Analog film photography and cameras

Just waiting on the safe light and chemicals. It may not be pretty but its in my house, so thats good.
I need to figure out someway of bodging together a wash tank.
there is water and a drain so I was thinking one of these and some garden hose.
That should keep the water fresh.

Anybody going to this? Looks pretty good

David Bailey’s East End - http://createlondon.org/events/david-baileys-east-end.html

looks good. right up my street.
but £6 entry? pah.

Just waiting on the safe light and chemicals. It may not be pretty but its in my house, so thats good.
I need to figure out someway of bodging together a wash tank.
there is water and a drain so I was thinking one of these and some garden hose.
That should keep the water fresh.

Nice wee set up.

My darkroom doesn't have a water supply (it's in my bedroom) so I keep a 4th tray with just water in then once I have a few prints sitting there I move em through to the bathroom where I have a running water wash in the bath. I do mostly RC prints though so don't need a hugely thorough wash.

A couple of shots from my most recent roll. I think I was shooting provia 400 but I cant remember. More on my flickr

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Hi, I thought I would share a couple of my photos

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What cameras? Which films? Please.

I think I was using a canon eos 500 film with a 50mm lens at the time.

Hard to remember the film... the colour was probably on 200 kodakcolour and the black and white on ilford hp5+

I scan and then do some post on my images on photoshop

I'm not sure, but yours could be the only photoshopped images I can think of on this thread.

Nope. Wait. There was one guy a couple of years ago also.

haha. . .

Well I work as a still life photographer for bread and butter so I don't really have a choice!

When you say Photoshopped... all it is is colour correction and sharpening.. which you would do on an enlarger anyway.

Nice wee set up.

My darkroom doesn't have a water supply (it's in my bedroom) so I keep a 4th tray with just water in then once I have a few prints sitting there I move em through to the bathroom where I have a running water wash in the bath. I do mostly RC prints though so don't need a hugely thorough wash.

Hve just ripped the toilet out and made some more room also maganed to hack together a wash tray so that it has an overflow, this means i can leave the tap running a little and keep the water fresh. It's a work in progress and I'm having to learn as I go.

haha. . .
When you say Photoshopped... all it is is colour correction and sharpening.. which you would do on an enlarger anyway.

since when did sharpening (digital post processing) and correct enlarger focussing become the same thing?

since when did sharpening (digital post processing) and correct enlarger focussing become the same thing?

I suggest you google "unsharp mask" - as its originally a darkroom technique for increasing "sharpness"

I stand corrected - only ever come across unsharp masking in digital photography as one of a range of tools and cannot find any reference in my (pre internet!) books on darkroom practice. Will go away and read more...

I have an darkroom setup and like to do all my black and white work by hand, time permitting, but I also like to make use of digital post production when appropriate. Shooting film and editing digitally.

have been away and done some reading - I appreciate your tolerance of my jumping to conclusions. Non digital unsharp mask techniques appear to centre on medium and large format? I guess image registration becomes more problematic with 35mm - any observations? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? (again)

In a previous existence (teaching) have tinkered with pinhole cameras using 6x4 paper negative followed by contact printing: now feel obliged to try 'unsharp masking' to see what this does to both darkroom generated positives and inverted scanned negatives...

Wanted, Medium format camera.
6x6 or 6x7, not really interested in 6x4.5
Metered prism preferable.

not really interested in 6x4.5

Fair enough, if you really do need a larger negative,
or if you really want 6x6 or 6x7 proportions.

If not, consider the Mamiya 645. It's great.
It's less expensive, not as heavy, less bulky - and you getting 15 frames on a roll.

Wow, that Makina 67 is quite the camera. Nowhere near as compact as it looks in that pic, Tina! Haha.

I've never seen the point of 645 also. With the advance of film emulsions and lens technology, 35mm is more than a match for 645 IMO. But 6x6, 6x7 and 6x9 not only make you enlarge less, but also make you work very differently. I never stepped up to 4x5, as to me, this took away portability and handheld image-taking. Yes, press cameras could do it, but I'm no Weegee, so I'd never change films in seconds.

I've never seen the point of 645

Negative roughly twice as big as 35mm?