Re: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid
>From a health & safety perspective I would choose liquid concentrates. Kodak's HC110 is my personal favourite. The developer is supplied as a syrupy concentrate which you are supposed to dilute 1:3 with water to make a stock solution and ultimately 1:31 to make dilution B. I do not make stock solution; instead, I work directly with the syrup, which will keep at least 1 year if you exclude air from the opened bottle. More information at: http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/hc110/ Always use disposable gloves to avoid hydroquinone sensitisation/allergy. Ray
Re: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid
You are correct that it is not good to use Rodinal with Tri-X. But nothing else is any better with Tri-X. I have a box of 5x7 Tri-x negs that when scanned are more grainy than 35mm TMAX. Rodinal does work well with many other films. TMax (1:20) and Tech-pan (1:50) make good fine grain images. Richard Heather - Original Message - From: "George L Smyth" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:49 PM Subject: RE: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid > > More important should be the characteristics that you are seeking in your developer. The results you get from Rodinal, for instance, will be very different from what you get with D76. Rodinal, as a liquid, is more convenient to mix, but I would never use it with a film like Tri-X (not to say that someone else might like that combination). > > Then again, if you mix a liter of D76 stock, then you can dilute it for use very quickly, so you are really only talking about the time savings of a few minutes per month. > > Cheers - > > george > > - > http://www.GLSmyth.com > http://DRiPInvesting.org > > --- On Tue 11/25, gregg b. mc neill < gbmcne...@hotmail.com > wrote: > From: gregg b. mc neill [mailto: gbmcne...@hotmail.com] > To: Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??? > Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:53:08 -0500 > Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid > > Does anyone have any preference between powder developer vs. liquid developer?As far as convience, It would seem that liquid would be faster.are there any downsides to liquid?thanks in advance for your thoughts...gregg b. mc neill
[pinhole-discussion] Vintage and contemporary anamorphic photos
Anyone here ever heard of Louis Ducos du Hauron, a French photographic process inventor from the 1800s ? He did a series of anamorphic self portraits in the mid - late 1880s. I have a few examples in a book here at home but have not been able to find further examples of his work anywhere else. Where does one go to find further examples of his work ? The Net has heaps of info about him but not any more examples ! I am not too knowledgable on photography as yet. But a question I have is do 'anamorphic lenses' for standard 35mm cameras give the effect of stretched and distorted faces. I know a lot of pinhole photogrpahers are able to achieve this in their photos, but if I could just throw a lense on a normal camera and go for it, that would make things easier for me to start off with. I need a simple platform from which to begin and grow from there. I want to see some results up front - but at the same time am willing to work hard to achieve better results all the time as long as I can see a sort of progression happening. I know exactly what I would want to achieve with taking photos, but do not know how and where to begin the process. Louis Ducos du Hauron worked very close to my ideal format with those anamorphic self portrait photos, but I would like to take a bit further with character study, texture variations and overall mood with using new subjects. I welcome any feedback. Damian
Re: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid
I don't deal with them, but buy all of my chemicals through Artcraft. They are less expensive, don't hammer you with excessive shipping charges, and you can buy small amounts. Heck, you can even just give them a formula number in the darkroom Cookbook and they will send you the ingredients to mix up that formula. Great company. Cheers - george - http://www.GLSmyth.com http://DRiPInvesting.org --- On Tue 11/25, Michael Healy < emjayhe...@earthlink.net > wrote: From: Michael Healy [mailto: emjayhe...@earthlink.net] To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??? List-Post: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:48:17 -0700 Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid [clip] ... when you call Photo Formulary for ingredients, there's a goodchance you will have to have your name added to John Ashcroft'sTerrorists-against-American-Freedom file.Mike- Original Message - From: "gregg b. mc neill" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:53 PMSubject: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid> Does anyone have any preference between powder developer vs. liquid> developer?>> As far as convience, It would seem that liquid would be faster.>> are there any downsides to liquid?>> thanks in advance for your thoughts...>> gregg b. mc neill___Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML Pinhole-Discussion mailing listPinhole-Discussion@p at ???unsubscribe or change your account athttp://www.???/discussion/ ___ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Introducing My Way - http://www.myway.com
Re: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid
Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid > Does anyone have any preference between powder developer vs. liquid > developer? > > As far as convience, It would seem that liquid would be faster. > > are there any downsides to liquid? > > thanks in advance for your thoughts... > > gregg b. mc neill For me, using powders gets me into the rare and unusual formulae (formulas?) and is can mix what I use, toss it at the end of the session and that reduces waste. Once I mixed stock solutions and it was months before I got into the DR again, so there was lots of old and unreliable stuff. Don't forget, there's the time for matt cutting, mounting, making portfolio boxes, writing essays on portfolios. I use "Shap's Bal. Bitz" from the Photographers' Formulary that keeps my developers fresh and/or going for a long time. Brett Weston used Dupont BB and printed from the same tray of Amidol paper developer some 27 hours at a time, adding a pinch of the sacred powder whenever the contrast began to fail. Powder forever, for me. S. Shapiro, Carmel, CA
RE: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid
More important should be the characteristics that you are seeking in your developer. The results you get from Rodinal, for instance, will be very different from what you get with D76. Rodinal, as a liquid, is more convenient to mix, but I would never use it with a film like Tri-X (not to say that someone else might like that combination). Then again, if you mix a liter of D76 stock, then you can dilute it for use very quickly, so you are really only talking about the time savings of a few minutes per month. Cheers - george - http://www.GLSmyth.com http://DRiPInvesting.org --- On Tue 11/25, gregg b. mc neill < gbmcne...@hotmail.com > wrote: From: gregg b. mc neill [mailto: gbmcne...@hotmail.com] To: Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??? List-Post: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:53:08 -0500 Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid Does anyone have any preference between powder developer vs. liquid developer?As far as convience, It would seem that liquid would be faster.are there any downsides to liquid?thanks in advance for your thoughts...gregg b. mc neill_Need a shot of Hank Williams or Patsy Cline? The classic country stars are always singing on MSN Radio Plus. Try one month free! http://join.msn.com/?page=offers/premiumradio___Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML Pinhole-Discussion mailing listPinhole-Discussion@p at ???unsubscribe or change your account athttp://www.???/discussion/ ___ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Introducing My Way - http://www.myway.com
Re: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid
I prefer liquids because you can mix single shots. Right now I use Rodinal a lot for Delta 100, HP5, and FP4 (all 4x5, 8x10, 7x10 so I don't mind the grain). I had been using HC-110 for some time previously. To me, the shortcoming of dry chems is that you have to mix entire batches. I don't have a formal darkroom, and I don't have any of those flotation devices either so - it's foolhardy for me to mix an entire batch of, say, D76 that I use so infrequently that's it's going to go bad before I can finish it. BUT - apart from Rodinal, I've recently moved pretty much to dry. For lith film, I predominantly use a concoction suggested by Gord, and there's no way to make this except from scratch. I also now make my D76 from scratch when I need it for such films as Maco or HIE. Mixing D76 from scratch is kind of a pain compared to the flask-popping you can achieve w/ Rodinal. But it isn't THAT inconvenient, and the ingredients are a joke anyhow. This frees me to do one-shot mixing. The two drawbacks to dry: you need a triple beam or one of those digital scales, and when you call Photo Formulary for ingredients, there's a good chance you will have to have your name added to John Ashcroft's Terrorists-against-American-Freedom file. Mike - Original Message - From: "gregg b. mc neill" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:53 PM Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid > Does anyone have any preference between powder developer vs. liquid > developer? > > As far as convience, It would seem that liquid would be faster. > > are there any downsides to liquid? > > thanks in advance for your thoughts... > > gregg b. mc neill
RE: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid
the only downsize is that if you spill the concentrate, you have a heck of a liquid mess instead of a pile of powder.. andy -Original Message- From: pinhole-discussion-admin@p at ??? [mailto:pinhole-discussion-admin@p at ???]On Behalf Of gregg b. mc neill Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 2:53 PM To: Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??? Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid Does anyone have any preference between powder developer vs. liquid developer? As far as convience, It would seem that liquid would be faster. are there any downsides to liquid? thanks in advance for your thoughts... gregg b. mc neill _ Need a shot of Hank Williams or Patsy Cline? The classic country stars are always singing on MSN Radio Plus. Try one month free! http://join.msn.com/?page=offers/premiumradio ___ Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML Pinhole-Discussion mailing list Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??? unsubscribe or change your account at http://www.???/discussion/
[pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid
Does anyone have any preference between powder developer vs. liquid developer? As far as convience, It would seem that liquid would be faster. are there any downsides to liquid? thanks in advance for your thoughts... gregg b. mc neill _ Need a shot of Hank Williams or Patsy Cline? The classic country stars are always singing on MSN Radio Plus. Try one month free! http://join.msn.com/?page=offers/premiumradio
