2002-08-04 by sdmey4@aol.com
My instinct told me to stay out of this;) Sorry I didn t see the Decimal point in your previous proof of piezography post. as in .1% Still, you beleive the
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2002-08-04 by J Greer
You can have Cone send you free sample prints of PiezoTone WN and Selenium on Photo Rag. Got mine the other day. Just give them your address. Can t remember
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2002-08-04 by Ken Carney
It still seems your film is not fully developing. At the 250 speed and Dilution B, you might try six minutes at 20 degrees instead of 4.5 minutes. Unless
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2002-08-04 by Julian Thomas
download the demo of vuescan and try that. I ve never got good results from silverfast for BW negs. Julian ... From: frankg_photo To:
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2002-08-04 by Austin Franklin
Er, Steve...Piezo does show %1 variations in tone, but that s only 100 tones...if it only showed %2 variations in tones, that would be 50 tones... Austin
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2002-08-04 by sdmey4@aol.com
Ok, I ll play the Village idiot hear. I beleive Piezo prints may not show 1% Variations, but I do believe they show 2% variations that are visable in real
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2002-08-04 by frankg_photo
I still think it s the scanner that s ... I rented (from a local photo equip rental co) a Polaroid Sprintscan 120 with SilverFast 5.2 I m scanning the B&W negs
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2002-08-04 by tboleyyh
... Better minds than I will be required. ... Oops, I just remembered, I have a lot of laundry to do. Tyler my sworn duty? Did you get me drunk?
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2002-08-04 by Julian Thomas
I m sorry... you guys agreeing on something???? where s my heart pills? Julian ... From: Austin Franklin To:
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2002-08-04 by Jerry Olson
Delta 100 is probably the best 120 film out there in its speed range. Why not just use ID-11 1:1? Works great. jerry
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2002-08-04 by Austin Franklin
... Jerry, I concur. I develop it in D-76 1:1. I like its tonality a BIT better than Plus-X...Delta seems a bit more neutral, more like Tri-X. Plus-X seems
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2002-08-04 by Austin Franklin
Hi Tyler, ... I don t know how to use Photoshop...remember ;-) ... Of course, but that won t resolve this debate, now will it? ... Why, thank you...but
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2002-08-04 by tboleyyh
... Oh lordy ( I think they say that in North Dakota), I think it s time for an Austin s Zees file, would you care to prepare it? Much more rerwarding to go
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2002-08-04 by Austin Franklin
Tyler, ... I believe you re missing my point... I KNOW that there are many ways of creating intermediate tones... I simply don t believe Piezo prints 1000
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2002-08-04 by tboleyyh
... That s where we part Austin. I m repeatedly discussing an aproach that depends on the ability to do precisely that. We are far from the dithering stage
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2002-08-04 by Austin Franklin
... Hi Tyler, Then you re missing the point of dithering. You can represent ANY number of tones by dithering, it s simply the area that it takes to do
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2002-08-04 by marktuckerdotcom
... Obviously, you can manipulate the grain for some crazy effect -- I remember in college, shooting Tri-X 35 at about 12000ASA and running it in 95 degree
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2002-08-04 by daschkenas@aol.com
These items are listed in the new Light Impressions catalog. They have come out with 4 or 5 new sizes of archival boxes to correspond with ink jet paper
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2002-08-04 by tboleyyh
... darkroom@i... wrote: snip ... Of course not, that wasn t the point ... I would say that, as ink on paper, it definitely is extended. And this would be
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2002-08-04 by tboleyyh
... darkroom@i... wrote: snip ... Austin, it is simple, there are a number of ways. You simply duplicate the channel and print through a multiple channel
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2002-08-04 by Austin Franklin
... Martin, No, that s not how dithering works. It derives a dither pattern that consists of dot placement, and color...there is no separation into four
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2002-08-04 by Martin Wesley
... From: Austin Franklin To: Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 7:05 AM Subject: RE:
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2002-08-04 by Doug Fisher
... Andre - Do you have a link or a message # to reference this information? Thanks, Doug
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2002-08-04 by tboleyyh
... e.dinkla@c... wrote: snip ... snip ... snip Hi Ernst, I recall a very intriguing, however cloaked, conversation between Cone and Krawitz on the Leben list
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2002-08-04 by Martin Wesley
... From: Anthony Atkielski To: Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 12:15 AM Subject: Re:
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2002-08-04 by Todd Flashner
