u/maguilecutty

Want to test my new sheet film dev and scan setup. is this going to offer me anything wild or should I just spend double and get some predictable portra?

Title says it all really.

Previously I worked for a long time as a printer in a large lab. I was lucky enough to be able to use the equipment myself for my own projects after hours. Now I’m setting up my own darkroom to do this 10 years later and unfortunately my tutor and his college have passed.

I have a durst 138 with 301 head, on rails and a horizontal projection setup in the way ansel Adam’s had his with the adjacent wall w the roll paper box. I’ve added a vacuum setup to mine but it’s essential a direct rip off for all intents and purposes.

I shoot mostly fp4 5x7 and it’s tack sharp. So there is no worries there.

I have heard that a 210-240 Schneider/rodagon g lens (grande or groß depending on the literature) the point being to have a little extra coverage for the corners and sharpness to the edges.

I have the chance to buy a pair of 150/240 of these for a decent price but it’s still a BIG investment.

Thoughts/advice?

Yep you guessed it...I have been holding onto this box of 8x10 velvia in my freezer for about 10 years in a batch of 5 boxes I bought. Only bring it out for 1 holder, gets shot maybe once a year at best. Planning to go on a trip to shoot around Matterhorn and it needed restocking.

Ive been shooting LF for about 25 years, some of those years professionally. Just a lesson to everyone out there, sometimes you fuck up. Sometimes its simultaneously painful and expensive =/

Can anyone convince me to pay this money? What are your experiences with this?

Wondering if anyone has this setup currently functioning? I see there that apple only dropped audio driver support and this is theoretically possible?

I have the opportunity to finally get one of these for my v series setup after a long time of waiting for one to pop up. However, untethered shooting is not an option!

First time here forgive me if I do this wrong…but I am wanting to turn a cellar into a commercial grade dark room. Right now my enemy is dust! Of course I understand dust will always accumulate, but as a concrete box as it is right now it is a nightmare!

Questions:
- if I dry wall it, will that help? Or just change the surface the dust accumulates on?
- it has two small windows roughly 700x500mm. Should I just block those and install a ventilation system?

I’ve got no idea where to start so any help or direction is much appreciated.

High end photogs - hopefully we get some that are in the real big bucks - give some advice to those wanting to break the ceiling into the high end bubble.

I've noticed a lot of what I would call 'bleedingly obvious' topics for those in the high end space. Things that are just second nature when working these jobs.

Mine: Know your place. Be comfortable adapting this place to the job. This goes to the obvious one of 'check your ego and not be a diva and you will earn 10x' that I thankfully learned early in the commercial space. If you are a photographer in the high end, you are one part of many staff that are facilitating the wedding. There is often 5, 10, sometimes more people working in your periphery. Videographers, choreographers, the plethora of guest PAs you're photographing. Be humble, friendly, courteous, you are far from the star of the show. Especially compared to a 10k wedding. I could talk about this endlessly, but thats just a quick titbit.

Hope this helps some people.

I’m doing some mural sized prints from 5x7 negs. All black and white. I have a condenser head enlarger and no matter what I do, printing at the desired 100cmx150cm shows an ungodly amount of dust and the flecks are enquivically to say 16x20 prints huge (obviously makes sense). Also retouching stuff is a real pain for me to get in the EU and becoming ever less available. Given this I had thought of changing to some sort of cold head enlarger.

My question is twofold: a. How much does it actually remove? Like are we talking seeing 5% or 95% in comparison of small dust flecks? b. I’ve also read that the contrast is lower. Does this mean that a 5 filter my ilford mc will be a 3 filter equivalent? If I say push my delta 100 a stop or two could I theoretically attain the same contrast? I can’t wrap my head around what I’m finding in the Google/llm machines.

Any help greatly appreciated 🙏

I’m currently on my way to this goal. It only popped in my head today what crazy experiences like this might happen?

If auto focus isn’t a concern for me (shoot mostly at infinity) is the 5x price worth the g2? Have done lots of reading, interwebs failing me

I know this is loosely related to 'large format' but this community is a decent bet. Feel free to remove mods

It’s been a good old time since I’ve had to do any retouching but I’ve just been doing some big 1mx1.5m prints for an exhibition and they require some work. Why is another discussion entirely…

The question is what is everyone using these days?

Berg touchrite looks to be the biggest in the game right now.

It’s been a good old time since I’ve had to do any retouching but I’ve just been doing some big 1mx1.5m prints for an exhibition and they require some work. Why is another discussion entirely…

The question is what is everyone using these days?

Berg touchrite looks to be the biggest in the game right now.

I’m actually still here shooting and on a break. But I’m in such shock I’ve got to put this out there cause I have nfi how to handle this rn…

Context: I am an ‘add on’ photographer. I shoot film and make dark room prints as my service for very high end weddings. I shoot contax 157 35mm bodies *3 w the 35-70, 80-200 and normally a 25 as a backup, and always have 2x139s in my second bag in case something goes tits up. I have also 2x Hasselblad 500cms w a few lenses.

While shooting the newlywed shots, I casually noticed the 3rd Contax w the 25 was not where I normally leave it. I thought ‘oh I left it on a table or in my bag or something I’ll find it after’. I’ve looked everywhere it could possibly be and asked both the videographer and 2 digi photographers and it’s obviously gone…

The guests at this wedding get likely more in daddy’s allowance per week than what I make in a year so this super surpring to me.

Wtf do I do?

*ps I have insurance but the camera is somewhat sentimental to me as it’s the first camera I got a paid Gig w and have had it for my whole photography journey

Knowing full well that most CCD sensors are terrible at 400 and above, I was wondering if there was some kind of unicorn that deals well in this range.

I’m a portrait photographer so 8x10 as output is more than sufficient

I also know about denoise apps etc. asking specifically about out of the box