Recent content by Barney

Took my first 4x5 film shot yesterday, took about 3 months to get all the gear together and an hour or two setting up to get one picture. :D

Thanks for all your considered opinions and advice guys, much appreciated and first pint is on me. :D

I have just tried that with digital camera using my meter as the guide and manual settings on the camera, the histogram was perfect. Now that I am confident that I have not ballsed up the loading of the film into the dark slides (no mean feat) I will have another go tonight. Despite the result...

a couple of minutes maybe I read somehwere its all over in ten seconds but have not been brave enough to try that

so if I had been considering the zone system instead of, how do i work this effing thing I should have exposed for the dark areas and knocked the development time right down. I deliberately chose a tricky scene so that I would learn more

Will do. Four sheets is plenty, that would take me two days to shoot four films, and that would be bang at it non stop. :D I use an acid stop bath but have been considering that I may be leaving it in there too long, are the any adverse effects possible from over stopping.

Thanks Stephen, what has caused the halation do you think? The auto knocked everything darker, original is very bright indeed

Thats the one Stephen, Rapid. The illford I paid 25 quid for the ltr bottle and its 4+1 No doubt I will be wasting a lot, the dev tank I have holds 12 sheets of film, but at the moment using up 12 sheets is not realistic Today I should have used my normal fomapan routine Ei 50 and 6.5...

same here, seems back to normal.

Very sticky this evening Bad gateway 502 several times

Can anyone recommend me a rapid fixer, reason being is that the tank I used to develop my sheet of 4x5 uses up 1600ml of developer and fixer etc, I used nearly half a bottle of ilford to make a couple of ltr. Is there a similar product that is more cost effective for bulkier use ?

I am sure that you enjoy photography, far more than I ever could. :)

first 4x5 shot Fomapan 100 Ei 100 in R09 1+100 for 18 mins PP 1 clock auto, I can make it significantly better but there is still a fair bit of halation around rhs of deck chair. It was so much of a faf I forgot to take multiple readings of highlight and shadow areas Used incident meter.

i have been looking at those and the 3000are they any good ?

Someone on here was selling an Epson 1500 a couple of days ago, A3 I have found mine to be superb for colour, and still is, but there is a bit of a learning curve for B&W, i think most of the older printers were not invented with B&W printing in mind.