

Heck, almost every older teenage male when I was growing up was greased. How many here will admit to once wearing a greased ducktail hairdo along with a leather jacket? I wonder if Karsh ever...

Glad to see the biography included their exploration of the peaks of the Ruwenzori in central Africa. Chogolisa (Bride Peak) in Pakistan was where one of my nephew's climbing partners, John Climaco,...

Yes, that's more the composition I'm familiar with in the Washburn shot, devoid of the piranha look.

I think both Sella's camera and the backpack frame which carried it are still preserved in...

Oh, that's one of my favorites too. ... but not as posted on the web .... It looks like there is a massive toothed piranha-ogre face on the glacier below, about to devour them! I never noticed that...

Ho hum. You just reinforced my claim that D100 has an unswept curve favoring highlights. But you have to overexpose it rather badly to get it to shoulder off. Still, to gain as much of a usable...

Both those books are among my favorites. Sella once got that glass plate camera at high as 23,000 ft on Chogolisa in the Karakoram. But one of his famous stitched panoramas of the Baltoro Glacier in...

Delta 3200 is really more like 1000 speed (officially - read the fine print in the tech sheet); I rate it at 800 for PMK. It has a very long toe. Don't keep it stored a long time before use either. ...

Like those view camera ads which show the standards and bellows contorted to the extremes, in a manner nobody really uses. But studio technique is a world away from field usage anyway. One can employ...

Bingo. Barnbaum also placed the shadow values bellybutton high, but then would resort if necessary to drastic compression or minus development. That left the highlights muddy; so he'd restore the...

The ability to build significantly more contrast with longer development is mainly a function of the film itself, not PMK versus more ordinary developers. Films like FP4, D100, TMX and TMY are...