Mark What you say can be true and wrong at the same time. I ve been a grain aficionado (though I throw it to the wind for some of what I do), so some of my
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2002-08-04 by Julian Thomas
Silverprint in the UK have them www.silverprint.co.uk Julian ... From: jamiedrouin To:
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2002-08-04 by André Vallejo
I ve been printing with VM-Inks and Paul s mw curves,with good results. Just that in the shadows,I ve been having posterization. When I print a 21 step
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2002-08-04 by Tony Terlecki
Is 13x19 the same as A3+? Silverprint do a range of archival boxes including A3+. They are just down the road from me but they do mail order. The portoflio
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2002-08-04 by marktuckerdotcom
... overexposure of the ... I am CERTAINLY not trying to start some long technical discussion here. But that whole modify this to change the grain thing has
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2002-08-04 by Julian Thomas
No, I m too lazy for that! I use Vuescan and scan a Image setting Julian ... From: Larry Roohr To:
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2002-08-04 by Ken Carney
Re the 4x5, you might give these a try: Tmax 100 developed in Tmax RS 1:9 (the John Sexton formula). I use EI 64 normal, N-2 = 40, N+2 =100. Scans very well,
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2002-08-04 by jamiedrouin
Has anyone found a source for archival 13x19 archival print boxes? It s not a size common within the museum standards, and it gets a bit tricky to use 16x20
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2002-08-04 by BMercerTX@aol.com
This question is a little off topic but so many of you are so knowledgable that I think someone can give me an informed answer. I have a Microtek scanMaker
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2002-08-04 by Todd Flashner
... Mark, Have you tried rating it at ASA 200 or less? In general, overexposure of the chromogenic BW films leads to finer grain. Todd Flashner
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2002-08-04 by marktuckerdotcom
... may still ... To speak in broad terms, I d say that the scanner is having a MUCH greater effect on the look of the grain than any of these subtle
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2002-08-04 by Truman Prevatt
While we are on films and developers - I would like some input. For most of my medium format work I used Kodak PanX either developed in very dilute (1:100)
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2002-08-04 by Luke Granfield
I think MIS is having problems with the ink/cartridge as well. I got my second set of VM cartridges for the 1280 and the chip was DOA. Figured that out and
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2002-08-04 by Ken Carney
Frank: If you used 400 as the speed, the film has probably been under-developed a couple of stops at least (if temp at 20 degrees and intermittent agitation).
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2002-08-04 by Larry Roohr
Julian, Have you found a greater reduction in grain by scanning in rgb and choosing one of the channels where the stain would be most opaque? Larry ... From:
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2002-08-04 by Julian Thomas
I ve been using DiXactol for a while - in the one bath stand method i.e. A + B in the same bath. Fantastic dev. Not used it on Trix X though. Julian ...
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2002-08-04 by Jerry Olson
I know banding can drive you nuts, Thom. Been there. Had bands. Now my oldest 1160 printer has them on a couple papers, in the 90-75 percent gray areas. When I
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2002-08-04 by tomoc
Frank- If you are desparate, you might get a syringe and carefully force some windex (or other cleaning fluid...there are a couple on the market but I don t
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2002-08-04 by Jerry Olson
Rich, looks perfect on my monitor. EAM gives deeper blacks than any paper except the hahnemuhle papers. Don t know about the FSN inks. THe VM inks are pretty
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2002-08-04 by jimhayes361
Before you get really discouraged please see my post under this same thread, message #17245 from July 29th. There are some things you can do to insure
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2002-08-04 by Larry Roohr
Frank, I m in the middle of experimenting with stand development for taming highlights, meaning two bath s where the developer from the first bath exhausts
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2002-08-04 by Julian Thomas
What scanner/software are you using are you using? I scanned 35mm trix on a ss4000 with no problems using Xtol. Julian ... From: frankg_photo
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2002-08-04 by frankg_photo
For eons I ve used Tri-x (the 400 not the 320 pro) and HC110 dil B for 4.5 min in distilled water. Keeping the dev time low to prevent highlights blocking and
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2002-08-04 by Mahesi Caplan-Faust
I would advise against converting your 1200 to Piezo. I did and it was not up to it, persistent banding. The 1280 is a better bet Mahesi ... From:
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2002-08-04 by Austin Franklin
Tyler, ... I have, and that s why I claim it doesn t do it. I also claim it simply can t. See my other post in response to Roy. ... But that s not how it
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