Digital BW, The Print

Hi Ginny,

You can get many sizes of Premier Art Hot Press from atlex.com -
that's where we get ours.

"Why don't you get Fred Picker's very short book, The Zone VI
Workshop."

I must have read Fred's book at some time because I vaguely remember
discussing something with him a while ago. I'm fairly well versed in
various methods of determining the optimum EI for film, including the
zone system and variants, and LAD. I guess that film choice is a
personal thing. 100TMX and 320TXP work for me, though I use a lot of
400TX in 35 mm. 

There's a very mixed bag of my work on usefilm 
http://www.usefilm.com/photographer.asp?ID=92982
if you want a flavour of some of my work over the last 30 years.

Best,
Helen

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ginnylady33"
<ginnylady33@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Helen,
> 
>  Thanks for the sharing. I looked at the Ultrasmooth but it was only
> abailable in rolls and 13X19. What is Premier Art Hot Press? I don't
> see it on the Epson site.
>  TX 320. Hmmmmm.......
>   <Trying to bite my tongue>
>  Hmmmm...........
>   Why don't you get Fred Picker's very short book, The Zone VI
> Workshop. It's being sold for $1 on Amazon. It was invalauble for me
> to go thru the very simple procedures he outlines in the first 1/3 of
> the book on determining a personal ASA and development time for your
> film. He will insist, though, that you use TX 400, not the 320
> 'professional' film, with HC-110. Try it and see.........
>   And, really, you've got to develop your own film. That is so
> crucial. I use a Jobo rotary drum processor for that at home. It
> really is NOT time consuming and might take less time than the time
> you use to drop film off and then pick up.
>  Who knows what developer they use? How old it is? Etc......really
> hard to standardize and get consistency.
>  Jobos last forever, as well. 
> :) 
> Mine is 20 years old and still perfect.
>  So, C41, B&W, whatever....your Jobo will do it easily and quickly!
> 
>  Best Regards
>  Ginny
>