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Phil Davis |
12:01 20 Oct 06 |
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Paul |
6:07 21 Oct 06 |
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Miles |
20:21 18 Oct 06 |
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chrisf |
2:46 13 Oct 06 |
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Jorge Gasteazoro. |
8:24 13 Oct 06 |
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Steve Nicholls |
18:14 14 Oct 06 |
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Steve Nicholls |
5:25 7 Oct 06 |
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Well I have just had a most enjoyable trip to the mid to northern Californian areas. I arranged my film to be sent ahead of me and had developer sent as well. I arrange for 4 packets of D76 and decided to use distilled water to remove water from the equation as a variable. I took my thermometer and my own timer. I got the timer recently from an electronics store here in Australia and it talks to me each minute. Very handy when doing multiple tubes at different times.
I mixed my first batch of D76 and did a test neg with my film and -- disaster -- thin flat and thousands of miles from home. My first thought was faulty film. A day of trauma passed and I tried a second sheet but this time with rodinal and bingo all is well. For some reason the D76 was no good freshly mixed. I mixed a second batch and it was fine, so much so that I continued to use and trust it.
Part of my time in the Yosemite area was directed towards explaining to a friend of mine the testing methods of BTZS, but like a lot of American darkrooms his has a cold light head enlarger and was not really very consistent for film testing. He certainly acknowledged the wealth of data we get from our 5 sheets of film and is certainly looking favourably in our direction. I suggested he look on line for a cheap condensor enlarger to just set up for testing.
BTZS was a great success for me and while I didn't meter every scene totally correctly all of my negs reveal a very printable image.
I was really pleased to be able to talk on the phone to Phil and also chat to Dennis from the View Camera Store. Jorge and I had at least 2 conversations on the phone over the 3 and a bit weeks so I feel I have had an excellent opportunity to get to know the people of BTZS just that bit better.
Steve
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Shannon Stoney |
13:07 5 Oct 06 |
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Jorge Gasteazoro. |
13:40 5 Oct 06 |
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Miles |
18:01 6 Oct 06 |
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