I like film...(open thread)

[EoinC]

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I've got plenty more flower shots, but between us we might get the thread all flowered out

Gary

Keep them coming, Gary. We have a great floral tolerance. I really like the colours that you are all producing in your flowers - They seem much closer to what I see than digital produces.

[gsgary]

Like all movies, some things are not exactly true. The Hackman character does land this job as a sort of last chance, related to a problem in previous employ as a coach; I do not think, in movie, drinking had anything to do with it. There is, however, an issue with a drinking assistant coach. It does have great human interest aspects.......Aside from the basketball.

 

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[gsgary]

Didn't General Hackman's character get sacked by one of the top teams for having a drink problem and he was persuaded to come back to coaching?

 

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[EoinC]

The orchard at Bateman's (the former home of Kipling) earlier in the spring. 28 Summaron-M and Portra 400.

 

This shot keeps grabbing me, Ian. The colours are almost tactile.

Thank you!

[EoinC]

...Plainly, I shall not learn my living as a printer. It took me three goes on the portrait to burn in the face enough to see what we have there, but it could have done with a bit more (and less contrast too, so must remember all that stuff about split grade printing).

I enjoyed my afternoon in the dark, and have left everything set up in case I get inspired again, but I think I'm getting better results with my hybrid approach. No doubt with enough time and effort I could improve the wet prints, but for now I think I'll keep them as a second string to my bow, just to be enjoyed when I need an excuse to lock myself into a darkroom alone for a day...

please don't stop, Chris. Enjoy the experience of relearning what you have forgotten. The best results are where you learn something along the way.

[A miller]

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Now that, shot during a blizzard, would have been priceless.

Gary

[A miller]

Now that, shot during a blizzard, would have been priceless.

Gary

 

ha, ha, don't taunt me, or I will BLIZZARD you!!!

[chrism]

Not overly conversant with the Beseller Chris, but first random thought was "the incorrect condensor, or condensor position"? Is this adjustable?

Either way, a great way to while away the day for sure.

Gary

I couldn't see any adjustments on the outside, and I read at B&H that this enlarger uses a diffuser rather than a condensor, so I took the sideplate off to see if this fine example of American engineering* had something slightly out of place inside. Eventually I found the problem, and I don't think it can be fixed - it's the bellows. To fit a 6x6 at max. size on a 10x8 sheet of paper, the enlarger head must be lowered quite a lot, and once down there, to focus the bellows ends up squashed nearly as flat as it can go. This means some of the folds of the overly-generously pleated bellows now push inwards to the point where they enter the light path. This would not be a problem with 35mm negatives, where the head must be raised much higher to fill a 10x8 paper, nor would it be an issue if I were printing 6x6 on much larger paper, or even cropping the square format so as to fill a 10x8. As it is, this enlarger is useless at printing 6x6 negatives on 10x8 paper, unless you like some white vignetting.

 

Chris

*judge for yourself

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[gbealnz]

Well, at least you now know.

Maybe a longer/different lens, if that affects the height and or bellows extension?
Gary

[dmitchell]

Here's a laugh for you experienced darkroom types. I spent the day setting up my dusty old Besseler 67 VC, RH Designs Analyzer Pro, safelights etc in a spare bathroom, and having done it decided I ought to justify the effort by making a couple of prints. In each case, these are photographs I have already scanned and uploaded to Flickr, so it was easy to scan the prints on the V850 and upload those scans for comparison. What was not so easy was remembering how to work the Analyzer Pro, a black box I loved dearly at one time for saving me no end of paper on test strips, and even saving me doing a lot of dodging and burning with it's ability to assist split grade printing. I'm going to have to study the manual at length if I do this again. One thing I didn't sort out is the vignetting - it's not on the negatives and I haven't figured out why I'm seeing it through the enlarger. Perhaps this Besseler doesn't work too well with 6x6 negatives? It never did that to me in the past with 35mm negs. Anyway, here we go. First the scanned negative, then the scan of the print.

 

Coffee by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Scan of silver print 2 by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Pippa 2017 #1 by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Scan of silver print 1 by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Plainly, I shall not learn my living as a printer. It took me three goes on the portrait to burn in the face enough to see what we have there, but it could have done with a bit more (and less contrast too, so must remember all that stuff about split grade printing).

I enjoyed my afternoon in the dark, and have left everything set up in case I get inspired again, but I think I'm getting better results with my hybrid approach. No doubt with enough time and effort I could improve the wet prints, but for now I think I'll keep them as a second string to my bow, just to be enjoyed when I need an excuse to lock myself into a darkroom alone for a day!

 

Oh, a big hint for anyone converting a bathroom: north american windows often have detachable flyscreens inside them. Take off the flyscreen, place it in a couple of black garbage bags (or wrap it in them if it won't go inside), then replace the screen and carefully do up the latches without tearing the bag. Perfect removable darkness - easy!

 

Chris

 

Hi Chris, 

 

I had a similar problem the first time I tried printing medium format negatives with my Omega C760 enlarger.  I turns out that my enlarger came with two different mixing chambers, one for 35mm and the other for 6x7.  My problem was solved once I started using the 6x7 mixing chamber. 

 

Not sure if you're running into the same issue with your Beseler 67 enlarger?

 

Cheers, 

Derek 

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Sounds like a possible cause Derek, blackness around the outside of the lens coverage making white corners on the print?

My 6x7 enlarger is a Durst, I would encounter the same issue if I didn't switch the mixing box to 67 (from 35)

You could try wasting a few sheets without a negative loaded to figure it out? The prints look a bit lacking in contrast too?, is everything set up right with the filters?

 

I too will definitely never earn my living as a printer Chris but it sure is fun to labour under the illusion for a few hours.

An entirely different dimension of fun compared to the whirring of a scanner.

I love the sparkle of the highlights in your first shot, it should look really nice when you've figured it all out, and your lovely portait too.

 

I only have iphone for now for prints and only the ones that don't look awful

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Love it. Sometimes the world is just too politically correct

 

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[philipus]

This and the third one below are precisely the type of abstract photography I like, nicely done.

 

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[philipus]

A pause from the plants.

 

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[stray cat]

Two from the vault. These were both taken the same day, 37 years ago, the first time I went to London. I headed down to Hyde Park on the first Sunday I was there and remember the wonderful day I spent like it was yesterday:

 

 

Firebrand!

Canon F1, FD 100mm f2.8 SC, Kodachrome 64

 

 

Attentive!

Canon F1, FD 100mm f2.8 SC, Kodachrome 64

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[stray cat]

The past couple of years I flirted with a Contax G2 system. Not because I needed another camera system (not by a long shot!), but because I wanted a kind of everyday camera that would have a 35mm lens that was more expendable, if worst came to worst, than my Leica and Summicron. Anyway of course the one i happened to buy came with a few lenses (not the 35!), then my brother-in-law very kindly gave me the 35mm - 70mm zoom he had left over from when he had a Contax, and I eventually acquired a 35mm. In the end I found that, when using it, all I really wanted to be using was my Leica, so I sold it. Its sharp, contrasty lenses did form rather a bewitching partnership with Fuji Velvia 50 though!

 

 

Hobart, 2016

Contax G2, Zeiss G 35-70mm zoom, Velvia 50